Random Rant Thread

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It was inevitable that the conservative one of the two parties would go totally revanchist. Donald Trump simply fit in that political situation.

Like I said, the American society has dramatically changed over the last few decades. Whenever such a cultural/demographic shift occurs in a society, there is a revanchist movement to counter it. That's Newton's third law of history, with very few exceptions.

So, none of this is surprising at all. It's true that the internet and social networking shaped this particular kind of a revanchist movement that we ended up with in reality, but it was going to happen in some shape or form anyway. What is essential isn't those social tools, but Newton's third law of history.

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It's hilarious to see those right-wingers whitewash their own history and assert that "cancel culture" is some leftist phenomenon.

I'm old enough to remember right-wingers trying to cancel everything from video games to surrealist literature as they would "corrupt our cultural norms." Give me a fucking break. I even received death threats from those fuckers.

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I mentioned many Trumpians on Twitter being actually Eastern European right-wingers, but by far the biggest foreign Trumpian online army of all are of course Indians (mostly Hindu). Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and LOTS of them everywhere.

No other US President has ever had such a sizable active Légion étrangère. They are very much devoted to the man too, often even more than their American counterparts.

I really think this aspect of Trump has been under-analyzed.

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It's really, really, REALLY tiresome that there are literally hundreds of these slimes.

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I'll say what I think of Larry King, and he was one of the worst interviewers ever. Never heard a single interesting question out of his mouth, and his laziness was absolutely galling.

But yes, this was fucking gold, lol.

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OK, I totally disagree with this dude, but this clip is pretty good, lol.

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I honestly can't think of why anyone would need this in any foreseeable future.

A "digital euro" wouldn't solve the problem that they seem to care about, and fuck, I don't even know why anyone should care about such a non-problem problem to begin with.

I know I'm a bit cryptic here, but I think these people in the central banking business are seriously confused on the meaning of money and capital. They read too many useless economic papers to realize that they are worried about a total non-issue.

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Speaking of a death cult:

Even the reddest county deep in Alabama wouldn't go there even if given a chance. 

If it can happen to Swedes, it can happen to virtually anyone. Remarkable cognitive dissonance. Mass delusion.

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I just cannot overstate the international reputational damage that Sweden will have to live with for a while because of all of this. Much of the rest of the world was definitely unfair to them back in the spring, as I defended them many times in this thread too, but now they only have themselves to blame. It's not even that they are wrong, although I'm pretty sure they are.

It's more that it's all so pointless. You see a Swedish hospital/lab, and the nurses there wear no masks. Fine, they don't like masks, OK, fine, whatever floats their boat, none of my business, but you notice that silly face shields are everywhere instead.

What's the point of that? You say it's none of my business, but why do they provoke the rest of the world like that?

Would it kill to just at least *pretend* to conform to/respect the international norm? They sound like that guy at the party who doesn't get the joke while everyone else does and yet somehow acts like he's the smartest guy in the room, the Ted Cruz of the global community if you will, and there's no prize for being "unique" that way as whatever they are doing has not been successful at all according to the data. Their numbers, including the *economic* data, are absolutely embarrassing especially given their cocky attitude. It's mind-bogglingly stupid.

That "Gigantic Contrarian Prick" label that they have won as a country over this pandemic won't wear off any time soon. That label was totally unfair back in the spring, but absolutely not anymore.

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It seems that Navalny made a good bet. The protests seem larger than I envisaged. Those Russians have turned out less cynical than I thought.

Those who assume he's just a Western puppet, which you see typically on the left, are wrong. Navalny is genuinely made in Russia, and no one's puppet.

I always wonder how many people actually take a look at Navalny's politics, though.

It's very, very Trumpian, FYI.

Does that matter? It does to the US, of course. Navalny's xenophobic inward-looking nationalist politics is rather perfect for those who want to *contain* Russia into a box.

This *could* punch a hole in the suffocating culture of cynicism that Putin and Co. created, but no one knows where it will lead to.

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I hear stories through the grapevine - particularly the Deutsche grapevine, lol - on the New York prosecutors, and well, they seem absolutely serious about going after Donald Trump now. I don't know if they will succeed, but I'd be extremely, extremely worried if I were Donald.

I thought they wouldn't really go all in to get him. Maybe I was wrong. Jan. 6th might have changed everything.

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This must be a BIG factor on the Covid-19 infection rates. With a few notable exceptions, there seems to be a strong correlation between the average household size and scale of the epidemic in each country. 

Denmark and Germany have been struggling a lot in this wave, but they are still only the 50th and 70th respectively in terms of cases per capita. Norway and Finland are way, way down on the list. Sweden is an exception, but we all know the reason for that.

Given that household transmissions are THE main cause of the new Covid cases in most countries now, there's also an easy theory to explain the correlation too. A single-person household can effectively be a horrible dead end for viruses after all.

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This is another scene from the horror movie - Arizona state GOP conference.

Screaming at each other over how faithful they are to Donald Trump.

Arizona is currently one of the worst Covid hotspots in the world (again). You see a few people with masks, and they are media. The rest don't give a fuck about social distancing, let alone masks. Needless to say, a few or more of these people will die of Covid in a month or two.

And, again, they are screaming at each other over how faithful they are to Mein Führer. They voted to censure Governor Doug Ducey (R) for basically doing what he had to do (neglecting to do it would be blatantly breaking the law), that is certifying the electoral votes.

You know, these people are so certifiably crazy that you shouldn't even look them in the eyes. Dangerous for your health.

If this is not a death cult, I don't know what is.

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LOL

"motivated by a sincere and deep love for America"

It's me, the super patriot motivated by a sincere and deep love for America, who will round up every American who's against Donald Trump and mass-execute them after a show trial, as stipulated by Q.

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The most horrible things about the Trump administration that we are learning every day aren't even about their refusal to accept the election result and plotting to overturn it, but how horrendously negligent and criminally irresponsible they were on Covid-19.

They basically paralyzed the government branches for months so as to make sure that they cannot work efficiently to tackle the issue. It seems almost as if they had some agenda against the well-being of American citizens.

Purely on the materialistic terms, that ought be by far the biggest crime of that criminal administration. They literally let tens of thousands of Americans die and shrug them off.