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>>2361783 https://www.thecut.com/article/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-decision-explained.html
<If this decision does go into effect in 30 days, what will that mean for children born to non-U.S. citizens? What about children born to green-card holders or people who are in the U.S. on work or student visas?
>It depends on what state they’re in. If they’re in a state that sued to block the enforcement of the executive order, then in those states, they should be fine. Their children should be born under the cover of the citizenship clause — at least for the time being, that means they would be considered to be lawfully born United States citizens and they would be issued a birth certificate indicating that.
>In the states that are not under the cover of the injunctions, they’re going to have to figure out what type of documentation or process they’re going to require people to go under in order to either establish their status here and, in turn, determine the status of their child. If you’re in my home state of Indiana, injunctions don’t apply to you. It’s very complicated. This is the mess that is created when a device as helpful as an universal injunction is taken away.
<What happens if you are a person without legal status and you give birth in, let’s say, Indiana, since there’s no injunction that’s applicable there. Does that mean your child is stateless?
>From my understanding, it appears that the child is considered to take on the nationality of the parent — so if both parents were from Nicaragua, the child would likely be considered to be from Nicaragua. What happens after that is so up in the air. Unfortunately, it’s such a parade of horribleness that I’m afraid to even postulate about what could happen, because I don’t want to give anybody any ideas. It’s a scary time, and I pray that these questions can be resolved quickly — particularly the merit-based question about whether or not birthright citizenship is constitutional. >>2363355>need a jobGood fucking luck, the job market in the US is
DEAD .
>>2363362Yeah, I'm lucky enough to live in the Northeast where everything is nice and dense due to being one of the original thirteen colonies, but unfortunately there's a lot of the US where there's this vicious cycle of:
need car to go to work -> need money to get car -> but can't get money without work -> but can't get work without car, and car requires money
>>2363367Reading my Trump Bible with my Trump Fragrance "Victory 45-47" on with my MAGA hat wrapped in a "LET'S GO BRANDON" flag while eating a McDonalds meal.
Trvst the Q, this ritual consumerism will literally win life itself and spawn American Jesus.
>>2363383There's apparently more than one version, which means a true supporter has to collect them all.
It even comes with a free statue of liberty bag.
>>2363403Fetterman wants Israel to bomb Iran to provoke the multipolar powers to bomb America.
Fetterman is more progressive than Mamdami who is trying to do damage control.
>>2363408It would help a lot.
It's a bit like asking "would a knight rescue the princess from the castle faster if he had a sword"? It would be helpful if he did.
>>2363321fuckin' conman. he enjoyed trip after trip on the 20th century to the USSR. He knew about all the love the USSR had with Stalin, he visited Brezhnev's USSR who redeemed Stalin's symbol and image. he was never a USSR's friend.
fucking anticommunist.
>>2363400How long until she calls him a dirty uyghur?
I swear, the sheer amount of hysterical racism unleashed by his victory is astounding, and hopefully eye-opening to anyone still on the fence in these matters.
>>2363440>Brandon Gill is married to Dinesh Dsouza Indian daughterLol.
<D'Souza dated fellow conservatives Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter prior to meeting Dixie Brubaker while working at the White House. D'Souza and Brubaker married in 1992.[29] They have one daughter, Danielle D'Souza Gill, who is a writer and a member of the Women for Trump Coalition.D'Souza really cleaning up with the Fox blondes. WTF? I thought Anne Coulter wouldn't vote for Ramaswamy because he's Indian but she'll date an Indian? What a funny character.
>>2363445I wonder if The Boondocks was right about Anne Coulter.
[context: backstage after an ongoing series of on-air "debates" (arguments) between Coulter and Rev. Goodlove over black people and the n-word]
Team Trump Is Serious About Unleashing the Espionage Act on the Media
In the months leading up to his second presidency, Trump and several of his advisers and close allies talked about novel ways the Espionage Act could be unleashed not just against government leakers and whistleblowers, but against media outlets that received classified or highly sensitive information, according to two sources involved with such conversations with Trump.
“Why not the press?” Trump has said, one of the sources relays, when commenting on how, in his mind, it makes absolutely no sense that the law has traditionally been used to prosecute leakers but not journalists who publish confidential national security disclosures.
In recent days, amid a prolonged meltdown over the intel leak about the strikes against Iran to outlets like CNN and The New York Times, the president has privately brought up using the Espionage Act on reporters again, according to one of the sources and also a senior Trump administration official.
The president’s lieutenants are listening, and — per the administration official — looking for the right case to launch their “maiden voyage” of an unprecedented type of Espionage Act prosecution — one which would also serve to broadly intimidate news organizations when it comes to publishing classified government information or protecting the identities of their confidential sources.
Republicans close to Trump stress that administration brass at the Justice Department, White House, and elsewhere are actively on the lookout for a test case of a leak that could be used to file criminal charges against American reporters and their publications as supposed “co-conspirators.”
“All we’d really need is one text or email from a reporter telling a source: ‘Can you pull something for me?’ or something very direct of that nature,” the senior Trump official says. “If somebody in the media wasn’t careful even for a split second, that could make the difference between a reporter, and a criminal.”
When asked for comment on the administration potentially using the Espionage Act against leakers and journalists, Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the White House, provided a statement to Rolling Stone: “Leaking classified information is a crime, and anyone who threatens American national security in this manner should be held accountable.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/espionage-act-team-trump-plan-media-1235376198/The Rent Guidelines Board approved increases of at least 3 percent for New York City’s one million rent-stabilized apartments, rejecting the call for a rent freeze that helped Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani surge to the lead in the Democratic mayoral primary last week.
Mayor Eric Adams, who appointed the members of the board, has supported rent increases for rent-stabilized apartments every year since he took office. Mr. Mamdani, likely to be the Democratic nominee facing him in the general election in November, has promised not to do the same if he becomes mayor.
As the city faces linked affordability and housing crises, the contrast between Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Adams added a new layer of tension to the board’s decision.
On Monday night, the board, in a 5-to-4 vote, approved 3 percent increases for one-year leases and 4.5 percent increases for two-year leases. The votes against the increases came from the two members on the board representing landlords, who had wanted higher increases, and the two members representing tenants, who wanted a rent freeze.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/nyregion/nyc-mamdani-adams-rent-increase.html>>2363408>>2363411Congress has no real power except what the bourgeoisie lets them pretend. Even if weed magically made Congress communist then the executive would declare martial law to "restore the constitution" and get rid of them.
>>2363465>Israel is stealing American money! There you go. No need to give an essay about the "true meaning" of genocide, apartheid and colonialism. Just mention the 100s of billions Israel scams to normal Americans and watch these Zionists spurge out.
>>2363488It's pathetic these people let him pretend he's some billionaire. He barely got 10 million out of the Learning Company decades ago and every business he make fails. He's been coasting off Shark Tank for years.
>>2363488He's half right.
His policies will likely fail because he's going to be blocked at every turn unless he does a lot of political maneuvering to force them through and then get called a "dictator".
Zohran Advisor: How We Beat the Cuomo Machine
Democratic strategist Rebecca Katz joins Lauren Egan to discuss how she helped Zohran Mamdani win New York City’s mayoral primary by tapping into voter frustrations with clear, relatable messaging on affordability.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/zohran-advisor-how-we-beat-the-cuomoIdk anything about this woman but this is a never trump conservative outlet she interviewed on so I assume she moderates her take for it
>>2363522>anti-Sunni propagandaCan you imagine being a proud Sunni right now? Might as well call it Judaism+ at this point. SAD!
