Kissinger is probably four degrees of separation from Epstein at the most and that’s assuming Epstein had a handler

AOC has been sheepdogging hard. That vote blue no matter who bullshit, refusing to condemn the Palestinian genocide for over a year, voting for that ADL “antisemitism” bill. Not ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater yet but it wouldn’t be surprising if she goes all social imperialist all of a sudden.

Iranian hackers have the opportunity to do something hilarious

Productive for whom? Having an assload of dem bills isn’t progress in and of itself. What did that congress pass that made life meaningfully better for everyone? They could have passed single payer healthcare, didn’t. They could have passed medicare for all, didn’t. They could have raised the federal minimum wage, didn’t. Could have codified Roe v. Wade, fucking didn’t.

First they filled the Obama cabinet with citibank execs right as it became clear that bankers had caused the economic equivalent of a manmade famine for a quick buck. Then, when it was time to pass the bills that got them elected they dragged their feet and watered down the bills as soon as they had the flimsiest excuse. I won’t call it “compromising” because if they absolutely wanted to put their foot down and pass all that shit, they could have. We’ve seen ample proof. Their sponsors wouldn’t stand for it and that’s who calls the shots in Washington.

The purpose of a machine is what it does. Whenever Dems have a majority all they do is stall or endlessly dilute their bills until what was originally supposed to be a meal program or closing a loophole for insurance to scam people or whatever, has to include millions for cops or the DEA or an aid package for Israel. Real convenient how they’re allowed to be real loud and progressive only when they’re guaranteed to lose the vote.

The system remains functionally the same. It matters very little who has the majority, whatever the government ends up doing is usually what is popular with billionaires.

Haha cmon guys we got one for every important country in Latin America aren’t you flattered guys, I mean, cmon

You’ve got it the wrong way round, the axis of evil which is NATO did denounce the elections. Most of the rest of the world sent observers who confirmed the results.

Few exceptions, of course, as Lula seems to rather like how his ass feels on the fence and Boric hasn’t found a boot big enough that he won’t have a go at licking it.

I’m sorry you’re unable to defend a single point without resorting to contrived scenarios where every option except the one you want is unbelievably stupid or cartoonishly evil

Condescension is bad enough when you’re an expert, but when you think yourself the only smart person because you’re not as dumb as the dumbest people on earth, it’s just laughable.

I can understand your point just fine and I struggle to see why the analogy is needed except to distort the truth into some fantasy world where getting killed by a gun and getting killed by a knife are just such an obvious choice, because one is shit and the other is an artisanal brownie or whatever you’re pretending this is.

Less genocide, but not the stopping of genocide? Man, do I not feel sorry for gringos when they act like this is a moral choice.

How would you know, anyway? They refused to acknowledge there was a genocide in the first place while they sent a record amount of money and weapons. Oh wow, such harm reduction.

Yes, it’s exactly like this dumb, unnecessary analogy! Just that they didn’t tell you the ice cream parlor is at the bottom of the cliff anyway.

Maybe stop with the dumb fucking analogies and talk about the real situation for a change. It’s not too complex to talk about (and if it is to you, holy fuck, maybe shut up and do some reading first?) and you’re fooling nobody with your deflections.

You’re not supposed to talk about the real world, idiot, I specifically provided a scenario where you’d rather die than eat ice cream 🙄 I stg sometimes I feel like only I understand politics smh my head

It’s not that the analogy is incomprehensible, it’s that it’s reductive and disingenuous to the point of being nonsense, like every lib analogy.

Y’all refuse to talk about reality as it is because in the few cases where you actually know anything about the situation, you can’t make a decent argument for your position without infantilizing the fuck out of the entire thing. It’s all “who’s Voldemort in this scenario?” and “which party is the sour kid who doesnt share their toys?”. It’s fucking embarrassing.

The New York primaries where the entire democrat establishment is either not mentioning Mamdani or pretending he’ll make jewish babies into sausage then sell them in government stores after they gulag all the landlords? Those primaries?

The democrats have repeatedly blocked even mildly progressive voices from running, even rigging the 2020 election in favor of Biden because they were scared shitless of milquetoast Sanders. They might let a few slip in local elections, but never the big one.

They’d rather let the party lose (because their biggest donors aren’t paying them to win, they’re paying them to stay close enough to the GOP in platform and voters)

So you’re not responsible for the people you vote for, but non-voters are responsible for Trump?

Y’all are fucking children

The rich will control more and more and it will never stop […] You are not going to overthrow them. You’re just gonna waste your life trying.

Smells like psyop in here.

In short: organize and arm yourselves. The Dems won’t save you because that ain’t how they make their money.

Also, I’m installing a bigger motor so you have a reason not to vote for the other party, because they’d get to go even faster

I do agree with your points. I think it’s certainly an insightful book (just not in the way Orwell intended) but not a good book.

It’s short, it’s incredibly concise, it doesn’t use needless academicisms, and it’s surprisingly very funny. It’s probably the best value-to-volume ratio of any political text imo.