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anyway thanks for this one, it was good, he repeats some talking points from his movie, and he's right about biden, but he didn't really explain why people would support a fraud and a scumbag however the issue with biden's policies is that they are "investments" that will pay off "in the future", which might be never at this rate, while inflation is felt in the wallet today part of what reich explains about the division of america since the 70s etc is also in how people are experiencing inflation. and it's the bottom bracket that is feeling it the most right now. the cost of this fiscal investment in the future is paid by those price increases the homeowner who locked the 2% mortgage is sitting pretty, while renters are having to sell their plasma to keep up with increases. the reason it's "hard to explain" is because the benefit of having green union jobs 5 years from now is a cost today, and people who are living hand to mouth can't wait of course the fraud and scumbag will give a tax cut which only reintroduces the problem at a future date, but with interest there are also cultural issues that are not mentioned where the left is scoring many own-goals: censorship and cancel culture (mccarthyism of the left i guess) are diving adults who grew up speaking their minds into the hands of the scumbag, the stupidity of defund the police and the rise of crime moves the center closer to the right, etc etc. eta: notice it's "disorder" not crime rising https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-c...fbi-rcna144100 |
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It's not semantics. Unless everybody who calculates these statistics is wrong and/or we're living in a parallel dimension, crime in the US is down. Of course, if people turn on the TV and the first thing they see is cops dragging students across the dirt and "Just like 1968!" and bullcrap, and they cannot make fine distinctions, well... As for "cancel culture", I... can't have this discussion again. I'm tired. :) I like what Bernie Sanders said. Paraphrasing: We have differences with President Biden, he's accomplished things he should indeed be proud of, while his response in other matters has been either inadequate or completely fucked up, but this November vote Biden, NO EXCUSES. |
just a reminder that censorship and cancellation used to be the right's game
 they're still doing it in "don't say gay" florida and various book-burning states across the south but the side that was supposed to be in favor of the open exchange of ideas and the light of reason isn't for those things anymore now the left has its own word police. speaking banned words carries severe sentences! liberalism has been taken over by cultural revolution and if you're offended, you can shut down any discussion on any subject okay, maybe people got tired of right wing propaganda and decided to fight fire with fire but-- it's not working, it undermines the principles of liberalism that sustained our era (liberalism broadly understood as inalienable individual rights). and because of polarization there's a serious backlash now... which will doom us, because in war the fascists are tougher and more disciplined, while the left bickers over purity issues and it eats its own https://youtu.be/a0BpfwazhUA classic bernie is an old geezer and knows better from experience, but it's the children that are deserting biden. "not pure enough!" good luck with the alternative... |
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If you think that was good, hold on to your bell-bottoms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwCcHxbAakw |
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Glass half full (or "reasons to be cheerful", as David Byrne would say): 10 Reasons I'm Cautiously Optimistic About the Election The polls are not predictive but these ten fundamentals of the race just might be. |
New Big Lie! Good, I was pretty tired of the old one oh wait it's about the same shit bummer.
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SCOTUS fucked the US again today.
What the fuck is wrong with this guy. At least Elena Kagan got to troll Alito el Maldito. |
We should have a tech thread, but this is politics too. From Futurism:
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This is fucking awful. I'm sorry, Antagon. From Politico:
Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service. Now he's going after its government Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscow’s behalf. |
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I know only about 6 people post here but how come nobody is talking about Gaza?