>>2363525Theoretically if we gave every anti-vacciner a shot of rabies and then offered them the rabies vaccine right afterwards how many would stick to their principles and refuse?
>>2363541Update on Laura loomer. First pic is total cognitive dissonance for a normal human but to her only Jewish people are human so she doesn't see it
Here are the most unhinged Laura loomer tweets I can find of the past 48 hours. She's always got something absolutely insane
>>2363574>>2363571>>2363570>>2363573Unironically I'd seen the same dentist since I was a little kid and got pretty frequent fluoride treatments; never had a cavity and never needed anything beyond basic cleaning. I'd only brush my teeth once a day and I frequently forget to floss. I'm pro-fluoride if ever there was one.
Also tangentially related but I knew a bunch of people growing up who were "afraid" of the dentist, and to me that didn't make sense. I was afraid of doctors because it seemed like no matter what you did, they'd jab you full of needles and suck your blood out. With dentists all you had to do was brush your fucking teeth and you'd be fine.
>>2363569I think the difference between the two is that covid comes with a lot of pain people want to relieve. People have a really hard time imagining and preventing future pain like with tooth loss prevention.
>>2363571I know you're really hoping nobody actually checks your link but the whole thing goes in depth refuting what you're saying in the post.
>>2363573No Communist national fluoridates their national water supply. Capitalists do this because the poison is cheaper than a dentist. Communist nations actually remove the fluoride from the water.
https://www.fluorideresearch.org/351/files/FJ2002_v35_n1_p1-4.pdf#:~:text=SUMMARY%3A%20Water%20fluoridation%20in%20China%20began%20in%201964,with%20only%20a%20marginal%20decrease%20in%20dental%20caries.
>>2363575water poisoning is among the greatest problem the proletarian faces
>>2363578 its for burgers who are too fucking lazy to brush their teeth. they poison themselves en masse from their laziness. look at the map water fluoridation is capitalist endemic
>>2363582>Communist nations actually remove the fluoride from the water.<"every province in China has areas that are afflicted with endemic fluorosis"you are an illiterate NPC who can't even read the first sentence of the science research you pretend to believe in.
>water poisoning is among the greatest problem the proletarian faces<"0.7 mg/L is the greatest threat, we need 0.5 mg/L" like Democrats trying to scrape away at the smallest of margins lmao
>too fucking lazy to brush their teeth. Neoliberals: "if you're dying homeless in the streets, you've MADE THE WRONG CHOICES and deserve to die" (zero historical materialist critiques of political economy)
degenerate RFK leftoids: (the same neoliberal ideology but more smug and pretentious somehow)
>>2363584getting a contact allergy from deadly chemicals that should never be applied to skin to own the libs
>>2363605The First Step Act was one of the only good things he did in his first term. So these are actually based Jews. I don't know why Jews are the only ones he will listen to but it's still good.
https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/how-first-step-act-moves-criminal-justice-reform-forward
>It’s not often that you’ll find the ACLU on the same side of an issue as President Donald Trump.
>But in the waning days of the 115th Congress, lawmakers have the rare opportunity to show bipartisanship isn’t completely dead. For months, advocates and lawmakers have worked together to craft a criminal justice reform bill, known as the FIRST STEP Act, that enjoys broad support from the White House and members of Congress in both parties. https://www.lubavitch.com/prison-reform-summit-brings-together-350-leaders-in-criminal-justice-system/
>Three hundred and fifty people gathered together this week at Columbia Law School for Rewriting the Sentence, a two-day, high-level summit on alternatives to incarceration. A project of the Aleph Institute, with a broad array of leaders and partners from the ACLU to the American Conservative Union Foundation, the Center for Court Innovation to Right on Crime, the summit highlighted the range of non-custodial alternatives to disposing of criminal cases presently available in the U.S. and abroad, and the challenges to expanding the reach of these programs to a greater proportion of cases. Participants worked to identify cultural and political shifts in sentencing practices and evaluate the efficacy of incarceration alternatives.There was this clip of Vance going around that people claimed was from the RNC but it was actually for this other Orthodox Jewish org doing a criminal justice reform fundraiser.
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-does-not-show-hasidic-singer-perform-rnc-celebration-jd-vance-2024-07-16/
>The channel said in an email that the video shows a Feb. 25, 2024, event held in honor of Rabbi Moshe Margaretten of the Tzedek Association, opens new tab , a Jewish organization that focuses on criminal justice issues. The event was attended by “over 1,000 attendees and bipartisan attendance of members of Congress.” The singer Shulem a week later posted photos of him with lawmakers including Vance, opens new tab and Democratic Senator Cory Booker, opens new tab at the event.
>From timestamp 04:36 to 05:51, Vance speaks about the importance of supporting formerly incarcerated people. >>2363592The capitalist fluoride endemic is rotting your goddamn brain. The Communist States take every step to protect the People from capitalist water poisoning. Any poison at certain does becomes tolerable yet still of effect. The Communists remove the poison from the water, but capitalists add the poison to it.
>>2363597Thats what the capitalist studies are designed for you to think.
>>2363605>>2363609>>2363610>I know I'm going to look into them more and here some horrible stuff.Let's go.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/18/722099/dissecting-ultra-zionist-cult-chabad-complicity-genocide-gaza Dissecting the ultra-Zionist cult Chabad and its complicity in genocide in Gaza
>In December last year, in the town of Beit Hanun in northern Gaza, a Jewish religious outpost was established in a partially destroyed building. It was described as the ‘first Chabad House’ in the besieged, war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
>Chabad is an ultra-orthodox Jewish cult. It has many adherents in the genocidal Israeli occupation forces. Many of them wear Chabad patches on their uniforms. Here is a Zionist tank flying the distinctive Chabad flag in Gaza.
>In addition, there are also Chabad Rabbis attached to the Israeli occupation forces. One notes that the genocide is actually about “rooting out evil”. Here two Chabad Rabbis erected the Jewish religious symbol, the Menorah, in Gaza.
>But what is Chabad? It styles itself as a friendly outgoing Jewish movement dedicated to helping Jews reconnect with Judaism. However, in reality, it is a supremacist, hate-mongering Zionist cult.
>In the past it was anti-Zionist, but back then, even as far back as 1929, its adherents in Al Khalil (or Hebron as it is called by Zionists) were involved in spying on the Palestinians for the Haganah terror militia as well as storing weapons for them.
>Chabad is now so ultra-Zionist that it called in December for Gaza to be recolonized with Jewish settlers. Worse, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, its adherents believe - as laid out in the Tanya, Chabad’s key religious text - gentiles have only animal souls, not human souls.
>In January, the Tanya was printed out by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza. This supremacism is carried over into its attitude to the Palestinians.
>Followers of a Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh are known as the ‘hilltop youth’. Two of his followers wrote the hugely controversial King Torah, which was also recommended by Ginsburg.
>The book states that it is permissible to kill Palestinian children, including babies.
>“There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.”
>Ginsburg was even detained by police over his promotion of the book.
>It’s not just words. Ginsburg’s followers in the so-called ‘Hilltop Youth’ are said by the Zionist intelligence agency Shin Bet to be responsible for most ‘price tag’ revenge attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
>In 1988, Israeli regime premier Benjamin Netanyahu famously met with the leader of Chabad in New York where the notorious Zionist cult has its global headquarters.
