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  • Russia has consistently hit specific buildings in Lviv, they have hypersonic missiles. They took out the Reddit volunteer army almost instantly in Western Ukraine. Russia can hit whatever they want inside Ukraine, they have a self-imposed muzzle on. Medvedev's role is attack dog, Putin's role is restrained and sensible administrator. They are both playing their role.

  • Yes, red states also have massive black populations and poor populations and have very low voter turnout. The poor people with entitlements and low tax output aren't the ones voting for the GOP en masse, they're just checked out and the ruling middle-upper class reigns unopposed. This is what happens when you abandon major sections of the population, they check out when they keep getting betrayed. The poor are struggling and uneducated, they do not buy into the institutions or feel compelled to do their rituals.

  • Yeah such is American politics. Nothing can be by itself, and nothing can be simple. It all has to be riddled with contradictions, with shit injected into the middle of something good to confuse the masses and keep everyone divided. Anything good will be co-opted and used by the system to whitewash something bad, muddying everything into a permanent morass. Rainbow imperialism is a great example on the other end of the spectrum, something the Democrats cynically use. Republicans do a weird faux-populist faux-isolationism, but their critiques are always that we should invade some other place (like Mexico or China or Iran) which is incoherent and not truly anti-imperialist.

  • GOP voters are richer on average than DNC voters, who are richer on average than non-voters. I believe the breakdown of annual income was something like non-voters $35k, DNC voters $60k, GOP voters $80k. The vast majority of "trailer trash" don't vote and are just a punching bag for rich liberals so they don't have to confront their rich small business owner class-allies who actually make up the core of the GOP.

    It's funny that people's stereotype of the GOP is either of dirt poor trailer trash reactionaries, or uber-rich Koch billionaires when the reality is that DNC is the party of billionaires and haute bourgies and the ultra-poor have no party. GOP is the party of the petty bourgies, the landlords, small business owners, home owners and labor aristocrats - the "middle class". GOP so controls the conversations that Americans all believe "small business owner" and "home owner" are benevolent sacred things, but in fact it is the source of much evil. Democrats are afraid to attack the middle class and the GOP for being petty fascist crooks and mini-tyrannical monsters they are because their own party contains the haute imperialist crooks and the mega-tyrannical monsters.

  • welfare checks barely exist anymore, thanks to both democrats and republicans in the 90s and their "welfare reform". Are you talking about disability, unemployment, pensions, social security, EBT or medicaid/medicare? Many of these are not even "welfare" but essentially insurance payouts on things that those people paid the premiums/contributions for and are entitled to.

  • Basically everything around you is not there by happenstance but because of hundreds of years a very specific economic arrangement of society. You would be hard pressed to find anything touched by humans in the last 200 years that doesn’t have capitalist contradictions embedded into it

  • The analogy I use is that the war in Ukraine just turned up the heat and pressure on the west, causing them to become even more concentrated in what they already were. They are a pot of sea water brought to a boil, getting saltier and saltier

  • Libs went from “punch a fascist! all cops are bastards! free the kids in cages!” to “slava ukraini, slava bandera. Defunding cops is a Republican idea. They are detention centers and are necessary.”

    Fucking sheepdogs

  • Except they said "Fought the Russians in WW2" and then everyone clapped. Not one person stopped and thought about it, or threw a jeer.

    Trudeau and Zelenskyy had a 1-on-1 private chat with him before the meeting too, and it's documented in photos by Hunka's own granddaughter on social media