Carrot and stick
NikkiB
joined 2 years ago
Scratch something, something something... kill me.
The thing that pisses me off about these hashtag girlboss k-hives stans is their deep-seated unseriousness. They do not mean anything they say other than "orange man bad" and "vote blue no matter who." The MOMENT the rubber hits the road, they will sell other people's rights for the impression of their own interests being safeguarded. They will make a bunch of noise about racial justice, no human is illegal, et cetera, but the instant they feel Mexicans aren't useful anymore, they drop all pretense and go right to the Final Solution. What the fuck?
Literal schoolyard bully behavior on display here. "No one is above the law, and the law is what I say it is."
"Mr Xi, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, calls his one-party model efficient, equitable and dignified. In case foreigners miss his coded message—that competent government, equality and order matter more than freedoms—officials boast of 'two major miracles' that shaped China’s rise, namely 'fast economic development and long-term social stability.'"
"Here in the liberal West we may not have such frivolities as 'competent government, equality and order,' but you can bet your last dollar you'll have Freedom™ coming out of your nose. You'll fucking drown in it!"
Thanks. What freedoms, again?
Holding a referendum on this is pure cowardice. Zelenskkky insists on being the President of Ukraine to the point that opposition parties are banned and no presidential elections are being held. But now, since there is an unsavory choice to make which puts him at risk of running afoul of either the Russians, his own citizens, or his western handlers, he decides to have the Ukrainian public make the decision for him through a majority vote. Now, he can just wash his hands of everything. Here I was thinking it was the job of the head of state to make tough calls, but it seems the comedy president isn't up for the task. Who would have thought?
"'It's been surprising they're adapting over time through trial and error,' Justin Bronk, an airpower expert at the UK's Royal United Services Institute, said."
Justin Bronk, "airpower expert," thinks a major military power with a long-established air force "adapting over time through trial and error" is "surprising." Quite the scoop.
"Since there is no good reason not to like us, is God’s disfavor toward the Jews something akin to the United Nations or the European Union, which just despise us irrationally?"
This literally has the cadence of a joke. I cannot get over the persecution complex.
He misspelled "ruining."
You might want to consider World-Systems Theory as a good starting point. Workers in the imperial core do not experience the same kind of exploitation as people in the periphery. The USA is a high-income country.
And nothing lasts forever. Nothing is necessarily so. We are in the midst of a massive global paradigm shift. Multipolarity is on the rise. Things are changing everywhere fast.
Settlers by J Sakai is a brilliant expose of American settler-colonial culture and vital history book that attempts to answer this question, but if you decide to give it a read, I would advise you not to draw too many hard and fast conclusions about its contents. Discussions about this book get explosive because they touch on very sensitive racial tensions, and a lot of people get very ridiculous about the whole thing.
I highly doubt most local libraries carry a copy of Settlers. Where are you seeing this?
You gotta love that old bait-and-switch. Whose fault is the corruption again?
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The Democrats' "strategy" has been scolding people not even for voting for Trump, but just not voting for whichever gelatinous pig they coughed up and threw out on the debate stage. I have been seeing this for a decade now. "Vote D or you're a literal demon nazi fascist misogynist xenophobe loser moron." No one feels especially enthusiastic about making friends with them or heeding their instructions, so they lose elections, reinforcing these ideas in their tiny minds. It's a hell of a feedback loop. Whatever, guys. Keep rolling over on command like a well-trained dog, vote for whoever your favorite late-night "comedian" told you to, and continue to wonder why things keep getting worse in four-year increments. They have this coming.
"I don't need Trump's appeal expained to me, sweaty." Yes, you really do.