There is just a massive amount to dissect here, but it’s astounding how much Carlson REALLY wants Putin to say that he invaded Ukraine because NATO expansion provoked him, but Putin instead insists on continuing his diatribe on Russian irredentism and how Ukraine belongs to them
Young Native Americans arrive at the UCLA “Liberated Zone” with a sign saying:
“Hamas supporters aren’t welcome on Native lands”
The Hamas supporters physically attack them
Every major country’s leader, throughout all of world history, would respond to pirates attacking international shipping lanes exactly as Biden is now
I’m convinced using twitter knocks 30 point off your IQ
“Superior infantry tactics”
My brother in Christ the zombies in World War Z climbing over their own corpses to get over a wall probably had a lower casualty count
Way too many people sit around daydreaming about homicide and mass killing their enemies… while also losing their absolute shit if they see someone drinking a Coca Cola because something something Israel Palestine
Very weird breed of person
For those wondering, this was 999 bars of gold recovered in northern Iraq that the Baathists were trying to smuggle out of country during their defeat
every bar was returned to the Central Iraqi Treasury after authentication
62K likes from people who can't fathom that Jordan is an ally with the USA and actively wants and supports our troop presence to help with the deluge of security concerns around their country
but that's the thing - they don't actually care about autonomy, they just hate America
“Under capitalism, food isn’t produced to feed people, it’s produced to make profit”
This has not really been true of agriculture in the United States since FDR and the 1930s
Once again, I’m begging ☭ accounts to get talking points relevant to the last ~100 years of history
I’ve said this before, but the “war for oil” line was, is, and will likely remain the most effective piece of political propaganda ever uttered
It’s universally thrown about without almost any serious level of examination
“America bad”
That’s it. That’s their entire foreign policy ethic. Never try to complicate it any further than that, because that’s as far as you need to ever go.
You can’t protest peacefully. You can’t boycott. You can’t hunger strike. You can’t hijack planes. You can’t block traffic. You can’t throw Molotovs. You can’t self-immolate. You can’t heckle politicians. You can’t march. You can’t riot. You can’t dissent. You just can’t be.
The only conclusion I can draw from these videos is that we need to make our military as gay as possible because apparently that just totally dominates everything else
The great irony of post Iraq war discourse:
Nobody is aware of the current state of Iraq, but base most of their ideas on MENA off of the insurgency
In reality:
A supermajority of Iraqis are now against Sharia law, and a Mandate of Heaven majority loves democracy in general
I’m actually almost in shock at just how much Putin just debunked the
“NATO expansionism was the proximal motive, not Russian irredentist sentiment” theory of the war
This is so genuinely funny to me that he just destroyed 2 straight years of western pro-Russia propaganda
There is just a massive amount to dissect here, but it’s astounding how much Carlson REALLY wants Putin to say that he invaded Ukraine because NATO expansion provoked him, but Putin instead insists on continuing his diatribe on Russian irredentism and how Ukraine belongs to them
This McCain clip is among the best litmus tests for people on the left to see who isn’t entirely brainrotted from online politics
Not only is this uncharitable to the maximum, this isn’t even what was said. You just made up a quote, based on what you wanted him to say.
These posts are so fascinating to me, because I really can’t think of another basic sociological field where people, en masse, celebrate being illiterate
imagine thinking that supply and demand aren’t real things
what a whimsical and merry land these grown children must live in
For those curious, he was out on a felony gun possession charge, officers pulled him over for a traffic offense, he shot a cop in the hand, multiple cops on scene returned fire
You have to read 8 paragraphs in until Jennifer Hassan mentions that he shot a cop
There is literally nothing that Andy Ngo does that every single fucking news organization in the country doesn't also do.
Despicable racemongering disinformation machines.
