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>>2438528>No, honestly it isn't. I really don't care what 10% of the population's marriage rituals are like. You can fly to Disneyland to get married if you want to … I don't see why the international Left should be held back by the interests of people who are being oppressed in like, the most minimal way imaginable, while an ongoing genocide is going on.Getting the new thread off to a BAD START because I think it's a funny debate. But I don't think there's anything holding you back. I think you are channeling your own frustrations a bit. I'd say the danger here is that of turning identity politics itself into a scapegoat. This is common on Stupidpol and places like that. "If it weren't for the queer activists / BLM / etc. muddying up the class struggle." It's essentially left-flavored reaction and it's easier for some people to say that than it is to get up off their ass and join a Palestinian solidarity group – that is, manning up and taking some responsibility – while also understanding that society is complicated. Like what are you actually doing about the cause you care about?
That also goes to the spirit of communism BTW. It's not religion. There is no God nor any natural law that ensures the victory of communism. It's a rather uncomfortable assertion that's up to us and nobody else. Marx had this line: "
History does
nothing" (my emphasis), "it 'possess no immense wealth,' it 'wages no battles' It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; 'history' is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is
nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims." That's from The Holy Family.
>>2438634>There's someone out there somewhere who might be seething because he thinks Palestine activism is a distraction from the class struggle. It's the form of thought, not the particular content. "We'd win if not for X." Insert scapegoat.I mean I'm just expressing what I see more frequently in online circles which admittedly is a bad way to determine vibes. A loooot of Leftist spaces consider certain social issues, not even necessarily LGBT issues, as something that is so fundamental that it's like the primary way of expressing you are a part of "The Left" is saying TRANS RIGHTS at any public event you're at or posting those sassy drag queen gifs you used to see all over Twitter to "dunk" on rightoids. Bernie was literally getting shat on in 2016 for not "talking about minorities enough" and somehow this was an issue that still has a lot of unresolved resentment in berniebro circles even though it was obviously not true. His supporters still cling to it to blame the Democrats for poisoning the discourse around Bernie as the reason he lost. It's kinda like, I guess I'm borrowing the language of rightoids here and feel free to call me out on it, but heteronormative people just get fatigue from this constant overexposure to Rainbow Liberalism masquerading as The Left and constantly trying to derail any even slight movement towards The Left with "but what about this minority group that isn't having their voice heard? won't anyone think of the LGBT landlords getting pushed out if SF builds affordable housing???" and it's so fucking tiring man I wish we could deal with the issues affecting the 99% before we start splitting up into sects and schisms over culture.
>>2438633>But I don't think there's anything holding you back. I think you are channeling your own frustrations a bit. I'd say the danger here is that of turning identity politics itself into a scapegoat. This is common on Stupidpol and places like that. "If it weren't for the queer activists / BLM / etc. muddying up the class struggle." It's essentially left-flavored reaction and it's easier for some people to say that than it is to get up off their ass and join a Palestinian solidarity group – that is, manning up and taking some responsibility – while also understanding that society is complicated. Like what are you actually doing about the cause you care about? I think you're probably right here I am kinda just reacting to what I see and blaming "the culture" for why my perfect Leftist movement doesn't exist. Like in my head I feel even if I tried building a coalition of working class leftists it'll inevitably come face to face with "The Culture Question" and if you give the wrong answer you'll just get dogpiled on and your org collapses. I'm being hella defeatist about it but I just don't see how it's possible to build a "masculine, cool, generally badass" Left in America when we're apparently associated with femininity, weakness, and constantly being the victims but never the aggressors. How do we reconcile this with a desire to generally be there to support the weak, the marginalized, and the oppressed without letting them derail your culture into one that is exclusively for the marginalized? How do you market a movement for the weak to the strong, without making them feel like they're being alienated?
>>2438669how to solve conflicts:
1. talk
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. violence
I think we're past the point where talking is productive
>>2438695You're not getting a world where Israel and Communism exist simultaneously.
I think a genocide is pretty urgent while you will probably survive the rest of your life as working class person because porky needs you to.
People have been struggling for World Communism since 1848 and we're definitely not getting it before the Israelis are through destroying Gaza.
So maybe stop acting like opposing Zionism is a distraction from Communism?
>>2438682Take up the rifle and start assassinating pro-Israel politicians. If they have to choose between AIPAC money and certain death, what do you think they will choose?
Failing that, sabotage critical military infrastructure which the Zionists need to continue their genocide. You probably don't realize how many of these weapons are single source. If the supply chains are disrupted, the genocide ends.
>>2438645>Bernie was literally getting shat on in 2016 for not "talking about minorities enough" and somehow this was an issue that still has a lot of unresolved resentment in berniebro circles even though it was obviously not true. His supporters still cling to it to blame the Democrats for poisoning the discourse around Bernie as the reason he lost. Yeah. You're not wrong about pointing out this pathology. To be honest I rarely go to other forums or comment sections (and I don't go to Reddit), but there's one left-liberal blog I'll look at, and I'll see people still nursing these grudges in the comments from time to time on both sides of the issue. And I'm just thinking, this isn't healthy. A lot of this seems to me like unresolved psychological issues (it can often involve a personal story), but it's probably not going to lead anywhere. It's almost like you have to think of it like a scientist or detective would. Analysis: "the Democratic Party is hostile to left-populism" and "we didn't build enough power among black communities." Now people can debate that and people can disagree, but they can do it rationally rather than "they betrayed us."
>it'll inevitably come face to face with "The Culture Question" and if you give the wrong answer you'll just get dogpiled on and your org collapsesYeah. I'll tell you, I've seen people have blow-ups about this stuff IRL and my reaction is usually to sit back and observe but I'm usually thinking to myself, there's something going haywire here.
>I'm being hella defeatist about it but I just don't see how it's possible to build a "masculine, cool, generally badass" Left in America when we're apparently associated with femininity, weakness, and constantly being the victims but never the aggressors. How do we reconcile this with a desire to generally be there to support the weak, the marginalized, and the oppressed without letting them derail your culture into one that is exclusively for the marginalized? How do you market a movement for the weak to the strong, without making them feel like they're being alienated?I'd change the frame a bit and I'll be direct. The fact is, the world doesn't care about how cool your politics feel, it cares more about what you do. It doesn't really matter how others perceive you. At least that's not the most important thing. The first step is to stop caring about it. I don't mean "screw your optics, I'm going in," and yeah sure, "marketing" has a role in perception, but I mean this frame where the left has to always answer the right demanding "why are you making me hate you?" Because that's what a bully always does, and you're never going to provide a satisfying answer. The flip side is that you can also be dismissed and underestimated yet still be strong because of how you act in the world (and in politics, in relation to others who you're with). The internal basis of change comes from within (and within a political or social movement, within the movement). This is why politics can be surprising.
