r/neoconNWO • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago
Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread
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u/ReturnoftheTurd 8d ago
There’s a thought I’m sort of trying to hash out in my mind. So there’s a notion that black people and white people today have a socioeconomic gap today because of multiple generations of wealth disparities dating back to the 1600s. This is ridiculous because even in the cases of actual generational wealth, it stretches back about 4 generations at most. Beyond that, even a billionaire’s wealth is just diluted, spent, lost in a changing economy, and eaten away in taxes so it’s just irrelevant over the span of multiple generations. There’s maybe only a few select exceptions in the world as to the survival of multigenerational wealth over time and even then they sort of border on right wing antisemitic conspiracy theories (Rothschild).
So the idea is that the thing that, even in the extremely wealthy cases just gets into conspiracy, barely is able to describe a billionaire’s wealth over the span of four generations is responsible for the difference in the wealth of entire racial groups? That’s not even to mention immigration, emigration, interracial reproduction, and a whole slew of other things.
I call bullshit that systemic injustices in the 1600s are responsible for the inequalities we see today. That is a matter of culture and policy. There are racist people out there but racism is not the driving force behind the economy and society.
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u/neox20 8d ago
But legal discrimination ended in the US in the 1960s, not the 1600s. And while we can debate how racist society is today, I’m gonna guess that the legal end of segregation didn’t end racism immediately.
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u/ReturnoftheTurd 8d ago
The legal end to segregation’s wasn’t the beginning of the disappearance of racism either.
But my bigger point is more that generational wealth itself is effectively almost a conspiracy theory and the $12 and a wood shack that the average white man had in the early founding times of America plays utterly zero role in the wealth of their 8 generations removed descendants.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 8d ago
My father was a truck driver, and he tells a story about when he used to drive long haul down to Michigan to pick up car parts to come back to Canada and Obama had just been elected and he was at the factory or w.e and was chatting with one of the workers and the dude just started going off about how "someone has to do something about that n*gger" when the recent election came up in conversation.
I don't doubt that was a fringe position even in 2008, Obama did get elected after all, but it's a product of the fact that someone who is my father's age would have been born toward the end of legal segregation and their parents would have grown up entirely under Jim Crow (if they're from a Jim Crow state). And even if northern states like Michigan, we're like one generation removed from extreme racism. Hell, I'm not even American and my dad's parents were racist as shit when they were alive
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u/ReturnoftheTurd 8d ago
So I’m actually cautiously optimistic about HTS. I’m still waiting to see them go off the deep end
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 8d ago
Assad: if you don't let me use chemical weapons on civilians and build torture prisons underground, Jolani will behead Christians
Jolani: "In the new Syria, it is "Merry Christmas", not "happy h*lidays" 🎄
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u/No-Sort2889 8d ago edited 8d ago
I had a really good Christmas overall. This is the parts that I probably enjoyed the least:
My dad is a boomerlib who keeps complaining about Trump’s “Orson Wellian” agenda. I think he means “Orwellian”, but it’s kind of funny to hear him say it the wrong way so I’m not going to say anything about it.
Mom keeps watching all these really bad chick flick hallmark holiday movies where the main characters are such snotty brats that it kind of makes you hope the movie doesn’t have a happy ending (spoilers, the endings are always happy). My dad kept making fun of these movies and it’s really irritating my mom.
Happy Holidays!
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 8d ago
Your dad is actually being incredibly big brained. He's referencing the pop culture stories about the War of the Worlds broadcast to accuse Trump of spreading fake news to a gullible audience.
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u/No-Sort2889 8d ago edited 8d ago
You know what, I didn’t even think about that. He is actually pretty smart. I just thought he was mixing the names up and people would find it funny here.
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u/gonnathrowawaythat George W. Bush 8d ago
The Red Rising series so far is kinda kino.
The fascists have to be killed in a total war waged by democratic capitalists, with the richest man in the solar system financing it and going on a rant about how fascism has destroyed the beautiful system of capitalism. Unsurprisingly the subreddit dedicated to the series gloss over this and wonder why the author has this “fascist-lite” as a heroic character.
They have a communist faction who the main character (who is clearly the hero) belittles as “good math, bad ideas”, and eventually tries to destroy the democracy by going full Robespierre once they get power.
The bad guys who aren’t fascists are bad because they undermine the war effort and embrace racial guilt politics.