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ok i'll try anyway i think netanyahu is an evil criminal motherfucker using a war whose warning signs he purposefully ignored to perpetuate his hold on power he's gone way overboard with his retaliation and he doesn't care how many civilians he kills the israeli public who was ready to chuck him now has to stay their hand due to the war and who knows how things will end it reminds me a lot of bush using 911 to occupy afghanistan, destroy iraq, and ride his popularity into a second term, no matter the cost the american support of israel is by law, and i think biden is in a tough spot as a result because netanyahu takes advantage of this and hides his brutality under american support. but it's not the president-- it's the law. and american law supports israel but netanyahu abuses this support hamas is a bunch of motherfuckers too, murdering civilians and using their own civilians as human shields. but at the same time, what sort of ideology do you expect to emerge out of a population with no hope being progressively strangled? as christopher hitchens stated when he was alive, the problem here is that warmongers are in charge of both sides and they believe that god is on their side (or something like that) and anyway, notice that when a leader from either side moves toward peace, someone from their own side kills them. like sadat and rabin the deaths of sharon and arafat were highly suspicious too. a bit "too convenient" please note that as soon as israel vacated gaza under sharon, sharon went into a coma, hamas won the elections and refused to cease hostilities with israel, and killed fatah in gaza. so sharon's peace move backfired israel has also been moving further and further to the right over the last decades. in no small part due to war fatigue but also because they have become so dominant they don't need to have peace, they just need security. so they get security by surrounding the palestinians and isolating them in bantustans. the modern settlers are not holocaust refugees looking for a homeland, they are religious fanatics appointed by god to restore the kingdom of israel or something. in alliance with the other right wings. and they keep colonizing and then another generation of palestinians gets radicalized. because what else can they do? build something, it gets bulldozed. why even try so: hamas attacks, hostages get massacred, israel retaliates, civilians get massacred. warmongers win internal struggles, then engage in war with their neighbor, the cycle does not end. i don't think it will end as long as "god" is involved. honestly i don't know what would be a solution. the warmongers are winning. and we talk and talk oh, and dont forget iran! how can we forget iran? listen: forget the holocaust or lord balfour or theodor herzl or the ottomans or the cossacks or the crusades or the rise of islam or the roman or persia or greece. this shit goes all the way back to the bronze age, maybe earlier even. i'm not joking. here is the word of the sky wizard: 20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword. i don't see an end to this as long as the religious are in charge on both sides eh, what am i saying, THREE sides, because american evangelicals are huge players in this cosmic tragedy of monotheism against itself. i've been to jerusalem--it scared the shit out of me. been to tell aviv, loved it, could live there. jaffa, loved it. been to the west bank too, heartbreaking. it's just... i don't know what to say anymore i didn't want to write about this. too many horrible endless predicaments. it's too fucking much |
Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases
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On the subject for guilty of 34 counts I saw a funny clothing advert on instagram today, it read "Trump was just convicted on 34 felony charges. Use coupon code "GUILTY" to get 34% off your order today"
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these memoranda are renewed every 10 years and began with ronnie raygun at the height of the cold war. but before that the israel usa alliance had been growing over the decades at least since world war 2. it was a progressively deepening relationship too long to tell, but back in those days the jews fought for the allies and there was a leader among the palestinias (was it the mufti or jerusalem?) helping the nazis and asking hitler to please bomb tel aviv you guys (lol) held the area after world war 1 when you took it from the ottomans ansd made a proper mess of the region, ha ha. and israeli terrorists killed your officers with a big bomb ! yeah there have always been terrorists on both sides, and the people who did the bombing eventuslly came to power in the 80s, when israel went on the offensive (lebanon war). mapai and labor who were more or less the bolsheviks (haha) ruled from independence until begin began (menachem), and then the left gradually shrank in recent decades (rabin was the last strong labor leader, after his death they fizzled out). guess who became prime minister after rabin! well it was shimon peres as a substitute but he didn't last--netsnyahu came after! so the left fell and the right rose in the late 70s-90s and then the change consolidated, but these factions preexisted israeli independence, one pro-peace the other pro-violence. the war mongers are winning this is a total gross oversimplification because there are infinite details i am skipping and/or simply don't know, but the more you dig the more you find and shudder and fall into a pit of despair. it's like a war fractal. the same things repeating at every level, into infinity. i don't think anyone can solve this. northern ireland is similar in a way but insignificant by comparison in either size or time or impact scales. not sure what this one would take to solve, or if it can be solved, with the warmongers in charge but yeah, it's law. like a treaty. there's a longstanding alliance, like you and portugal, just not that old, but there are laws. and i think that netanyahu exploits them and hides behind them to have his way |