But you see these groups like Patriot Front or ACP orient their politics around an appearance and some moral story they tell about themselves. It makes them feel superior or comfy or whatever. Or think about how liberals talk when they lose to Trump. If Trump has any real political strength, it's in how he doesn't care what the libs think about him.
BTW, I'll give an example from the gay movement. During the AIDS crisis there was ACT UP which saw itself in a life-or-death situation. There are very few groups as stereotyped to as weak and effeminate as gays. Did that stop them? No. What mattered to them was necessity. I was also debating someone in another thread who said "existence is resistance" and implying that queer people are radical by dint of their existence. I disagreed with that. A lot of identity politics is like that. I don't think there's inherently anything revolutionary about a sexual orientation. But I do think ACT UP engaged in acts of
resistance as defined by their praxis, which was aimed at changing their situation in a direct and confrontational way and with persistent struggle. It's what you do. The same goes if you're a communist. People take that on as an identity but what you actually do is what matters.
>>2438742Exactly. Now, consider how many suppliers can make parts for F-35s. Everything inside those planes is proprietary tech to such an extent that the air force can't even fix them without Lockheed technicians. The parts are all single source, with very few factories even capable of making them in the first place.
Gunpowder, someone else could fill the gap in an emergency, even a foreign source. But a lot of these complex parts for high tech equipment literally cannot be built anywhere on earth except one factory.
In terms of how to do it, the solution is simple. Commando assault with small arms and explosives. Crash a truck through the doors when the plant is closed and bomb the machinery. Target large, difficult to replace machines and the control centers and destroy as much technology as you can. You would want to be in an out before.SWAT arrived.
>>2438749I figured it had to do with the Christianity stuff yeah, shit sucks man
Pic related:
<Legend: Red – Countries that have consistently voted against Israeli interests | Yellow – Countries that voted for a ceasefire, but signaled some degree of balance (abstention or absence in votes on condemning Hamas) | Blue – Countries that voted in favor of Israel at least once | Blue with red stripes – Nigeria, which changed from supporting the condemnation of Hamas to opposing it >>2438765You're right, I just realized that anon said social democrat, those groups wouldn't ever oppose Zionism.
Apologies, I'm tired.
>>2438769kek good luck with that, I've genuinely never met a jewish person in real life that supports the state of Israel or who isn't at least against the war in Gaza, I've only seen them online.
Makes you wonder if communities like r/jewish are just astroturfed psyops.
>>2438633>>2438645>>2438721Are you really this stubborn?
>I mean I'm just expressing what I see more frequently in online circles which admittedly is a bad way to determine vibes. You definitely get into some peculiar online circles, so I would say yes, it is a bad idea.
>A loooot of Leftist spaces consider certain social issues, not even necessarily LGBT issues, as something that is so fundamental that it's like the primary way of expressing you are a part of "The Left" is saying TRANS RIGHTS at any public event you're at or posting those sassy drag queen gifs you used to see all over Twitter to "dunk" on rightoids. Delusional tangent and line walking.
>Bernie was literally getting shat on in 2016 for not "talking about minorities enough" and somehow this was an issue that still has a lot of unresolved resentment in berniebro circles even though it was obviously not trueWhat fucking Berniebro circles? They devolved in mass a while ago. They ain’t saying shit.
>His supporters still cling to it to blame the Democrats for poisoning the discourse around Bernie as the reason he lostWhat fucking supporters? And yeah, they did poison the discourse. Had whole bot farms set up and everything as well.
>It's kinda like, I guess I'm borrowing the language of rightoids here and feel free to call me out on itYou called out on it.
>but heteronormative people just get fatigue from this constant overexposure to Rainbow Liberalism masquerading as The Left and constantly trying to derail any even slight movement towards The Left with "but what about this minority group that isn't having their voice heard?Ah yes. “Fatigue”. And
>Rainbow Liberalism masquerading as The Left and constantly trying to derail any even slight movement towards The Left with "but what about this minority group that isn't having their voice heard?Ah yes, a totally legitimate issue right now while the democrats are currently getting trashed for their uni party shenanigans, and getting hit by the steel chair known as palestine. If you said this a few years ago, might have only come off as very suspicious. Now you just look fucking bad for it.
>The Left with "but what about this minority group that isn't having their voice heard? won't anyone think of the LGBT landlords getting pushed out if SF builds affordable housing???" You are definitely not being honest with your intentions.
>and it's so fucking tiring man I wish we could deal with the issues affecting the 99% before we start splitting up into sects and schisms over culture.Sure sure.
>and if you give the wrong answer you'll just get dogpiled on and your org collapses. And what organizations would these be?
>I'm being hella defeatist about it Good.
>but I just don't see how it's possible to build a "masculine, cool, generally badass" Left in America when we're apparently associated with femininity, weakness, and constantly being the victims but never the aggressors.I really want you to say it. I really want you to. I oh so really you want to tell me what you really think here.
>How do you market a movement for the weak to the strong, without making them feel like they're being alienated?THINK OF THE POOR REACTIONARY CHUDS
>>2438643Never do. Read less controlled opposition and glowie grifters.
>>2438646>you act like le anarchist now because you insult my favorite glowie "journalists"Bitch and moan about it some more. The Gayzone, geo/pol/ economic report, and breakthrough neets are all controlled oppositional rags overseen by capitalists and run by grifting snakes. They say all the things "leftists" want to hear but highlight selective things in order to bend the truth just enough to lead the readers/watchers to pointless or reactionary or just fruitless resolutions so nothing comes out of any of this.
>>2439061nationalization under bourgeois dictatorship is just american capitalists trying to cope with the superiority of the chinese system by imitating their SEOs
but state capitalism is still required anyway because socialism is the next step forward from state capitalist monopoly, and the American system is still decentralized due to Teddy Roosevelt's trust busting.
The Roosevelts saved capitalism from itself twice btw. Teddy did it by trust busting, and Franklin did it by New Deal Social Democracy Really just feel more and more like if you aren't actively doing the work, the actual work, not the online clout building "vote for AOC" streams, you have really no right to speak on anything in relation to the movement.
It seems we've confused algorithmic success for actual revolutionary work. It seems we've internalized this capitalist idea of "social proof" so that the person whom makes the most money being a leftist, is somehow the most qualified to speak. And of course the people who make the most money maintain two lines that protect them from criticism:
-there is no revolutionary potential in the united states, so the best we can do it "meet people where they are" or "slowly educate them (via our youtube videos)
-There is nothing wrong with making as much money as possible doing leftist content, they owe you nothing, communism isn't a cult of poverty
Both of these are typically paired with "Well, we do donate a lot of money to charity, what do you want from us?" Not understanding that the superstructure created the charity & NGO industrial complex specifically to neuter mutual aid and dual power building.