Based af.
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u/neox20 9d ago
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 9d ago
You're not supposed to say Oriental anymore.
(I learned the hard way! Sorry LaserAlpaca!)
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u/ThatSleepyInsomniac Grass Toucher 9d ago
A friendly reminder that Happy Xmas by John Lennon is the absolute worst Christmas song. Also Merry Christmas everyone!
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 9d ago
According to an article from The Conversation, Siri “reinforces the role of women as secondary and submissive to men” due to the fact that the default is a soft, female voice.[98]
Furthermore, due to repetitive “learnings” from a larger user base, Siri may unintentionally produce a Western perspective, limiting representation and furthering biases in everyday interactions.
Bruh, can you even imagine an AI voice assistant trained mostly on interaction with users in the Arab world?
Actually, I want that version of Siri released just so some people learn a lesson
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 9d ago
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u/PlanktonDynamics Doomer French Delay 9d ago
BE MY SECRET KHALISTANI AGENT
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 9d ago
Gonna start sending this to Punjabi women on Tinder as a chat up line
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 9d ago
closing the DT forced me to post in other subs for the first time in ages and I'm not sure how I feel about that. So that's on you.
Also, you dudes dodged a bullet because I had a breakdown at one point and totally would have done a bunch of mentalhealthposting
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u/neox20 9d ago
Closing the sub for a joke wasn’t OK
I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that closing the sub for a joke wasn't a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable populations talking about how this sub is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Irony and dirtbagism aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay.
You can say I'm being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love Pax Americana and I love this community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with libbism and our nightmare reality all day, and this sub is one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn't a good feeling to find this sub closed for the sake of irony. Maybe that's laughable or pathetic. But for me, it's true.
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u/YoungReaganite24 Kanye 9d ago edited 9d ago
The number one answer to this question basically boiled down to "capitalism."
Wild concept, but it turns out that when you make it in people's personal interest to provide a good or service, they're far more motivated to do so. Consequently, they're not wild about the idea or possibility of their capital, investments, or physical assets being appropriated or people feeling entitled to them to meet the ever-growing "needs" of the population. Yes, obviously people need housing, but there are a lot of nasty implications to declaring it a "basic human right." No one has the right to actively prevent you from purchasing housing, but something being out of your price range does not qualify.
These idiots also treat scarcity like it's an illusion maintained by the ruling wealthy elite to maintain their position and keep oppressing the masses, when in fact it is the first fundamental economic reality.
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u/EBIThad Certified Dramanaut 9d ago
Yeah well hate to break it to you but that isn't vegetarian. I've noticed people in different countries define what vegetarianism is. I've even seen people who eat seafood and consider themselves vegetarian because they don't eat red meat and poultry (I guess that's where pescatarian diet came from). But I'm originally form India which has the largest vegetarian population in the world and egg is definitely not vegetarian.
Holy shit why do Indians online act like no other country exists
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 8d ago
You call that vegetarian? I'm a Jain, you have no idea what vegetarian is!
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u/AmericanNewt8 Tricky Dick 10d ago
based Harris sticking it to the Teamsters
okay that was nothing short of political malpractice though.
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u/zapp517 George W. Bush 10d ago edited 10d ago
If I joined the navy to be a special warfare crewman or a pilot or something and they gave me some shitty maintenance job I think I’d kill myself. My heart goes out to all the military members who do blue collar jobs and happen to wear camo. That shit must get so boring.
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u/coldnorthwz Tom Cotton 10d ago
Ew i just saw a disgusting masterclass add featuring Noam chomskey on YouTube. One of the things they said you'd learn is to "cut through propoganda" lol
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u/Mexatt Yuval Levin 10d ago
The Federalist has an article from early in the 2016 primary ripping on Northeast Republicans (pretty obviously aimed at Christie) for being milquetoast moderates (more or less) with no charisma and its example of a politician with real charisma is....Marco Rubio.
They’re fundamentally procedural, not inspirational. Marco Rubio could read a Waffle House menu and be more inspiring than Chris Christie.
lol
The man made from clay on a factory floor.
I ultimately have no problem with Little Marco but it's kind of hilarious seeing seething MAGA politics before MAGA.
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u/RedRyder360 Cringe Lib 10d ago
Marco Rubio could read a Waffle House menu and be more inspiring than Chris Christie.
