functor
3mo ago
The US has a long history of killing people, toppling leaders, backing terrorists and simply stealing resources from countries. This behaviour is hardly new or different for the US. The US doesn't believe in an equal relationship between countries. The US has its imperial interests which are enforced by bombing and sanctions.
The main difference today is China and the rise of a multipolar world. Countries that are simply treated too poorly by the US will jump ship and join team China. China hasn't even come remotely close to doing the damage the US has done in latin America and the middle east. China is less interested in how us non Chinese, aka barbarians, run our countries. For many countries China is a bigger trade partner than the US is. With cheap drone and missile tech even Yemen can have some proper military bite towards the US.
Israel continues to be a gigantic liability for the US and China's greatest strategic asset in the region.
functor
3mo ago
The US elite has effectively decided that you are getting a mass surveillance state, wars in the middle east and outrageously expensive medical care regardless of who you vote for. The US political establishment is far more loyal to their donors than their constituents.
The Second Amendment is not about hunting and burglars, it is about defence against the state. Clearly the US establishment has overstepped their bounds far beyond what the founding fathers would have considered reasonable for a Second Amendment solution. Had they known about the level of mass surveillance or the current level of taxation they would most definitely supported a Second Amendment solution.
functor
3mo ago
Is the mainstream right badge something people actually want except for donors? He was pro warmongering in the middle east, prop wall street and pro the medical industrial complex draining average Americans.
Interestingly enough Fuentes has gained decent traction on tiktok among minorities and leftists because he is fundamentally opposed to elite politics. His coverage of Middle Eastern policies resonate with many in the left.
functor
3mo ago
He was also a defender of Israel's assassinations so he was pro gun and pro assassination.
The US elite is too protected from the consequences of their actions. The ones who voted for the Iraq war should be sent to the front. The defund the police proponents should be forced to walk the streets of st Louis at night without protection. The elites need to learn that they will be held accountable.
functor
3mo ago
Swedish gun owner:
I have never really had to deal with them. I filled in my application online and a few weeks later I got a license in the mail. I have bought four guns from a store and in those cases the staff in the store filled out the forms and I just waited a few min for them to do the paperwork before I signed it.
A lawyer I know got fired from the police where he was processing licenses due to him being a gun lover and asking too many questions. The lawyers who work there not at all knowledgeable about guns and mainly go after what the gun looks like. They are obsessed with guns looking old.
For my handguns I had to get my shooting club to sign my applications. They required me to spend a few weekends working on the range and use their position of power to get applicants to work for free. However, I genuinely like the officials and the gun club. They are a trustworthy, friendly and have excellent taste in hobbies. They would make the best neighbours. A big part of the Swedish sport shooting licensing system is built on the clubs filtering people and only co signing applications for people they want as members. This is an effective way to filter people who seem like trouble but have clean records. On the other hand, nepotism is rampant and there is little equality before the law as our system gives licenses based on personal relationships to gun club chairmen.
When I had more time I used to help train people to meet the gun club requirements for licenses and I helped people get gun licenses. I want more people to get guns.
functor
3mo ago
The man is not Bulgarian, he is a gypsy. The media is trying to make it sound like it is a white European who was involved when it wasn't.
functor
3mo ago
There needs to be a differentiation between the regime and then nation. The country can continue on with a new regime, the regime can't survive without the nation. Lots of countries have changed regime. The US can survive with a different form of government.
The US needs to avoid going bankrupt. It needs to avoid being over-run by migrants. The US should worry less about institutional restraints and realize that the US needs to reform radically to survive. The checks and balances arguments are like people in Russia in 1912 and France in 1785 talking about the need to respect the old ways. If France had been able to overcome people worrying about formal procedures in 1785 they could very well have avoided the revolution.
The US won't be able to solve its debt crisis if all procedures and checks and balances have to be followed.
functor
3mo ago
20% still isn't that bad. Opening a hair dressing shop in order to launder money is a lot more work.
The biggest issue with OF money laundering is that there is no cash payment.
functor
3mo ago
I have a metal water bottle which got squashed. I filled it with water and put it in the freezer and it popped back out.
functor
3mo ago
Libertarianism as the only right wing ideology is a flawed view of the left/right spectrum. Most right wing governments have historically been involved in the economy and securing essential resources for the nation. Mercantilism, fascism, monarchy etc are completely compatible with a nationalistic economic policy. If anything the liberal factions have often been aligned with leftist groups against nationalists and traditionalists.
functor
3mo ago
The true benchmark is GDP. If LLMs truely can boost productivity in most tasks except for pure manual labour we would see GDP roaring. If we saw a 10-40% increase in productivity among the majority of the labour force it would be like an industrial revolution on steroids. We are seeing lackluster economic growth, clearly production isn't booming.
Some how tech has the ability to radically change how people work and provide people with amazing tools without boosting productivity much. We went from type writers to Word to cloud services that allow us to share documents instantly across continents. We really haven't seen a matching boom in productivity. The amount of office workers wasn't slashed with the propagation of Email, excel, google search or CRM-systems.
functor
4mo ago
So there are no cases of the local DEI people discriminating against whites and especially typical Trump voting whites? Instead he just happens to chose a small minority that is vastly overrepresented among his donors and his administration. Imagine if a president had recieved a large portion of his funding from China and had a sizeable portion of his administration consist of Chinese people and they were all about owning the libs by taking out DEI efforts specifically hurting Chinese people.