This shit should be clear after Hasan admanently supported multiple zionists like AOC. These breadtubers exist to be controlled opposition, allowed to operate as release valves for revolutionary thought. Youtubers think that people become revolutionary due to their educational content, the opposite is true, the content is sought by those who are already radicalized, and then the content is designed to neutralize that radicalism with reformist views and a feeling that just by consuming the entertainment, you are making a difference.
They do not operate as leaders, but due to their wealth are seen as those who have the "social proof" of their legitimacy, defacto making them leaders. These leaders do not build infrastructure, they enrich themselves.
In a time where we need to be building actual, militant resistance infrastructure and cells, the money sent to these youtubers is simply not acceptable, unless they themselves are acting as conduits for said infrastructure. But of course, this common line of "there is no revolutionary potential in the USA, we have to meet them where they are" is, at best, tailism, and at worst, explicitly counter revolutionary.
The people you think are your ideological allies are in fact your enemies, operating in a way that is really fundamentally no different that the boss-exploiter relationship that you experience everyday at work. It is a modern tithe. Some of them are so cowardly they don't even make their income transparent, there's no openness here.
Question them and you'll be met with the same accusations "you're jealous you don't have the social proof (income)", which tells me we have recreated the hierarchy of capitalism within our own spaces. Che was not a rich man, and Hampton, Seale and Newton where extremely poor when they started the Panthers.
>>2439119You don't know me, my networks or my past. I have no need to post proof of such things as they would undermine our operational security. Asking for that proves a lack of pragmatic thinking at best, and is fed shit at worst.
>>2438918I fucking love product placement in political ads.
I fucking love when careerist zoomer streamers wear fast fashion while interviewing Rosa killers in gentrified donut shops, cynically using both of their minority statuses to signal connection to the masses despite being silver spoon privileged fucks.
>>2439152>makes me wonder why the IDF doesn't just force the orthodox and ultra orthodox to join the military1: because those guys are giga breeders who all have like 10 kids so they grow the zionist population even if they eschew military service
2: because forcing these guys to serve would just result in them fleeing back to wherever with their huge settler families
>>2439142>ameriKKKan doesnt know what State, monopoly, or capitalism meansWrong. You are neoliberal imperialist pig. AmeriKKKan state capitalist monopolies control most of the earth. Read shanghai textbook, jobless liberal
The rapid development of state monopoly capitalism is a prominent feature of contemporary imperialism. Since the Second World War, imperialist countries have implemented so-called “nationalization” by having the state purchase private enterprises; or the state has invested directly in so-called “state enterprises.” These state monopoly capitalist enterprises constitute a very high proportion of capitalist enterprises. Consequently, the phenomenon arises in which “the state merges ever closer with the alliance of capitalists which possesses enormous power. Its scandalous oppression of the laboring people becomes more severe.” (11) This is state monopoly capitalism. State monopoly capitalism is monopoly capitalism based on capitalist ownership and the merger of monopoly capital with state political power. The dominance of United States state monopoly capitalism had its own characteristics. During the Second World War, the United States government established a large number of “state enterprises.” After the war, they were sold to the monopoly capital groups at very low prices. At the same time, the state monopoly capitalist United States government adopted the “blood transfusion” technique of supporting the monopoly capital groups by means of taxes extracted from the people.
>>2439156I was in the Louisiana National Guard and they tried to send my unit to police some BLM protestors in Baton Rouge, and ended up having to cancel the entire operation because so many people made it an issue, there was mutiny in the air. The majority of the Louisiana National Guard is black.
Remember in 2020, they sent Utah National Guard to DC instead of using the DC guard because the Utah people are mostly white, and more likely to be willing to oppress the majority black population in DC? Yeah I remember that shit.
Most people sign up for the Louisiana National Guard because the state is prone to hurricanes and flooding, and the guard is supposedly the people who help with that. Now those people are being told to go brutalize people who are just like them
The question that everyone in the United States military needs to be asking themselves right now, as we see the Tennessee and Louisiana are sending their National Guard troops to D.C. to occupy D.C. and to oppress the people who live there, is, are you willing to shoot to kill American civilians? Are you willing to kill American civilians in the same way you are willing to shoot and kill an enemy combatant overseas? And if you answer that question with any hesitation, with any sort of no, you need to be doing everything you can to cause insurrection within the ranks, to cause resistance within the ranks, and to fight back against the people who are going to send you to do just that.
One soldier refusing an order is a court-martial. An entire platoon or company refusing is a political crisis that commanders and politicians cannot ignore. The goal should be to foster a widespread understanding that certain orders against the American people will be collectively rejected.
You need to be asking yourself, is this what I signed up for? Am I actually protecting the people of this nation by murdering them? A service member has not just the right, but the duty, to disobey an unlawful order. You need to look into what happened with Kent State, and you need to understand that the stakes of this game have shifted dramatically. If you are in the armed forces in any capacity, you have to be understanding that now, you will be called upon to oppress and potentially murder your fellow American citizens. Whether you are a Marine sent to Los Angeles, or a National Guards member sent to Washington, D.C., the demands and asks of you are the same. So, you must decide. Are you with the American people? Are you with the imperialist regime? That is the question.
It is time for people to begin to sow resistance within the ranks, because failure to do so will almost certainly result in American civilians being killed by the men and women that, ultimately, joined to serve and protect them. With that said, these are questions that you need to be asking people in your life. If you have your brothers in the army, ask them straight up, are you willing to shoot and kill somebody like me without a protest? And if that person hesitates, then they should be the one seeking to be resistance within the ranks. We will not stand for American troops murdering American civilians in the name of the capitalist regime.
>>2439218If you have the ability to move, you were probably not going to be affected by austerity or the decline to begin with. There's also something to be said about the settler conditioning that makes it so easy for some people to uproot their lives. They have no real ties to the land, the culture, the people and really only exist to consume more.
It's pathetic to move.
>>2439278Unfortunately the Westoid left is full to the brim with sloppy hedonists who will cry “fascism!” when you take away their porn
And yet once again we are supposed to believe a revolution is not only possible but imminent
>>2439304Hip hop and rap are already these freaks' jazz, in that regard.
>>2439305The Self-Taught artists section of the American Art Museum is especially interesting, too, with that aluminum foil Throne of God the artist kept in his garage iirc.