And this wasn’t the only time, Destiny on multiple attempts would pin him down on something and Norm would pivot to
> “Mr Bonelli you’re an imbecile”
> Something about Wikipedia
> an entirely different incident he knows more about
There will never be as much cope as leftists and islamists despairing at the righteous power of the American Republic
They can’t even read a basically factual tweet about the sheer glory of Liberal Democracy’s Military dominance without breaking down into tears
Very sad!
> The USA doesn't want to send Oil to a horrific Empire that was murdering millions in China
> Japanese Empire gets angry, attacks and kills thousands of Americans
> We go to war
God the Libertarian Party is so fucking stupid. The Democrats and Republicans are as unpopular/
The US provoked the Empire of Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor.
This is no way justifies the atrocities of that day.
Instead, it exemplifies why economic sanctions, such as the 1941 Oil Embargo, are horrible acts of war.
I’m about halfway through the Destiny, Morris, Rabbani, Finkelstein debate and it’s amazing the amount of cheerleading Finkelstein has gotten
The man might actually be manic, he doesn’t seem to hear what people are saying and interrupts incessantly
> Destiny says Norm lied, Israel didn’t intentionally kill 4 kids
> Norm says it was a “shack” calls Destiny an imbecile
> Destiny asks a direct question: did every person who signed off intentionally target children?
Norm starts talking about the 2018 Great March of Return
When Destiny specifically asked him about the Israeli strike that killed 4 kids on the beach Norm completely refused to engage and started ranting about the Great March of Return
I haven’t watched much of the guy before this but it was bordering on Alex Jones mania at times!!
I’m only half an hour in and I doubt it will get brought up as it neither serves Tucker nor Putin to mention it, but here’s the 1991 referendum on Ukrainian statehood
And here is 2019’s Zelensky election win, in which the “territories belonging to Russia” voted for him en masse
it’s not all that terrible
> if your employer goes under, your pension disappears, a 401K will not
> if you switch jobs but don’t have enough years vested in a pension then it cashes out. 401Ks start one day one and the interest can transfer to your new job, or an IRA
Why the fuck did people let companies replace pensions with terrible 401ks. Why was there no backlash to that?Why didn't anyone stop what is abundantly a terrible thing?
Russian MoD: there's a coup
Wagner PMC: there's a coup
Russian media: there's a coup
Ukrainian gov't: there's a coup
War Reporters: there's a coup
Mainstream News: there's a coup
Alt News Sites: there's a coup
*literal videos of the coup*
MEANWHILE ON RIGHT WING TWITTER:
No I’m very curious, why shouldn’t Jews have been allowed to buy land from landowners in the British Mandate from 1917-1946?
Why is that so evil and shouldn’t have been allowed?
Be specific
“And no, white Congolese immigration to Rhodesia =\= “ethnic cleansing” anymore than people of color moving into white neighborhoods = white genocide”
- This guy during the 1970s, probably
I voted for Clinton and I voted for Biden, and unfortunately, this is a perfectly fair critique of Democrats
We get upset at gun owners who have never committed a crime in their life, and we scream "you're why children get killed"
Then we refuse to lock up felons on gun charges
It’s impossible to look at the mass overproduction, subsidies, and food waste as some simplistic capitalist “let’s make profit” motive
I get it, you read the sparknotes to Grapes of Wrath in high school, good job bro
If you want to see what kinda of cancerous rot has fully metastasized among islamists worldwide;
look at the quote tweets/replies talking about she is in love with them because "this is her first time seeing REAL men"
everyone in this thread should be on a watchlist
Bin Laden’s antipathy towards the USA started because he was pissy the Saudis backed us to kick Saddam out of Kuwait instead of giving him a people’s army
But in his statement after 9/11 it’s just pure Islamist drivel
He even references the West stopping Indonesia’s genocide/
You can condemn Bin Laden and his crimes, while also condemning the US’ much greater crimes, and recognizing that it is those latter crimes which lead to the former crimes being committed. It’s not difficult!
