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wildcat09

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  1. It's infuriating, but the thing to keep in mind is that these polls are essentially lagging indicators, because the majority of those polled don't pay much (if any) attention and have no idea what's going on yet. There's no constituency outside of Trump's really rabid base of support for a trade war (or an actual shooting war) with Canada. That might change as he escalates shit and really ramps up the propaganda to support an invasion, but I doubt it. He really should have started with Mexico. The American people would've been a lot more likely to tolerate this shit with them.
  2. The similarities between Trump's new rhetoric about Canada and Putin's rhetoric about Ukraine are hard to ignore.
  3. Without Elon, TSLA is no longer a meme stock. So they don't care how much he destroys the actual brand, because if they replace Elon the market will start treating TSLA like an automobile manufacturer and not like a magical tech company.
  4. The best definition of fascism comes from Roger Griffin, who defines it as palingenetic ultranationalism. That can sound kind of wonky though since nobody knows what palingenesis is and still sort of sounds like an ideology even though fascism isn't really ideological, so Umberto Eco's 14 traits of ur-fascism is probably the best way to explain it to most people:
  5. “Russia has agency” ”That’s just obvious propaganda!”
  6. You idiots need to stop arguing with the troll and start researching the best designs for various medieval torture devices.
  7. Nazi trolls will be lucky to get gibbets when this is all over with.
  8. You’re all as stupid as this obvious sock is.
  9. Evidenced literally by the decrease in income inequality during Biden’s administration.
  10. I think Ana actually sincerely wants a nuclear apocalypse.
  11. This kind of pedantry is insanely fucking stupid and ghoulish.
  12. Anti-trans voters are not Democratic primary voters.
  13. It would only work if he plans to run as a Republican.
  14. Who makes shittier brisket, Ana or John Cornyn?
  15. He’s right guys, what we’ve really been missing is pro-Assad taeks.
  16. God it rules so hard that Ana couldn’t help himself during a Thursday happy hour from revealing that he’s been an Assadist all along. Being pro gassing Syrian civilians had been the one grey zone take he hadn’t previously revealed, but I always knew he could do it if he got drunk enough.
  17. Big fan of chlorine gas attacks on civilians, aren’t ya?
  18. This defensiveness from some Dem posters that some criticism of Trump isn't quite on point is going to drive me insane. You don't ever gotta fucking hand it to the nazis. You don't got to defend them. You don't got to credit a Republican who correctly says the sun rises in the east. You don't got to "WELL ACKSHUALLY THAT'S NOT TECHNICALLY TERRORISM" Jesus fucking christ, learn your priorities.
  19. ...so what you're saying is that you can, in fact, say something like that in the Israel thread, but you're scared of the criticism you anticipate you would receive from other posters and you're characterizing it as something censorious. Never change, Rex. You're soft as Charmin, boy.
  20. In another time and place, maybe it'd be an interesting conversation what sorts of social responses to anti-social behavior are insufficient, which are acceptable, and which are overkill. Here and now? Fuck that. If that wretched shrew and her husband both got ebola I'd laugh. So long as we haven't progressed to an actual Maoist social revolution, we're still well within the bounds of an acceptable reaction.
  21. You're getting into an internet debate with a guy who thinks somebody hijacked that boat in Baltimore and drove it into the bridge.
  22. So then you CAN say shit like that in the Israel thread?
  23. Really? Have the mods deleted posts from you saying shit to that effect?
  24. As a reminder given his moralizing here now, the only commentary Ana had on the Bucha massacre on this board was to criticize other posters for being upset about it. Brisket can be dramatic, but he's not wrong. First, none of our allies are actually allies anymore, so they shouldn't be sharing intelligence with us. Second, we're clearly going to need to touch the stove for a long damned time to re-learn the lessons of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. A 17th century state centered on an impulsive and degenerating monarch is not any way to run a modern society and is going to result in much more death and much greater harm than any one terrorist could ever conceive of inflicting on America. We're going to be wishing for a sclerotic, gridlocked legislature backstopped by a professional administrative state. Well, all of us except for Ana, who wants a return of the inquisition for reasons that are well beyond my ability to understand.
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