I think this is actually one of Christie's talents
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 10d ago
https://x.com/EricTrump/status/1871376220115669456?t=Yfbz5eDH-cq7kNEeev_VJA&s=19
Not even President yet and he and his family and allied politicians are threatening: Canada, Denmark, and Panama.
MTG and others tweeted the same meme.
If you're going to "jokingly" threaten countries, maybe focus on enemies. I just saw him praising Xi Jinping on TV the other day.
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u/Emperor_Cleon_I Thucydides 10d ago
Just fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole learning about legal corruption in LA county. Essentially the grift is that historically, there were cities incorporated for the sole purpose of being industrial areas, and now serve as vehicles through which city officials can stuff their pockets through enormously high salaries (through being 'sanctuary cities' essentially giving the green light for illegal workers, having no business taxes, insanely high property taxes, outsourcing all municipal services to LA, etc). Reading these had me laughing:
Vernon:
According to media reports and other sources, former Vernon city administrator Eric T. Fresch was paid $1.65 million in 2008. In 2009 O'Callaghan was paid $785,000, Burnett, $570,000, and Harrison, $800,000. Malkenhorst Jr. was paid $290,000 in 2008. Malkenhorst Sr., who also has been charged with misappropriation of public funds, retired in 2005, and as a former employee, still receives a pension that is the highest in the state of California. Malkenhorst Sr. has been convicted of fraud and is under investigation for several other charges.
Malkenhorst pleaded guilty in May 2011 to illegally using public money to pay for personal items. Prosecutors said that from 2000 to 2005, he was illegally reimbursed for personal expenses that included meals, golfing, massages, a personal trainer, and a home security system.
In 2010, Malburg, the former mayor for fifty years, was ordered to pay more than $500,000 after being found guilty of fraud. Prosecutors stated he claimed to live in Vernon but actually had a home in the wealthy Hancock Park area of Los Angeles. Leonis Malburg and his wife, Dominica, were convicted of voter fraud and other charges.
The city held no contested or meaningfully competitive elections from 1980 to 2006. Out of five city council members serving in 2006, only one had been chosen by the voters, the other four having been appointed to their positions by city officials.
Bell:
Robert Rizzo, the City manager, received $787,637 a year, almost double the salary of the President of the United States. Including benefits, he had received $1.5 million in the last year. Rizzo's assistant, Angela Spaccia, was earning $376,288 a year, more than the top administrator for Los Angeles County. The police chief, Randy Adams, was paid $457,000, 33% more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.
Bell is in a financial crisis due to the above-referenced public embezzlement scandals. Due to the actions of the former city's manager (Robert Rizzo) and the council in squandering the taxes of their constituents for their own benefit, there is a deficit of several million dollars in the general fund.
Maywood:
In September 2010, the troubled nearby city of Bell agreed to cancel the contract to handle the day-to-day operations of neighboring Maywood. Maywood has been overrun with political crises, from recalls to a city clerk accused of trying to contract a hit man to kill Councilman Aguirre. In early 2006, a newly elected Aguirre called Maywood a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants.
It is speculated that one-third of Maywood's residents population lives in the U.S. without documentation.
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 10d ago
I thought you guys liked smoke filled rooms? What did you think that meant?
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u/AmericanNewt8 Tricky Dick 10d ago
Eh, this stuff is good for business even if the cities themselves are somewhat poorly run.
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u/elswede Follower of Yakub 10d ago
People bring up China having four times our population when it comes to their war making capabilities, but that just means our boys won't have to share
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u/_pointy__ Secret Zionist Overlord 10d ago
The really big problem is that the Chinese have the supermajority of global manufacturing locked up. If it comes to a full scale war, right now, our stocks would be completely gone in something like a few weeks, and unlike them, we can't replenish it.
However, we can equalise with our allies and the fact that we control the supermajority of global capital.
At that point, the fact that Xi has an army full of only children starts to matter significantly more.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 10d ago
What are they gonna do, Soviet WW2 style Zerg rushes?
I'm not a military strategy expert but I don't think manpower advantages are as important as they once were, unless the gap is overwhelmingly huge like someone invading Luxembourg.
America's military might be smaller in terms of headcount, but to make just one other comparison, America has eleven aircraft carriers, China has (I think) three. Unless hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops plan on swimming, I don't think they have the power projection capabilites America has yet.