>>2439308Rightoids generally aren't aware that the Smithsonian exists at all except to occasionally get mad at the African American museum for existing. They're perfectly happy to destroy or close them down though and probably force the remainder to charge entry fees like the Museum of the Bible and the Spy Museum do
>>2439310Yeah that'll absolutely be on the chopping block, along with the Asian Art Museum that's right across from it
>>2439272>>2439269>>2439278>>2439280>>2439282no porn is one thing but the ejaculation shit is fucking stupid. Males are supposed to ejaculate at least a few times a week.
Enjoy getting prostate cancer dumbass
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/dc-national-guard-armed-m17-sig-sauerLMAO
Not only are they giving the national guard weapons, but guns that have a tendency to go off by accident. Bro really is speedrunning the focus tree to get the most absurd failstate possible
>>2439193The US military are brainwashed murder bandits who spent the past 20 years playing Einsatzkommandos in Iraq and Afghanistan, if you think they aren't going to fire when the time comes you are kidding yourself.
The fact is they should be ambushed and attacked at every possible opportunity anyway. If there was a left in America now they'd be turning DC into Fallujah right now.
>>2439356And how many of these faggy little publicity stunts performed by white theater kids has had meaningful impact on the real movement?
Communism has China
You have CHAZ
>>2439263I can't wait for Cuomo's disaster campaign to be the thing that finally reveals the Uniparty once and for all.
It's the kind of stupid shit we deserve.
https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=888899&title=to-those-in-the-armed-forces2025-08-19
The question that everyone in the United States military needs to be asking themselves right now—as we see Tennessee and Louisiana sending their National Guard troops to occupy D.C. and oppress the people who live there—is this: Are you willing to shoot to kill American civilians? Are you willing to kill American civilians in the same way you would an enemy combatant overseas? If you answer that question with any hesitation, with any sort of "no," then you need to be doing everything you can to foster insurrection within the ranks, to cause resistance, and to fight back against those who would order you to do it.
One soldier refusing an order faces a court-martial. An entire platoon or company refusing is a political crisis that commanders and politicians cannot ignore. The goal should be to foster a widespread understanding that certain orders against the American people will be collectively rejected.
You need to ask yourself: Is this what I signed up for? Am I actually protecting the people of this nation by murdering them? A service member has not just the right, but the duty, to disobey an unlawful order. You need to remember what happened at Kent State and understand that the stakes have shifted dramatically. If you are in the armed forces in any capacity, you must understand that you may now be called upon to oppress and potentially murder your fellow American citizens. Whether you are a Marine sent to Los Angeles or a National Guardsman sent to Washington, D.C., the demand placed upon you is the same. So, you must decide: Are you with the American people, or are you with an imperialist regime? That is the question.
It is time to sow resistance within the ranks, because failure to do so will almost certainly result in American civilians being killed by the men and women who joined to serve and protect them. With that said, these are questions you need to ask the people in your life. If you have a brother in the army, ask him straight up: "Are you willing to shoot and kill somebody like me at a protest?" If that person hesitates, then they should be the one seeking to create resistance within the ranks. We will not stand for American troops murdering American civilians in the name of a capitalist regime.
>>2439121>Reddit is run by bots and the same "mods" control several hundred "left" subreddits. autobans aren't even always determined by subreddit mods … Reddit is not worth using. Even when you're not banned you're basically screaming into the void I had an account once and would just end up getting banned from most political subs because either they didn't like what I said, or I posted in another sub they didn't like. There's a ledger of all your posts and people will look at your comment history and be like "well that's what someone who posts at [OTHER SUB] would say." It's like, motherfucker, I was arguing with those people at that sub. I just can't take it.
>>2439152>makes me wonder why the IDF doesn't just force the orthodox and ultra orthodox to join the militaryI think it's coalition politics? Bibi's government would collapse because it depends on support from some of these religious parties.
>>2439278>like Mao … who practised revolutionary celibacyBro, Mao had like four wives (at different times) including a movie star
>>2439380I've been in the army and know for a fact that people in the infantry and similar read our magazine.
Many members of the Tsar's army defected during the revolution.
Yall really do not want to win because in order to win you have to play the game and you can't play the game if ur a pussy
>>2439380I think you want that to happen. I think you WANT the world to be against you.
And then when the shit hits the fan, you'll disappear.
>>2439382The tsars soldiers were drafted and not indoctrinated. The American soldat willingly signed up to murder innocent people for money and has been totally brainwashed into being an unthinking, unhesitating murderer for capital.
The only value the American and NATO soldaten have is digging their own graves before we execute them.
>>2439382Well of course they dont want to win, it's much easier to smugly sit on the sidelines telling everyone else they're doing it wrong and they deserve to suffer
National Guard usually just helps with disaster relief and shit like that anyways so it's a slightly different animal compared to cops or the army
>>2439387Put ur name back on Felix
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-military-targets-youth-for-recruitment>>2439393There is a strong class and race divide between the enlisted and the officers, that's why the officers get fragged by the enlisted.
>>2439396In a lot of ways it's a jobs program. The national guard especially is one of the few ways to get healthcare. I knew a guy who joined specifically to get Tricare because his daughter was diabetic and the healthcare coverage was the only way he'd be able to afford her needs. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend there's a bunch of based people in the armed forces, but it's worthwhile to both appeal to the humanity of those within it, and to position the resistance as morally superior to the regime, something losers like
>>2439387 will never understand. It's call agitprop, agitation via propaganda. If your propaganda is "we should execute all soldiers immediately" you appeal to no one, look worse than the regime, have no moral appeal, and are simply not equipt for actual struggle.
>>2439406>>2439396>>2439393The job they signed up for is murdering innocent people for money. That is what they did, and what their role in society is.
Some jobs should not exist, and murderer is one of them. If this was the 1940s you'd be telling us to recruit the einsatzgruppen.
>>2439411You dont even need to get a lot of them sympathetic, in the case of DC it's a matter of segments of the national guard and police getting fed up with constantly getting their chains yanked around for nothingburgers at the whims of a pedophile with dementia. When they were deployed to LA they were literally forced to sleep on metal floors. It doesn't matter why you signed up or what your ideology is if you're being treated like utter crap AND not getting paid for it then you're going to be pissed at the ones responsible.
Of course part of the whole deal is that we the people need to hinder the police and national guard as much as possible to make their deployment all the more unpleasant. More sandwiches in the face, more thrown objects and jeers from the crowd. Demoralization is a key weapon here
>>2439414If this was the 1940s I'd be a partisan fighting against people like you who were just looking for a job.
>>2439415Neither did most SS.
>>2439414You support your troops like a good nazi
>>2439415All ameriKKKans are valid targets of course but desk lifestyle weakness makes them even better targets.
