I wonder how interesting would it be to actually have a bot to keep count of typical lib shit. These people think they're so original, I think it'd be cool to automatically keep them a bit grounded.
AlbigensianGhoul
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Damn, we need an emoji that's just like :lib: but scratched. Who even mentioned Russia?
The sheer Statesianess of saying "I don't care about race" within the same paragraph as referencing a racist caricature.
If you have such a problem with "governments that seek to fuck with other countries and cultures", maybe you should educate yourself on what your homeland you so adore has done just within the 50 ten years?
It can be overwhelming, there's so much horrifying shit. Maybe pick a small region first. I'd suggest Central America. El Salvador, Grenada and Haiti are right there. Or you can just look up Operation Condor if you're feeling ambitious.
I'm sure your devoted love to Turtle Island will continue unshaken if you earnestly try to confront its (recent) history. That's just sarcasm, I highly doubt you'll ever critically evaluate your own state and state-approved ideology.
Sometimes I think you people deserve this imagined foreign-backed plots and destruction y'all keep inventing to justify your own incompetence and white supremacy. Good luck fighting your great imagined war against foreign capital, I'm sure all the homeless immigrants will be proud of your national heorism.
Because this whole thing pissed me off a lot when it was approved, have the webpage of the bill for this law. Note how it passed unanimously in the senate.
Note that it also restricts property ownership for people from Russia, Syria, Venezuela, DPR Korea and Cuba.
Note also how vague the wording is on the definition of a "foreign principal".
It also requires those "foreign principals" that already own property to register themselves with the state government.
This reporting is some "literally 1984" shit, with the guy thinking of the many ways the "perpetrators" could've been caught on camera in order to be punished for breaking an empty machine. Actually disturbing shit.
But then you read his bio and learn he's just another vampire. His stock portfolio is way more important to him than the drivers' jobs, the safety of the roads or the lives of the people who broke his little toy.
I worked on Google's car team in its early years and am an advisor and/or investor for car OEMs and many of the top startups in robocars, sensors, delivery robots and even some flying cars.
May this car be the first of many.
Games that flop often get heavier discounts later down the line. Digital copies have no cost to create, so the only cost is the opportunity cost of a bigger sale.
They could literally just fish one of the candidates from last time's primaries, who are already part of the administration. Mayo Pete? Kamala Harris? Literally anybody who is not at risk of randomly dying of natural causes from now to January next year?
I still maintain my position that the DNC wants to lose, so they can keep the "battle for the soul of our nation" distraction going for another cycle or two. Though I don't think it's going to work, I doubt their electoral system is going to last that long.
I mean, we shouldn't forget how botched the response to COVID was in the USA. Not sure if it would've been handled any different had it been Clinton, I could try to force an argument that people cared more about COVID prevention when opposing Trump than under Biden, but keeping hypotheticals aside the numbers are grim for Trump's presidency too.
President Vladimir Zelensky sacked Zaluzhny on Thursday, even as the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) warned this might trigger riots or a mutiny.
:sicko-yes:
What always annoyed me about Democrats defending Biden is when they lean on calling it ableism or ageism. Apparently he did have a stutter when he was young, and that was used to explain some of his earlier gaffes.
Problem is, this still assumes the guy still "deserves" to be president, despite clearly being awful at it, stutter or no stutter, old or young. If the job description is basically just doing inspiring speeches and press conferences, and the guy can't do it, it's not ableist to want some other person.
But even worse, it ignores that Biden will never face the true horror of being disabled or old while working class. He would never had been at risk of losing his home, starving or even being arrested or institutionalised had he lost the election, because he's rich and connected.
By using the aesthetics of fighting ableism, but ignoring the material conditions of most disabled people, liberals made a mockery of it all.
#MoreElderlyWarCriminals
Full text because medium sometimes is annoying
So it turns out the dementia symptoms Biden’s supporters have long dismissed as a “stutter” are actually exactly what they look like.
The special counsel assigned to investigate Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents reports that investigators “uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” but concludes that “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.”