I know I'm preaching to the choir on American military superiority, but you do see this kind of talk online a lot. Even in regard to North Korea.
"DPRK has a gazillion men in their army!". Cool, it's just more poorly trained, poorly equipped men to engage in desertion as soon as they cross the border
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u/hapolitics Ben Sasse 10d ago
Luigi Mangione Pleads Not Guilty to Murdering Healthcare CEO
I also just happen to carry manifestos confessing to crimes I didn't commit
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u/Peacock-Shah-III Bayard Rustin 10d ago edited 10d ago
My old Bernie bro boss sent me a message saying he hopes there is a hell for Brian Thompson to burn in, pretty clear implied praise for the murder.
…This was my boss during an unpaid internship which included seventeen hour work days.
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u/frenchnameguy 10d ago
There's an IT certification I'm interested in studying for, and there are basically two trainers who are the most recommended course providers for this particular topic. One of them has pissed off a bunch of Redditors, however, by promoting a "democrat_tears" coupon for his courses after the election. Then, in one of the posts whining about his political beliefs, he himself popped in to tell everyone they were "weak-minded retards".
So anyways, this all gave me an easy choice of which course to take. Based AWS guy all the way.
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u/RabidGuillotine Not hiding from Wuhanvirus anymore 10d ago
Gaetz is going to run for President in 2028, I know it.
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u/Rebuilt-Retil-iH Grass Toucher 10d ago
I thought it was pretty good for what it is, not high cinema or anything
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u/PacAttackIsBack 10d ago
The original wasn’t high cinema either
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 10d ago
Were you not entertained?
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u/PacAttackIsBack 10d ago
Meh, it’s was a good popcorn film , slightly campy, with limited rewatchability
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u/GustavKlimtJapan John von Neumann 10d ago
Are 30 year old men supposed to lose all of their friends?
All of my friends have basically told me they have no time to go to dinner/lunch or chill even though they have a full week off this week. None of them have girlfriends.
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u/NeverClarke 10d ago
Friends you make in late teens or adolescence often come and go, but childhood friends are very reconnectable.
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u/VTHokie2020 Granny Shagger 10d ago
I’m mostly connected to friends I made in high school.
It’s some of the post-college friends that come and go.
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u/gonnathrowawaythat George W. Bush 10d ago
It’s a weird effect. I’m almost 30 with a lot of hobbies and getting married and I’m still making time for the boys. But I think I’m a rarity.
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u/magnax1 down with the slugmen 10d ago
Between the late 1990s and early 2010s, school enrollment rates rose, but not consistently and not by enough to offset the decline in young workers, which explains the climbing disconnection rates.
Is this referring to college or highschool? It must be highschool, right?
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u/Cerantic Jeb Bush 10d ago
I got bored reading this, can you split screen it with Family Guy Funny Moments?
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u/JorgeLuisBorges1205 Nixon y Rojas 11d ago
This is gonna be the DT where we break the 1k streak and we are gonna miss it by a mile.
Based and christmas pilled.
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u/UnexpectedLizard Captain Ancap 11d ago
So, given that Trump wants to steal someone's territory to cement his legacy, can we convince him to just invade Cuba?
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
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u/SonofNamek Barry Goldwater 10d ago
Just pool all of the ones who voted yes together and extend the border by 30 miles all across and call it New Canada.
Then, every New Canadian gets drafted and must do compulsory service at The Wall (the one meant to keep Canadian Wildlings out) for about a year or two.
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u/CheapRelation9695 Ronald Reagan 11d ago
I didn't expect Quebec's to be so high.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
a survey taken during the administration of George W. Bush that suggested nearly 34% of Quebecers would support joining the United States
The first modern political party in Canada to advocate joining America was an (admittedly, extremely small and inconsequential) political party in Quebec called Parti 51 that advocated Quebec leaving Canada to join the United States.
It was not historically a popular idea but it makes sense that the only province with a large separatist movement would also be the first to start thinking about the idea of being American.
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 11d ago
Not only is Matt Gaetz a predator, he's a cheap one:
Gaetz's then-girlfriend sent a text to women who Gaetz routinely paid for sex asking for a "customer appreciation" discount for the former Congressman, per the Ethics Report:
“the guys [Representative Gaetz and Mr. Greenberg] wanted me to share that they are a little limited in their cash flow this weekend . . . [M]att was like[,] if it can be more of a customer appreciation week.”