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Nice. Turdball said a buncha bullshit today about everything being rigged blah blah I'm not gonna read it the headline was enough - here's the thing: motherfucker's still under a gag order! Trial isn't over and the judge hasn't lifted it. STFU! |
just quickly to add to the previous, here is a coherent conservative take on why evangelicals support israel
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/...upport-israel/ i had to find a link because not sharing their religion i didn't know what it was about. but there it is, adding to the mix |
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ssssssso, the original source of the national review article i linked earlier turned out to be pretty eloquent and interesting. worth a read:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/n...support-israel again i do not share anybody's religion or religious views there, but it's a potent explainer for those who may not know (like me) |
well, since the gaza subject has been at last unleashed, there was an editorial in the financial times today in which ariel emanuel (superpower talent agent, and brother of obama's chief of staff rahm) calls netanyahu a narcissist who does not want peace and whose only interest is to stay in power and out of jail
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...and also the "inspiration" for Jeremy Piven's character in Entourage, just like his brother was (more vaguely, though) for Bradley Whitford's in The West Wing. I realize this adds nothing to the conversation about Gaza, but I had to mention it. ;) |
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anyway i knew discussing gaza would end up being pointless. although for me at least i got to vent my frustrations so back to something more immediate to you-- big article on the financial times today about el tren de aragua in chile watchu gonna do about venezuela's #1 export? |
can't help myself now... benny gantz just quit the israeli war cabinet
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I had to look that up. Didn't know jack about it. Dude, it took me two days to "find out" Piñera and his helicopter had dropped dead. That's how connected to this place I am. On the flipside, I can give you every detail of Baltimore's Key Bridge. I loved that bridge in The Wire! What am I gonna do about it? Stay away from places I never go to anyway, and be more vigilant when I'm outside, I guess. What is this country gonna do about it? Elect its own MAGA-Moron, of course - I believe it is inevitable at this point. |
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Are you referring to the Venezuelan gang or to Kast (our MAGAsshole)? If it's the former, I can positively tell you the media always amplifies it big time, yet crime is indeed a thing. As for noticing it right away... I don't think so — I mean, stay out of objectively dangerous areas (and why would you go there anyway) and don't be careless even if the surroundings are pretty and calm and, like, so totally First World. If you're gonna use your phone on the sidewalk, sit down on a bench first; don't walk-&-talk or you could be inviting some motherfucker right behind you to snatch the cell from your hand. I'd have to crunch the numbers, but I think Kast would reach 50% + 1 (THAT'S HOW YOU DETERMINE WHO'LL BE PRESIDENT, DAMMIT) in a second round of voting. Unwelcome back, fascism. |
fucking hugo chávez, this is how it always ends
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just a few years ago, ms13 was all the rage, and el chapo was in the news, and various mexican cartels are well known, etc etc, and it's always one thing or another but for example, 3 months ago the nyt was claiming there is no such thing as an immigrant crime wave in new york: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/n...crime-nyc.html the peculiar thing the ft mentioned was that tren the aragua was also in places like colombia and perú but those places were "accustomed to crime" (or something, lol, very funny) whereas chile had been caught by surprise by these fuckers and the cops were a bit disoriented oh they mention ecuador too but in the list of the accustomed, lol, but ecuador is in another league altogether, being occupied by the cartel right now, insane |
Anyone who'd like to have an Emmanuel Macron?
Don't know what you could do with that, but for the item's own safe, it'd be better out of France Beware: doesn't have a clue what real life is but persists he's invincible (proof: Putin) and is the best candidate at reaching power to overcome the sad losers who've run the country for the last 12 years (forgetting he's been a part of the running of the country during that period of time, spent on his spare time at promoting the far right) |
Prediction: this Thursday, the Orange Amoeba will shout shit while his mic is off and Biden is speaking. Who's with me!
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fuck, i watched the debate last night but after a while i had chest pains and felt like vomiting. it was very hard to watch that trainwreck
covfefe on the one hand spewing a blue streak of lies with zero compunction and no fact-checking uncle joe on the other hand enfeebled, incomprehensible, and impotent to stop him biden looked terrible with a droopy eye and mouth open, could barely speek, and confused himself speaking. the orange beast just making up shit in a very clear manner i get it that biden is a decent old man, and can read a teleprompter, but he's finished now, and something needs to be done here by the democrats. fuck this is terrible. a real emergency thank you for your service uncle joe, but time to go... |
What a shock. Who could have possibly foreseen this.
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