remzem
10mo ago
This really doesn't seem like anything new for any South American ruler to contend with given the US's history in the region. They'd have to contend with internal rivals constantly anyway. No one that takes their rule as granted and gets complacent will ever last in any position like that.
remzem
10mo ago
The third world isn't naive enough to think the USA brings prosperity to 3rd world countries these days with the last 40 years worth of examples. This is a western conceit.
remzem
10mo ago
The Monroe Doctrine had the tradeoff of staying out of Europe and non-american continents. We aren't pulling out of Taiwan and won't the ME as long as congress is owned by Israel. This is just a convenient framing for this one specific issue, globalism being sold as the Monroe doctrine.
remzem
10mo ago
Nope, it'll eat up airwaves until the midterms. Americans want to focus on America, that's why he's been dropping so hard in the polls for the first year. Immediately started to bomb and lost basically everyone under 40 after the Iran stuff and Epstein. They'll lose the midterms by a landslide and it'll be nothing but downhill from there. You older voters just don't understand the newer generations. I'd expect a short term bump as the brohaha low T people feel bigger for a bit. Then steady decline to the midterm losses.
remzem
10mo ago
Yet it takes a kid youtuber to catch billions in Somali fraud at home. At this point I'm pretty sure the US has been run by the CIA since at least Kennedy and all the rest of democracy, the federal government and congress is the equivalent of handing your little brother a controller that isn't plugged in when he wants to "play nintendo" with you.
remzem
10mo ago
Boomers did. I don't think the younger generations will given the current debt level.
remzem
10mo ago
Seems like that ship sailed ages ago. Even before this you had MTG leaving and Tucker criticizing him, while Pence and Bush praise him. I think at this point the question is more how much this will end up tanking Vance? He's done almost nothing to separate himself from the Epstein coverup, the foreign wars, etc. Just kinda sat in the background and done cheerleading when asked. Seems like his chances are going up in smoke.
remzem
10mo ago
I think it's mostly the US importing foreigners and their grudges. It's primarily Rubio's thing, he's an anchor baby of Cuban refugees. There's a lot of focus on Israel and they probably approve as well given Venezuela and Iran's ties, but there is less focus on the huge failed elite caste that was outcast from South American countries and has settled in the Florida GOP which as a lot of influence with Trump. The neocons of course approve because this keeps blood flowing to the forever war machine until Trump can get decimated in the midterms and they can send 100s of billions to Ukraine again, but this is mostly Rubio and that foreign influence group's thing.
Yes, either Zelensky/Rubio will be successful in convincing Trump that completely unrealistic demands on Ukraine's behalf should be added, in which case Putin will reject it and the neocons will push Trump for more sanctions. Or Z fails and Trump has an excuse to finally bail and pull intel and support, dumping it on Europe. Either way the war continues and the outcome is the same, just the timeline changes.
Conservatives really need to learn that the corrupt swamp cannot be taken out with the corrupt swamp's own tools. Buy guns people. You aren't fixing things by voting and things will only get worse.
edit: since I forgot how feminized this place is and don't want to get accused of fed posting. Rawls was a moron, institutions are downstream of culture. Our culture is shot, institutions will continue to degrade. The people that will inherit what is left will be people that have high trust and cohesive cultures + birth rates + guns (security). If you really want to be double safe find one that already has parallel institutions, like education (religious communities) money (crypto?) etc.
remzem
11mo ago
The most shocking thing is that Rubio isn't even doing this to protect Americans. Rubio is doing this on behalf of a foreign country.
remzem
11mo ago
Seems like framing the "Big 5" liberals score higher on Openness to Experience, Cons to Conscientiousness through a Christian European historical perspective. As far as I remember those traits still predict political orientation even in cultures that don't have that specific history though. So it seems more likely its a conflict rooted more in human psychology and not specifically European history or Christianity. Vaguely remember reading some evo pysch theories out there about disgust response protecting against disease and risk and curiosity leading to resource / knowledge accumulation, but evo pysch always felt like a pretty non sciencey science to me.
Leftist mod abusing the rules proving the posters point. Ironic.
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