Israel doesn't do work for the US, the US does work for Israel. China doesn't really have a military presence in the region and is the biggest trading partner with most of MENA. Israel wrecks the relationship with middle eastern countries and drags the US into forever wars.
functor
4mo ago
Or they have a claim that they have actually lived there for centuries and have strong family ties to the place. Unlike 1.5 million Israelis who showed up from Eastern Europe in the 90s claiming to live there because of penis skin. Not to mention that many Palestinians are Christian, especially before Israel wrecked the Christian population.
functor
4mo ago
The lives of peaceful Israeli Arabs are on average some of the best in the region.
They have denied most people living their citizenship. People are banned from living on the land the family has lived on for generations.
Why should they sign a peace deal with a country that wants 70+ of the land and with a country that is attacking all its neighbours? It is a concession with nothing to gain.
functor
4mo ago
Has it? Have the Palestinians acted in any way that is significantly different from any other group? They are not really doing anything to different from any other insurgency.
functor
4mo ago
Israel has engaged in acts of aggression against six countries in the past coupleof months. Note that many of the conflicts cited above are related to Israel or the fallout of Isreali caused issues, for example Lebanon. Iraq has had wars caused by AIPAC funded politicians.
functor
4mo ago
Because having a jewish ethnostate built in a densely populated area close to Europe is a bad idea and something that will lead to constant headache for the rest of us. Israel in the middle east has been 80 years of trouble and is set up to be another 80 years of trouble. AIPAC and the Zionist lobby has pushed for a multitude of disastrous wars both for the region and for Europe as well as for American tax payers. Israel is a permanent welfare queen due to its placement.
Israel was not placed there for some rational reason but because of a belief in that the land could be bought for mutilated baby penises. Either Israel can learn to coexist with its neighbours in peace or it should relocate.
functor
4mo ago
Israel has engaged in military action against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen and Iraq. Who else comes close to that much war?
functor
4mo ago
The fact that they achieved peace and created a functioning society in which many protestants live. Subjegating Palestinians is never going to work as the conflict isn't going to end if there is no deal for the Palestinians to accept. You can't have a large portion of the country that fundamentally doesn't accept the current order and have no reason to do so.
They could find some plot of land in Africa or Latin America with a far lower population to resettle to. Their claim to Israel is that they bought the land in exchange for half the skin on their babies pensises which is a rediculus premise for a country.
functor
4mo ago
So in other words Israel's only strategy would be creating a giant refugee crisis 300 km from Europe. Nobody wants that. Israel is a small state that is going to be in constant conflict with everyone and everything around them.
Rhodesia and French Algeria existed longer than Israel and had people who had lived there for generations. Jews are rootless cosmopolitans and should find a new home.
functor
4mo ago
Creating a jewish state by genociding all the people living there including a large portion of Christians is abhorrent. Palestine's best asset is jews posting content in English and showing the world what Talmudic logic is like.
functor
4mo ago
The differential between Palestine and Israel in terms of military capacity is greater than ever:
Far from it. Missile tech and drone tech is more dispersed than ever. Israel can't even occupy an area smaller than a municipality in almost two years even with exceptional brutality. Israel is a small country stuck in the same quagmire as South Vietnam, French Algeria or Rhodesia. They are never going to be a functioning country and permanently stuck in a state of emergency.
It is chutzpah of the highest order to rely on the charity and good will of your enemy to feed your people.
Expecting an enemy not to commit war crimes is normal. Israels behaviour has taught a sizeable portion of goyim what jewish mindset is and that the jewish view on this is fundamentally incompatible with a western mindset. The winning Palestinian strategy is to show the world what a bunch of religious fundamentalists on the west bank are actually like. There is a reason why western civilization despised these people for 2000 years and having them quoting biblical genocides while massacring starving Christians is an excellent way to bring back the west to our historical view of them.
Millions of Afghans died in the 80s. Millions of Vietnamese died, France was brutal against the Algerians. Being brutal against the locals is not an effective way to win. The British counter insurgency in Northern Ireland was far more effective.
functor
4mo ago
I have never understood why green parties are woke. Their ideology is naturally anti woke.
Remove fossil fuels from society and you are going to have a society that reflects that material basis. A society without fossil fuels doing most of the work is reliant on male physical strength. If agriculture is going to be entirely organic and sustainable people are going to be skinny. Much of feminism builds on people leaning on the state or insurance companies for their old age and care instead of family. Social structures are seen as oppressive by the left if people can recieve a pension and be cared for by the state. A large state that takes care of people requires industrial civilization. Without a huge state people need families, children, and social structures for support.
The US has a long history of backing and supporting terrorists.
Killing representatives in a diplomatic process is abhorrent. Palestinians are a part in an armed conflict. They are legal combatants. Even if it was a real terrorist gorup like the Israeli backed Al Nusra front they can be negotiated with. Nearly all armed conflicts end with negotiations.
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