>Netanyahu has maintained a strong relationship with Chabad ever since. Here he is seen addressing them at an event in 2014.
>These are the forces – supported and aided by the United States and the United Kingdom - unleashed as part of the genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.
>In December, it was revealed that a Chabad group in the UK was fundraising to support the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has already claimed the lives of more than 31,700 Palestinians, 70 percent of them children and women, since October 7.
>Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin of Chabad claimed back in October that the Hamas resistance movement is “worse than ISIS (Daesh)” in full conformity with Zionist entity talking points. He also disclosed that his son is a British recruit to the occupation forces and was in occupied Palestine at the time.
>The Chabad appeal read “Vital equipment needed by the IDF… Funds raised will go directly to equipment needed by Aron DovSufrin’s reserve unit, up in the North of Israel, and Support Units.”
>Aron DovShufrin is of course the son of the Rabbi, serving actively in the genocidal occupation forces.
>Chabad-Lubavitch is an ultra-orthodox Hasidic sect that also happens to be a Zionist supremacist and genocidal cult. It originates in Liubavichi in Russia near the border with Belarus and is a global movement with more than 5,000 offices in over 100 countries and in all 50 states of the US.
>he cult even has offices in seemingly unlikely places such as China, Belarus, Tunisia, Morocco and Venezuela.
>It has prominent supporters in many places. For example, the new Argentinian president Javier Milei is a Chabad devotee. Donald Trump donated to Chabad, though not as much as his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who played a pivotal role in the normalization of the Zionist entity.
>Obviously, Chabad has been highly organized in Ukraine and its followers were amongst those recruited to the Nazi Azov Battalion, which it is important to recall, was co-founded by a former member of the Israel occupation forces.
>Press TV’s flagship weekly show Palestine Declassified previously reported how Ukrainian Jewish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky bankrolled Chabad in Ukraine as well as the Nazi Azov and Aidar battalions.
>Back in the UK, there are around one hundred Chabad groups or offices. It flies under the radar and is widely regarded as well-meaning if a little eccentric.
>In reality, it is an extremist group that is building support for genocide in the UK.
>Ironically, the Community Security Trust has aided Chabad - giving them security advice after an edition of Palestine Declassified exposed some of their activities.
>The CST has 'educating about extremism' as one of its charitable objectives, but it is unwilling to educate us on the extremism of Chabad.
>There is a very good reason for that. Gerald Ronson, who created and runs the CST, is himself a Zionist extremist and has been supporting Chabad for more than half a century.
>Here he is in 2013 as a guest of honor at one of their events.
>Zionist extremists are widely scattered across the UK and form a mutually supportive network. This is a key element of the justification and support for genocide in Gaza.Ok so they are totally unbased except for that one thing.
>>2363605What the fuck is this even saying?
This is evidence American English is starting to incorporate the language of it's Hebrew ruling class just as it did with Latin and French.
>>2363605https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/804034/jewish/How-Do-I-Explain-Israels-Actions.htm> 2008-9: Operation Cast Lead Commentary
<I am the only Jew in my office, so I face a daily barrage of questions about Israel's actions in Gaza. I don't know who appointed me as Israel's spokesman and I am not armed with the answers. Can you help?
>At times like this, each one of us becomes an ambassador for Israel. Even if you don't agree with everything Israel does, any decent person must stand up for Israel's right to self-defense.
>We can leave the military and political issues to the experts, but we should all be clear on the moral questions raised by this war. Let's look at a few of the most commonly asked questions.
<Q: How can Israel justify killing civilians if their intent is to crush Hamas?
>A: The death of innocents is a tragic inevitability of war. Our hearts go out to all those caught in the middle. The sad fact is that the Palestinian people are being held hostage by Hamas. Just as it is clear that Hamas is morally culpable for any harm done to Gilad Shalit, the Israeli hostage that they hold, so too are they culpable for the fate of Palestinian innocents amongst whom they hide. A civilian who is killed while being used by a terrorist as a human shield is a victim of the terrorist, not the Israeli army, who does not target innocent civilians
<Q: Doesn't Israel understand that they are just creating more terrorists? The anger and fury at Israel as a result of bombing Gaza will only make more people want to join Hamas.
>A: Feelings of frustration, anger, fear and rage do not make you into a terrorist. A culture of death and an education of hate does. Israel doesn't need to do anything to create terrorists - Islamic extremism does that - but Israel must act to destroy those who threaten its people.What the fuck do they mean a culture of death? They're saying when they kill them, that doesn't crate a culture of death?
<Q: Hamas indeed has a militant wing, but it also does a lot of good. They are responsible for social programs, educational projects and humanitarian work in Gaza. By destroying Hamas, Israel also destroys all the good they do. Aren't we demonizing a group that is not all bad?
>A: If a serial killer also happens to volunteer for his local hospital, has donated money to an orphanage, and looks after his ailing grandmother, he is still a serial killer, and he and the threat he represents must be treated as such. The danger he poses far outweighs the concern for any good he may do.<If a serial killer also happens to volunteer for his local hospital,Lel I found myself trying to come to grips with this question in regards to this org and whatever good things they did for criminal justice reform.
<Q: By using violence, how is Israel any better than its terrorist enemies?
>A: That is as ridiculous as saying that a woman who fights off an attacker is no better than her attacker. Israel would not touch Hamas if Hamas would stop sending rockets and suicide bombers into Israel. Israel seeks to live in peace with its neighbors; Hamas and its allies seek to destroy Israel, no matter what Israel does.Lmao. Of course the Jew thinks of his people as a woman collectively. I swear the most feminine people on the planet. The matrilineal thing, all that.
>There is a world of difference between the Hamas terrorists and the Israeli soldiers. The Hamas terrorist seeks violence as a way of life; his aim is to sow war and death. For the Israeli soldier, war is a necessity, and a moral duty, because Israel's citizens are being attacked and innocent lives are being threatened. The Hamas terrorist seeks to maximize civilian casualties; the Israeli soldier does everything in his power to minimize them.
>The Hamas terrorist fears times of peace, because then he has no purpose. The Israeli soldier dreams of a time when peace will reign. Then, the Israel Defense Force will be made joyously redundant, as "one nation will not lift a sword against another nation, and they will no longer learn to wage war". I don't know why we are pretending like China is the most developed country in the world.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-83497-yNon-carcinogenic health risks of fluoride exposure in minors based on national surveillance in China, 2014 and 2018
>High fluoride concentrations in groundwater represent a substantial global public health concern. In China, over 70 million individuals suffer from drinking water fluorosis. This study reports national surveillance data in 2014 and 2018, dividing affected areas into six regions. The compliance rate for safe fluoride concentrations in drinking water improved by 13.1%. The data revealed a statistically significant difference in fluoride concentration between areas that underwent improvements and those that did not (Z = − 10.583, P < 0.001). The potential health risks for minors were evaluated, with hazard index (HI) values for minors exceeding 1, indicating the possibility of non-carcinogenic health risks associated with fluoride exposure. Furthermore, in certain regions, the non-carcinogenic health risks related to the current Chinese national standard for fluoride in drinking water (1.0 mg/L) for infants have surpassed the acceptable threshold. The implementation of improvement initiatives led to a reduction in the non-carcinogenic risk of fluoride exposure for minors, with odds ratios (95% CI) for infants, children, and teens were 0.369 (0.268, 0.509), 0.556 (0.452, 0.683), and 0.823 (0.740, 0.914), respectively. These findings can assist governmental agencies in formulating more effective policies for the protection of minors, particularly infants, from fluoride exposure.Thomas massie opponent funded by trump lol. I can't even
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/29/congress/aaron-reed-thomas-massie-challenger-00432138White House officials will host Kentucky state Sen. Aaron Reed in the coming weeks for a discussion about challenging GOP Rep. Thomas Massie in next year’s Republican primary, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the private plans.