Oklahoma to test teachers from New York and California with ‘America first' examOklahoma will require applicants for teacher jobs coming from California and New York to pass an exam that the Republican-dominated state's top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology,” but which opponents decry as a “MAGA loyalty test.”
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma's public schools superintendent, said Monday that any teacher coming from the two blue states will be required to pass an assessment exam administered by PragerU, an Oklahoma-based conservative nonprofit, before getting a state certification.
“As long as I am superintendent, Oklahoma classrooms will be safeguarded from the radical leftist ideology fostered in places like California and New York,” Walters said in a statement.
PragerU, short for Prager University, puts out short videos with a conservative perspective on politics and economics. It promotes itself as “focused on changing minds through the creative use of digital media.”
Quinton Hitchcock, a spokesperson for the state’s education department, said the Prager test for teacher applicants has been finalized and will be rolling out “very soon.”
The state did not release the entire 50-question test to The Associated Press but did provide the first five questions, which include asking what the first three words of the U.S. Constitution are and why freedom of religion is “important to America’s identity.”
Prager didn’t immediately respond to a phone message or email seeking comment. But Marissa Streit, CEO of PragerU, told CNN that several questions on the assessment relate to “undoing the damage of gender ideology.”
Jonathan Zimmerman, who teaches history of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said Oklahoma’s contract with PragerU to test out-of-state would-be teachers “is a watershed moment.”
“Instead of Prager simply being a resource that you can draw in an optional way, Prager has become institutionalized as part of the state system,” he said. “There’s no other way to describe it.”
Zimmerman said the American Historical Association did a survey last year of 7th- to 12th-grade teachers and found that only a minority were relying on textbooks for day-to-day instruction. He said the upside to that is that most history books are “deadly boring.” But he said that means history teachers are relying on online resources, such as those from Prager.
“I think what we’re now seeing in Oklahoma is something different, which is actually empowering Prager as a kind of gatekeeper for future teachers,” Zimmerman said.
One of the nation’s largest teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers, has often been at odds with the Donald Trump administration and the crackdown on teacher autonomy in the classroom.
“This MAGA loyalty test will be yet another turnoff for teachers in a state already struggling with a huge shortage," said AFT President Randi Weingarten.
She was critical of Walters, who pushed for the state’s curriculum standards to be revised to include conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
“His priority should be educating students, but instead, it’s getting Donald Trump and other MAGA politicians to notice him,” Weingarten said in a statement.
Tina Ellsworth, president of the nonprofit National Council for the Social Studies, also raised concerns that the test would prevent teachers from applying for jobs.
“State boards of education should stay true to the values and principles of the U.S. Constitution,” Ellsworth said. “Imposing an ideology test to become a teacher in our great democracy is antithetical to those principles.”
State Rep. John Waldron, the Oklahoma Democratic Party chairman, decried the test as “political posturing.”
“If you want to see a textbook definition of indoctrination, how about a loyalty test for teachers,” said Waldron. “It’s a sad echo of a more paranoid past.”
Waldron, a New Jersey native, said he would have been in the target demographic for this kind of test when he moved from Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma to teach social studies in 1999. He said it would have struck him as an indication that the state “wasn’t serious about attracting quality teachers.”
“Teachers are not rushing here from other states to teach. We’ve got an enormous teacher shortage and it’s not like we have a giant supply of teachers coming in from blue states anyway,” he said.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/oklahoma-teacher-applicants-new-york-california-political-test-certification/3935076/ >>2439451Everything I've heard about Oklahoma paints it as Florida without the beaches.
Brains completely fried, just absolutely stark raving mad.
>>2439452by your own logic, the best thing you could do is to find a cord and a doorknob so there's one less "amerikkkan" in the world.
I don't know why moderation on this site is so shit
>>2439458I'm not ignorant I'm only taking your logic a step further, if the Germans and Japanese didn't want to be fire bombed and nuked maybe they should have organized a general strike and brought the entire economy and armed forces supply down.
I know this is an impossible task to ask of these people, but I will simply pretend otherwise and blame them for all of the carnage that happened.
Because I'm not sure what you think a single defective soldier or partisan would do, some anime shit of course and bring about the utopia.
Play a better game.
A Las Vegas teen who shot and killed his father during a fight over electronics avoided prison time when a judge only sentenced him to probation Thursday, according to a report.
Lincoln Peterson pleaded for mercy and claimed “none of this was ever my intention” as family members also showed support for the 16-year-old boy four months after he pleaded to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his dad, Jeremy Peterson.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/us-news/las-vegas-teen-who-killed-dad-during-fight-over-electronics-gets-no-prison-time-from-merciful-judge/>>2439460Always comes back to that "trillions must die" bullshit.
Go back to /pol/, you'd be better off there anyhow.
‘It doesn’t matter now if they are children’: Ex-IDF chief said 50 Palestinian deaths for every 7 October victim was ‘necessary’
Aharon Haliva says the Palestinians ‘need a Nakba [catastrophe] every now and then to feel the price’, according to Israeli media
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/aharon-haliva-palestine-gaza-israel-b2809732.html>>2439482Consider that they have already started abducting and deporting citizens, as in a non-insignifcant portion of those taken by ICE to these camps have been citizens, the men deported to El Salvador were citizens.
Effectively, we are all illegal now.
I do wonder how this will play out for the myriad of reformist type socialists who only exist on capitalist controlled spaces.
I'm writing a short story about an ICE ambush :v)
>"GRAB THAT FUCKING AR, YOU STUPID FUCK, THEY ARE SHOOTING AT US!" Danvers barked, fumbling with his own rifle, his hands slick with sweat.
>"MAN, I WAS TOLD THIS JOB WOULD BE EASY!" Miller wails, just as the passenger window disintegrates. The 7.62 round caught him square in the temple. It wasn't a clean hole. It was a key that unlocked the entire back of his skull. The exit wound was a volcanic eruption of bone, brain matter, and blood that slapped against the far window with the wet thud of a thrown steak. He slumped, a drunk Elvis leaving the building for the last time.
>Four men in camo emerged from the dust and smoke. They moved with a purpose that was alien to the frozen ICE troopers.
>"There, in the corner by the building!" someone from the second SUV yelled, a pathetic spray of blind fire zipping harmlessly into the dirt before them.
It's GenPol but a decent video on changes in the American labor market overtime.
>>2439511He doesn't have any friends, so I doubt he's got anything better to do.
>>2439474>socialists"socialists"
fix'ed
>>2439515Honestly he's doing smart propaganda here.
