@matrix when I say "led to Trump", I'm not just talking about his recent election.
I'm talking about all the way back in 2015/16 and his campaign in 2020.
> "Better in principle" but not in practice, ergo, it doesn't work in "reality" (Cofnas is obsessed with "living in reality")
> "False dichotomy" I didn't say it was an either or. I said that one is better to pursue than the other, just looking at it objectively. I'd rather have a society that prides itself on "egalitarianism" than one based on "yes men" (Trump's "yes men" are also very "diverse" as well, which is an irony in of itself).
> "Might makes right". This theory is cancerous nonsense that never works out long-term (the "mighty" always fall, either due to their own hubris or due to their victims ganging up on them). "Unfortunate reality" my ass. It's the "reality" that sociopaths made and then sold to their people to try and justify their behavior.
> "Depends on elites". Cofnas is saying that he supports elites who want to perpetuate the very same system that led to Trump in the first place (unequal C(r)apitalism), thereby repeating the same cycle. Hardly "elites" worth supporting for their "care for society" nor "elites" with good, forward-thinking ideas. If anything, they are backward-thinking. Those same "elites" were dragged before the guillotine in France for being secret Royalists. Foreshadowing?
> "The implication...". He is against Trump, then for Trump, then against him, then for him, then against... As I wrote earlier, he wants to perpetuate the system that we have now. Trump, in his view, wants to destroy the system. Both are bad, obviously. But there is nothing here about "reform" or "fixing" the problem. THAT is the issue. The system needs to be reformed so that the ordinary man can benefit again (like under FDR; a "New Deal"). Cofnas argues that just revert to "default" and go back to Reaganism (under "high IQ C(r)apitalists") will solve the issues (even though Reaganism destroyed the American economy and society in the long-term).
> "Objectively that's simply false". This is like Stephen Pinker saying violent conflicts have decreased and then cooking the numbers and refusing to give a concrete definition of "violence" to suit his thesis. "Source: Heritage Foundation", I mean come the fuck on.
Even then, any "good" that has happened in the last 50 + years has been brought about by (some) Democrats regulating the excesses of C(r)apitalism, not because of Republicans removing regulation and making the market more pro-C(r)apitalist and libertarian-oriented (Thiel/Musk axis).
Even though it's impossible to deny it, Sky News wants to instill doubt in the viewer over whether it was actually the IDF who butchered the medics...
Video obtained from Palestinian medics shows that:
1.) The Red Crescent vans were clearly marked, and all of them had their lights on
2.) Paramedics on the ground all were wearing reflective clothing (denoting that they were civilian medics)
3.) There were no armed Hamas fighters present
Literally every single thing the IDF said about this incident is a lie. The video shows that.
You can clearly hear the cries of the victims at the end.
There was only 1 confirmed survivor.
The IDF drove up to the site, gathered 15 bodies together and then dug a shallow pit and dumped them in it before covering it with a few cm of sand and driving off.
@matrix you follow Richard Spencer's Twitter account, don't you haha
This article is kinda retarded.
>Historically, the American right was better than the left on economics
Uh, no lol
Reagan destroyed the American economy over the long-term.
FDR (Democrat) for example was the guy who birthed the massive "economic boom" that this guy still sips off of. It was the "high IQ C(r)apitalists" of his day who were against him.
> "Trump was elected largely because he was the anti-woke candidate"
DEI policies are better than fake "meritocracy" (which is just Trumpian nepotism), all things considered. And I DON'T have a soft-spot for DEI. And Trump is doing all the "woke" shit x10 (especially with regards to freedom of speech).
> "The goal is to bring about a better world."
The guy who's bashing "MAGA-Communism" for unworkable utopianism wrote that...
> 1975
Why is he focusing on that date rather arbitrarily? Bruh...
"Domestically, Ford (Republican) presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession."
> Trickle-down economics bullshit that one doesn't even have to get into to say how it's stupid
> We need elites/"long march through the institutions"
Yes and no. Like in the period before the French Revolution, it depends on what these "elites" believe and how strongly they believe in it.