>>2363638I believe in the immortal soul. This world is imaginary. You wish to live forever and you shall. I don't like all the Jewish shit mixed in Christianity. I believe in "Universal Salvation" so to say.
Bro I shit you not I was on this transhumanist shit without ever reading one word of it from like 2 years old to my mid teenage years. I shit you not I used to wake my mother up at like 2 or 3 or whatever, this is what they told me and I have vague recollections, about this fucking nightmarish existential crisis I had about the fact that I would eventually die. Then I got into imagining hypotheticals about preserving my brain in some kind of artificial structure that could keep it alive forever. I never believed in any duplicating your consciousness to the cloud meant anything, I always felt the brain must be preserved physically otherwise that is obviously death and just a duplicate that could exist as the same time as the original. I pictured bizzare shit as a child staying up all night in this phobic state imagining, how my brain could hypothetically be saved in a self-sustained structure that could surivive the heat-death of the universe or whatever. But like eventually I had an epiphany, like what is infinity? Eventually this moment will be infinity years in the past hypothetically, and then what will it mean then? Meaning would naturally, eventually, be sucked out of your whole life experience so what does it really matter? I think this is one of the key points that lead my to overcome "material reductionism" or whatever the best term is.
From much more experience I believe that consciousness is actually the key element of existence and that matter is just an imaginary product just as you imagine matter in your own dre4ams.
>>2363483Zionazis have realized a very important paradox which they are able to psychopathically exploit: The more left wing jews are killed by right wing anti-semites, the more the remaining Jews (increasingly right wing in their outlook) embrace zionism as a form of self defense. The more the remaining jews conclude "well our problem is we're not organized into bloodthirsty genocidal militias that pre-emptively attack our designated enemies, like the people who are killing us do. It's a winning strategy and we should embrace it rather than giving into slave morality." So zionists actually
ENCOURAGE right wing antisemitism against Jews to purge themselves of the "weak, left wing" element among themselves and make the remaining people more bloodthristy, more accepting of zionism. It's actually very similar to how Justice Clarence Thomas once remarked that racism against black people "hardens" them through adversity. It is very eugenics coded, but instead of purging society, you are purging your own of the "weak" and "tolerant".
>>2363641>This world is imaginary. I wish but don't really believe it. Good on you I guess. If you are right I have nothing to worry about.
> I used to wake my mother up at like 2 or 3 or whatever, this is what they told me and I have vague recollections, about this fucking nightmarish existential crisisFunny.
>I never believed in any duplicating your consciousness to the cloud meant anythingYeah. It wouldn't be you just some duplicate.
>I pictured bizzare shit as a child staying up all night in this phobic state imagining, how my brain could hypothetically be saved in a self-sustained structure that could surivive the heat-death of the universe or whatever. It's not really that bizarre just some 1950s sci-fi hypothetical. Not sure most humans would want to go that route they would probably keep most of their body if possible and engineer the universe around it. Probably figure out how to stop heat death eventually.
>Meaning would naturally, eventually, be sucked out of your whole life experience so what does it really matter? Disagree with the Heidegger type thinking here. Living is valuable in itself. Existence gives it's own meaning and significance. The idea of abstracted "meaning" only coming after you are dead is cope to deal with your DNA breaking down over the years causing death from old age.
>>2363647So trees that live for hundreds of years have figured it out but grass just doesn't think positively enough?
>>2363657>I wish but don't really believe it. Good on you I guess. If you are right I have nothing to worry about.Indeed, my beliefs are low pressure. It's all good no matter what.
>Yeah. It wouldn't be you just some duplicate.Yeah exactly, but for whatever reason these Sci-Fis act like the scan in the computer is supposed to be you. I know Star Trek had some big thing about that in the novels about the transporters/duplicators or whatever. About how the thing scans you at one end and creates a duplicate at another and incinerates the original or some shit. I think this is probably a named trope on TVTropes.
>It's not really that bizarre just some 1950s sci-fi hypothetical. Not sure most humans would want to go that route they would probably keep most of their body if possible and engineer the universe around it. Probably figure out how to stop heat death eventually.It is rather bizzare for that age. I made up this silly transhumanist business as a child without ever seeing this concepts anywhere. It's just the natural conclusion of the silly material-reductionist belief of course but it is funny that a child can get to the bottom of how retarded that shit is when adults still believe it.
>Disagree with the Heidegger type thinking here. I don't know what the fuck you are talking about. I don't like Euro philosophers at all so it always throws me for a loop when you want to compare me to one. I have simply no idea.
>Living is valuable in itself. Existence gives it's own meaning and significance. I agree. That's why I am anti-suicide like I said. Just ride it out. There is no objective, just make it as far as you can. This will not be your last time here is my belief.
>The idea of abstracted "meaning" only coming after you are dead is cope to deal with your DNA breaking down over the years causing death from old age.I wouldn't say that is my belief at all. I think you are deriving meaning all the time. You are resolving the picture every moment. It's all for a purpose really.
>>2363641>I believe in the immortal soul. This world is imaginary. Literal idealism in the most extreme sense of the word.
>You wish to live forever and you shallMany don't actually
>I don't like all the Jewish shit mixed in Christianity. I believe in "Universal Salvation" so to say. At that point why not just drop the salvation shit altogether and just be a pantheist or deist or something, if you really gotta stay on the godpill.
>Bro I shit you not I was on this transhumanist shit without ever reading one word of it from like 2 years old to my mid teenage years. I shit you not I used to wake my mother up at like 2 or 3 or whatever, this is what they told me and I have vague recollections, about this fucking nightmarish existential crisis I had about the fact that I would eventually die.Kids don't really understand death until 4 in terms of brain development. I got a 2 year old and they don't even talk in complete sentences yet. They mostly just label things
>Then I got into imagining hypotheticals about preserving my brain in some kind of artificial structure that could keep it alive forever. I started having similar thoughts around 8 or 9 because I was reading too much sci fi and fantasy
> I never believed in any duplicating your consciousness to the cloud meant anything, I always felt the brain must be preserved physically otherwise that is obviously death and just a duplicate that could exist as the same time as the original. Well even your consciousness within your own brain is an illusion of continuity. From one moment to the next things "die" and are "reborn" if we are to believe the physicists who say that there is a real quantization of time and space at the planck scale. there is a scale of movement beneath which so called "momentary motion" is actually instantaneous teleportation of something that gets "destroyed" one moment and "recreated" the next. Also there's the whole ship of Theseus paradox as well. about whether an entity is identical to its set of components and how many components you can swap out through repair etc. before it is an entirely new entity. So to me identity itself is an illusion and the "soul" is a way for self-conscious
phenomena (we are fluid phenomena rather than consistent entities) to cope with their own internal contradictions and lack of a real identity. The soul is a label we arbitrarily use to "lasso" a collection of phenomena we deem to be a living being, but that collection of phenomena is so vast. Think of how many nails, hair, shit, and skin cells come out of you alone. think of your cells dying and regrowing. think of how your brain re-encodes itself over time to think differently. think of how some memories which are core to your identity "fade" or become distorted over time. we are collections of phenomena and the idea that we are self-consistent entities is a very convincing illusion that we use our cultural superstructure to reinforce. I think there needs to be a cultural revolution not in the chinese sense of the term, not the pep rallies and struggle sessions, but a quiet collective rethinking of how humans see themselves, before socialism can begin to be possible in the first world. we need to put aside our illusions and ego and embrace regard ourselves as cells in a greater body. religion already gives people the strength to do that, but it does so on anti-materialist terms rather than materialist terms. rather than sacrificing oneself for the promise of heaven we should do it regardless of the promise. we should accept that we in all likelihood will die before things get better, and that anything we find "important" about ourselves are reproducible
traits which can
re-emerge in the
material world even if there is no
soul that can be
reincarnated or exert
influence on the real world from the afterlife.
