I’m glad Elon is around just to show that Americans don’t have a monopoly on being absolute cringe

Sorta sick of hearing about this tbh. I’ve seen everyone reporting on this damn egg heist, like international papers even. Our hospitals are overflowing, massive numbers of schools having to close, due to one of the worst flu seasons and respiratory illness seasons in years. Kansas has the worst tuberculosis outbreak in a century. And of course there’s the bird flu news that gets worse by the day. And in terms of eggs, how about the price gouging going on? No let’s get all up in arms about people stealing (admittedly a ton) of eggs because of white suburbanites’ identification with the ownership class and their constant obsession with “crime.” Good for these people. I hope they get away and go on to steal even more eggs.

Bourgeoisie

Sick of hearing about the goddamn elites

Okay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.

Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements

I still fail to see how this has to do with Calvinism. Liberals aren’t accusing conservatives of having some inherent essential characteristic of “sinfulness.” Well maybe they are, but they’re criticizing them based on political beliefs and actions. Which is what we do all the time

I thought election was based on nothing and there was no real way to tell if you were saved?

Reposting my comment from another thread, Mmw Gaza becomes the first of thiel’s “network city” crypto havens. That’s why these fascists were so obsessed with “the Palestinians could’ve had such great beachfront property!” They wanted to drive out the native population and have those who remain as laborers in their dumbass crypto dystopia.

What is political Calvinism?

Mmw Gaza becomes the first of thiel’s “network city” crypto havens. That’s why these fascists were so obsessed with “the Palestinians could’ve had such great beachfront property!” They wanted to drive out the native population and have those who remain as laborers in their dumbass crypto dystopia.

Extremely surprised by this turn of events

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He said this after and seemingly in response to usaid refusing doge access to their servers. So I’m not really convinced that’s a political statement over musk just lashing out cause he didn’t get his way

I really hate chalking things like this up to pure stupidity and ignorance, but sometimes I can’t see any other reason why they do the things they do. I remember when trump left the tpp. Here was a guy who railed against China constantly, yet pulls out of a deal meant to contain China economically. I loved it, but I can’t see why someone obsessed with the Chinese threat would do something like that except out of pure ignorance as to the tpp’s purpose.

The same with USAID. Do these guys understand what USAID is, or have they really just bought into the liberal lie that it’s a great humanitarian mission, and they oppose that humanitarianism. Like, is there something more nefarious going on here that I can’t see, or is it really just some dumb push to “remove woke” or whatever?

Idk how I feel about this. Personally I think there’s a lot that has happened that seems to contradict this. Trump is expressing real expansionist ideas - his idea of Canada as a “51st state,” which as far as I can tell seems to be the only reason he’s enacted these tariffs on them, some attempt to use economic force to get them to accede to unification, and these attempts to buy Greenland. He seems to want to exert more influence over Latin America, this whole Panama Canal thing, the rhetoric which seems to foreshadow an invasion of Mexico. You also have Elon getting involved in German and UK politics - the afd thing and the “grooming gang” thing, seemingly an attempt to bring the far right to power there. And we know Elon has always has his eyes on Bolivia due to lithium, probably also the reason why there’s such focus on Greenland.

So tbh it doesn’t seem to me at least like there’s been a whole lot of pulling back. I don’t think USAID has been dismantled as this guy says, it’s just being taken over by Elon, I think there are plans to put it under the state dept. The foreign assistance pause is temporary but it’s not ended - I think a lot of these things are going through Trump era restructuring for whatever reason. Even the who thing, there’s been a whole to do about leaving WHO but when trump was signing the eo he (and I forget the quote) is open to rejoining the who under a better deal or whatever. And the whole eo, he’s mad about the influence China has in the organization. Prettt much, he wants greater dominance over the organization and I think leaving the who and pulling funding/collaboration is an attempt to force the who to accede to his demands. The WHO has already had to pull back capacity due to this.

Even the Rubio thing, yeah he’s saying we’re in a multipolar world now or whatever, but really he’s expressing a need to reassert American dominance in global politics. Sure he’s talking about diplomacy, but it seems to be a gesture towards realpolitik than any sort of pulling back as this guy is characterizing it. Rubio seems to have simultaneously drank the kool aid and believes the liberal lie that USAID and stuff are selfless humanitarian missions that he wants to pull back from, while also recognizing the decline of American hegemony and expressing a need to reassert “American interests.”

It’s like trumps first term when he pulled out of the tpp and the Iran nuclear deal. This was called isolationism, just as he’s referred to as an isolationist now, but it didn’t come with any real pulling back and instead trump ramped up tensions with both China and Iran for 4 years, not recognizing that both the tpp and jcpoa were tools to contain both countries.

Anyway a lot of disorganized thoughts, hopefully someone got something out of that or maybe I’m just straight up wrong

Tbh I’ve gone back and forth on this and have concluded that the most annoying are the ones you need to deal with on a daily basis. However in the liberals’ defense I will say that I can usually hold a normal, non political conversation with even the most pretentious of liberals, whereas chuds tend to insert every grievance of theirs into everything and are often just impossible to talk to.

The most annoying right now to me though are the chuds who don’t like trump. Not never trumpers, but the conservatives for whom Trump was the lesser evil. Chuds fucking suck as you say, liberal anti-Trump politics can be annoying but it’s generally well intentioned and I can find common ground with it. But with lesser evilism chuds, they’ll do the same shit you’re describing above, owning the libs constantly, but then trump does something that no one likes, like these tariffs rn. And suddenly these people are on your side. My dad is doing that rn. He’ll celebrate all the “ending DEI” crap, but then trump institutes these tariffs and it’s all “hey don’t blame me I don’t like the guy!” Like stfu and own your decision

I suppose just being socialized into the patriarchy. But I’d love to peer into the mind of someone who is on a first date and decides hey I should start getting aggressive here thatd be a good idea. That’s a mindset that I find so completely alien to me and it’s not as if I wasn’t raised and socialized with patriarchal ideals myself

I can’t tell you how many times I’ll like see something online that seems like a really hyperbolic and extreme men suck sentiment and I’ll go “ok I understand the sentiment but this is a bit much.”

And then I’ll talk to men irl, even men in my own circle who id hope are generally “better” and just realize that nope, I was wrong, men really are completely unsalvageable

Would love to hear how the US plans to do this while undergoing massive brain drain

I like just found out it’s from a neurological condition. I had no idea, I honestly thought he just talked like that.