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Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq
  • The original generation of neocons had an understanding of material reality and sought to drive the USSR and China, two massive countries with socialist governments, apart. The ideological justifications of freedom or whatever were secondary. This new generation of interventionists genuinely believe the ideological stuff and is unwittingly trying to speedrun a eurasian super economy.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq
  • Exactly, the personal virtue (or lack thereof) of any US politician is completely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is how much the left can make them afraid of losing their jobs. This is why the discourse about the morality of voting is so tedious.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from July 22nd to July 28th, 2024 - Fracas in Dhaka - COTW: Bangladesh
  • The 50% of the population that doesn't vote are in a quantum superposition of voting for Trump, voting for Harris, and voting third party, which is basically not voting at all, which is infinitely recursive back to the beginning of the statement.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from July 22nd to July 28th, 2024 - Fracas in Dhaka - COTW: Bangladesh
  • Do people not get tired of posting the same memes about voting every election cycle? It's so performative and narcissistic. Discussing politicians in terms of their personal virtue and voting in terms of individual moral choices you're effectively talking about nothing.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from July 15th to July 21st, 2024 - It's Joever
  • I just elaborated on this in another comment but my theory on this is that the democrats are still functioning as a political party while the Republicans have been gutting their own structures for short term financial profit.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from July 15th to July 21st, 2024 - It's Joever
  • I think it's true that Biden is a shit candidate who damaged his own credibility as well as the credibility of the democratic party and liberalism in general by digging in his heels on Israel and bashing the student protests.

    I think it's also true that Trump only won in 2016 because he promised some kind of change that never materialized. I've also heard word of him gutting every structure of the Republican party he touches which could impact the election more than people assume.

    These are two world-historically unpopular and disliked candidates who are both profoundly stupid and inept. The difference could end up being that the Democrats are still more or less a political machine and the Republicans are being run by slumlords who don't really care if the building collapses long term.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from July 15th to July 21st, 2024 - It's Joever
  • I think the hype around a 2024 Trump victory is massively overblown and chronically online. The Republican party is a freakshow that offers zero appeal to anyone not already bought in to its absurd culture war spectacle.

    They have their dug-in solid 60+ demographic but their messaging about mass deportation and children's genitals is profoundly alienating to the average American, more alienating than most people could guess based on available data.

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