> I pictured bizzare shit as a child staying up all night in this phobic state imagining, how my brain could hypothetically be saved in a self-sustained structure that could surivive the heat-death of the universe or whatever. But like eventually I had an epiphany, like what is infinity? Eventually this moment will be infinity years in the past hypothetically, and then what will it mean then? Meaning would naturally, eventually, be sucked out of your whole life experience so what does it really matter? I think this is one of the key points that lead my to overcome "material reductionism" or whatever the best term is. Yes, I've had similar thoughts but I remained materialist and simply synthesized it with my materialism. Dialectical materialism is non-reductionist. Metaphysical vulgar materialism is reductionist. It's all about whether you treat things as static constants like a child trying to label objects in a bucket or whether you try to always regard the flux and flow and internal inconsistency of things as they move through various temporary and illusory states.
>From much more experience I believe that consciousness is actually the key element of existence and that matter is just an imaginary product just as you imagine matter in your own dreams.Consciousness is a byproduct of material conditions though. Your ability to consider these questions will die with your brain. a conscious collection of phenomena is a product of its environment before it grows and matures makes the environment a product of itself.
>>2363663This is such a midwit attempt at 'resolving' the hard-problem of consciousness.
Boring.
Also, there's nothing inherently obliviating about a physicalist account of consciousness, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfAFPi89454 and this guy's entire channel, more generally. Also certain strains of materialist buddhism.
>>2363663>Well even your consciousness within your own brain is an illusion of continuity. It's not an "illusion" if people actively feel this continuity at a primal level. "I think therefore I am" presupposes the "I" because people feel the "I" no matter what they think.
>Also there's the whole ship of Theseus paradox as well. about whether an entity is identical to its set of components and how many components you can swap out through repair etc. before it is an entirely new entity.No matter how many pieces of Theseus's ship you replace it would still be a ship…
>>2363668>This is such a midwit attempt at 'resolving' the hard-problem of consciousness. This is such a dismissive non-response.
>midwitchan lingo for people who think they're better than you.
>PhysicalistI think you have misinterpreted what I'm saying which is why you don't quote any of it and immediately spam youtube. (I will check it out tomorrow if I have time.)
Anyway I was trying to have a discussion not a "debate" but if you want to have a disagreement based conversation at least try to climb the pyramid of disagreement a little bit instead of initiating race to the bottom of it.
>>2363663>Literal idealism in the most extreme sense of the word. I suppose. I understand the crux of our existence. You are hopelessly lost. You think you are a grouping of mathematical probabilities of mud or something. You are pure machine. What point is there to discuss with you when you are simply the sum of material within you.
>At that point why not just drop the salvation shit altogether and just be a pantheist or deist or something, if you really gotta stay on the godpill.I am not on anything. My belief does not ride on anyone else's I frankly see in my moments of clarity how retarded you all are.
>Kids don't really understand death until 4 in terms of brain development. I got a 2 year old and they don't even talk in complete sentences yet. They mostly just label thingsI can ask my mom but it was some real ridiculous stuff I shit you not. I didn't just make this up. They told me and I have vague memories. I understood the concept of eventual death at a bizarrely young age and it very much disturbed me.
>Well even your consciousness within your own brain is an illusion of continuity. Long ass paragraph I won't quote the whole thing. Anyways you are talking about minute ass mechanisms as if that was the source. Do you have any power over yourself? Can you decide what your body and will or won't do? What does this have to do with the Planck scale?
>>2363380I would say that this is just a typical attempt at a gotcha with a side of massive hypocrisy, but I feel like there's more to their relationship with Islam. After all, you'd think that Islam being fairly socially conservative as a religion would cause a lot of those people to actually convert to Islam or openly support it. It should be clear that they've imposed a kind of special status on Islam and view it differently from other religions. Specifically, it is the religion of the savages and, since it has largely replaced communism as the main target of conservative ire, the focal point of a grand global struggle of (white) civilization and dark, superstitious barbarism. So, the social conservatism of Islam is seen by them as the product of backwards, animalistic savagery rather than theology, religious tradition and spiritual conviction. Like, if you've ever gone on /pol/ and asked them why they don't convert to Islam, they'll explicitly tell you that they see it as a savage religion for brown people, and unfortunately /pol/ isn't that far downstream from typical Burger conservatism.
>>2363691You know it really happened IRL. some guy popped up and shot some mob don while he was taking out his trash because he was dating his daughter or some stupids shit. Like it would be so easy to pop up and waste the dude if he wasn't so dumb about it. The surveillance just keeps getting better and better of course but there is still room. Actually, you don't here about these crazy stories with no details about a suspect.
>>2363697No I grew up in a crip neighborhood where people were murdered regularly in drive-by shootings. I have been "hit up" on the street like you may have heard in le Kendrick Lamar.
>>2363714It's like yaAH YAH YAHH!
>>2363715Why are you too afraid to respond to me?
I'm from Altadena which is Altadena Blocc Crips, but I feel like the Pasadena Devil Lanes and their devil worship is more interesting. I used to take karate lessons at Jackie Robinson Park which is right by their HQ.
>>2363682Democrats and left-wingers constantly pander to the black, short haired, hipster glasses community. But her name is in the nazi font so I'm guessing it's a troll.
>>2363692>>2363699The consequences silicone leaking into the brain.
>>2363705>if pirus and crips all got alongAyy blood, ayy, ain't that that uygha right there?
That's on the set, that's that uygha right there
Ayy, ayy, pull up on this uygha, homie
Ayy, pull up
Ayy, where you from?
A-ayy, uygha, where you from, uygha?
>>2363641>I believe in the immortal soul. This world is imaginaryWhy are idealists so retarded? Is it really that hard to face the facts?
Yes the world is real and you will really die one day and you will be no more. That is reality, face it instead of retreating into your imagination like a dumbass coward.
Unless your some poor fucked up traumatized soul and it's literally too hard to face reality, you have no excuse for being dumb and taking the easy path, just because you don't like the world you actually inhabit
>>2363837anti-paywall archive
https://archive.is/iDI2xBy Jacob Dreyer
Mr. Dreyer is an American editor and writer who lives in Shanghai.
Remember the fairy tale of globalization?
