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14·23 hours agoI’m sure that if we illustrate to conservatives how this move was illogical and hypocritical, the tide will turn and the devolution into fascism will stop. All they need is to be shown the right facts and logic to be set straight.
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292·1 day agoWe all grew up with free speech.
Tell that to any Black American over the age of 65.
The USA was a political experiment started solely by white, landowning, 20-something slavers for the express intent of genociding as many Native Americans as possible. It’s time for us to stop trying to “reclaim patriotism” and realize the American poltical experiment has devolved into fascism and must be dismantled.
IF we ever regain control of America, we can use this precedent to declare MAGA to be a violent terrorist hate group
Just like democrats and Biden used the SCOTUS’ ruling on presidential immunity to assassinate Trump?
37·1 day agoUm… no
“Curse those lazy Soviets for not immediately starting a two front war after losing 11 million people to the Nazis. Respecting the agreements made at the Yalta conference regarding an invasion of Japan, to the letter, was ACTUALLY mendacious.”
You realize that after losing 11 million people in a enduring and cataclysmic war, it may take some time to prepare for a war on the totally opposite front?
I dont even know why I’m engaging with this whitewashing. This isn’t even what the OP is about.
The fact of the matter is that Japan has not handled the outcome of WWII well at all. Namely the Nanjing Massacre.
1·4 days agoIt was at a scholastic book fair where I first encountered robot arena 2 on CD. Top game.
they’re talking out their ass.
Yes, which is par for the course.
What is behind the inconsistencies?
Cash payments in return for interviews with North Korean refugees have been standard practice in the field for years.
Initially, the payment was to cover the cost of meals and local transport, which was approximately $30 in the late 1990s when I first began interviewing in China and South Korea. However, the fees had risen to $200 per hour by the time I attempted to interview people from North Korea in May 2014.
A government official from the South Korean ministry of unification told me the range of fees could vary wildly, from $50-500 per hour, depending on the quality of information.
But this practice raises a difficulty: how does the payment change the relation between a researcher and an interviewee, and what effect will it have on the story itself?
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You could wipe every reactionary television station, radio station, magazine, social media, and newspaper off the face of the earth, but capitalism’s internal contradictions would make their resurgence inevitable.
So long as wages are suppressed, social safety nets withered, wealth inequality balloons, education decays, retirement age grows, and healthcare becomes unattainable, the backside into fascism is inevitable.
How do you think fascism took hold in Germany, and how was it mitigated?
Your analysis falls into the same trap as other liberal analysis - that our means of changing our politics is a function of “changing people’s minds” in “the marketplace of ideas”. Liberal analysis champions the notion that “ideas” are what turn the wheels of history. In reality, it was Soviet T34s blasting Nazis into mist that mitigated German fascism - not some completely unachievable and unpragmatic scheme to break into retirement homes across the country and put parental controls on grandpa’s favorite flavor of right wing pundit TV.
Don’t lie to me Walt, you sussy baka.
Who here has played battle cats?
Dog…
My original claim was that in none of these articles is there any evidence of Putin or Xi expressing interesting in extending their lifespan.
It’s a claim you still have yet to disprove, btw.
Claiming that Russia is not technologically advanced is a nonsequiter. Refusing to engage with a nonsequiter is not underhanded. And you’re not humouring anyone by backing down from your attempt to turn this conversation into one about Russia’s technological capabilities. You’re just backpedaling.
Again, please show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in extending their lives.
Not even remotely related to the part I quoted and laughed at, but I’ll humour you
So how does a claim regarding Russia’s technological capabilities relate to my original comment? The only person being humoured here is you.
The way the healthy skepticism just leaves the liberal mind once a state department hit pieces comes out is laughable. You have been effortlessly oriented. Yall just eat this shit up. “Deduction”… lmao.
Again, maybe one day show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in extending their lifespan. You won’t.
Just read your article. Nowhere in it did Xi or Putin express fear of mortality or an interest in extending their personal lifespans.
All this is is musings on transhumanism.
[mortality] haunt[s] people—especially aging tyrants who fear that the icy hand of death is upon their shoulder and want far more time to ensure both national and personal glory.
Show me where Xi or Putin expressed fear of mortality. Better yet, show me where Xi or Putin expressed interest in extending their lifespan.
Show me where Putin or Xi expressed interest in living to 150.
leaders of two of the world’s most technologically prominent countries muse on the prospects of transhumanism in front of a crowd of dozens
rabid disapproval from liberals who claim that Putin and Xi got caught on a hot mic wanting to live forever so they can rule eternally or something, idk
Seriously, the reading comprehension is abysmal in this thread. Can someone show me where Putin or Xi said they personally wished to live to 150?
Okay, the courts deputize 300 people to go try and compel the executive to follow the law - then what? They accuse Trump with contempt of court, serve him papers, threaten to seize assets, or even arrest him? All of this has been tried before. How do you see this playing out?
At the heart of the comment you replied to is an implicit claim “a judicial that has nothing other than legal and procedural means is doomed to fail against Trump”. And all you’ve pointed out is that there are various other legal and procedural means they have yet to try. This is the cursed slogan of liberals who’ve watched Trump piss on every legal proceeding over the past 10+ years.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Until the courts have guns, they’re toothless. Trump has subsumed the American legal system.
This blind faith that our “rugged”, “resilient”, and “pragmatic” system will somehow automatically course correct and steer us out of this fascist devolution is pure liberalism. The genie is out of the bottle.
You realize that China has dominated the smaller consumer drone sector for ages now? And that most countries are beginning to turn to Chinese drones for military applications?
Still a better track record than the F35.