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u/Rebuilt-Retil-iH Grass Toucher 10d ago
Gaetz's then-girlfriend sent a text to women who Gaetz routinely paid for sex asking for a "customer appreciation" discount for the former Congressman, per the Ethics Report
That’s a level of cucked unheard of in modern times
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 11d ago
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
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u/coldnorthwz Tom Cotton 11d ago
Finished King Rat today, such a good book
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u/salaamswt 11d ago
movie bombs too. brutal but funny in equal measure, and unlike most modern media, actually says a lot about the human condition.
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u/NeverClarke 11d ago
It's very nice here right now. It is snowing and there was a fox and I took a picture of it.
I wish my phone had that enchant function, that police has.
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u/SonofNamek Barry Goldwater 11d ago
Lol right, I remember that 150 political scientists voted Biden a Top 13 President ever....ABOVE historical figures like Reagan, Jackson, Monroe, Wilson who achieved/influenced the country far more.
Talk about idiots discrediting themselves and further tainting academia (which, iirc, has a similar approval rating as media vulture scum).
The kind of mess Biden has put this country through and the results of it...especially with all these reports stating now about how he did jack shit for Ukraine.....the dude is on James Buchanan level (not as bad, I don't think).
Except, we're merely only at the part where Buchanan is leaving and not the part where we see additional fallout. Who knows what sort of thing is on the horizon now?
Wars, the dissolution of the Democrats, Trump's return, fall or decline of the US led Order (or the post-WWII Liberal version of that order), etc? Much of that possible (obviously, Trump is back but how much will get to do what he says and how much will it impact things?). Trust in all institutions has collapsed and Biden is pardoning criminals, left and right.
Sheesh. I think future Americans, 3-4 generations removed from all this will say he is a bottom 3 President, when it's said and done.
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u/Rebuilt-Retil-iH Grass Toucher 11d ago
Biden has been a historically transformative president. His landmark domestic accomplishments are comparable to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
What?
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Biden has been a historically transformative president
Absolutely. You might even say transitional. He helped America transition from the first Trump term to the second Trump term. Very transformative
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u/ReturnoftheTurd 11d ago
Ah yes of course. The only actual fascist president the United States had is top three. Classic rewriting of political theory. Fascists are generally far left.
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u/gonnathrowawaythat George W. Bush 11d ago
European movies had the hottest streak of all time from the late 40s to early 70s, then nothing but firing blanks since.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Vergewaltigung durch Hexe (2024) directed by Hans von Mutterficker
Starring Rudolf Kriegsverbrechen and Sebastian Schwerverbrecher
The film is shot entirely in black and white and in the dialect of the southwest corner of northeastern southern Frankfurt. It's 6 hours of the two actors shooting heroin and screaming racial slurs. It's a commentary on modern consumerism and the influence of American culture and McDonaldization on contemporary German culture
5 stars out of 5. Palme d'Or winner.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
I literally just went to the list of Palme d'Or winners and clicked on a random recent one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titane
Beyond parody. Euros are so fucking weird. Read the plot of that.
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u/spaceqwests Tricky Dick 11d ago
But as an empirical matter it is true that authoritarians profit from left-wing squeamishness about basic law enforcement. In 2019 David Frum warned Democrats that their immigration policies would be their downfall in a piece titled “If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will.” Five years later, that doubles as a one-line explanation for how we got Trump—again.”
You’re still a lefty, Nick. Just like French and Hayes.
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
Post in the Change My View sub about Reddit being a far-left echo chamber.
The comments:
Reddit is certainly, by American standards, left-leaning, but actual “far left” or anything that breaks free of neoliberal capitalism is often just as derided as conservative posts in the truly mainstream subreddits.
r/politics is a great example. Generally, obviously, a democrat-centric subreddit, but any content that challenges the DNC from the left is seldom welcome. And the DNC is a moderate to center-left political party.
Go into somewhere like r/news or r/worldnews and it is a very similar vibe.
Yes progressive subreddits exist, but their existence is no more indicative of a “far left” bend than the existence of conservative subreddits being any indication of the opposite.
I fucking hate the political discussions outside of this sub. These people have suffered irreperable brain damage from internet politics. I guess this user deserves credit for at least calling dems center-left and not right wing like a lot of Redditors would.