Once upon a time, many Americans believed China would inevitably become more like us just by plugging into the world trading order that we established and maybe, as President Bill Clinton once suggested, even democratize. The final victory of American-led neoliberalism was close at hand.
Mr. Clinton and others like him weren’t entirely wrong. China has spent decades emulating key elements of the American model of entrepreneurialism, consumerism and integration with global markets. It made China an industrial power, with a large middle class, cutting-edge science and technology, and global brands like Huawei, Lenovo and Alibaba. China’s 1.4 billion people live far more diverse and prosperous lifestyles than ever. Through it all, America was the model.
What neither Americans nor Chinese imagined was how much this would become a two-way street.
In the great contest of ideas and influence between the two countries, the pendulum seems as if it’s swinging back the other way. Donald Trump’s return to office has made clear that in important respects — democratic erosion, the fixation on strong borders, the curbing of free speech and numerous other examples — America is starting to look a bit more like China.
I’ve lived in Shanghai since 2008, with a front-row seat to the culmination of China’s rise. There is indeed much that America can learn from China. But perhaps the most important lesson is to stay true to who we are as a nation. That’s what China did. It adopted aspects of the American way that would make it strong again, while sticking to its core system of Communist Party political domination and heavy state involvement in everything. And it has been spectacularly successful.
Trump’s America, on the other hand, is beginning to seem as if it’s taking cues from China’s political model. That’s not who we are.
The MAGA movement and its leaders demonize the Chinese Communist Party. But some of their actions validate the party’s ways, showing that practically speaking, they seem to want similar things.
Both push a muscular patriotism, are obsessed with manufacturing and hostile to immigrants. Both want a country where ethnic minorities are expected to bow to the dominant group and traditional gender roles are enforced. And all of this is presided over by a domineering ruling party led by an autocrat who flatters himself with military parades. Imitation is indeed the highest form of flattery.
The evidence mounts daily.
China weaponizes its economy to punish trading partners over various disputes or mere slights; the Trump administration squeezes U.S. allies with arbitrary tariffs or other retaliation over issues such as fentanyl and politics.
Geopolitically, China prioritizes relationships of convenience, such as its ties with Russia, over formal alliances. It bullies its neighbors, stoking territorial disputes with a mentality summed up by former Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, who bluntly told Southeast Asian officials in 2010 that “China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that’s just a fact.” Mr. Trump, too, sees little value in alliances and seems intent on alienating friends and neighbors with his threats to absorb Canada and Greenland and moving to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
Economically, Americans have long criticized China for overemphasizing manufacturing and flooding world markets with Chinese goods while neglecting to spur the domestic consumption that would balance its economy and trade. But much like Mr. Xi, MAGA leaders see manufacturing as noble, and globalization as turning Americans into passive consumers.
The U.S. and Chinese political systems are of course fundamentally different at their core. But our domestic politics increasingly track closer to China’s as the Trump administration undermines basic constitutional rights and the judicial process and casts a chill over free speech and protest.
As different as the United States and China are, deeply similar national conditions are driving this convergence.
China leaned into the American model to rebuild industrially and catch up to the West. Today, it is America that is worried about falling behind. People in both countries worry about artificial intelligence and automation taking jobs and changing how we work, live and interact as a society. Many disillusioned young people in both countries feel left out of their nation’s economies and wonder what’s the point of pursuing careers.
These shared challenges, not surprisingly, lead to similarly populist political solutions. For Mr. Xi, it’s the Chinese Dream, his patriotic vision of a China restored to its ancient prosperity and power. Mr. Trump has ridden its younger sibling, “Make America Great Again,” to two election victories.
Much of what China does is worthy of respect. Its government makes farsighted industrial policy as a matter of habit. It proactively presents new technologies like artificial intelligence to its people as positive forces, introducing them in ways that benefit the public, such as in education and health care. China is aggressively transitioning to renewable energy, and new estimates indicate that its greenhouse gas emissions — the world’s highest — have begun to fall for the first time. China has clean, safe, efficient and high-tech cities, knit together by immaculate highways and a state-of-the-art rail network. Government funding and investment is flowing into education, science and technology.
It’s natural for Americans who want a better future to look, albeit grudgingly, at what China has achieved. To be sure, leaders in Beijing don’t have a messy democracy to get in the way of their plans, but that’s hardly the only reason for China’s success. It came also from strategic foresight, investing in the future, a sense of national focus and unity — not division — that comes from the top and millions of individuals working hard to build the country up. China followed America’s lead, but it stuck to its own systems and stayed focused on meeting the basic needs of its population.
The United States can and should consider adopting some of what has worked for China, such as transitioning to renewables; revitalizing industrial policy; supporting science, research and education; reinvesting in infrastructure, housing and safe cities; and above all, having a sense of collective purpose that leads to national strength.
Instead, Mr. Trump’s administration is undermining or slashing funding for critical things such as public safety, infrastructure, education, scientific research, clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing, while fanning political divisions.
We can learn from China, but we must find a way to make it work while remaining true to our founding principles. Otherwise, when the smoke clears from the Trump era, America might not be “great again,” but weaker. And we will have found that the student has become the master.
>>2363887it's
kayfabe
it's
pump n dump
it's
not
night of the long knives
“I think we’re gonna have a lot of fun with him,” Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn Tuesday, “because he has to go right through this building to get his money. Don’t worry, he’s not gonna run away with anything.
The president blasted the NYC mayoral candidate as a “pure, true communist.”
“Frankly, I’ve heard he’s a total nut job. I think the people of New York are crazy. If they go this route, I think they’re crazy. We will have a communist for the first time, really a pure, true communist,” he said.
“I think he’s terrible. He’s a communist. The last thing we need is a communist. I said there will never be socialism in the United States. Now we have a communist,” Trump added. “… He wants to operate the grocery stores, the department stores.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/us-news/trump-taunts-true-communist-zohran-mamdani/>>2363896better to be pessimistic and pleasantly surprised when wrong than optimistic and disappointed when wrong
i want these mafks to eviscerate one another but i don't see it happening
few days old but:
US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs
The US state department has been advised to terminate grants to nearly all remaining programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which would effectively end the department’s role in funding pro-democracy programming in some of the world’s most hostile totalitarian nations.
The review could affect nearly $1.3bn in grants, three state department officials told the Guardian, citing briefings on the results of a Foreign Assistance Review produced by the office of management and budget (OMB).
Of 391 active grants, only two were not recommended to be cut, the officials said. They concerned one program in China and one in Yemen.
The recommendations would “terminate about 80% of all US government foreign assistance at the state department”, said a state department official briefed on the findings of the review.
In a separate incident this week, a new senior adviser to DRL recommended that the bureau’s leadership use funds earmarked by Congress for foreign assistance to cover pet projects for the administration including the resettlement of Afrikaners to the United States and to support the legal defense of the rightwing French politician Marine Le Pen.
According to the state department officials, Samuel Samson, a recent college graduate appointed as senior adviser to the bureau under the new administration, made the recommendations on a DRL white paper being drafted to program hundreds of millions of dollars in congressional funding before they expire later this year.
>>2363891He’s going to try to deport him.
Calling it.
Rudy Giuliani to Newsmax: Mamdani, Democratic Party 'Taken Over by Karl Marx'
I've never seen this in my experience in politics.