> It will set the stage for a left-wing backlash
This guy is trying to scapegoat Trump for the coming decline of retard "right-wing" globalism even though his "high IQ C(r)apitalist" views are part of the reason why Trump got elected in the first place (failings of C(r)apitalism providing for the ordinary man).
> "Using Trumpian means to undo what Trump did"
So is this guy against Trumpism, or for it?
> Shpeel about "Pax Americana" where America did nothing wrong, ever, and everyone loves America around the world yadda yadda bullshit "rules based order" "free market"
I'm not saying another world hegemon should rise, or that they'd do a better job, but this fucking shit that Cofnas wrote sucks. It's like Gadaffi saying "without me, you will become cavemen", even though he was a "tyrant" himself.
"Right-wingers" love this stupid concept of "freedom", but then tie it with "comfort", which means that it's not actual freedom. It is the "freedom" that is given (not taken) to a slave.
Most of the "dissident right" (even those who you follow) are "paid shills" for one thing or another.
And the most ironic thing is that the more extreme neo-Nazi types end up playing into Israeli hands anyway by declaring that European(ized) Jews are not European (or that Arab(ized) Jews are not Arab etc...) and that they all have to go back to Israel.
Right now, Richard Spencer and the TRS/TDS crew (who used to be united 10 years ago) are in a major fight over this sort of stuff (i.e. answering liberals dabbling in "alt-right" talking points by becoming even more extreme in their racist rhetoric in order to maintain difference).
Remembering that time Claire Lehmann (founder of Quillette) got so angry at me for calling out Quillette's obvious bias for Israel that she blocked me from accessing their page and implied that I was a bot.
I'd been following their page and interacting with Claire for years beforehand.
> Iran, the UAE, (Assadist) Syria, Hezbollah (allegedly) and Israel (allegedly) being on the same side
The military situation in Libya makes the war in Syria look like child's play.
No wonder there is no resolution.
The plight of African migrants/refugees in Libya has got to be one of the most horrific developments to occur during the last 10-15 years.
The one interesting thing about this recent development is that the statement came from the "internationally recognized" GNA government, and not Haftar's LNA.
I'm not a "free market"ist. The "free market" can go to hell.
But this new "universal tariffs" plan is just stupid.
Tariffs, by their very nature, are not meant to be applied universally. They are meant to be targetted.
It would have made sense if tariffs were applied to China, and then these were offset by closer trade with Europe.
"Tariffs have been part of U.S. trade policy since the founding, but in the period that tariffs were high, they were consistent and targeted. There is little historical precedent for this sort of rapid experimentation in tariff-setting, where tariffs are declared one day and dropped the next, or applied to all products from a country."
Instead, Trump gave the middle finger to everyone (except North Korea, Afghanistan and Russia -surprise, surprise), which means American losses due to restricting their access to Chinese goods won't be recuperated because no one else will be willing to help because they've been fucking tariffed as well.
Double-irony is that now Asian markets are being forced to get closer to China in response, to protect their own economies. The United States spent literally half a century trying to get these markets to link with the American one. And now all that is in the trash.
Man, Trump is a fucking idiot. Honestly, Biden is more cognicent...
The other day he was talking about "Signalgate" and said that he thought the whole issue was about "phone signal". He fucking said that Baron Trump was a prodigy because he "learned how to switch on his laptop.
@TransgirlA yeah but you guys are probably younger than I am.
It's much easier to find nowadays. There are loli porn groups even on Facebook.
When I was a kid, the first porn I saw was an advert for call girls with big bushes in a crusty magazine hidden in the cistern of a toilet...
"Gotta pump those numbers.......Down......Those are rookie numbers in this racket"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-H1T7ny2Uw&ab_channel=petedogg27
Just a further somewhat related point.
It's funny, because so many Westernized (ironic) "lolicons" (at least on here) complain about "wokeness".
They'll complain about Lord Of The Rings being infiltrated by "wokies", for example.
Yet, in the case of "lolisho", THEY are the "wokies" who have infiltrated a Japanese medium and now demand it accomodate all their moralistic garbage.
THEY are the ones who want to force people to meet THEIR "compliance" (https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2257&context=gjicl) standards.
They can't recognize the irony.
At some point they're going to snap, and demand the equivalent of a dystopian biometric passport scanner.
I don't know man, whatever...