>Naming an enemy>Pointing out how said enemy is screwing over local people>Pointing to wildly popular policy and insisting it's said enemy's fault we don't have it.I'll remain cautious about what he can actually accomplish or what he holds to, but being Pro-Gaza is good at least. For now, I'll just say this seems mostly in line with how I think Socialists should put themselves forward to the masses.
>>2439531Yes because the most revolutionary people are clearly the ones with the most money. We should not think about how this thought process recreates the capitalist hierarchy in our own spaces. Instead I will wait for JT from Second Thought to tell me its okay to organized cells across the US :v)
Oh, it turns out the most well paid among us have the strongest revolutionary ideas, such as voting for AOC or perhaps "making good trouble" at the No Kings Protest
>>2439482it's okay. us MAGA
COMMUNISTS are safe because we're COMMUNISTS not SOCIALISTS. TRVST THE PLQN
>>2439547no, I call you on a contradiction. it seems weird you flex you have readers amoung the US military and yet you have no money.
not necessarily both can't be truth, but I don't don't think both can be truth either. so bottom line, your bragging is moronic.
>>2439555>felix cooks curryhonestly based. That better be an apartment and hot a house boi
>educate you strasseriteswait you actually believe people on here are worth educating? I thought they were only good for digging their own graves?
>>2439556I have some mushrooms sitting in the colander in my sink too. I probably could have used another potato but I'm saving them for breakfast one of these days.
>>2439559I am a proletarian. I own no property and have no reserves. I pay $1465 in rent a month for a 750 square foot apartment with one bedroom. That's fairly cheap for Portland too.
>>2439555>filename that identifies your phone (glowgle pixel) and the date/time you took the picyou know for the level of paranoia and anger you exhibit you continue to have the worst opsec. You remain the only person here whose name/face/inside of house we've seen. Like wtf… and
wait a god damn second!!!! Why does your phone say 22:13:10.10913 for the milisecond timestamp? That's a BRITISH timezone!!! WERE YOU BRITISH ALL ALONG? It's all coming together now….
>>2439515this is actually what good politics looks like tbh. dudes will rag on him for being "generic working class white guy" but that's exactly what you need to make the left "cool" again honestly. like, this is what you need to convince white people that the left isn't gonna eat their babies and replace them with transhuman indian mexican hybrids.
>>2439517oh I was gonna question why he didn't mention gaza at all in his campaign ad and assumed he's a zionist. good shit i'm glad to be wrong.
>>2439565Portland is actually very proletarian, very few people here own homes. The majority rent instead. Beaverton and Gresham are where the bourgeoisie live, that or across the river in Vancouver, WA.
>>2439566NAFO doxxed me years ago, I don't give a fuck. They think I run Track A Nazi Merc, which I don't. But I wish I did. If you weren't an idiot you'd realize that the feds know everything anyway, your anonymity is artificial and meaningless. They know who you are and what you're posting as soon as you do it.
>>2439568I considered moving to Buffalo or Detroit but I chose Portland in the end because I have family here. I don't regret the decision, there are lots of Communists here.
>>2439569I got a mix of shitake and oysters from the sale bin at the grocery store.
>>2439573>If you weren't an idiot you'd realize that the feds know everything anyway, your anonymity is artificial and meaningless. They know who you are and what you're posting as soon as you do it. you can make their jobs a lot harder while not necessarily stopping them
>>2439573>very few people here own homesI was told on here just yesterday that you're petty bourgeois if you rent a home. glad to see that wasn't actually you but an impersonator
>>2439575You'd fit in pretty well actually. Especially if you were going to be street homeless. I thought really hard about Buffalo but in the end I didn't want to deal with their savage winters so I chose the west coast where the climate is a lot nicer.
>>2439576The proverbial eye of Sauron has been fixed on me for quite a while now. There is no avoiding their gaze when they are interested in you. Given who I used to work for and their ties to Russian intelligence, the FBI would have to be insanely stupid to not have a thick file on me.
>>2439577Most of the state is poor and under the control of big agricultural cartels. Only places like Bend and Beaverton are rich.
>>2439578>>2439579I tried to tell you retards that the average American soldat is a willing and enthusiastic collaborator but you don't listen. They are brainwashed to be the perfect fascist murderer using a scientific process that has been studied and perfected over decades.
>>2439589>his tombstone still has the wrong birthdayprobably because correcting the age discrepancy would have forfeited any government benefits he might have received.
the rest is, shows how the systems eats soldiers and spits out people with no further role in the US.
>>2439543Don't forget to insist that you're gonna make life harder for them intentionally as punishment for their sins.
>>2439588>>2439590>>2439592Guys I'm really not getting the surprise here, like at all.
Let me try to explain things: there's some stringent fitness and mental health requirements that eliminate, I believe, the vast majority of Americans for eligible service. Now within and outside of those stringent requirements are things that are impacted by both material conditions and cultural forces. Liberals, for example, are more easily diagnosed with depression and more likely to see a psychiatrist. If you're on anti-depressants you can't be barred from service. Conservatives are more likely to see military service as something innately virtuous while liberals are still running off the fumes of the anti-war movements of the 70s and the like. Like their very values are different: conservatives valuing things like "loyalty" while liberals value "fairness" for example.
So you've got a very narrow segment of the population that can be recruited. A variety of factors favor one portion of that narrow segment (the Conservative guy less likely to be on anti-depressants and seeing the army as heroic) and so that portion is over-represented.
Like the flip side of this is I've seen articles by conservative culture warriors claiming the only way to beat the Left is to encourage your kids to go into the humanities and education… even though that runs counter, entirely, to the Conservative ethos of dismissing Teaching as a low-paying and "pathetic" or "un-virtuous" profession. Like it'd just go up against their programming. "I've got to turn my kid into a soylib teacher to beat the soylib teachers" kind of shit.
>>2439615I agree with this take, someone like Zohran is essentially propaganda. These electorialist types typically do much better when there's violent armed struggle against the regime to make them look more reasonable though.
Unfortunately no party would dare even suggest that level of struggle, because we are all pathetic here in the imperial core. Drone striking kids while talking about nonviolence and morals and shit. Let me queue up a montage of MLK speeches or sum to really get those libs going.
>>2439621They could send 10 ICE goons to his house right now and you and the rest of r/law will be talking about how that's illegal.
Really feel some of us aren't grasping what fascism means.
Anons, anones and anonesas, it is a proud day for the ytsloppers and nothinghabbeners.
AMERIKKKA SENDS 3 DESTROYERS TO NEAR VENEZUELA'S WATERS TO "CURTAIL DRUG TRAFFIC"I though it was as always a nothingburger but this has at least a bun
https://archive.is/QG2ZKhttps://archive.is/QG2ZKhttps://archive.is/QG2ZKhttps://archive.is/QG2ZKhttps://archive.is/QG2ZK>>2439648Can we give them Texas
And Florida
And New York
And Mississippi
Actually just give Putin everything to the east of the PNW.