A Google app tried to erase White people from history, in order to make its users more comfortable with diversity in the present day.
This was a bad strategy, as it turns out.
there is something deeply evil about describing the slaughtering of thousands of civilians, the rape of dozens of women, and killings of babies as "table manners"
and i suspect from Tom in particular, it's not simply about a peaceful two state solution with no occupation
That the US is responsible for a “color revolution” in Ukraine in 2014
Yanukovych tried to overrule the legislature illegally, and in the end had hundreds of protestors killed with the police. Parliament, by a strong supermajority, voted him out of office and had new elections
I’m very curious if Tucker Carlson thinks that Russia’s irredentism is justified and understandable… to the same degree as Native American land back protestors?
And if not, I’m curious if he can provide a consistent justification
"It's gross. It's racist."
Today is a good day to remember that time when legend
@BenAffleck
brilliantly and passionately called out Bill Maher's lazy and pernicious Islamophobia and anti-Arab bigotry on Maher's own show:
1. They shouldn’t have started the war if they didn’t want to lose a war
2. Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, and numerous other countries that experienced similar devastation have all recovered and flourished, stop making excuse for bad policies
Here are the facts of what the US did to North Korea in the Korean War:
- Destroyed 85% of man made infrastructure
- Killed 12-15% of the population
- Reduced agricultural production to subsistence level
- Wiped out all of the economic achievement in the 2 years preceding the war
Learning time!
We never stole Iraqi oil
The “Halliburton Contracts” were to help rebuild and maintain infrastructure that the new Iraqi government would use
The newly formed Iraqi government gave out the biggest oil contracts to Russia’s Lukoil, Norway ad Malaysia
The 22 year-old man who confronted Prince Andrew was arrested and has now been charged by police with a "breach of the peace."
The second such charge in as many days as republicanism in Britain is suppressed.
When Destiny specifically asked him about the Israeli strike that killed 4 kids on the beach Norm completely refused to engage and started ranting about the Great March of Return
I haven’t watched much of the guy before this but it was bordering on Alex Jones mania at times!!
“Wow, those greedy corporations are evil for raising egg prices”
Necessitates the conclusion
“How nice and generous of this corporations to lower egg prices for us!”
These are the utterances of a child’s mind. No mature brain can possibly think like this
Allende was a horrible President - he was only elected by a 36% plurality, and once in power began centralizing power away from the legislature, and after his first year the economy tanked, and shortages spiked
Allende outright ignored the democratically elected legislature/
On Sept. 11, 1973 Salvador Allende, Chile’s democratically elected president, was overthrown by a military coup backed by the U.S. which ushered in a fascist government and the loss of thousands of Chilean lives. Today, we honor the memory of Salvador Allende.
It’s a phenomenon in which people learn a fact/statistic, and then simply never re-update their datasets
So they get stuck with archaic worldviews that have absolutely no bearing in the present day
Some more interesting results - the USA is still seen as a stable partner despite concerns about sovereignty, there is a widespread recognition in the importance of secular government (mostly thanks to ISIS crazies), and Iraqi people do not trust their govt
> Five years ago, Jackson Hinkle was a normal progressive teenager
> He is currently (describes normal progressive teenager on Twitter)
What a mystery gang
One day a few centuries ago Marx created a strawman that “capitalism is based on endless growth”
Despite no serious argument ever brought forth by any liberal arguing that
It is perhaps the most widespread mischaracterization in Economics ever
And it appears it will never die
for all the ☭ 🏴 🌹 people in my mention saying "looting is good, because private property is only protected by the state and the state is racist, so looting is a valid way for minorities to protest institutional racism"
partying in the desert outside a sieged open air prison where people die because the fascist state doesn’t allow electricity, water, or medicine in??? and I’m supposed to feel bad for her??? she went to party NEXT TO GAZA?? AND SHES THE VICTIM HERE???
