Well. That’s it then.
Doesn’t matter what the terrorists in charge say. Real America should double down on support for our friends in Ukraine.
Funding. Supplies. Volunteer work. Combat footage analysis. Supportive memes and propaganda. Offensive hacking of Russian assets for teh lulz. Whatever we can do.
How do we find the helpers here?
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*November 8th, 2016
Well, like all the attitude of Terry without the genius to back it up. The “about” pages and stuff just read like your typical “One superior genius started this company” grift myth.
Very well put.
I think it’s very natural to just want a threat to be known and made tangible.
Things are so insanely complicated, that fixing systemic issues feels insurmountable. It makes one’s head spin and feel rather helpless because it requires either power en masse or concentrated power in the right hands. Especially when there’s bad guys that defend and praise the broken system, but their elimination still wouldn’t fix it.
But man, if there was just some mustache-twirling mastermind in a lair somewhere sending out emails to all the other bad guys, and we took him out to save the world…Hooray! Much simpler! That would be a much more preferable scenario. A cinematic face-off against Skeletor / Palpatine / Rupert Murdoch / whatever, rather than trying to undo the corrupting influence of masses of oppressed people all thinking “But this broken system benefited me so it can’t be that bad bro.”
U.S dwelling Christian anarchist here.
I’m sorry for your terrible experiences with so-called “christians” that bought into the americapitalist death cult. Heck, politics aside, everyone’s had a run-in at some point. We’re embattled with those types, too.
But nah, there’s plenty of Christians here that actually read the source material and we’re trying our best out here.
We’re just harder to spot because we’re busy trying to love our neighbor(everyone) and facilitate peace and hope, imperfect as we may be. But we’re trying.
They don’t build mega/(maga?)churches for people like that. These folks don’t get featured on the news, or end up in positions of power, because if they get the chance, they talk about the “Love your enemies” and “The rich won’t enter Heaven” Jesus of the Gospel, not “supply-side God will make you rich Jesus.”
They’re not trying to force theocratic policy, or sling hatred, or act obnoxious in the streets, and they’re definitely not wearing stupid little red hats.
If you encounter one of us, you might not even realize it. If we’re doing a good job, we’re somebody who “looks like they could help.”, someone you can trust, and will show you an unusual amount of kindness for someone you barely know.
If it comes around to it, we’ll share the Bible as a gift, like how anyone nerds out about what they love, not use it as a bludgeoning instrument.
We’re incredibly angry about the State Religion calling itself “evangelical”, and we’re right there with you in opposing these monsters doing the works of Hell.
The churches of the early United States were straight up based. For real, the tophats and monacles of the day thought churches were a leftist threat, and basically systematically undermined them and warped them into capitalism’s ardent apologists we see today. (See: "Behind the Bastards: How the Rich Ate Christianity. It’s mind blowing.)
Anyway, much love, stay safe out there. ❤️
Well-said. They don’t see people as people, they see them as farm stock plotted on spreadsheets that they can manipulate by pulling levers.
And happiness just isn’t a variable they would ever think of pulling a lever to increase. In fact I suspect they see a lack of it as an effective motivator, as long as it’s managed properly through division and distraction, and those desperately upset little data points don’t start assembling guillotines.
This. I think there’s so much to love about Japan, especially the cultural leaning towards doing everything with respect, dignity, and skill.
But the megacorpos definitely won in exploiting that, and the general social pressure revolving around workplace culture there is genuinely terrifying to me.
As a US person, our corporate-brainwash culture is awful too, but I’m glad we’re seeing bigger working class pushes to tell our employers “Go kick rocks. My family is more important.”
I agree that lots of US folk are too complacent and miseducated to be useful, and many of our biggest wishes is just trying to get grown adults to have even a shred of responsibility for themselves and those around them.
I think people generally were a bit less useless until corporate influence pushed its hardest to culture-breed a dumber and more subservient consumer-employee type of human being, and was mostly successful.
