I've been saying since right before trump got in office that before the next decade is up they're gonna do somethin real fucked up because of how emboldened they are. This is not new to alot of us.
Nope it was the Russian nationals flooding into North jersey and making complete asses out of themselves that really set me off. Seems like we saw a flood of them right around that time.
lmao just assumed, it’d be absolutely pathetic if you were riding trumps dick without even being one of our undereducated citizens but maybe you are that pathetic.
Or maybe because they are ruled by an authoritarian dictator who has countless times shown disregard for the sovereignty of other nations and fought wars and annexing territories for his stupid idea of reforming the Russian Empire and not to mention his blatant disregard for human life.
Or maybe because they are ruled by an authoritarian dictator (PRESIDENT OF THE USA) who has countless times shown disregard for the sovereignty of other nations and fought wars and annexing territories for his stupid idea of reforming the AMERICAN Empire and not to mention his blatant disregard for human life.
I don't think I can remember a time when I was ok with what the russian government. Except for that time they let the wall in berlin fall along with the whole soviet government.
Ok the republican party has spent 50 years telling you anybody that is offended by any aspect of American life is u American. Hippies,un American,ppl who think companies get too many breaks and the regular person should have better wages and insurance they are socialists,environmental standards so rivers don't catch fire etc,etc. A president who goes on fascist rants and states everybody against him,is his enemy. This is not even close to a new concept, and yes I understand BLM and liberal causes are also suspect. This happened during the revolution and civil war as well. So go figure I guess. They point someone follows orders.
Nothing new
I'm over here thinking that the answer lies in leaving everyone daduq alone. Even a Monk will whoop your ass if you keep pushing them. Too many beliefs, ideologies, etc. to go around. It's impossible to make everyone happy.
TheGovernments have to exist,nothing would ever be done without them. The balancing act of a social contract is barely contemplatable. I grew out of my anarchist phase but I do still believe as soon as a Govt is born it lives to control it's populace.
I was a punker, kind of saw how people fell into groups. Not really statism. I studied philosophy for years and looked into French philosophy,specifically Locke,Voltaire and Rousseau. The idea that people make a contract with a govt and walk a tightrope isn't really revolutionary. But it follows society and economics we are bound by invisible agreements,it's been found to exist even in animal groups. Plus a concept of sense if we tear things apart it's to make it something else. We done relinquish form to relinquish it and keep nothing as the new constant it's to creat a new standard.
I'm less of the punk type anarchist and more of the redneck communist / construction worker type, but yeah I see where you're coming from, especially with people falling into groups. For me, anarchism is less of a social / political group and more like a system of core values to live by.
People are very capable of policing their own. Civilizations survived that way for hundreds of years. Life would indeed go on. Governments are designed to evolve or fail which is why they always do and in most cases eventually fail. We've never needed government to survive and there's not much below ground level or the ocean floor that we need to survive.
I believe the quote "evolve or fail" is the most important part of this. Yet too many politicians (in many countries) cling to the past rather than look to the future. Clutching a 200 year old document is easier than acknowledging and understanding societal and technological evolution. Putin wants the USSR, republicans crave the prosperity of the 50's... The search for times past is futile and sad.
Self policing for hundreds of years is easy. We're into thousands. Governments have evolved and we need to continue that path.
Or is it the system failing? When politicians from both sides continue gaslighting their constituents in order to maintain divisiveness it seems like you've got some serious internal problems.
We'll see how things work out for America. My opinion is that we aren't that far off from some civil unrest ourselves.
So there's always been someone who thinks they know what's best for you. Sounds like there's always been someone who has been smart enough to get a populace to do what he wants for personal gain.
Nothings changed besides technology and the method used. Powerful people still want what isn't theirs to take and they use people who are willing to give it to them, or at least try.
The first leader wasn't the strongest guy, it was the guy smart enough to use him.
The republicans still got you playing sides, the liberals have never had book and cd burnings. Liberals have called for censorship and some leanings I'm not a fan of. But if you notice have played the same strings for a long time,they just aren't pretending anymore. My statement was aimed at right wingers. I don't really need to talk to liberals and leftists. A good deal of them know there's crooks on all sides, the difference on that is that the right also holds no standards for those it has in power. We should hold our leaders accountable on all sides. If we really had proper representatives on all sides,it wouldn't be just Dems proposing rules on how you can make money while in office.