@OpenBordersJon
no we invested in creating new colonies at pretty low cost and have diverted pretty much any ecological negatives associated with bees disappearing
the reason you didn't hear about it is because whenever green policy is successful nobody talks about it
Every “Progressive” who thinks this about Israel/Palestine, is a soulless freak who should be treated as such
We never saw the Kurds fire indiscriminately on Iraqi civilians, or use children as human shields, or have soldiers kidnap and rape women in Baathist controlled villages
Other highlights:
Putin hand waves away the “5 waves of NATO expansion” saying “fine we put up with that” but mentions that NATO bombing Belgrade was a turning point.
I feel extremely vindicated from this earlier convo I had, I think a lot of people underestimate/
@phl43
/I struggle to conceive bringing Russia into a NATO-asymptotic security framework... after the USSR breakup, Yeltsin taking power, and the Yugoslav breakup/Chechnya war immediately throwing us back at odds, it just seemed like nature itself was rejecting it
Hasan Piker explains Taiwan as if the Confederacy ruled America, the Union took it over, but Texas (Taiwan) still remained a Confederate state, and that the world still gives them weapons to use as a stronghold against the Union.
In fact Morris interrupts a massive amount too, for large swaths of this Rabbani and Destiny were the most composed, until Destiny gets into direct exchanges with Norm
Anyone who thinks Finkelstein came out looking the best here needs a psych eval asap
the dirty little secret of leftists like this are that they have no fucking idea what they even mean when they propose these critiques
they just post snappy memes that kind makes sense to their meth rotted mind then go back to their concurrently running state of brain decay
Sometimes I think I have a generally good understanding of the opposite sex and then BAM
New discourse drops, apparently women don’t know that boobs in bikinis give guys sexual urges
How. How do you not know this about men.
This applies to EVERY STRAIGHT MAN. NOT 99.9%
100%
The right wing gushing over this song removes without any shadow of a doubt:
Conservatives have absolutely taken over the far left in terms of victim mentality online. It's been teetering on the edge of years but there is no question left in my mind
And of course, if anyone on the left had a similar phrasing, SDL wouldn’t even bat an eye
McCain rejecting her conspiracy mongering is a great moment in American politics, and the fact that you refuse to even allow an ounce of charity in his phrasing, is entirely why/
“Ok so what if a few weapons were found at Al Shifa?”
“Ok so what if we have evidence doctors knee hostages we’re kept there?”
“Ok so what if the entrance to a tunnel was found?”
“Ok so what if a 55 meter tunnel leading to an armored door they still can’t access was found?”
Learning time!
We never stole Iraqi oil
The “Halliburton Contracts” were to help rebuild and maintain infrastructure that the new Iraqi government would use
The newly formed Iraqi government gave out the biggest oil contracts to Russia’s Lukoil, Norway ad Malaysia
The "radical idea" of universal health care is a reality in:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
S. Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switz.
Turkey
U.K.
/just how much the US intervention against Serbia pissed Russia off
Further, Putin also gets very upset about western support for “terrorists in the caucuses”
I’ll assume he means the Chechens and not Georgia although either critique is off - the west was correctly upset/
Jews were buying land and moving under the Ottomans as well under the first Aliyah
Should this not have been allowed?
What standard are you using to police the mutual selling of houses?
Republicans will really be like “Sending aid to Ukraine? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, domestic social spending” and then propose no domestic social spending
Mike Johnson still hasn’t shown Congress or the American people the proof that Russia intends to invade the rest of Europe after finishing its campaign in Ukraine.
Reality doesn’t matter to Mike Johnson.
All he cares about is continuing the business model built on blood,…
“Japan is xenophobic”
is not a controversial statement, I don’t know how else to break it to the weeaboos on here
They also are still a close ally - and that’s good!
Internationalism in action: Members of the Communist Party of Greece and the Communist Youth blocked a shipment of US and NATO military equipment and vehicles as they exited the port at Alexandroupolis.