Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
2d ago
Maybe it's the social media and the presense of foreigners that draws out the sort of affected soccer-hating I often see.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
2d ago
Yeah, he's mentioned Barron's fandom as a reason for some of these, but I don't see Trump as the sort of a guy who would go to these lengths just to make one of his kids happy.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
2d ago
Trump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer in the US -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff." (https://x.com/atrupar/status/1997001519829242351)
Like said, this is Trump being Trump and Fifa, the corrupt institution that it is, had just awarded him the "Fifa peace prize" to sweeten the pot, but this is hardly the first or even the second or third time Trump has specifically sought to be associated with soccer teams or soccer in general. Trump apparently played soccer in high school.
I don't think the previous US presidents have gone this far in associating themselves with soccer. Googling mainly reveals them congratulating the USWNT when it has won something, or the like. Is Trump the first soccer president? If he is, it would probably be something hardly anyone would be prone to taking into account, American soccer fans still being stereotypically left-wing and Trump supporters probably falling into the "soccer is ghey crap for commie faggits" category.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
12d ago
I've only seen the phrase "quiet quitting" being used by employers complaining about the employees doing this when they, as said, just punch the card and do what is necessary. If there's some trend of employees using this phrase, it seems like it's a recuperation of an earlier employer jargon term.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
16d ago
But… they weren’t being jerks? What’s the specific outrageous thing here?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
17d ago
For those too young to remember the 2000 election, Cheney was viewed one of the elder statesmen of the Republican party and what we might call today an "enlightened centrist". He and George Bush Jr. (son of Former president George HW Bush) were presented as a return to the norms of civility and collegiality after the chaos, acrimony, and culture-warring that had defined much the Clinton administration. The idea was that by embracing "Compassionate Conservativism" the conflict between traditional conservatives and what we would recognize today as the proto-woke could be resolved.
I'm not an American and was 16 when the 2000 US election happened, but wasn't "compassionate conservatism" more an attempt to differentiate the Bush campaign from the economic views of the Gingrich era than anything to do with "proto-woke" and culture warring? Like, the Bush admin certainly didn't seem like it was shying from 00s culture war when it put John Ashcroft in as the Attorney General, but also seemed like it was attempting to offer conservative-ish, Christianity-tinged solutions to traditional lib welfare state issues like education or Social Security.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
17d ago
Just to check, you know the women in the Gen Z Boss and a Mini video were running a profitable startup?
Also, they were specifically working in that video - in other words, they were creating an extremely successful, widely seen viral campaigning that still gets remembered to this day. (Why else would they be chanting about a "secret product and a trench"? For fun?)
I have to say that the Gen Z Boss and a Mini video also works as a great Shiri's scissor, as I've never understood why it sent people into such a frothing rage, not even before I learned about the wider context (the girls own the company, the company is successful, it was literally intended to be viral ad content etc.) and certainly even less after that.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
22d ago
Finlandization after 1944 (remember, after 1940 Finland's eventual choice was to refight the Soviets) was possible specifically because the Soviets were willing to sign a separate peace to free up troops for the vastly bigger and more important cause of vanquishing Germany. This time Russians are only fighting Ukraine and have basically no need to accept anything beyond complete submission, for now, unless the costs become too large.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
28d ago
In my experience, the median European who "prances around with Ukrainian flags", if we take this to mean showing the Ukrainian flag on their online profiles and such, is a center-right-to-centrist liberal type moreso than an advocate of wokeness.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
Mamdani won Zoomers, including male Zoomers, as comprehensively as the Millennials. While there's no specific racial breakdown for age/gender classes, Mamdani also won white voters in general, so it's a fair guess that he's probably won white male Zoomers, too, as a demographic.