Which normally would be cause for a sigh of relief by this administration and its supporters, except that among the reasons given for this conclusion is that the president has gone senile.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Special Counsel Robert Hur writes to Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying that “Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation… will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully — that is, with intent to break the law — as the statute requires.”
Hur reports that in interviews Biden couldn’t even remember things as fundamental as the years of his term as vice president, or when his son Beau died. Hur also writes that Biden’s memory had gotten worse between the aforementioned recorded 2017 interviews and the interviews with the president last year.
In short, the president’s brain don’t work. It’s shot. The “leader of the free world” has rusted out gray matter. It’s like swiss cheese in there.
And it is indeed getting worse. During a press conference in which Biden was ostensibly meant to reassure the world that his brain is working fine in light of the big news, the president referred to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico and froze mid-speech when he unsuccessfully tried to remember where his son got the rosary he carries from. Just this week Biden has mistakenly referred to dead European leaders as still being in office, not once but twice.
If you were still laboring under the delusion that it matters who the US president is, the fact that an actual, literal dementia patient has held that office for three years now should dispel that notion once and for all. The US empire has been marching along in exactly the same way it was before Biden took office, completely unhindered by the fact that the person who’s supposedly calling the shots is in a state of degenerative neurological free-fall.
Literally anyone could hold that office and it would make no meaningful difference in the way the US empire is run. A coma patient could be president. A jar of kalamata olives could be president. The position which Americans hold elections over in the belief that it could bring positive changes to their country and their world is nothing but a figurehead.
Which is a bit of a problem for Americans who would like to change certain aspects of their government’s behavior, like for example the backing of an active genocide in Gaza. Whose conscience do they work to appeal to if the person they were told is in charge actually isn’t? Who do they vote for if the people who really call the shots aren’t even on the ballot?
The fact that the US president has dementia exposes the uncomfortable truth that the functioning of the empire is too important to be left in the hands of voters. There’s too much power riding on the behavior of the US government from year to year for the electorate to be permitted a say in it.
The globe-spanning power structure that is centralized around the United States is run not by the official elected government of that nation, but by unelected empire managers who filter in and out of each administration and maintain a steady presence in government agencies and government-adjacent institutions. These empire managers form alliances with corporate powers and working relationships with the many nations, assets and partners who function as members of the undeclared US empire.
Which means there’s not really any way for Americans to vote their way out of this mess. If you have a problem with genocide, militarism, economic injustice, authoritarianism, or any other crucial building block for the US-centralized power structure, you will never be permitted to have any influence over those things through the official electoral system. Voting in western “democracies” is done to give us the illusion of control, like letting a toddler play with a toy steering wheel while you drive so they can feel like they’re participating.
That doesn’t mean there’s no way out of this mess, just that there’s no way out of this mess that involves voting. We’re already seeing pro-Palestine activists throwing significant obstacles in the operations of Israeli weapons dealers, and the push to educate and inform the public about what’s happening in Gaza has caused Israel to lose control of the narrative so severely that it’s now resorting to desperate online influence ops. Measures like this can be implemented across the board to bring about the end of the imperial power structure. Once enough people begin turning against the empire, using the power of our numbers to force real change will quickly move from impossible to possible to likely to inevitable.
But we’ve got to stop hanging all our hopes on the electoral system first. Every four years we see American attention get sucked up into this empty puppet show about which soulless empire manager should be the temporary official figurehead at the front desk of the permanent imperial machine, and if you want to vote by all means go ahead and vote. But don’t let that performative ritual distract you from the real project: to wake up our fellow humans and begin forcing real change.
If you install the Reddit Enhancement Suite I think it has a dark mode option. It has many other cool features, though the team has entered maintenance mode in recent years.
Literally trying to insult an Asian person by comparing them to a yellow cartoon bear is not really a good look, specially given all the homophobia you've also been leaking all over the place.
Given you ignored the rest of the entire comment, I assume I was right and your hate of "evil governments" only applies to foreign ones. Typical gringo.
But please, your time is way better spent defending your homeland from foreign hordes than debating silly commies on the internet. Go get 'em soldier!