Nebraska announces plan for immigration detention center dubbed the ‘Cornhusker Clink’
The facility will be dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink,” a play on Nebraska’s nickname of the Cornhusker State and an old slang term for jail. The alliterative name follows in the vein of the previously announced “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Deportation Depot” detention centers in Florida and the “Speedway Slammer” in Indiana.
Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to use an existing minimum security prison work camp in McCook — a remote city of about 7,000 people in the middle of the wide-open prairies between Denver and Omaha — to house people awaiting deportation and being held for other immigration proceedings. It’s expected to be a Midwest hub for detainees from several states.
https://apnews.com/article/nebraska-ice-detention-center-immigration-1ae76a48f62a7304da63e2780a357190>>2439649At least my relatives understand just how fucking hopeless it's gotten.
Unfortunately, none of my folks really know what I should do either.
>>2439636oh, no, no. it's a lie. the official note, from Reuters, said it was in the next 36 hours, and that was unrealistic, showing it wasn't
true (yet, anyway).
Trump shock spurs Japan to think about the unthinkable: nuclear arms
In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been turbo-charged by Trump’s tough treatment of traditional U.S. allies, which has some in Tokyo and Seoul calling for a reassessment of their non-nuclear policies.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-shock-spurs-japan-think-about-unthinkable-nuclear-arms-2025-08-20/>>2439666>Night of the Long Burgers?night of fat burgers, sir.
they didn't eat 10 burgers a day to not deserve title, no sir.
>>2439658I mean, my parents kind of get it. Sometimes. But yeah they mostly don't know what to do.
Shit it's no wonder you get kids trying to be "content creators" or some horseshit. Our current economic model is basically "Spend 8 years studying something to make not enough money to live right out of the gate."
>>2439611>Was just talking to a comrade about this, it's 100% on the table for the feds to prevent Zohran from even getting into the next election. That alone should tell you that there's no path for reformism or electoralism.My take is that social-democracy as an ideology is dead. The Bourgeois won and won big 34 years ago, why should they have to make concessions to a defeated ideology or to masses that they consider to be an inferior race fit only to be worked at low wages? If you're a social-democrat, you might as well become a communist because they'll give you an all-expenses-paid trip to El Salvador before ever giving a single inch.
>>2439681>do you pay income tax? workers in Dubai dontSlaves don't pay income tax because they don't have an income.
>>2439689>so-called korean 'nationalists' in occupied korea waving US flags and maga hatsThose are basically modern-day
chinilpa that collaborate with the Americans just like their predecessors collaborated with the Japanese.
>>2439704The seething they have about FDR to this day still kinda weirds me out. Like they genuinely want to make sure not even the memory of him remains.
>>2439700Night of The Long Knives 2.0 will probably be a MAGA side project soon. Can't have the "Left" (comparatively) side of MAGA push against establishment interests, after all!
>>2439731>the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other partliterally forgets that the upper class constantly imposes its will upon the lower class through violence.
Like this is actually a fucking libshit mentality line.
>>2439729that quote is to extinguish the idealistic idea that you should not exert authority under socialism and communis. It's a response to the problems arising in the proto-socialist projects (parties, mostly), where, in the name of egalitarianism, equity, and social justice, some people joined to just sabotage the projects, to then screeching that it was unfair to be kicked out,
muh not true socialist and so on.
New poll asking Americans about Israel and Palestine
Poll done August 15-18. Here are 4 questions with party, race, age, gender and age
Worth reviewing
https://xcancel.com/briantashman/status/1957976464764145962#m>>2439756the fourth picture is interesting. not only shows how easily gaslighted the DNC voters are or scared of trump are (because voted for kkkopmala), with their voting record and yet calling it genocide. it's like
we agree, we don't care or
we agree, but (runs the rock meme) things here are more important.
very interesting poll, thanks.
>>2439767Realize that the crowd's reaction doesn't matter if you're just there to preach. If you believe in what you are saying, devote your energy to that instead of worrying about looking a bit cringe.
Also just keep doing it, you'll get used to it.
>>2439767>Anyone know shit about public speaking tho? I gave a speech for july 4th and was shaking like a dog with parvo the whole time, going to be doing that again soonI mean, about the fear of public speaking? Honestly I haven't experienced much of that, though it's one of the big fears out there. If I got any advice, it's: think of it as acting.
Practice. Practice. Practice. Don't just memorize the speech, but focus on the tone, the cadence. Leave little sections in to "breath" as it were, maybe by throwing in a joke or what have you. And remember: the most important parts are the beginning and the end. The stuff in the middle? You can ease up a bit, people wont be focusing on you.
Some people try to focus on one or two people in the audience to talk to, personally I find it helpful to see the audience as a mass rather than individuated people.
But yeah, practice it like you're practicing a role in a play. Think about what words you're gonna emphasize, the "face" you'll be wearing for it, and try not to take yourself too seriously.
I'm sure you can do it bro. Don't be afraid of the crowd, they're all fucking terrified of speaking up in front of people themselves and will subconsciously defer to you as someone who knows what he's doing by virtue of confronting that fear.
>>2439768Ehh, maybe I'll still check 'em out anyways. But thanks.
>>2439769Man, I've just been working in a grocery store for years. I'm not even sure if I have a specific career in mind, but just something where I can feel like I'm working
towards something, y'know? Like, getting to a point where I could maybe afford a home one day. Problem is I don't know if any of those jobs exist anymore, at least for someone starting from the low end of the socio-economic totem pole.
‘Strength not measured by how many people you can blow up,’ Tony Burke says as row with Netanyahu escalates
Australian home affairs minister’s criticism comes after Israeli prime minister calls Anthony Albanese a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/20/australia-israel-tony-burke-netanyahu>>2439773the first time I gave a speech it was unplanned, I had been up for about 40 hours, and was to a crowd of like 100 people
the next speech will be planned, in front of maybe 25 people, and also not be on a stage.
honestly doing an IRL houdini meet up does have me both spooked and pumped, probably over thinking it all
>>2439767didn't you ask the same question in reddit?
My best recommendation is pick three points in the public room or place, nearby the crowd or inside the crowd (like a hall where people use to get through the rows or a specific banner displayed by a crowd member), focus on watching those points while you talk, so you don't have to engage with the faces of the people while you talk.
that's because sometimes while you are trying to convey something, and the idea is incomplete, the prejudiced and judgemental faces of people can trouble your focus. and maybe all of what you are saying isn't at all troublesome, but only if taken out of context.
but I don't recommend you to keep this as your forever tactic. it's more engaging for your audience when you actually do visual contact with your faces.