The whitehouse.gov / DHS Twitter messaging line is not really designed to appeal to Zoomers as a whole generation but to a very specific segment of forumlords of the sort that probably staff the junior ranks in the apparatus. The same problem in reverse the Dems had when they let Millennial Tumblr users design their messaging.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
The specific point made was not that the blue states are electing blue candidates but that the said candidates are doing better than Harris or even Biden.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
It may not, in fact, have been a good idea for the White House and the departments like Homeland Security to adopt a "stuff that's designed to make 12 year old anons say "based", hopefully" style messaging strategy, insofar as the popularity of the President's party is concerned.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
A clan/warlord-militia-based army is rather different in this respect than an organized military, though one could argue that a clan/warlord-militia-based army did exist in the territory of Ukraine at one time (the Donbass "people's republics", before Russia put the chaos to an end)
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
It was a part of a premodern Russian empire withotu anywhere close to the amount of state capacity (or general ideological development related to modernity) to attempt assimilation, or basically any form of governance beyond letting local atamans and village chiefs continue to do as they've always done. Things are obviously quite different on that front now.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
Yeah, it wouldn't just be that the Ukrainians would now be Russians - they'd be (considered to be) stupid hick Russians, traitorous hohols who almost sold out their birthright for a song, idiots with a dumb accent with the best of them aspiring to move to the central cities to lose their accent and identity to be accepted in the in crowd and the rest being proles and cannon fodder. Why wouldn't they aspire to prevent this?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
I'm not sure if Trump has a strategy. He plays by instinct and the seat of his pants, as he does in many other situations. It's got him this far, why quit now?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
The German army still uses an obvious Iron Cross as a medal of honor and in the Bundeswehr symbol.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
TBH (without having read Griffin's book) I've always wondered if "palingenetic" is superfluous here. I mean, the fascist movements we do know have had the palingenetic element (and it doesn't really affect the question of whether Trump's a fascist or not since the palingenetic element is obvious down to the MAGA slogan), as one could imagine a fascist movement built on the basis of "our nation has never been particularly great or important, but we are going to be great in the future".
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
A fair amount of those actually aghast about this stuff consists of old Republicans (the sort of figures that would be called "GOPe", though they're not really the establishment any more), with many libs/leftists more in the exasperated "Yes, of course they're saying that stuff, have you not been playing attention?" mode.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
My feel (can't of course fully tell the atmosphere as a non-American) is that this sort of a thing would have got a bigger reaction and more fallout in literally any preceeding era than the current one. At this point basically anyone in politics under 45, left or right, has probably factored in the idea that young right-wingers are going to make rape and Holocaust jokes in private groupchats, but it's still evidently a wild concept to those over 45. (Since the olds are also likely the ones who hold the purse strings in orgs like this, of course the organizational leadership also has to react.)
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
She is by far the most significant female political leader in the US to date.
I'd say Eleanor Roosevelt, depending on the definition of "political leader", for her work on UDHR, which has had humongous effect on global politics and ideology ever since its declaration.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
Of course, there's another reason why the Nobel committee would be adverse towards granting Trump Nobel right now - there's already a precedent of giving an US president a Nobel for practically nothing (sure, sure, cease-fire and all that, but it's still uncertain how well it holds and the decisionmaking process had already been going on for quite a period at that time) and then getting a lot of flack for it. For American conservatives, certainly, this might seem unfair with Obama and Trump being considered the opposites, but for practical purposes the rest of the world does often tend to consider them to belong to the same category - American presidents.
Some have also pointed out that the Machado decision is generally well in line with other recent Nobel Peace Price decisions - four out of five last years have seen the NPP being at least in part awarded to dissidents from American enemy countries (Dmitry Muratov from Russia in 2021, Ales Bialiatski from Belarus in 2022, Narges Mohammadi from Iran in 2023, Machado now.)
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
I think it was just an atavistic reaction, partly to the simple idea of it being the height of wrongness for the God-Emperor to not get what he wants at all times and partly to the "brown foid from a shithole country? Must be a woke commie!" kneejerk assumption.
I genuinely do not understand why this hypothetical scenario keeps being used when a similar thing has already happened for realsies in Cold-War-Era Cuba. As we know from history, the US reacted with great hostility but did not actually end up doing anything resembling the current war; even the Bay of Pigs was basically a single instance of prodding without US ground troops. Furthermore, Russia has certainly never acted in a way indicating that it respects spheres of interest of the sort it claims for itself in post-Soviet territories regarding Cuba, consistently supporting Castro and opposing US sanctions and other procedures even after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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