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Off Topic / Re: what is ur favourite type of tea

« on: March 06, 2025, 12:30:49 AM »

yerba mate is real stuff

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Off Topic / Re: Election 2024, The Apprentice: White House Edition Season 2

« on: December 08, 2024, 07:27:32 PM »

this filled in a lot of details for me, i never thought NAFTA had anything to do with the drug trade.

they would really have you believe that directly training or supplying drug cartels this many times is accidental

would not surprise me if Annoying Orange's drug plan gets watered down to training the mexican special forces again and/or directly embedding special forces into the mexican military

whiteout by alexander roosterburn and jeffrey st clair. also drug cartels do not exist by oswaldo zavala helps follow many of the threads after 98 (when whiteout was published) and it includes segments on this operation, although there are only unofficial english translations. they both forget though

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Off Topic / Re: Election 2024, The Apprentice: White House Edition Season 2

« on: December 08, 2024, 02:51:32 AM »

suffice to say marco rubio is probably one of Annoying Oranges worst appointments but joe scarborough and dana bash will spend the next 4 years raving about how he's the good guy insider who we can trust as a guardrail for democracy like they did with john bolton

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Off Topic / Re: Election 2024, The Apprentice: White House Edition Season 2

« on: December 08, 2024, 02:47:43 AM »

the us military also trained some of the founding members of los zetas and sinaloa (they were ex mexican special forces)

drug traffickers and marines are two sides of the same coin

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and chaser:



the dumbest people in the world will try to tell you with a straight face that the pentagon and intelligence community have no control over the drug trade and we just need to deploy paratroopers to sonora, just because they saw a joe rogan episode where black rifle coffee owners (former green berets based out of SLC aka like the 3rd biggest contra crack center lol) said that in a cool rambo voice. the PNAC-led opium playbook in afghanistan was cooked up in a lab by the exact same networks who turned mexico into a narcostate

doug valentine earlier this year told a story on a fun podcast episode about how he was able to interview dozens of former dea agents while investigating woody harrelson's hitman dad (lol) and part of it was about how they all told the same frustrations about how, from the late 70s into the 90s, they kept getting railroaded by other agencies (esp cia) exploiting dea assets in existing and developing cartels to pull off operations in the iran contra-sphere. up until they basically just had an advisory role in the drug trade run by intelligence proxies lol. funny stuff

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Off Topic / Re: USA politics destroying families

« on: November 16, 2024, 05:50:15 PM »

feels like a massive waste of time and energy if the point of the greens is only to reveal that the dems are hypocrites or something. based on the election result i think that's already well understood by most people, including democrat voters

the greens should be focusing on local and state level races and actually building out their party.

you could argue the modern green party actually benefits the democratic party to the detriment of the american left
it gives them a rhetorical cudgel against progressives and leftists, and it wastes time and energy that could be going into building out a more effective progressive party. (not that the green party is wholly useless, it's just very inefficient)

no hate on anyone who voted green though

they cant really focus on local/state races because the dnc floods hundreds of thousands of dollars into random towns in iowa when there's a green contender, hence the 'muh 5% for public election financing' angle that you maybe hear a lot. I get what youre saying though especially "feels like a massive waste of time and energy if the point of the greens is only to reveal that the dems are hypocrites or something." I agree you shouldnt put very much time into them, i spent 2 or 3 years getting into the party and trying to network thru it and a lot of the cadre i encountered were weird autists who just watch glenn greenwald and jimmy dore or saw fahrenheit 9/11 and felt inspired- no one really listens to each other and standards are pretty much nonexistent. You probably get more out of just talking to random guys on the street or on twitter than using the gp as a conduit. they did however point me to a sasquatch/cryptid fair once in bumforget nowhere virginia with like 200 people which was a hilarious and honestly rousing experience

There isnt really any electoral politics org that you should put your time into imo. unless those bob avakian maoists do stuff near you idc if theyre feds or larpers it would probably be fun or funny. I just think the third party 'left voter bloc' thing is good electoral strategy for the left i dont think its very important who in particular gets the votes-- especially during the inflection point where libs are increasingly disillusioned with dems and dems are increasingly disillusioned with the progressives that obamas 08 campaign energized. lenin wrote some similar things about how to treat electoral politics and its pretty much evergreen

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Off Topic / Re: USA politics destroying families

« on: November 16, 2024, 03:02:49 AM »

I dont want to get into it because i can and have spent days discussing the mess of grifters and dem operators and feds and larouchites and trotskyists and otherwise cultists throughout the electoral left, palatable and otherwise: but wfp are functionally a democrat ngo that exists as a pressure valve for internal party factional issues (like uncommited was) whereas greens are a quantifiable left voter bloc offering dems electoral solutions to electoral issues. They wont accept these solutions but the fact that they exist is the important part. For instance theres an arizona dem who just lost because 1% the vote went to a palestinian who told the incumbent dem she would drop out if he simply stopped publicly supporting israel and his office responded with an info sheet calling her a savage lol. Who would benefit from left policy? Dems would. Regardless they choose not to because they are ideologues and its important to highlight that contraidction. Anyway the butch ware abortion and trans things were made up but i have other issues with him and the whole vp debacle from months prior involving noura erakat but they all handled it very amateurly, they could be running some random kid from jersey it doesnt really matter at the end of the day

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Off Topic / Re: USA politics destroying families

« on: November 15, 2024, 01:04:33 PM »

Are you saying that what Annoying Orange attempted on Jan 6th is in any way comparable to what Bush did? Also, the media is doing the opposite, they're sanewashing Annoying Orange when he spews handicapped authoritarian fascistic bullstuff. Media has purposefully aimed to appear centrist in any possible case in an attempt to retain viewership at the cost of trying to find middle-ground between liberals and reality denying morons.

