Just to be a pedantic ass; all libertarians are right-wing. The best of them are the anti-war lot, but I sometimes wonder how, if they were in charge, they would square their own collapsing capitalist economy against doing a little imperialism.

At one point I noticed Mint Press was using html canvas fingerprinting and some other shady js, which is a no-go for me.

I do like Lowkey and Asa’s work and other EI contributors on there, but I wouldn’t trust them with personally identifiable information like payment systems.

GZ: I gotta get me some of that Jimmy Dore money…

JD: I gotta get me some of that Joe Rogan money…

JR: Did you know if you smoke a pound of chimpanzee hair your mitochondria – is it fur? Jamie, do Chimpanzees have fur or hair? Hold on, I want to know this…

Sure, okay, now ban Tesla, FB, Google, Microsoft, Apple, 99.5% of phone apps, pretty much all US tech companies, actually. Oops.

She supports the Kiev regime too, so maybe just a dumb lib kid doing dumb lib kid things. Why does anyone give a fuck what she thinks? The western cult of celebrity is brainrot.

That’s way funnier than the smug libs chanting “we saved democracy” shit you will hear otherwise.

I’m guessing the pivot will be something like “I support Israel, but not now; not like this”. Probably a little more polished because party hacks need to justify their paychecks.

In the land of vibes, the one memed man is king.

RESIST 2.0 merch gonna be hot

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One of my favorite arguments to US election hysterics is to point out that no one in that country thinks the other party should actually exist. Most voters are ideologues focused on “defeating the [opposition party]” based entirely on idpol and vibes. Nearly everyone committed to US politics actually wants a one party system, but cannot seem to form the words to express that directly.

Like, “Do the [opposition party] make the country better?” No? So they shouldn’t be allowed to have power, right? Agreed? Okay, then you have to prevent them from getting power by voting, right? Yes? So voting for the [opposition party] is off the table? Agree? Okay then, in your view, the point of Democracy™ is to maintain a one-party system by choosing Good over Evil. Does it prevent Evil from getting power? No? Does it mitigate Evil from getting power? Sometimes? Would there be less Evil if the [opposition party] didn’t exist? Yes? Then voting is ineffective and the [opposition party] should be banned from politics? Ummmm…

Beyond everything else, this election will finally prove to everyone that Democracy™ works. Burgerlanders will cheer unanimously at the success of the system and realise the true spirit of elections are the twitter accounts they screamed at along the way.

The results of the whole Deschênes commission was already covered up decades ago. There’s about a 0% chance the Canadian government is going to publish anything that validates the narrative of about Ukrainian Nazis.

Imperialist? You have a strange relationship with that word.

I think that’s a good point and it’s something I run into often. It seems like everyone expects propaganda to be so obvious and clumsy that, when it happens, they’ll be able identify it immediately. But it turns out that what we’re guarding our minds against is anything contrary to our existing world view, not the things we’ve already uncritically accepted. And what we’ve accepted are largely things we’ve observed through the lens of media.

It’s also hard for people to imagine the massive scope of such a conspiracy and how it could be so well organized. It’s easy to explain how media employment bias works in a hierarchy of personal interest, but that system doesn’t work perfectly and it generates a lot of contradictions which I think westerners have conditioned themselves to simply ignore. Even I want to imagine the propaganda machine to be an elegant and cunning device, but the real workhorse seems to just come down to writing “China/Russia/Iran Bad” headlines enough times. Getting past that bias with americans has been the biggest challenge in my experience. It’s pretty depressing.

We had the power to save the earth, but we were so busy mining shitcoins we sorta forgot to care

It was virtually nothing but ignorant and hysterical ukraine hawks when I left. I’m sure it’s so much worse now that I really don’t even want to look.

Lol, yeah, then def not worth your time unless you’re very attached to it.

Just in the last few years, looking at the deliberate efforts of cutting off all diplomatic relations with Russia. Banning and smearing all foreign opposition media. Assassination of diplomats. Rampant militarized racism. Trade wars. Mass sanctioning and coups of any nation who opposes US war interests. Endlessly blocking UN efforts. Endlessly blocking hostage negotiations. Constant escalations… It really establishes that the US and it’s allies have completely lost interest in any form of diplomacy and seem to be preemptively closing those exits just to keep any form of diplomatic resolution off the table, thus ensuring a hot world war to keep the military economy running.