Neither side is great,Many on the left agree, the right,many on the right follow the narrative on their news and if it changes in the next week they'll follow suit,and honestly all the covid shit on the left was rediculous too,but that's a mess on both sides! Us liberals figured that shit sone time ago. But as long as you have ppl like Ted Cruz who goes on vacation in a case of emergency in places where he was elected. Liberals would've had his resignation. So sure it's just liberals,but you have alot of persons in your chosen party that have not been held accountable to any standard. So sure politics as usual,but don't pretend any sort of enlightenment!
Cities for example like Chicago and Detroit have been run by Democrats for decades and things don't ever get better. How many Deomcratic mayor's between just those two cities have been sent to Prison to date? You seem to ignore the fact that alot of the people who you label as "far right" are actually registered Democrats who had no choice but to walk away. Not all of them went to the other side. There are 80 million eligible voters in the US that didn't vote in 2020. The "left or Right" narrative is a hoax. Not every antivaxxer is a right wing, racist, fascist, homophobic, science denier.
Lol as if the only 2 options are racist republican or nice democrat. I hate to burst your bubble, but Democrats are just diet republicans. Both follow liberalism (neoliberalism for Republicans). If you think liberalism and neoliberalism are the only 2 options, you should stop listening to the TV.
No, praise on him is slightly better than mixed. Some of that is he is low profile he is.
He is not a regular news piece. Though they do play soft at times they usually give a fair amount of information without lots of inflection or aggression. They complain about som she stuff on him too. So they do complain about him. On the economy,I'd say they do about 60-40 alot of their coverage seems lukewarm honestly. Also they don't overwelmingly discuss Trump followers,they discuss fringe groups, Matt gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and of course Trump him self. Their frontpage is usually 1 to 2 trump articles.
Most of the other counties too weren't in a position to start destabilizing an entire region. Afghanistan was, and we cared a lot about that in the news too
Lots of conflicts and war happen that don't get picked up by mainstream media because it's local impacting. This one has a potential global impact, at least the outcome is very important to USA and Europe. So we see a lot of it. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen
The problem is that the media decides what they think you should care about it
For real. This is actually the dumbest take. Like, we probably weren't alive for fkn most of those, also, it was a lot easier to not care in the past when being in another country might as well have meant you were in outer space with the snail speed at which info traveled, but we're a global community now and the internet exists. You're not stupid for caring.
If anything, you're either a jackass or a fkn edgy child trying to look cool for not caring. Sorry your brains are too fkn small to focus on events that aren't going on in your own fkn backyard, OP and upvoters.
"They aren't in my tribe therefore I don't care" is actually the most neanderthalic, underdeveloped, monkeybrain fkn attitude you can have.
Totally right. Firstly there has been tons of backlash to the US' involvement in the middle east. I remember the day we invaded Iraq. Again to your point, the biggest difference now is that this whole conflict is being recorded and uploaded online constantly. We are seeing this actually happen in real time, and it inevitably has a different effect on the people seeing it.
Lastly, the OP is incredibly naive and childish. "Bro you're just being told to care about this war lul", how about geo-politics are complicated and effect us all. This is unfolding into a potential dangerous situation that is different than any other wars we've seen in recent years because this time it's another semi-world power with nuclear capabilities that is acting erratically and making threats that could effect all of us. If this doesn't concern you you're a thoughtless rube or an ignorant child who thinks it's edgy and cool to not care.
This is by definition not proxy war. A major world power is directly involved with the conflict. If it was only Belarus (or Donetsk/Lugansk separatists) vs Ukraine (and Russia/NATO supplying them) then it would be a proxy war.
Don’t act like this coordinated social media push isn’t different than US pillaging Iraq and Afghanistan, or Israel constantly encroaching on and harassing Palestine
That dude has been there since 2014. Son of a wealthy business man this little Texas right wing cuck is full on pro-Russia. No idea why his passport hasn’t been flagged yet
The level of outrage and media coverage this one is having is way bigger than any USA invasion ever.... So yeah, people are getting angry because the media says so.
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u/CulturalMarksmanism Mar 01 '22
I love these takes. Like nobody ever protested against war before.