"It's almost as if they've been taken over by Karl Marx. When I listen to Mamdani, I listen to a poorly educated, kind of childish Marx. Not a terribly intelligent man. He's not a well-spoken man. He's totally unaccomplished. There's nothing about him that would suggest responsibility. He's a spoiled rich kid and he says stupid things, but they all come from Karl Marx."
"This has been AOC and her whole group – they've been all heading in this direction," he said. "Maybe they're not quite where he is, but it's like we've been on a train headed for the station of communism and we're there. And also, not only that, but combined with Islamic extremism. So, we have Marxism and Islamic extremism."
His embrace of Hamas and of terrorism is frightening. It absolutely is frightening. I don't know if he's a simpleton, or if it's on purpose."
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rudy-giuliani-zohran-mamdani-marx/2025/07/01/id/1217172/>>2363601>scihub pepenice
>>2363602Possibly
>>2364131> The native Americans are the ones who discovered America when they crossed the Siberian plain and then the land bridge. Yeah I know I put discovered in scare quotes for that reason
> You don’t understand how huge Siberia is or how rough the seas are up there. You're right I don't. I just remember measuring the tip of Alaska to the tip of Russia once on satellite maps and it was only 56 miles and thinking that was remarkably short
>No ancient or medieval ships would dare go through that area that makes sense
>and the pacific is also the largest ocean.well yeah but nobody knew that and the area I'm talking about is still a short ride. leif ericson made it so i thought hey how come it didn't happen on the other side. maybe i'm just stupid. go easy on me.
>>2364165yeah this makes sense, you should however be more specific when talking about these sorts of events since "native american" is a very unspecific term
>>2364172it's not entirely implausible that south americans would meet polynesians, given how far they went outwards
>>2364177>Once again we're not getting what we voted for.you are
>We asked for no more big crappy bills like this Omnibus bills are the worst type.your opinions never mattered
>This is not a victory this is once again the status quo being upheld even by our so-called leaderthat's what you wanted
my goodness these people are fucking stupid
>>2363837They can never have it back, the "Democracy promotion" agenda. Like "terrorism", they spent it. It's gone.
Bot on the other hand, they don't ned any of this stuff. The cold war is currently upending the lives of dozens (if not hundreds) of millions of people across continents , and killing nothing short of millions in proxy wars to uphold US hegemony. There is no need for "secretly" bombing east Asia anymore. NATO can do as it pleases, where it pleases, through whomever it pleases and there is no political price to pay.
There is no communist threat, internal or external. We are all liberals now.
>>2364218Yeah that settles it, us honkoids are cooked beyond recognition.
The time to form any plausible escape plans or ways to go totally underground is now.
>>2364218the tesla subsidies repeal is still in, right?
will it actually cut the subsidies to solar panels or is it a "in 10 years" thing?
>>2364277 (me)
Dood fletected Dost Pisscarded
>>2364270https://popular.info/p/7-things-everyone-should-know-aboutThe big thing about it is the MASSIVE budget increase for ICE, to the tune of 45 billion just for building new prisons, plus tens of millions more for recruitment and prisoner transport, making ICE better funded than both the marines and the FBI and most nations' militaries. And the cherry on top is that it cuts medicaid to fund this shit
Basically this is pretty much the Enabling Act to our Reddit Reich
>>2364232China is the most successful socialist country—but precisely because it understood socialism dialectically, not utopically.
They didn’t abolish capitalism—they wield it they govern its contradictions.
Meanwhile, you treat
Communism as something that can happen with the storming of the bastille .
>>2364297Sorry Jimbo, YOU'RE the gusano now. And you'll pay for it by being worked to death.
Seriously though this fucking sucks
>>2364293>lol imagine the Marine Corps and the fucking FBI of all things becoming our allies to fight against der burgerreich.No way, this is more likely a gibs program that advances the coming red scare… and perpetuates Trumpist loyalties beyond his second term. US and EU got it clear, they are going to drive neoliberalism into the ground. Global liberalism needs them to keep increasing exploitation forever to remain competitive as financialized shitholes in decline.
But they'll grow a strong fascist movement along the way to keep the left suppressed and channel discontent towards the many wars that need be fought to restore US hegemony.
>>2364290They’ll at least have something for anyone who even stumbled onto a place like this, no doubt. They’re really to clamp down now.
With that said, their incompetence will also continue to impede their goals. Even if they do accomplish this, I have no doubts they’ll have plenty of trouble acting on this information.
>>2363866It is you that have the childish understanding of things.
>traumatized soul It's funny you still have this kind of perception of things(inb4 just figurative language) If you really believe you're just some machine, then why would any of this matter at all to you? You don't actually. No material-reductionist can actually live like they actually believe in the paradigm they claim too. They always end up just reinventing the wheel by another name.
>I only believe in material reality>I don't believe in morality <but I believe in "ethics" >>2364300>this is more likely a gibs programNot a chance.
>But they'll grow a strong fascist movement along the wayFrom what?
>>2364300 (me)
The US just "convinced" the DRC to sign away all their mineral rights in exchange for NATO to stop supporting Rwanda. And Sudan seems to be wrapping up as well.
But eventually, they have to make it explicit that China/Russia is eating all your lunches and you gotta fight them by destabilizing their trade partners.
>>2364329Kentucky is a weird state and the state's Republicans are apostates relative to the national party. Massie is an ideological libertarian (I've posted a family Christmas photo) and one of the state's senators is Rand Paul. Trump also won the state by 30 points last year, one of the largest margins in the country, yet Kentucky also has a Democratic governor. The current mayor of Lexington (a Democratic stronghold that voted for Harris by 18 points) is also a registered Republican that won-reelection over a prominent local Democrat by a 71-14 margin.
They're a bit all over the place.
Why is it like this? I dunno. It's also the whitest state in the south.
>>2364329They should be China PAC lobby TO REEDUCATE AMERICA and to COMBAT the anti-communist christian nationalist and liberal anti-communist AGENDA.
Confucius Institute IS NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH.
The NPC and the CPC SHOULD pass a motion to establish an international presence and expand China's diplomatic and business opportunities.
The PRC SHOULD also focus on establishing its ideological presence and influence in Europe, especially Eastern Europe where anti-communism is vehement.
MORE Pro-China NGOs are needed for B&R to become favored. The PRC should also work towards influencing foreign parties within the IMCWP and assist in growing their presence and intertwining their programs with what is currently working in the PRC.
>>2364405WATCH BLACK BEARS ON CCTV
ON CCTV ON TV LEFTYPOL
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/CCTV >>2363491The biggest burden that Biden did is not allowing the creation of DC and PR as burgerian states to stack the balance in the senate.
Retard senile piece of jerky
>>2363859Elon wanting to take the maid of the palace as his 7nth wife
>>2363891Magacommunists in shambles
(just another tuesday for them)
Comrade A.J. is currently dropping massive nukes of truth and doing 100% ACCURATE future predictions.
EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS: Trump VS Musk “Big Beautiful Bill” Feud Triggers Overnight Political Firestorm!
https://banned.video/watch?id=686427917611fb2266095c1f>>2364271pig poop balls is funny and im tired of pretending its not
call me an /r/chapo poster all you want
>>2364490Did they give him a vest that's two sizes too small as part of some humiliation ritual? Look at that, it's like a fucking baby's bib.
