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More accurately it's Putin supports the Republicans, and he's financing the far right in every other western nation as well. World's richest man and all, Putin owns them.

Google "Republicans 4th of July Moscow"

Our nations birthday and where are all these traitorous fucks? Taking orders from Putin.

And no. America did not put Putin in power. He made a power play on Yeltsin and had the presidency handed to him. Being the former head of the KGB, he knows how to press people to get what he wants. America also did not start the Ukrainian war, that started when Putin invaded in 2014 and stole Crimea. It can end today, Putin just had to go home. America should've bombed his personal mansion(s) for Crimea too, as we swore to defend Ukraine against an aggressive Russia when Ukraine gave up their nukes but Obama's a bitch.

If you really believe your astroturfing you haven't paid any attention to American party politics in, at least, the last 10 years. I know, cuz I do, almost religiously. Some people follow sports, some people like celebrities. I read, in this order, my cities, my counties, my states, then national, and finally international geo-politik. Political science/economics/philosophy are what I'm all about and not a fucking word of anything youve said has even an ounce of coherency to it.

No shit. Fucking Stuxnet was achieved by dropping a thumbdrive outside the building and letting a naive, curious iranian scientist plug it into their airlocked computer network.

Then it played looped video while it destroyed everything. Just like a shitty Mission Impossible movie. In real life. Dead serious.

They also contact cleaners, handymen, and to a lesser degree, tradesman, to get the houses ready to sell. Assuming a buyers market of course.

Shit in 2020 a condemned house sold in my old neighborhood in Seattle for 500k. Condemned. They had to spend 50k demolishing it before they could do anything to it, so beyond the million dollar investment, low balling, theyre looking at sitting on that for at least a year.

That ain't no single mother, new family buying that kind of shit

In Spanish, plurality in abbreviations is denoted by doubling up the letters; so (United States) Estados Unidos -> EEUU

Wait til they got told Mexico is in America, they're gonna lose their shit.

Like the USA owns the continent, pffh.

The abbreviation for the US, due to what I think are dumb syntax rules in Spanish, is E.E.U.U.

For reals. I know, right?

But wait there's more! Mexicos official name is the United States of Mexico, or Estados Unidos de México in Spanglish.

And also in Spanish, I think

Thanks. I had fun with it. If nothing else, some catharsis ;)

Missouri's fascist Attorney General sued the government on their behalf, NOT at their behest.

They spent their time, and taxpayer money, to sue for a company not asking for it just to fuck over college students/alumni

You have the left and right confused there.

The right has abandoned any position of moral authority. Morality, to be absolutely clear, are the historically, and culturally, accepted rules for social behavior.

You want to be part of the group? You gots to be moral.

The right is only concerned with power, and that's it. Theyve given up on publishing positions on current issues. They have no solutions. They don't want to innovate, they want to change everything to a subscription service and extract as much wealth out as possible, all while legislating away any threatening start ups. They punch down, my guy. They punch down.

They believe in restricting freedom, restricting our rights to vote, our women's bodily autonomy, policies that put our collective social costs onto the shoulders of the lower and middle classes. They don't have a single policy that has broad public support, and they know it. Instead of adapting and using their 5th wing of government to bring their "base" up to speed with the times, theyve chosen subversion and court hostile foreign actors to attack their opposition. That's also known as sedition, btw.

They're out of touch corporate cocksuckers. Ted Cruz, pick any single one of them - not one has a single principle, spends all day fallatiating anyone with money. Metaphorically or not, a whores a whore, end of story.

Now I got no beef with whores, make yr money y'all. But I take umbrage with a whore trying to pass off as a slut. You ain't no non-profit. Motherfuckers need to come to Jesus, act right and be honest about shit. Jesus got down with the whores. Throwing his arm around Mary like, "yo, wanna break some bread, baby?" (Cuz she looked skinny, simmerdown folks).

Even a whore can be moral. If that is too mindbending for you to wrap your head around, or if you scoffed reading that, your worldview is myopic, and frankly, I would consider you sus and half expecting you to filter information to fit your world view, turn a blind eye to conflicting info, and by what's become a trope nowadays, more likely to double down than reevaluate the reality of your imaginary friend (or worldview). Not changing your mind based on new information - which is rooted in rationality/cause and effect, doesn't make you look principled, smart or confident. It makes you look like a scared toddler throwing a tantrum. It's immoral, it's shameful. And the rights fucking fantasy of realizing the Handmaid's Tale is, objectively, relinquishing our role as a global leader and a national security threat.

You cut funding to all education -> people get dumber -> we fall behind in tech -> your grandkids are gonna be learning Mandarin.

That's a guarantee. It takes 2° of foresight to work that out.

Now, if by left you mean the Democratic party, so, NOT the left at all. Dems are center-right. And Dems have the same problem with messaging that Republicans do. Neoliberalism (which both Dems and Reps are) don't have solutions to our problems. Neoliberalism doesn't invest in itself. It extracts money from the system and thinks the free market will fix our roads, keep our police from being infiltrated by the klan, and add all the trains we're gonna need to drop our carbon footprint. None of which neoliberalism has an answer for. Capitalism will not change anything. It does not innovate. It exploits and extracts.

It tells us we can have a red delicious apple or an off-season navel orange and calls that freedom. Then it calls your kid a commie for eating a mandarin and calls you a queer for eating an applepear.

That might be the best analogy I've ever given on neoliberalism.

Klanned Karenhood

He only likes his mRna in solid form. Depending on his mood it's either free based or taken as a suppository.

As one does, y'know. As one does.

