It really breaks their brains. They can excuse 80% of Democrats being centrist corporatists because they can say to themselves “well I don’t love it but at least we have some progressives that make it worthwhile”.
When you realize 100% of Democrats are genocidal imperialists what excuse is there? The only correct response is to abandon the Democrats, which they cannot accept
It means he opens a “debate” with accepting the premises of the Liberal or chud. He only quibbles on small pedantic points.
For example, whenever he talks about Russia-Ukraine he uses western liberal framing of Putin being an evil guy who did a full scale invasion blah blah. He doesn’t even try to explain the context at all. He does this with all geopolitical events. He just takes the western framing and narrative and quibbles on small details instead of attack the entire false narrative and asserting his own
except not be kinda dumb and lose most arguments by ceding tons of ground right out the gate
well Hasan should listen to his own advice and stop letting chatters dictate the conversation. He does an awful job controlling the narrative on his stream
he’s like 500. he’s never going to change, just continue getting worse and more curmudgeonly and zionist until he dies (in like a year)
They literally never once tried to strongarm Ukraine into surrendering which is the only way there’s peace. What a joke
Hasan immediately gives so much ground. All you have to do to win an argument against him is make an extreme claim confidently over and over. It will derail him and he just focuses on that nitpicked point and cedes everything else.
For example, we have increased the number of points for infantry elimination from two to six, and that has doubled the number of destroyed enemies in one month
Why don’t they set the points to one bazillion and win the war instantly?
Castro fucked all of them
Ansarallah has discovered new incendiary technology
The war that went famously well for the Saudis
If I won a lottery I would donate almost all of it nearly immediately to various causes and family and friends, it would solve a lot of problems for those around me. I don’t think I would be willing to hoard it up in a stock portfolio and cold shoulder everyone around me. I know homeless people, people with crippling medical debt, people who are about to get evicted, people who have severe alcohol or substance abuse issues. I could fix nearly all of this if I was just loaded.
British installed judicial system in Hong Kong (not a colony of the UK!!1!)
Here’s what I think is happening. The neolibs defund the state and replace the gap in funding with lotteries.
Neolib/Liberal propaganda to defend these policies: Join the lottery! Your life isn’t hopeless in this capitalist hellscape, you have a small chance to live the life of your dreams and get as lucky as other rich people. (Appeals to desperate, uneducated poor people)
Conservative counter-propaganda, they are fine with the lotteries but take issue with the framing: There’s no luck involved in being rich, rich people are ontologically superior beings with improved money management and self-control. Even if you somehow get our level of wealth, you will quickly revert to your wretched natural state. Anybody who ought to be rich, is already rich, through hard work and genius. (Appeals to smug, educated middle class and rich people)
Lotteries are reactionary poor taxes imposed by neoliberal states that can no longer raise their own funds for projects so have to create “for profit” gambling rackets to fill in the gaps of cutting taxes on the rich. They also serve a useful ideological purpose for controlling the poor, giving them an avenue to make it big and join the capitalists. Why be a pain to the state and improve conditions when YOU could be a lucky winner and be rich!! They exaggerate the likelihood of it happening and pretend anyone could win at any time to keep this illusion alive.
Castro was using the Havana Syndrome ray on any CIA agents within a 500 mile radius
unlike others, Fidel actually fought in a guerilla war personally and won. He has earned the right to wear fatigues and military outfits for the rest of his life. It is silly when leaders who have never been in combat wear them though
i vividly remember a russiagate obsessed radlib in 2017 telling me that Julian Assange needs to “get got” for “helping Russia tamper with our elections”
Random anecdote that helped propel my politics in the opposite direction of those freaks, who I may have been susceptible to (I am sympathetic to anyone criticizing fascism if they are sincere, advocating for CIA executions of whistleblowers seems to belie that)
Yep basically there will never be peace until the Ukrainians remove their nationalists from power and cede on their “pride”. Their “pride” is the entire problem here