WhatWouldKarlDo

A phenomenon I've noticed many a time, and I'm not a tinfoil hat wearing type. This is why anything smart gets removed when I want a serious talk.

Not an American, but have spent a lot of time there. They have two right wing liberal parties, and a political system that actively resists any changes to that setup. As a result, they think that those are the two political extremes, and everything between them is centrist. Anyone outside of that is an extremist and not worthy of consideration. So when you criticise their party of choice, you obviously must be on the "other" side of the political spectrum, which to them is the other US political party.

They just don't know any better, it's outside of their realm of experience.

I'd not been following the war that closely until the Kursk invasion. I strongly believed it to be the beginning of the end. It makes absolutely zero strategic sense. Zelensky himself has waffled on what the point of it is. At this point it seems to be just a terrorist attack/PR stunt aimed at harming Russian civilians. That's not really a good use of your best troops if you want to win a war. As we can see with the collapse of the Ukrainian fronts, which Ukraine is still not doing much about. This just isn't sustainable.

Thank you. I'm drunk.

I know you can't read my response, but thank you.

right here. Please repost for hexbear. They can't see my posts in my own instance.

The problem with that question is that you get accusations of genocide. If you point out that it's overblown and/or falsified to fit the narrative, it's genocide denial. If you point out that the fine capitalist countries have done and are continuing to do worse than what they accuse communist countries of, it's whattaboutism. If you continue to press, then the capitalist countries made a whoopsie, or it's all the fault of one man, while communists are just bloodthirsty and evil. Evidenced by the genocide... And back to square one.

It matters to Canada because the US told them to care. I have absolutely no clue about the US. Presumably they spent a lot of money getting those judges appointed and don't want to lose their investments?

For anyone else out of the loop: From what I gather, Mexico is currently trying to make it so that judges are elected, rather than appointed. Canada and the US are fussing about this and threating trade sanctions, claiming that electing judges will somehow harm Mexico's democracy (as you might expect, the reasons I found were a bunch of FUD without much substance). Mexico wants them to mind their own fucking business.

Well, they befrauded the Soviet Union to buy titanium for the SR-71 spy plane. I would imagine that they would certainly try again. But they might have a harder time this time around...

I saw that thread the other day. I was very proud of the sub for saying that this was both the obvious result, and the historical one. Victoria 3 draws out a whole lot of leftists obviously, but the nearly unanimous response was somewhat surprising.

Was just about to post this. Time to see what bourgeoisie nightmare they're going to pick to replace him. Kamala Harris definitely seems awful enough, but I'm sure they could find worse.