>>2439777yeah i used to post a lot on r/trueanon, I posted asking for advice literally 15 minutes before that speech haha. one strong piece of advice I got was that I would talk faster than I usually do because of the nerves, so i should focus on the breathing and pausing more.
three points to look at is also actionable advice, will think on that
>>2439781that trick also works when you want to talk with someone and and you want to show no expressions and emotions at all, face to face. just focus in the area between the eyebrows, and talk, and answer the questions as they come. the other person will believe you are looking to their eyes.
specially useful when talking with cops or DAs, or whatever law enforcement grunt that is interrogating you, because they'll try to break you with their faces, but you are paying 0 attention to whatever fear they are trying to impose you.
>>2439785>>2439787It has a lower cost of living because nobody wants to live there because it sucks. From what I hear, a lot of people the moved to Texas are moving back to California.
>>2439790>South Park is one of the most damaging pieces of culture and it pains me to see libs lap this shit up.Everybody forgot about how they mocked climate change with "ManBearPig".
>>2439790It's a completely different experience watching it from another country, lemme tell you.
>le climate changeshitton of radlibs got the message wrong. The message in the series developed into Gore was right but communicated climate change like a retard, not that climate change aint real.
>>2439794>Props to CPUSAnon since if I had to live in such a shithole I'd probably go on a shooting rampage.I've got coworkers to shoot the shit with, thankfully. Though some customers really push it. The other day I had someone shove a crucifix in my face and ask if I believe in God. Then after that, some guy who ran some dentist office for a few years ranting about how he got sued for failing to give someone a 10 minute break, he started the conversation about break-time, and I just joked that he's got me 'till then. After going on some long rant about the state he says
>"I'm just bringing this up 'cause you were wishy-washy about getting a break.">>2439795If you want to die inside, check out what LAPD is paying.
For fuck's sake, I know people who bust ass every fucking day trying to scrounge up enough to barely survive, and these cops just fucking skate into the easiest paying job on earth. It's fucking infuriating. It's anger-inducing. I hate it so goddamn much.
>>2439798Spent some time with my dad, he pointed out some houses in the hills and said:
>"Your mother and I almost bought a house up there!"<"How much was it going for?">"About $200k"<Houses in the area are valued around ~$1 million >>2439800>>2439803 (me)
though, I should shut the fuck up. fucking clown picrel came from online clown talk shows, and here we are. and kyle kulinski has said so many times that jon steward should run for the 2028 presidential race, I've lost count of that.
>>2439783>Oklahoma needs to be evacuated, that place is cursed as hell.You basically have to go full juggalo if you're in Oklahoma
HOCUS POCUS JOKER'S RIDE
COME TAKE A SPIN ON A CARNIE RIDE
>>2439857His entire family are wealthy so that's not happening.
>>2439852I don't think the Democrat base will actually learn their lesson and abandon electoralism, but we'll see in about a year's time I guess. If the midterms go poorly for the dems I think it's a good sign shit is about to go down.
>>2439882Only an irrelevant little segment of the US population is hyper-focused on Palestine.
>how come they don't obsess over the stuff my subculture obsesses over?!Gee, I wonder!
>>2439923yes but i don't really know how that's workable with a highly mixed population. like I'm a "quadroon". Do I get 1/4th of the "reparations" that a "full black" gets? Do Haitian immigrants get reparations or are they not "Foundational Black Americans" even though they came from a country that not only had slavery, but also was forced to pay reverse-reparations to france for the "war crimes" of killing slave owners?
I think reparatations is mostly in the realm of fantasy because nobody has the power to implement it, and even if they did have the power, it would likely fail because nobody would agree upon a plan of action and get mired in details like the above.
>>2440014American Millennials
<grow up being told you can be anything you want to be<Fed the liberal mythological history of America overcoming slavery/segregation/fighting both forms of "anti-freedom" ideology AKA fascism and communism<Find out it's all a lie<spend your 20s getting told that it's your fault the economy is doing bad because you're bad at getting a good job and a house like your parents did<get told you're buying toom uch avocado toast or whatever<hit 30<still not doing good<zoomers start calling you old reactionary treatlerites who have it good as if you were boomers or something<die young of untreated illnesses you never went to the doctor forlol
>>2438749>>2438748I remember a Nigerian woman was defending Israel
>Little poor Israel was attacked by so many countries!I said:
<Oh poor bacteria being attacked by so many immune cells!She did not like it and began kvetching about boko haram and muslims. So I told her this is not about muslims but about ethnic supremacy and genocide, that Israel supported ISIS to weaken Syria and Hamas to weaken Palestinian legitimacy but it backfired since the end goal is the genocide of the Palestinians and eventually they did one final rebellion and I could see she was visibly seething. So I told her one final thing: >After israel genocides the palestinians, it will eventually come after you and you will be sterilized like ethiopian jews (true story: stupid fucking purity fetish. These rabbis and zionists and ultra judaics were the original nazi eugenicists. (Leviticus 19:19)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-women-given-contraceptives-israel She was visibly scared and kind of realized she was being hasbara'd but i guess she was too embarrassed.
>>2440148Well of course the people losing the AI race would say that
More seriously, yes in a certain sense except that there's nowhere else really for that money to go
>>2440148AI bubble popping will not take AI away though. It'll just cause an even greater consolidation around the big, state backed enterprises.
It has military and surveillance applications. It is extremely useful for big data as well. There is a massive "cottage industry" around using AI for the various internet hustles. AI powers content creation of all sorts, from blogspam to SEO to Youtube. AI drives the development of computer speech and augmented reality.AI powers things from social media to Photoshop and graphic arts to programming tools or even the basic "code completion" in some editors. AI powers spam filters. AI powers robotics and factory sensors.
The other day one of those semi-propaganda articles described a practical application of AI where an experimental device learns the patterns of nerve activity, according to tasks like walking in a controlled environment, at one side of a spinal lesion. And tries to replicate them at the other side, bridging the gap somewhat.
AI is an industry with a breadth of applications which has a big dumb LLM facade that can't ever justify the amount of investment. So every time a Deepseek or a Mistral or the latest generative graphics model comes along and presents an improvement without draining the government's balls worth of billions of dollars, they have to pretend a great achievement has occurred.
>>2440159Humans are defined by our labor.
We make the machines do all the labor.
Humanity is undefining itself
>>2440181"Dont you think it's fucked up that our entire medical system is based on profit? What treatments they give you depends on what's more expensive rather than what works because the primary motivation of a for profit healthcare industry is making money"
Or something like that
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