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u/SonofNamek Barry Goldwater 11d ago
I mean, the whole point of that sub is to be a contrarian to whatever gets posted.
But yes, most of this site is a far left shithole. And yes, even as a limited social experiment, you can say a Reddit or Bluesky is what a left bubble inherently leads to - whether it's social media, corporate boardrooms, governments, entertainment world.
All these entities have done is create a similar way of approaching and controlling human beings.
Micromanaging people, cancelling out other ways of thinking, purity tests, creating poor incentive structures, suppressing speech but selective punishments and violent threats allowed, secret lists to punish/blacklist opponents, etc.
Then, even if the people in charge are concerned about it, they don't know what to do about the monster they've created and there's too much bloat to be able to sort through it properly.
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
The thing that gets me about the comment is that they think the climate in most mainstream subs is "centrist" or "center-left" when most reddit users have views that even the far-left wouldn't have endorsed ten years ago. It's just like how they call Joe Biden a "milquetoast centrist" when he is easily the most left wing President we've had in generations.
I was banned from r/politics on an old account for criticizing Jon Stewart and saying that his rhetoric is corrosive to political discourse. I know I can post anything remotely supportive of Israel, or remotely critical of Saint Bernard and get downvoted to oblivion with an army of angry anime pfp's responding to me.
But I agree with you completely. And it is like the people in this sub say all the time, when you open a community to discussion with these types of leftists, it will inevitably become a leftist sub. They act so blood thirsty and condescending towards anybody who disagrees with them and they are so hive minded I genuinely cannot understand why any right wing, center-right, or really just any sane person on the left for that matter would even want to continue discussion with them.
Nothing these types of people say is ever insightful either. It's all just copy-paste the same dumb opinions over and over. What really puts the icing on the cake, is that most of the views they spew would get them laughed out of a room anywhere outside the internet.
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u/SonofNamek Barry Goldwater 10d ago
It is important to note because Right and Far-Right, at least, have social ecosystems to counter them and their arguments.
Due to lacking that proper feedback loop, Lefties do not have this whatsoever and in theory, would be prone to abuse their power (they have already, the last decade). Hence, you keep seeing polls or studies where it's predominantly lefties who don't view themselves or their actions as authoritarian or who are more likely to cut others off for their views. Mental illness rates climbing higher. Also, possibly more likely to approve of violence against people they dislike (which, we see with this United Healthcare thing).
For that reason, I am bothered about the potential violence stemming from their bubbles.
News media, social media, and entertainment might be dying off/cleaning their industry but I think we're going to see the full culmination of their BS from the last decade within the next 4+ years.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Uhm actually Reddit is very moderate and centrist, we are not "far left" or extreme at all. Most of us are Trotskyists or Marxist-Leninist, not Ultra leftists or left-coms
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
Well, Marxist-Leninism would actually be right wing in Europe, so Ultra Leftism would be center-left at best.
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u/neox20 11d ago edited 11d ago
Reports of it being over with chicom girl have been greatly exaggerated
i am an unparalleled seducer
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
You have to teach me your ways!
It usually falls apart for me when it comes time to start doing the accent.
I wirr open door for you, most honoraburr pretty rady
Maybe I just need to work on the accent a bit more!
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u/Mexatt Yuval Levin 11d ago
Deborah Gross, who leads the judicial education group Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, said she’s already heard of conservative plans to attack the three justices. The organization is generally skeptical of choosing judges by popular vote, but Gross said that the current court is “pretty robust. … They do a good job of really getting rid of the politics, focusing on the issues.”
A handful of justices can, after all, have an outsized effect on a slew of crucial issues. Elizabeth Stelle, the policy director for the conservative Commonwealth Foundation, noted the court has a huge role on issues like state efforts to limit greenhouse gases.
The Left wing activist organization is an 'education group', the other organization is explicitly conservative.
And it doesn't even end there
Adam Garber, executive director of gun-reform group CeaseFirePA, said that while his group hasn’t taken a position on retention, “Having judges who are evaluating and really empowering communities to keep their loved ones safe is going to be very important.”
'gun reform group'
Also, it's funny the guy's name is one dyslexic transposition from being 'Graber'. Nominative determinism almost wins the day again.
But also, it continues!
