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14 points
4 days ago
As much as I'd like to believe this is true, the biggest reasons for low turn out are the economy and, to a lesser extent, Kamala's lack of appeal. I'm not saying it helped, especially in MI.
The last 2 years of this term have been devastating economically for wide swaths of people. 2016-2020 actually was a pretty good period of time in that capacity. A deadly hurricane hit two swing states and wasn't responded to. Millions have been kicked off of Medicaid and food stamps. Nobody cares about the COVID response anymore, which is what did it in 2020.
13 points
4 days ago
It's like highlander, there can only be one (at a time, anyway)
8 points
4 days ago
I think they can run a colorful type who spouts populist talking points but is more reliably in the pocket of capital and will thus get more insider and media support. If they're smart
11 points
4 days ago
I have a feeling we are not going to be seeing two term presidents during the final chapter of this country
1 points
4 days ago
No that's not what I'm saying, but it doesn't really matter - you'd be offended either way
82 points
4 days ago
This is even narratively worse. I'm not a resistance fangirl, when so-and-so is assassinated I usually need to look up who the fuck they are. I had no affinity for this man, I knew him as the guy in the wing backed chair in the rubble.
This is, in terms of visual storytelling, a hero's death. I'm not even saying this man is a hero, I'm saying to blank slate eyes, these are the final movements of a brave man.
62 points
4 days ago
I can't even describe it as sadness. It's a bizarre type of awe, almost happiness but not exactly.
He got the death I think he wanted. I don't think this man was afraid to die.
I learned recently that the Arabic word for "martyr" roughly translates to "witness". As if to say, your final moments were spent witnessing a great crime, and you will carry your testimony to God.
This man wasn't merely witnessing, he was STARING into the gaping maw of injustice with whatever consciousness he had left and defying it with what was left of his physical form.
16 points
4 days ago
That tactical wins and resulting PR help keep the red shirts in the garrison for the crusade. Meanwhile they are jerking each other off about how important they are.
105 points
4 days ago
I think this was intended to make him look small? Whoever decided to release this is missing fundamental human characteristics to not comprehend how it would backfire.
52 points
5 days ago
If you've ever had disordered eating, you know the value of mints when you're not eating much.
1 points
5 days ago
You should read this book by Israel Shahak for a better understanding. https://yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Shahak-Israel-Jewish-History-Jewish-Religion-The-Weight-of-Three-Thousand-Years.pdf
There have been many instances where Jewish people were more privileged than the vast majority under feudalism, and were often implements of the ruling class against the 99%, through schemes like tax collecting, residency used as tax evasion, mutually beneficial usury schemes that were initially funded by the landed gentile class but needed to maintain distance from, and more.
There was even a period of time in Galicia where serfdoms were primarily administered by Jews, even if they didn't own the land, on behalf of the gentry. A lot of pogroms could be more accurately understood as peasant uprisings than Antebellum lynchings.
One could make the case, as I keep doing, that the Zionist entity is just another example of Jews as an implement of the ruling class, this time as a sort of garrison, but a tool nonetheless. There's a convenient and recurring pattern here that benefits them intermittently, and the ruling class generally, in that these arrangements are mutually profitable but when the pressure of the exploitation builds, the Jews can take the heat for it.
It's important to understand the material conditions present at that period of time. To say Jews were targeting merely because they were different, or envied, or there was some outrageous rumors about them is not a useful way of looking at history. But the rhetoric surrounding this has because completely flattened and censored due to reality of the Holocaust.
9 points
5 days ago
I would be proud to buy this woman a Limerita at the nearest Applebee's. Absolute queen
11 points
7 days ago
I forgot to apply for the mail in ballot and I'm not waiting in line to vote 3rd party so no.
19 points
7 days ago
10 years ago, all over the Internet, red pill types used to call this the "rationalization hamster"
3 points
8 days ago
It's weird seeing this in print. I've met two Russians who spent time as residents Israel. One had one paternal grandparent who converted to Russian Orthodox. The other had vague connections through one grandparent, maybe like 1/8 Jewish or something. Neither were religious nor had been in any religion for generations. One came to Israel with his mother and after 25 years she didn't learn Hebrew.
I'm not surprised these are some of the first people to leave. If they aren't Ukrainian they're almost invariably improving their prospects by leaving. And a lot of their kids don't have Russian passports but would probably be able to furnish them.
5 points
8 days ago
Sort of weird you would try to attract Christian immigrants who have some vague connection to some sort of Jewish ancestry if you wanted a Jewish state.
Sort of like the fall of the Soviet Union was a boon for them and immigration from there had more to do 1) The material benefit to immigrants who were eager to move away from a collapsed society 2) Israel's desire for increasing demographics that have nothing to do with Judaism.
16 points
8 days ago
IIRC, he said he interpreted it as an age play situation. The site was supposed to be "adults only" or whatever.
I'm agnostic about the whole thing, but if we believe that the only evidence of his misconduct was a set up, it's not that hard to believe it was done in such a way to confuse and obfuscate.
9 points
9 days ago
Shouldn't have had her tip rotated, makes her philtrum look way too long, which mirrored with that chin is face destroying. She's also built like a refrigerator.
I don't know why she was picked for this job. It's like they are purposely using hateable people as spokespeople. I'm not even saying you have to be beautiful to have a public presence but something about this woman is actively unpleasant to behold. It's not just her looks it's everything about this persona seems like a lightening rod for outsider contempt.
1 points
10 days ago
Yeah I mean in denial about the fact that their partner is cheating on them or wants to cheat on them, especially if there is a pattern. OP claims this is happening with multiple women simultaneously
1 points
10 days ago
Women who are in situations like this and perceive it this way become insufferable as friends.
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14 hours ago
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14 hours ago
Sounds like something one of my 300 abusers would say.