When you’ve got a guy named “Calvinball Champ” in your mod crew, I can’t even tell if you’re serious.

The 77-year-old marine ecologist was severely injured by an Israeli air strike on her home on June 4, and has since died from her wounds.

Crazy to read this and then get mad at the guy who wrote the headline.

they say differently in private when they discuss these issues and then parrot talking points in public practice

The congressperson is the ultimate Improv Comedian. They’re always out doing the Yes-And for their audience. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve spoken with a Congressman who nods and agrees with me on everything, then turns to someone who is my polar opposite and nods and agrees with them, too.

They know that what they’re doing is wrong

You think a bunch of white nationalists and imperial hawks think bombing Iran was a mistake? Dems and GOPers alike have been chaffing at the bit to bomb Iran since the Carter administration. Trump is delivering them their hearts’ deepest desire. The only thing Congress wanted more than War with Iran are War with Cuba and War with China. That’s been the joke of the last four months. It’s Congresscritters running around insisting “Trump is fighting the war WRONG!” then losing their shit at the first wiff of surrender.

If anything, these people think we didn’t go hard enough. They’re absolutely turgid at the thought of the ceasefire breaking, because it gives them an opportunity to go on the Sunday Morning shows and scream “Death to Iran! They broke the ceasefire and must be obliterated!”

Coward GOP

They’re not cowards. They got elected to inflate the Pentagon budget. It’s what they’re in Congress to do.

Liberals: “The Iran war is going to cost us an additional $300B?!”

Hegseth: “Haha, no.”

A secure soviet border is behind a line of snowmen in SS uniforms.

Are you referring to the satellite buffer zone? Or is this a joke about Nazis in winter?

Those people doing all that you talk about are openly Rightwing parties, not “liberals”

The German Greens and the Renaissance party are center-left and center (relatively speaking for their respective countries). They are explicitly liberal. The same can be said of the the various Latin American and and East Asian parties. Very regularly right in the center of their national overton windows and openly in favor of collaborating with neighboring liberal governments on their policies.

The point I was making wasn’t that the West isn’t rife with Racism, it’s that the “moderate”/mainstream Left parties packaging reductive identitarian views of human beings and selling as “positive” some forms of Discrimination along those lines (not just the Racist lines, but all kinds of “identities”) isn’t anywhere as common in the rest of the West

The ethnic lines vary. But the general disdain for immigrants, foreign religions, and foreign languages persist.

Outside places like the US, UK and Canada the whole “lets talk about Identity Politics instead of Wealth Inequality” “liberal” propaganda technique to disguise their authoritarian pro-Oligarch ways didn’t really took hold anywhere as much.

I gotta disagree. This technique is baked into the entire Western political landscape. It’s particularly glaring in France and Germany, where neo-nazi police get to march around pushing the faces of poor immigrants, students, and socialist activists into the dirt in the name of “fighting antisemitism”. But it shows up throughout Latin America, the Philippines, and even West Africa.

State media sponsored tribalization, accusations of foreign infiltration of the opposition parties, and mass arrests of economic dissidents on ostensibly liberal “race neutral” grounds are common strategies globally, and for good reason. Even Russia plays this game when it suits them, with “De-Nazification” as a code word for busting the heads of any United Russia opposition group.

Even though - in my experience - the posh deceit discourse techniques have migrated from the US and UK towards other European countries, even the mainstream old center-left parties (which are now Neoliberal and well to the right of center) haven’t adopted the heavy identitarian discourse you see in their supposed equivalents in the US and UK.

I mean, you have straight-up breakaway regions in Spain, Italy, Greece, and - famously - Ukraine. Hell, nobody swings the identitarian cudgel harder than the liberal Zionists of Israel. Identity politics allows you to pretend at liberal politics while enabling a fascist state, by insisting the fascism is a bullwark against the opposition party’s Bigger Scarier Fascism. So you get guys like Olaf Schultz and Emanual Macron introducing whole new levels of state surveillance, crack downs on immigration, and gutting of educational institutions under the pastiche of some liberal cause (typically LGBTQ or philosemitism). And if you run over a bunch of queer folks and left-jews along the way? All the better.

Outside Europe, you often see the Drug War and violence against indigenous people spun as some kind of beneficent social welfare response or “tough love” effort to reduce poverty. But these guys love to code their behaviors in liberal terms, suggest there’s some kind of White Man’s Burden to step onin and “help”, and be greeted as liberators when you do.

Crackdowns in Hong Kong and the arrests of prodemocracy movements ain’t peaceful, bruv

The “crackdowns” were in response to a riot kicked off by Hong Kong residents protesting China’s extradition of a Taiwanese fugitive back to Taiwan for an alleged murderer. The only people killed in the “crackdowns” were Hong Kong police, at the hands of the rioters. The end result of the riots was to poison the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong as an American propaganda campaign and coup attempt.

You liberals got played. Again.

The Chinese play in Taiwan has always been economic. It is the same strategy they employed in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. And the end result has been peaceful transitions of power with steady economic growth and no massive loss of life.

Threatening to bomb Beijing because some Shanghai investors have increased their stacks in FoxCon or TSMC is as absurd as it is toothless.

Me, watching a country not get into any wars for 45 years: “Wow, great job. I wish my country could do that.”

CNN editors, watching the same country: “AAAAAAH! THEY’RE ON THE CUSP OF ATTACKING!”

The dirty secret that nobody wants to tell you is… in the West it’s liberals all the way down.

Some are just more scratched than others.

It’s a literal bonfire of the vanities. The bigotry, the smugness, and the violence are all part of a self-mythologizing narrative used to build support for increasingly awful people. Guys like Ben-Gvir are in power precisely because they’re the biggest assholes the country has to offer. They draw in other assholes like a magnet and build a movement based on that collective awfulness, even as their country self-destructs and takes out every neighbor in a 500 mile radius.

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Israel is massacring hundreds of people a day across Lebanon, while the liberal media is fully fixated on whether JD Vance had to listen to On Hold music for a minute in Switzerland.

No coverage of why these negotiations are delayed or what the stakes are. It’s all just optics.

Trying to pay the $300B in TrumpCoin

It’s like the penultimate scene in the old Street Fighter movie, where they find out M. Bison’s bug out safe is just full of his own branded currency

They’re selfishly preventing us from accessing the jet fuel we use to power our bombers.

It’s unsporting, petty, and deeply unchristian. They should be ashamed of themselves.

A phone call, an armada of speed boats, thousands of sea mines, and a mosaic defense strategy that allows for the continuous firing of ballistic missiles after suffering $1T in infrastructure damage.