I think it's one of my all time favorites. I think people here live in the tech literate bubble who know how to use specialized software for the different things excel does, albeit clunkily. But average people are intimidated by those more advanced tools, and there are a lot of average people in decision making positions who benefit greatly from being able to use excel.
He's getting the Trump Gold Card that was announced, not getting deported. That card is just a call for the world's shadiest people to relocate to the US. Perfect, what could go wrong?!
Let's just not mention that the "whichever new faith" we're speaking of is the very rapey evangelical Christianity, while making sure that we randomly emphasize that Islam is rapey, which is then expanded into Muslims being rapey. All in a post that has nothing at all to do with Islam or Muslims or refugees or whatever other bogeymen we regularly like to demonize.
I don't call my mother/wife/daughter a useless oversensitive dumb ass either, and it has literally nothing to do with avoiding misogyny. I don't call them that because I love them and also because they aren't that, very simple. I will call you a useless oversensitive dumb ass though, because that's how you're behaving. People who aren't cunts rarely get called cunts, so a solid tip would be to stop being a cunt.
For those who for some reason believe that Joe was a cool guy before Spotify, here's an example of the kind of douchebag he's always been. You just weren't paying attention.
He's been leaning that way for well over a decade, long before Spotify. Just have a look at the guest lists. Same with Elon, he's been a tool forever. I don't know why many seem to believe this is a recent development, it's just escalated a couple of notches in the past 4-5 years.
Agreed. The person I was replying to took the initial comment regarding nation karma for the US very personally and started ranting that he didn't deserve this shit. No one blamed him, and I was trying to convey the same thing that you wrote: it doesn't matter that we were not personally responsible for the historical crimes our nations committed, if the current society we live in still bases its wealth on what was stolen. We'd be indirectly benefitting from those crimes and therefore would have a responsibility to acknowledge that and try to do what we can to even things out if and when we can. Rejecting all links to those historical crimes and any responsibility for them can come across as arrogant to those on the other side of that equation, those who were robbed. But the person started hurling insults so I was obviously unable to communicate what I wanted to communicate.
Iran got involved in Syria to fight IS, the same people that rebranded as HTS, the leader of which now has put on a suit, changed his name and rules the new Syria. One of the first thing they did: started massacring minorities in Syria by the thousands, just in the last week. Also, Syria is in the Middle East, next to Iran. Iran isn't involved in military operations in Mexico. If IS wasn't stopped in Iraq and Syria, they'd be massacring civilians in Iran, since Iranians are Shia and therefore heretics to be killed.
Your view unfortunately seems to have been influenced by the classification of nations as axis of evil that I referred to above. It's confused and incoherent, and lacks a whole lot of nuance. That's what happens when nations are classified as "evil", which is a metaphysical religious term making nuance impossible. You say "if Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists", thereby implying that you consider this a worth while goal, while simultaneously vilifying the only forces in the region working to achieve that liberation, namely Hamas, Hizbollah and Ansar Allah in Yemen, as "proxy armies" of Iran, completely delegitimizing their agency and the fight for the very liberation you seem to support.
Finally, it's absolutely wild to state that a Palestine under the influence of Iran would be "the same shit all over again" as the almost century long oppression, occupation, dispossession and genocide carried out by the Zionists against the Palestinian people. Absolutely wild! I urge you to take a step back and consider that statement, and why you would make such an absurd and outrageous claim to begin with. Because I feel like you're doing that without thinking about it a whole lot, and would reconsider that position if you thought about the comparison you're making. Iran has zero designs on dispossessing or occupying Palestine and its people. To compare that with what Israel has been doing is just not a good look.
Comparing Iran to Russia and the US is strange in every way. Iran has a very defensive military, geared towards defending Iran. There aren't exactly private military contractors from Iran everywhere just murdering anyone that isn't snow white. Iran hasn't surrounded the US with military bases. People just completely swallowed that axis of evil horseshit.
"Axis of evil" was a phrase coined by W in order to justify his highly illegal "war on terror", and we're still paying the price for that. Just adopting a propaganda concept this stupid as a viable way to categorize nations is not a good move.
You're screaming "fuck off, I don't deserve any of this because those thefts were carried out before I was 18", but you're screaming that sitting on the stolen furniture in a stolen house. The crimes mentioned predating your eighteenth birthday doesn't mean shit when you're still benefiting from the results of those crimes.
He's just thankful that Jeffrey was the man who introduced his brother Kimbal and his girlfriend. So Elon's sister in law is from the old Epstein stable. Keep it in the family.
I don't think that Russia would be giving up Crimea in any case, regardless of who's in the Whitehouse. The Donbas is a different question, they probably would've been prepared to give them back in whole or in part in negotiations, but I don't think Crimea would've ever been up for negotiations.
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Make a negative post about the US and watch the same people complaining in this thread suddenly become super-"patriotic" and defend the way things are in the US at all cost. You need to redefine what it means to be patriotic IMO. As long as patriotism in the US is understood as reflexively defending what the American government has done at all times, there's nothing anyone outside of the US can do to help.
Patriotism should be looking after the interests of your fellow citizens, and that should routinely mean being opposed to the government, not rallying around it as soon as it's criticized by an "outsider". It's bizarre watching so many people from oppressed minorities being gung-ho flag wavers while the government is planning to put them in internment camps.
Probably could've expressed my thoughts better, but I believe your definition and my thoughts aren't necessarily opposed. I was clumsily trying to say that DEI as is doesn't really upset the hierarchies you mentioned, and is therefore not opposed to conservatism. Accepting the premise that in conservatism the rich are deserving of their riches because they are better, my point was that DEI actually works to solidify that class disparity because it's mostly designed to give the appearance of inclusivity in order to attract clientele from all segments of society, thus increasing the flow of income. If DEI means diversity at the bottom of the corporate structure while maintaining a homogenous owner class at the top, which is my argument, then it's just a tool to transfer money from the bottom to the top, while expanding the pool of money to take from the bottom through inclusivity. I think I fucked up the argument again, but hope it at least clarifies what I was trying to say a little bit.
You cannot hold conservative beliefs and also be a fan of diversity, equity, or inclusion.
This is the way it's been in recent US political culture, where everything has somehow turned into identity politics and social markers. But I don't believe that applies to conservatism in general. Politics has almost always been driven by economic goals, not identity, and DEI has been implemented because it's been determined to be good for the bottom line. That it's useful to rile up the base on id-pol in order to get into power doesn't change that. The owners still only care about profits, and would hire or fire anyone if it was determined that it'd add to the bottom line.
I think it's one of my all time favorites. I think people here live in the tech literate bubble who know how to use specialized software for the different things excel does, albeit clunkily. But average people are intimidated by those more advanced tools, and there are a lot of average people in decision making positions who benefit greatly from being able to use excel.