Well, duh.

Again, the best parallel to Trump isn't Putin or Orban. It's Hugo Chávez. Chávez had a ride-or-die almost fanatical crowd that even today is willing to "fight" for his legacy because he was the first President a lot of Venezuelans saw themselves reflected into (for better or worse)

It'd be real nice if the administrators of this site would stop worrying about the inevitable reaction from their shittiest users and crack down on all the "Palestinian" scam accounts regularly turning up uninvited in everyone's replies and notifications already.

Look, both Iran and America are led by evil schmucks. The people of both deserve better. But just because the Iranian president speaks better English than Trump that's not a reason to act like he isn't a monster.

In case anyone thinks the quoted thread is specifically intended as an anti-American diatribe: this dynamic also accounts for much of the popularity of the likes of Takaichi and Meloni (or Berlusconi before her.)

A big part of Donald Trump's appeal among his ~30%, ride-or-die core is that he's the first president to be sincerely, authentically stupid and incurious in the exact same way as the fabled Median Voter. *Nothing* about his unintelligence is a gimmick or a put-on.

30%? Try 300%.

The '73 oil crisis helped lead to the rise of cassette tapes and later CDs, because the PVC used to manufacture vinyl records got so expensive, labels had no choice but to make them as thin and light (read: flimsy and shitty) as possible to keep costs down.

You wonder why the trope of the dead sibling was such a common thing in literature and other arts for centuries before basically disappearing in our lifetimes, then take one look at infant and child mortality rates before ~2000 and have all your questions answered.

Happy Easter!

I'm back! Let's see. How many rounds of: -Hackneyed, pseudohistorical relitigations of World War II/Nazism -Arguments in favor of the white supremacist interpretation of the American creed (but in a woke way)

You know the quip about how JD Vance's social media statements all combine the content of a /pol/ thread with the form of a smol bean Tumblr profile? Hegseth & co's broperator chudspeak is the military equivalent of that.

Rather tired of the genre of post that's like "the lack of sustained nationwide protests and rioting like we're seeing in [failed state with 70% youth unemployment, hyperinflation, rolling blackouts, and an ongoing drought and famine] proves the innately satanic character of the Amerikkkan public."

If antisemites were capable of the self-reflection and critical thinking skills needed to stop being antisemitic, they wouldn't be antisemites in the first place.

-Faye and Julia -Chun-Li and Cammy -Erza and Lucy -Lara Croft -Joanna Dark -Sheik Etc.

[laughs in Irish]

The fact the first names to come to mind for not only normies, but even most "politics knowers" when the topic of neoliberalism arises are Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Paul Krugman is the most outrageous case of stolen valor since Japan psyopped the world into associating all cyberpunk with Tokyo.

OK, I'm overdue for a posting and scrolling sabbatical. This has become far too much of a time sink, I'm not helping anyone or anything by being aware and worried of as many bad things as possible at all times, and if I want to make the world a better place, I need to remember to start with myself.

Video games turning 20 in the next year: Gears of War Oblivion Need for Speed: Carbon Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Wii Sports The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess New Super Mario Bros. Cooking Mama Sonic 06 Guitar Hero II Bully Saints Row Persona 3 Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Ōkami

It is now 8 years since Logan Paul recorded himself walking around Aokigahara and uploaded it to YouTube for the whole world to see.

Happy New Year from the Emerald Isle!

From now on, any unironic talk of an "American century of humiliation" or "Chinese century" will be met with an insta-block or mute, depending on how I'm feeling in the moment.

Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.

Drone strike anyone who uses the word "unalive" seriously. Desperate times mean desperate measures.

Not sure how anyone could come to think, "You know what would be an improvement over the janky mess that is the US constitution today? The British one."

Your Posting Resolution for 2026 should be to stop disguising masturbatory catastrophizing and moralizing in the form of "political predictions" and to call out anyone else you see doing the same.

Am I the only one who remembers the Great Caravan Panic of 2018 and what an electoral wet fart it ended up being?

"What is the correct response to a natural disaster in human form that is fatally weakening our society and does not respond to any form of legal or social approbrium?" Ladies, you answer your own question by asking it.

Neither of these people believe what they're saying, because there is an one extremely obvious answer to their question.

Coastal supremacy.

>Libya Every time with these idiots.

Pierre Jean Claude du Pedofile's landmark work of philosophy and postmodernism Racisme: Un Defense was edited by his Nazi collaborator wife and typed by his 13 year old Moroccan boyfriend.

The only true comedy to be had from any conflict between the Saudis and the UAE will be watching the proxy battles play out between American think tanks

"Fascists were right about weak men creating hard times…" No, they were wrong like they're wrong about everything else and it's a fundamentally stupid, reductive way of looking at history. We're either above seeing ourselves as being chained to fixed, unalterable civilizational cycles or we're not.

Hello there!

Never. Delete. Your. Drunkposts.

Allegiance to that myth directly led to the US involvement in French Indochina, where we manifestly did NOT belong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhg...

Replies are full of delusional liars saying "duh of course I support this" like we didn't just spend four fucking years watching their "I'd be good with higher prices to pay for better wages" hypothesis get put into practice to be utterly fucking obliterated.

Quintuple the Axis death toll in WWII and machine gun every enemy of racial integration all across the United States by 1970, and fascism isn't a problem today.

The victorious Democratic primary candidates of 2028 will be those who promise to liquidate the white population of Springfield, OH by March 2029.

I'm distrustful of performative Harry S. Truman turbo-stans btw. A) those endless undying petty grudges he held against anyone who so much as looked at him the wrong way were the single most Trumpy characteristic of any pre-2015 US political figure. The fact you can't see this because

Kendrick Lamb of God

They should make Judge Dredds from the film Judge Dredd but just for people who play things on their phone out loud without headphones

"Uncommitted":

The latest horrifying chapter in our extremely protracted international lesson of "The law is only as good as the people entrusted with upholding it."

My friend’s dad from SK was told straight up they would not cover this expensive cancer drug which would only give him a few months more to live. Some treatments available in US are simply no available in other places b/c the government says they’re just too expensive for the system