Paywalling and undercutting education being a massive factor here.
But “sinophobia”? LOL! No.
Willing to bet most people , aside from the usual suspects, are just fine with Chinese people and culture.
Anyone with sense should be afraid of Pooh-bear’s CCP dominating global politics. A regime which tells the Chinese people what “their culture” is allowed to be, and forcibly injects itself into daily life.
Politically, judging by how they treated Hong Kong, and are currently treating (was gonna list but…dang that’s a list.) …every neighbor …yeah that would be bad news.
This country isn’t perfect, obviously. But I’d rather have the shred of a chance for us and other countries, that getting our shit together could change something for the better eventually.
You simply wouldn’t get that chance with China or Russia holding dominating influence.
Yeah, power slipping from a collapsing empire run by an autocrat is usually a recipe for a series of senseless disasters, and bad news for everyone involved.
Not each, it was a sweepstakes, but that was absolutely manipulation. Man what a blatant way to insult the working class by dangling a chance at table scraps at them in exchange for their integrity…and no doubt many went for it.
I wonder if any actually got paid?
I agree, but also if we follow the 'pubbicans PR pattern of “Loudly accusing you of doing what I’m actually doing right now in front of everyone.”
…it’s almost hard not to believe it was tampered with from their end. Not on the vote counting side, like they accused “the libs” of doing (and just ended up harassing a bunch of poll workers, after all, they hate anybody who works.) but this mutated monster GOP never plays a fair game if they can help it.
Wait, in Europe? What’s the new privacy nightmare policy? I thought y’all enjoyed the GDPR. Did I miss something recent? :(
…but also I’m posting from the U.S where privacy is “whatever you can encrypt yourself”, which isn’t much… it’s a very low bar.
That’s what irritates me so much. We kinda expect politicians to give non-answers, half-truth, and doublespeak, but these people are something far worse than that, even, with straight up lies just made up on the spot.
It’s a big game of chicken where everyone knows he’s just made up of lies, but they’re too afraid to call them out on it, but for anybody brave enough, simply pressing them with “What’s your source? What the heck are you talking about?” Would embarrass them in front of billions of people (more than they already do themselves), and probably invite harsh retaliation that would further destabilize world geopolitics.
I was thinking the monkeys at the beginning of History Of the World Part 1 just banging…themselves silly.
“I’ve seen stories” I think I recall him saying specifically.
The same guy who said “If I have to create stories, that’s what I’m going to do.”
Let’s take one wild guess as to what, if any, super reputable source he gets these alleged “reports” from.
Possible answers include but are not limited to:
Trump to Meloni: “You’re not holding any cards and I’m seeing unlimited f$#&ing breadsticks on my new golf course, Meloni. MAKE THE DEAL MELONI. I’M SUCH A GREAT DEAL MAKING GUY.”
–Future headline
I should watch West Wing some time, I have limited experience with it but am familiar with the premise. :)
You’re right…I think a show inspired by the actual Whitehouse would be more like a “Real Housewives” situation. Gossip, screaming, backbiting, probably throwing stuff. . .and then they’d show outside the oval office itself lmao.
“Housewives” is also one I’ve got the general idea of but haven’t watched, except this one I’m not going to bother with. 😂
I remember the Netflix show Space Force poking fun at the new branch. It was silly, and goofy. (I mean, the legend, Steve Carell, c’mon haha.)
But it was light-hearted incompetence. Like people really wanting to make a difference but they were sabotaged and underfunded.
It’s awful watching one of the most powerful offices in the entire world being run by spiteful ego-fueled monsters that just want to watch the world burn.
I like to believe people are correct in that these polls might often still be gathered by phone, skewing results heavily in favor of “Elderly fascists who have Fox News on blast, still answer the phone, and answer surveys.”
Trump is “gambling with lives.” He’s “gambling with World War III.” He’s “showing major disrespect for the country, our country.”
He should say sorry. I haven’t heard him tell us “thank you” for anything this entire time.