By their own admission they are domestic terrorists

Their words, not mine. They. They're proud of it.

Rudy pushed out the Italians and invited the Russians in to fill the vacuum.

It's illegal to profit from your personally convicted crimes.

So bank robbers and other desperate citizens can't sell their stories to Hollywood.

Even better that the cruel, inhumane and depraved, like rapists, serial killers, insurance salesman, claim adjusters and every job on wall street can't do the same either.

I'm not being extreme either. Jesus forgave Pontus Pilate and the Romans for his murder, you know who he didn't forgive? Who he absolutely lost his shit for? The bankers. Theyve all got blood on their hands.

But ask any liberal (which is the majority of both Democrats and Republicans, it's a political economics term) or listen to the media and the sky is falling.

The same exact diatribe is played out whenever the workers, whom are the vast, vast majority, demand more than psuedo-slavery.

For a quick self reference point for everyone - subsistence living, a la fuedalistic serfs, or agrarian society pre-capitalism, is so far ahead of the poverty we experience today. You need land. You need a house. Farm animals, tooling. It'd take a halfmil to get to as poor as a fuedal serf - who worked less than we do now.

If you receive a paycheck from someone, you aren't middle class, you are working class. Working class is used interchangeablely with working poor.

If your life can be reduced to you having the freedom to choose how you get to work and what to ingest to stay healthy enough to work - and that's basically it - you're a slave who pays for their own room and board. You don't actually have any freedom. You're given meaningless choices that effect society in almost no way and told you're free.

I can't even tell you how many blue collar people I heard happily taking their higher taxes on the chin. "I don't like it but I'll do my part"

They're the same as the 50s crowd that would sooner close the community pool, and fill it with cement, than let black people swim in it one day a week.

Their capacity to withstand any pain - as long as it causes another group even greater hardship - is as awe-inspiring as it is stupid, self defeating and cruel.

Id rather have that endurance in my allies, not my opposition, is what I'm getting at. I vehemently disagree with the sexism, racism and social regression coming from the right.

I think a lot of people on the right acknowledge our societies broken but conflate the cause. Punching down instead of punching up. Hopefully we can shine enough light on the issue, that economics and politics 100% can not be separated, that lassaiz-faire and deregulation are just euphemisms for the looting our institutions and the hopes and dreams the working classes have for themselves and their children.

Thats the bridge over the gap. Everyone hates corporations. Everyone.

5 years hard time served before the board flirts with parole. 5 hard years before the governor can even entertain a pardon.

Rats in a sinking ship.

You don't drown inside yourself from yourself from covid.

Your lungs rupture and are unable to uptake oxygen. You breathe like always, it just doesn't matter, you can barely get any O².

So you breathe faster. It becomes all you can do. You can't even talk it's so laborious, you just sit there, panting. Your chest on fire.

And then the unthinkable happens. Something youve likely never experienced. The muscles involved in breathing are too tapped out to go on. You tell yourself to breathe, but your body starts not responding. And your breathing slows, your O² levels fall further. You take one last gasp with all your will to live, then pass out and die.

It's lonely; utterly tragic. A terrifying, miserable way to die.

You're a joke. Peace.

This is my last attempt to reach the rational part of you. If you can't disassociate from the emotional overbearance you are clearly under than just move on now. Why waste effort if you aren't going to comprehend. Life is fleeting.

I don't expect to change your mind. I don't expect anything. This is for your benefit, if you can see it, idc the outcome, I'm washing my hands of it after I click send and I'll never think of it again.

The part you aren't acknowledging is about personal agency. Full stop. It begins and ends there.

You must think that responsible ownership of a tool is impossible. I think that's luda. I also don't need or want guidance from some overreaching surveillance/police state masquerading as a nanny state. It's always 'think about the children' being said as they take our rights away. History and precedent matter because people don't change without education. So we see education under attack too.

Being pro 2A≠advocating murder. In your monumental jump to conclusions and making an ass out of yourself with a dozen different assumptions, you have no idea where I stand on gun control, on what I think responsible ownership looks like, and what training I think ownership should require. Which tracks, you've given zero consideration to anything I've said and not concerned yourself with any overlap we might share on a vin diagram. I fall heavy left of center, in most ways you'd find an ally in me, but not in this way.

How's that car you drive? Those things kill innocent people everyday. Kids included. I'm sure you're out there leading chants at every city council demanding door to door public transportation aren't you? NO? Channeling all your efforts into just this, a single issue voter then? Got it.

To the crux

You method of communication and engaging conversation is weak, ineffective, and frankly, fucking boring. Learn how to debate and have an adult conversation. If you can't empathize with the other side you're just brow bashing.

You are failing to account for human nature.

You can't FORCE an understanding onto someone else. That's reeducation camp, conversion therapy bullshit. People don't look up to their abuser and say "gee they have a point", they dig in and double down. They tap their inner teenage angst and rebellion and remember they don't need money to say fuck you.

You insist a square peg will fit into a round hole, but don't mention the damage youll have to do to it first.

Goddamnit, I had this same fucking convo with my trans tankie cousin and I adore that little bitch. Motherfuckers. If you're trying to sway opinions to your side, YOU are responsible for your pitch. If it's ineffective, that's on YOU. You don't get to dunk on opposition and show glee. It undermines everything you do.

Fuck your feelings. If your communication is ineffective - what are you even doing? Reevaluate. Reassess. Learn the lesson so you stop repeating it, especially if you're just galvanizing the other side, ensuring protracted loggerheads.

For fucks fucking sake, fuck.

I hope you have a good life.