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Post by miscmisc on Apr 7, 2022 7:25:30 GMT 1
I just called Biden names yesterday, and I'm shocked to have to say this. But Biden has been much better than Obama, with much less than Obama had during his first term, in a much more hostile environment.
But those people take all the credit, and leave the old man twirling in the wind. Politics is a beauty contest, I guess.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 7, 2022 14:09:41 GMT 1
Holy shit. I'm a subscriber, and this makes me feel kind of... uneasy.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 7, 2022 16:50:52 GMT 1
LOL @ the idea that 96% of Americans have any real opinion at all about someone that they have never heard of (Olaf Scholz). No one in the US knows who he is, and I've only slightly exaggerated it now.
People don't like to say, "I don't know who/what that is, or anything about it, sorry."
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 8, 2022 15:24:34 GMT 1
If you are someone who wouldn't have a problem with Nazism if it didn't have that exterminatory antisemitism, you would find the Azov Battalion fine. But that says more about you than about the Azov guys, really. Your politics/political ideology is complete dogshit.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 8, 2022 15:32:40 GMT 1
It's futile to try to put that makeup on the Azov guys and pretend that they are virgins. OK, not all of them are Neo-Nazis since the group has become kind of "inclusive", but most of them still are. There's no definition of "Neo-Nazi" that wouldn't cover them. They are a very important fighting force for Ukraine now, so I understand you want to kind of do that whitewashing thing. Zelensky certainly has to do that.
But you don't. Don't dig deep. You just can't whitewash them without whitewashing (Neo-)Nazism itself. Like I said, Nazism was not just about murdering Jews. That was not even the central part of it.
Just stop. It's cringe-worthy.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 8, 2022 16:36:03 GMT 1
...says a man who declared the super-corrupt 1996 Russian presidential election "fair and square", looked away as Yeltsin bombed the White House (then-Russian parliament building), sent the "Harvard boys" to help crooked Russians and Western financial institutions plunder the country, precipitating the economic collapse, expanded NATO despite the strong objections from government officials, diplomats, scholars, ex-politicians, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon.
The nerve of this guy. Truly super-human level ego and self-unawareness, but I guess you need that in order to become the President of the United State of America.
This man started the initial fire, and so many people warned him back then. Yes, even Henry Kissinger!
Fuck.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 9, 2022 4:00:37 GMT 1
Yeah, just another NFT idiot Hollywooder, but it's not a Gwyneth Paltrow or even Matty Damon. Julianne Moore is one of the nicest people in Hollywood, so this mildly upsets me.
So she will give you a nice gown for the receipt that a substantial amount of energy was wasted somewhere for a grift. Nice!
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 10, 2022 1:42:01 GMT 1
I have this pretty uneasy feeling that the UK, and a few others, will send an enormous bill to Ukraine for all the weapons at the end of all this. That would amount to quite a lot and cripple Ukraine's finance, but there have been, you know, precedents.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 10, 2022 15:36:08 GMT 1
You know, I have such contempt for this man now. He didn't even react properly to Zelensky's deeply emotional one-liner, because he's full of himself, doesn't care about anything at all other than himself.
God I hate this man. And I'm so fucking sure Z hates him too.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 10, 2022 15:59:51 GMT 1
I know this is a completely inappropriate thing to say, or inappropriate timing to say this rather, but you look at Russians like Yeltsin, Navalny, Dugin, Zhirinovsky, Nemtsov etc., Dudayev, Kadyrov, Ukrainians like Yushchenko, Timoshenko, Akhmetov, Zelensky etc. Lukaschenko in Belarus, the likes of Gamsakhurdia and Saakashvili in Georgia, the Aliyev family in Azerbaijan, Karimov in Uzbekistan, Niyazov in Turkmenistan, etc. etc. and still wonder why I've always had so much more interest in the former USSR than in modern Western Europe?
It's basically a world of literature, with so many interesting characters. I listed those names very randomly off the top of my head without thinking at all. I could've just gone on and on and on. And I could never do the same with Western Europe, because few are even remotely as interesting. I just don't remember more than a few interesting Western Europeans over the past 30 years or so.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 11, 2022 15:18:59 GMT 1
These people don't seem to understand that text still rules, will continue to rule. Twitter is interactive *and* text-based. It's a place where people argue with each other, in words, and in actuality has a disproportionately big influence on the discourses that actually matter precisely because it's text-based. Of course it's made mostly of dumb stuff, but this fad of asserting that it's nothing, just for old people, useless *elites*, because hey, there are a lot more people doing Instagram and TikTok, and YouTube is waaaaay more influential than stupid tweets! etc. etc. is just laughable.
People tend to misunderstand the actual meaning of "A picture is worth a thousand words". Yes, some pictures/movies can change the world, every once in a while, but what moves the world *every day* is text, words, concepts, and they are a hell of a lot more important than "A picture" in the aggregate.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 11, 2022 15:25:32 GMT 1
The world doesn't hop from one big event to the next. It's not quantized like that. You go wrong if you think that it is, or think as if it were.
The world is moved mostly by boring stuff.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 11, 2022 15:28:50 GMT 1
Jean-Luc Mélenchon got awfully close. I didn't quite expect that.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 11, 2022 15:39:34 GMT 1
The US "lockdowns" were so horrific and traumatic that the average American household ended up...
... substantially richer at the end of 2020 than they had been at the end of 2019.
Seriously, why should I take those anti-lockdown imbeciles seriously? They are all such ridiculous drama queens. Whatever you call "lockdowns" in the US were no big deal at all, people had stopped a lot of economic activities out of fear and social breakdowns even before the "lockdowns" anyway, and why the fuck do they always, always omit the huge stimulus package that basically saved the US economy?
Those people are just not serious. I don't have any fucking time for the lazy fools.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 11, 2022 15:58:08 GMT 1
... because he wanted to placate the South, and it turned out to be disastrous.
This man knows nothing about America. Why is everyone of this "business mind" type such a fool, one after another?
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