No what bush did w/r/t the election and his presidency was a lot 'worse' than anything Annoying Orange dreamed up. He didnt allegedly try to steal an election he did steal an election (and then reformed presidential privilege laws so that no one could investigate his cia national socialist-affiliate father)

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Off Topic / Re: USA politics destroying families

« on: November 14, 2024, 07:54:52 PM »

it's transparently true btw that many media agencies actively run interference for democrats. it's laughable that the very same people crusading against Annoying Orange are also consistently pandering to george w bush, who actually successfully stole an election, and it completely undermines the narrative that 'democracy is at stake'. it's a sensible conclusion that the dems are just staging kabuki lol, libs' compulsive need to deny that is the reason that people are willing to buy into the idea that Annoying Orange is anti-establishment and anti-corruption even though he was best friends with adnan khashoggi and laundered bcci money for iran contra and maintained a longtime relationship with epstein. its not a 'cult of personality' its just ambivalent desperation

Lol did you vote for the guy who said he was going to fix the economy with 200-1000% tariffs?

green

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Off Topic / Re: USA politics destroying families

« on: November 14, 2024, 07:44:19 PM »

theres nothing wrong with wanting to be around people who have intellectual respect for you. 'communities' and families are born and die on what's defined as common sense. i hang out and talk with a number of conservatives and libertarians and anarkiddies im just not going to spend my own time babying people who have no real internal goal except to antagonize me lol. the increase in the prevalence of that antagonism is just the natural conclusion of 90s/00s christian identitarianism and 00s/10s liberal idpol as they finally coming to grips with each other

with that said ive probably avoided more liberals than conservatives in the last couple weeks since libs with mountain-sized egos are antagonizing me relentlessly for different reasons relating to the election lol

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Off Topic / Re: Election 2024, the Squeaquel, Chapter 2: A New Challenger Approaches

« on: August 13, 2024, 02:41:19 AM »

unless Annoying Orange has a lethal weapon and is actively threating to harm others, he is not worth shooting

Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
The Operators by Michael Hastings
Rogue State by William Blum
Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

the most normal things to do when any republican or democrat barely dodges getting smoked are either to laugh or be disappointed

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Off Topic / Re: Civ Div

« on: May 25, 2024, 02:08:09 AM »

Personally if i were handicapped or poor i would simply work at a fast food joint that has the exact same benefits as the US military instead of getting iced by a guy whose wife was killed by my poor or handicapped dad while my own wife is sitting pretty with the plumber

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Off Topic / Re: Civ Div

« on: May 25, 2024, 01:56:02 AM »

As a staunch anti-imperialist myself, I of course denounce the military industrial complex and the horrors we have committed as a nation at the behest of the multi-national corporations attempting to acquire new land for development or resource exploitation.

That said, many of the veterans I have met (and this may just be because of the bias of my own experience and people I associate with) have come from backgrounds that either left them with little other prospects to afford a higher education than a military scholarship, or grew up in families that supported imperialism to such an extent that they felt it was their civic duty to fight on behalf of our nation. Of these people, all of them have grown disillusioned when actually interacting with the people overseas and learning first hand the nuanced experience in a way that none of us civilians would be able to articulate, even if we were to travel abroad ourselves. All of the ones I know who have been in direct combat have stated how they regret what they had to do to stay alive in a situation where they would rather have talked it out. They are the ones who first hand could verify that we are fighting not just statistics but actual people who are driven through ideology or necessity to strike back against our troops. Upon returning home, they unanimously (the ones I know personally at least) have been driven from their conservative and/or centrist beliefs to strongly anti-war leftists.

Unfortunately our government is still doing its best to keep the pipeline to joining the military open, but fewer and fewer recruits are swayed each year. Hence this year they have announced a recall of all veterans under 50 years old to mandatorily re-enlist, even those who have since become jaded and realised what a stuffshow this all is.

All that is to say, the question of people "voluntarily" joining the armed forces is much less black and white than you are saying.

Except for PMCs.
Anyone who joins Academi/Blackwater or the like is absolute scum and just doing it for the pay check and to look cool getting all the top-end gear.

yawn

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Drama / Re: Community Drama - I hate Blockland in many ways but not the game - No leave

« on: January 20, 2024, 12:42:29 AM »

Is rose the floran actually 17

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Off Topic / Re: Israel VS Hamas

« on: December 11, 2023, 09:10:44 PM »

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02713-7/fulltext
The lancet is hamas propaganda!

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Off Topic / Re: Israel VS Hamas

« on: December 11, 2023, 09:28:00 AM »

If you have the chutzpah to respond to an expose of your ignorance, and failure of human educational obligations, with some weak hearted moral grandstanding "well aren't you a little hamas supporter, I dont have to listen to you"-- let me measure your skull before you blow your head off, for research purposes