Conservatives have a number of grievances with court decisions in recent years, including rulings to uphold COVID business restrictions opposed by Republicans and to back an executive order that facilitated unionizing home health aides.
Note that it doesn't tell you it was a ruling about upholding COVID business restrictions, it's specifically upholding restrictions opposed by Republicans. This kind of writing is intentional -- either consciously or instinctually -- and causes polarization: it gets people who see 'Republicans' as a boo word to support the ruling but it also gets people who opposed the ruling to think about being Republican. It's unethical hour alism and it's everywhere.
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u/VTHokie2020 Granny Shagger 11d ago
Gaetz is a sleazy scumbag and I'm glad he's gone (let alone not AG).
I don't think this is a vindication of the ethics committee as a good government watchdog though.
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u/spaceqwests Tricky Dick 11d ago
Still unclear what Johnson secured for the GOP in the first deal.
When we have Dems screaming that it’s a great deal. And Johnson saying nothing about it, you know he got fucked.
Yet the jokers here are telling me it’s a good deal because…no government shutdown.
What do I get in return? Nothing, obviously. Besides things that already have bipartisan support. Probably why our denizen Tuesday-cels thought it was a good deal.
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 11d ago
it’s a good deal because…no government shutdown.
Yes.
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u/spaceqwests Tricky Dick 11d ago
You should’ve negotiated for Mike Johnson. You’d probably have done a better job.
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u/zapp517 George W. Bush 11d ago
I’m able to ignore most of the Luigi posting as just reddit being reddit, but this one really rubs me the wrong way. Luigi is a thug that shot a guy. He has nothing in common with this woman.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/hTv2UpeqqS8?si=rE3Bz4OeBHr8WOv9
Reminder that Bill Burr is a Commie and he keeps talking like this over and over.
America needs to bring back blacklisting these freaks. The McCarthyists were right.
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
I really hate to say this, but you are right. Their views are dangerous. I do think we should bring back stigmatizing their opinions heavily.
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u/VTHokie2020 Granny Shagger 11d ago
ar pics is somehow more political (and raterded) than the politics sub. It's hilarious
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u/SonofNamek Barry Goldwater 11d ago
Lol, post a wholesome picture of family from 1800s that you found in your attic on that sub.....suddenly, it changes into how America was founded on racism and how the Republicans caused 1800s family poverty or some shit.
Sadly, there is little to no changing the cult. All we can do is purge them as much as we can
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 11d ago
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Is Spirit bad? I have a horrible fear of flying and have only done it a few times, always with Air Canada or WestJet. Idk if Spirit even is a thing here.
Is that like a super cheap airline with a lot of issues?
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u/Thadlust Le Roi du Rizz 11d ago
It’s a super cheap airline that nickel and dimes you but it’s safe and (somewhat) reliable.
Never fly Frontier (delays and shitty routes) or Allegiant (safety)
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u/spaceqwests Tricky Dick 11d ago
Wrong. Allegiant is great for a last minute flight to Vegas. I used to catch the nonstop out of Houston there semi-regularly booked a week out. Never had an issue.
Now, would I let them check the golf sticks? God no. But for me and the carry on? Sure thing, Chief.
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u/Thadlust Le Roi du Rizz 10d ago
I don’t think Allegiant will crash on every flight per se but their margin for error is way too high compared to other US air carriers.
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u/ReturnoftheTurd 11d ago
Nah that’s a real man right there. Spirit airlines? I forgive all his wrongdoing
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u/Cerantic Jeb Bush 11d ago
Can I say something without y’all getting mad
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago edited 11d ago
This is somehow gayer than if you'd said you wanted go suck off Mosley
That lady looks like a twink Oscar Wilde would try to lay with.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Alfred_Douglas
Oscar Wilde's also kind fashy actual boyfriend ^
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11d ago
Mosley referred to the British Fascists as "three old ladies and a couple of office boys"
But yeah, she's gorgeous.
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u/_pointy__ Secret Zionist Overlord 11d ago
Tomboy this, tomboy that, you want a man with tits. You are gay!
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u/Stainonstainlessteel freedom hater 11d ago edited 11d ago
So I invited my nonbelieving parents to midnight mass while mom was listening to some classical christmas music. She went "I would like the church to be like that"
"What do you mean?"
"One time in Slovakia we had to run out of midnight mass because there were guitars everywhere and it was terrible"
There are no lessons to be drawn from this anecdote
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Out of curiosity, did your parents grow up under Communism?