>>2364405AIPAC works uniquely well because they've funded a cult-belief in mainline Protestantism that Israel is somehow necessary for "the rapture". On a similar note, with the rise of evangelical Protestantism there's less of an ideological filter ("personal relationship with Jesus" and all) which means it's subject to a kind of crude mob mentality, where ideas just kind of percolate unfiltered until they become a dominant meme within the group. You had shit like the Left Behind series popularizing absurd end times prophecies involving Israel, such that even if one never read the books or doesn't even study theology, to be part of that Protestant milieu means supporting Israel to the hilt.
China doesn't have that. It doesn't even have anything close to that. East Asia in general and China in particular don't really figure into "traditional" Christianity, instead existing outside and apart from it. Kind of a meme for evangelicals to say "WE WENT TO THE DECADENT ORIENT AND BROUGHT 100+ YELLOWMEN TO JEE-ZUS!" And without the faith element, some "friends of China" PAC would be unlikely to hold. Want to try and do some "secular faith" thing with them? Well there are sociologists that studied all kinds of voluntary communities and found pure secularism just can't even compete in terms of longevity with religious faith. Long after various utopian projects collapse, people motivated by unfalsifiable religious faith just keep on keeping on.
I think the best thing China can do would be look for small, rural, and underdeveloped American towns and offer aid, especially with the BBB passing and a bunch of medicaid being cut. I imagine the U.S. would try to block it to save face, but maybe they could negotiate directly with the communities of these towns so that the government would be forced to say "we won't let China fix your roads."
>>2364553The show is an EXTREMELY liberal critique of Trumpism/right populism, they even removed the Marx cameo from the comics.
The fact that Trump and MIGA became so cartoonishly evil to the point of becoming an IRL Homelander is more of a coincidence than clever writing on part of the show runners.
>>2364587I do, however:
>America has essentially zero historical relationship with Confucianism.Short of believing in that bizarre theory that the Chinese briefly discovered/colonized California before the first White settlers arrived, there's just no real historical presence Confucianism had that extended beyond Asian-American communities within the U.S.; America is a country steeped in the Abrahamic faiths and will likely remain in that milieu. You can have evangelicals convert to Judaism, you can have "Jews for Jesus", you can have various offshoots of Islam, but East-Asian faiths have kind of been sequestered to hippies (and let's be honest, the "white buddhist who smokes weed" is already a meme) and isolated individuals. "Confucius Institutes" would likely only be of use to Asian-Americans trying to get in touch with their culture, or white orientalists.
It also doesn't help things that Islam and Christianity in particular are missionary/evangelical faiths, while East-Asian religions have less outreach, at least in the West. When they do, they have a sad habit of becoming cults. As for Confucianism itself, it trends more towards a kind of filial conservatism then the kind of "end of days" or prophecies of Abrahamic faiths.
Unironically I think you'd be more likely to see America go significantly Muslim than Confucian.
>>2364614>America has essentially zero historical relationship with Confucianism.It had essentially zero historical relationship with Islam too, yet look at the graphs.
Trust the plan, its not to push Confucianism but to use it as a disguise to promote Sinophilia.
>>2364606>since Supernatural is one of my favourite showsthat show sucks so much i hate all these mid 2010 joss whedon wannabee fantasy shows so much they reek of tumblr
>>2364583it's not a coincidence in as much as they fashion their villains around nazis, the issue is that zios just cant manage to admit that pissrael transformed into a cudgel to advance fascism in the us
>>2364623What is the point being made here? Protest encampments at a college campus used an anarchist flag, therefor anarchism is invalid?
>>2364622That show, Dr Who and Sherlock were the unholy trinity of Tumblr shows. Dark times
>>2364619>It had essentially zero historical relationship with Islam too, yet look at the graphs. Ehhhh by virtue of America being a European colony I'd say it had a tradition or at least awareness of Islam, beyond even black advocacy groups like the Nation of Islam. For example one of the founding fathers was insistent that kids be taught some kind of religion in public schools as a way of building good moral character, and (funny enough) he said he'd even be happy for them to study the Qur'an as long as they had some kind of religious background. I believe the Sultanate of Morocco was among the first nations to recognize American independence and during the Barbary Pirate wars, the President insisted we had nothing against Islam and this wasn't some religious war. Shit, I think during the Civil War, too, you had this incident where one of the librarians in University of Alabama, unable to save most of the books when the library was sacked, ended up grabbing an old copy of the Qur'an as a means of saving some knowledge.
So I think there's still some kind of cultural connection there, however faint.
>>2364652anarchism is when we display the corpses of nuns in public and fight with. our 'allies' while the fascists are taking over the country
Anarchism is just western ISIS
>>2364659objectively wrong
the American liberal will swallow anti-communist propaganda in a heartbeat
>>2364694you ultras must use your brains and understand the concept of TIME.
Stalinists did not say 'dont EVER do revolution'.
Attempting a revolution at that time would result in total destruction of the socialists/communists. It is a matter of the correlation of forces.
In other, more favourable scenarios, revolution can be attempted.
And that is also key, you
attempt a revolution. You dont just 'do it'. You attempt it and then time will tell if it succeeds or not. There is no 'revolution' red button which you just press.
>>2364692<"Didn't happen + they deserve it+ it is CIA/Nazi/liberal propaganda"The Stalinist prayer.
>Stalinists' criticise Stalin more than anybody else.Stalinoids here can't even bring themselves to criticize Stalin's most unequivocal L's such as creating Israel or doing pacts with Nazis.
>>2364702Technocracy in the original form was left
Also don’t compare me to that Corporatist
>>2364711>emotionallyLmao, whatever you say.
You're a liberal faggot, you don't deserve anything else except mockery.
>>2364706you are just a troll
Hayek's cricicism of th USSR's economy is just Hayek not understanding the basics of materialism, stochastic systems, and linear algebra.
>>2364701it was not a terror state
there was no Ukrainian genocide
the purges were not random
the allies were not allies
>no proletarian support because it fell apartThe USA did not fall apart, does it mean that it has proletarian support?
>>2364725Stalin did not personally come up with the economic policies of the USSR.
He was a good materialist, and encouraged the best mathematicians and economists, who ARE experts at stochastic systems and linear algebra, to come up with the nitty-gritty of soviet economics.
>>2364732retarded Alunya-flag Brought it up
God why is /USApol/ such a shitlib fest
>>2363349>>2363351>>2363370>>2363634You can either become a participant in history at the critical inflection point or you can cuck out and die when you don't even have your own private comforts to fall back on anymore.
>death anxiety ITTRemember: the closer you get to being the Weltseele zu Pferde the closer you will be to the center of the Weltgeist when your electrons secular reincarnate next, it's like karma in Hinduism but for being more dialectical.
>>2364761Yes ! You see comrade every party leader should do
all the work because that’s how we get communism
>>2364773>>2364777all I have to do is act like a smug liberal retard and people will believe I'm you
it's that shrimple
>>2364359A lot of it is brain broken contrarianism. They see the baby eating democrats being pro Israel so it doesn’t compute they should also be for it. Also there is a a real country club antisemitism and like legit Nazisim in the Republican Party.
Don’t be surprised Jews that oppose Israel or are neutral on it start getting deported to Israel. There will be a heel turn on the Jews down the line. The Christian nationalists need them all in Israel to fulfill biblical prophecy, Zionist need more bodies for their colonial project, and the antisemitics and fordist get to see the Madagascar plan done. But like the run of the mill reactionary is just picking up vibes and having fun breaking a new taboo.
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