Czech Republic and the former DDR seem to be some of the least religious places in all of Europe, and I'm curious if that is a result of some policy on the part of the former Marxist-Leninist regimes there.
It would seem likely but other nearby places that were under similar regimes (Poland) had religious resurgences there and I don't know what policy differences there were so I can't draw conclusions.
Also, Slovakia was under the exact same government as Czechia and they don't seem to have quite the same levels of atheism.
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u/Stainonstainlessteel freedom hater 11d ago
Yes they did. Born in the 60's. Mum in Czechoslovakia and dad in Yugoslavia. Neither were raised religious.
Czech atheism is a topic for an effortpost of it's own.
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
I'm weirdly autistic about religion and religious trends and demographics. If you ever feel up to doing an effort post on Czech atheism, I would love you forever (no homo)
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u/Stainonstainlessteel freedom hater 11d ago
For now, here is an old effortpost on religion in the last Czech census. You will have to excuse the English, I wasn't quite proficient yet
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Jediism 21 023
Lol!
Thanks for sharing this, this was a very interesting read.
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u/GustavKlimtJapan John von Neumann 11d ago
The retail apocalypse is still ongoing and I support it. Gotta punish those poors.
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u/Thadlust Le Roi du Rizz 11d ago
What happened now?
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u/GustavKlimtJapan John von Neumann 11d ago
Container store, Party City, Nordstrom being taken private
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
You can praise Luigi SpaghettiOs all you want on this site, but you say one positive thing about John Wilkes Booth, and suddenly you're justifying political violence
Where does the lib hypocrisy end!?
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
It's because they support political violence coming from the far-left. Like Lincoln's SOCIALIST attempts to infringe on state's rights in his war of northern aggression.
putting an /s in here
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Does the /s stand for States' Rights?
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
Yes! I'm showing solidarity for the right of self determination for the South!
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u/NeverClarke 11d ago
Social networks ranked by support for murder.
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u/SonofNamek Barry Goldwater 11d ago
So, the extreme left and the extreme right.
Too bad we can't put them all in a desert and have them fight each other before nuking the place.
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
So, the extreme left and the extreme right.
In this case it's more like all of the dead weight losers who just pick different external factors to blame their problems on.
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u/Malzair Klemens von Metternich 11d ago
At which point was he named HW and people no longer called him just George Bush?
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u/AngloSaxonCanuck Bill Kristol 11d ago
Actually George HW Bush is all his given name. His surname is Smith. Little known factoid
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 11d ago
NPR's highlights:
Among other accusations, the committee found Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in 2017, and used or possessed illegal drugs on multiple occasions from 2017-2019, including ecstasy and cocaine.
In its report, the panel also found Gaetz used his chief of staff to get a passport for a woman with whom he engaged in sexual conduct, "falsely indicating to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent."
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u/Hajjah Israel 11d ago
What’s the lib thought process for commuting the sentence of child killers and child molesters?
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
Where is this happening?
I'd assume it's because they are against the death penalty or something.
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 11d ago
Biden has commuted the death sentence for all but 3 of federal death row. The three are Dylan Roof, the living Tsarnev brother, and the Tree of Life shooter.
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I defended Biden through a lot of terrible policy, but this is the end of my tether. A politician really shows who they are when they don't have to answer to their constituents any more, and I'm ashamed to have supported him.
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u/Afro_Samurai Real Housewives of Portland 11d ago
Your breaking point was a lifelong Catholic acting on his opposition to the death penalty?
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u/redditthrowaway1294 Mitch McConnell 10d ago
If this were the case it would be 40 out of 40 instead of just all the child killers that didn't get national news segments.
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u/No-Sort2889 11d ago
Why did he do it?
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u/theskiesthelimit55 Grinning, White-Toothed Anti-Eurasian 11d ago
The idea is that you keep them alive for the next few decades, and hope that that provides enough time for the Innocence Project or a progressive prosecutor to get them out
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u/NeverClarke 11d ago
They're getting life in prison, right.
Grok said that John Paul II was against the death penalty so it might be a catholic thing.
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u/Malzair Klemens von Metternich 11d ago
Say what you want about jihad and white supremacy, at least it's a cause
Bonjour NSA
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u/Thadlust Le Roi du Rizz 9d ago
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas :)