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The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.
hear me out: i 100% agree with this guy.
biden should dissolve the secret service and have his personal security be organized by the only man he can trust. a man who is above reproach. a man who knows the stakes, but plays for keeps.
did they get Dersh on the case?
i am impressed with their acceptance of the idea that 4 more years of biden is somehow going to shore up and strengthen democracy, instead of, y’know, facilitate the destruction of all democratic institutions like the first 4 years of biden has been doing.
like, somehow, the wheels have come completely off this thing and the libs are like, “we gotta do a lot more of this, even if it means the executive is controlled by an opaque committee of courtiers and the second wife of a whispering corpse.”
Chronomeat Rexidius al-Appalachi
well, that’s what i mean… being around for one of the big, intimidating shows.
and people go to the shore and watch ships. its a thing everywhere ive been, even isolated places where there isn’t much human activity to see out there. living near a coast is a constant invitation to go to the coastline and stare out at the horizon. more so if there’s a shipping lane or fishing boats or weather or some kind of activity, biological or artificial.
if you live for 30 years in a coastal community where there has been significant foreign naval activity for hundreds or thousands of years, chances are high you’ve seen a foreign naval ship and considered the context.
it must be instructive to grow up and live in places like the Gate of Grief/Gulf of Aden, the Dardanelles/Hellespont, etc and see the material flows and forces of the great powers parade and display their ships of war.
massive gunships and their support ships and helicopters perennially stirring off your coastline with flags from places half a world away, while bloated cargo ships slowly file along under the watchful eyes of 24 hour crews and the massive guns they control.
it probably makes the nature of western political economy very obvious.
a little over 10 years ago, i told some lib friends that i thought some shipping lanes would eventually become contested/untenable as US empire declined, and that even the facade of “global” US naval supremacy was a logistical and material nightmare to maintain.
they rolled their eyes at me and were completely dismissive like i was the kookiest crank that ever lived. i haven’t talked politics or current events to either of them for like 6+ years, but i doubt they would admit to even remembering that conversation.
Biden allies and staffers have sought to blame a variety of factors in the aftermath of Biden’s dismal debate performance, including that the president was ill, was over-prepared and that the CNN moderators failed to fact-check former President Donald Trump.
yeah, I think so too
Moreover, according to a senior Democratic official, the party leadership would have much more control over choosing a replacement if Biden were to drop out after receiving the nomination than if he did so beforehand. Once a candidate is officially nominated, there is a process for the Democratic National Committee members to choose a successor. Biden is the dominant force at the DNC, and his preference for a successor would surely carry sway.
they want him to wait until at least after the convention, which up until now has been an unopposed victory lap, because after that, a window for a slightly-more-democratic process will be closed and bosses in the party can handpick someone.
If Biden were to exit before [the convention], his delegates might do what he asked of them — but they wouldn’t be bound in the same way they are now. In that scenario, the delegates could nominate anyone, and there could be a political brawl at the convention.
a “political brawl” is when a handful of national party bosses can’t just appoint someone and would have to accept someone chosen by a larger group of people. Quelle horreur!
“We need to have as much discipline as emotion,” the senior Democratic official said. “It’s not politically smart for Biden to step down.”
lol, possibly the most nakedly self-serving quote in the entire article. “it doesn’t work for my aspirations if i can’t chose the nominee in secret with a handful of friends.”
wack CCTV footage in there.
growing up in FL, where the sinkholes are not due to mines, but natural processes, I had assumed all sinkhole formed from natural processes and this made them scary. void collapses rapidly underneath your house: adios!
but I guess dumbasses will build shit on top of extractive mines and be like “omg wha-happen” when that ends up doing the most obvious thing I the world.
yeah, that shit was wack. what a blackpilled, gleefully nihilistic answer to a softball question that i did not expect when i saw it.
how hard is to say, “we talked afterward and had a reconciliation over our differences. we decided our experiences could make us a good team [blah blah blah]”. instead of blurting out “i have no values, you simple-minded child! HAHAHAHA”.
i kinda get the impression that when this issue (“just said biden was a segregationist on live TV to massive applause and i’m a POC woman… how do i now join his team as his subordinate?”) was pitched around her room of handlers and fixers, they dismissed it as, “just a debate”. and rather than figure out the public messaging script, the dismissal was all that was rattling around in her xanax brain.
all behaviors from white texans are affectations. the boots, the hats, the drawls. they are a deceptive and false-hearted subspecies of biped attempting to pass as human through exaggerated mimicry.
they are not to be trusted.
i think she is rude to wall street guys when the cameras are on at those committee things, and occasionally points out discrepancies in policy/talking points or makes accusations of fraud. instead of being knowingly respectful and deferential to our great financiers of empire.
it’s minor, but it’s probably enough to be excluded for highest office.
this is democrats taking advantage of the reactionary court ruling. “voting blue no matter who” puts/keeps democrats in power that do shit like this. they do not resist conservatives. they are the conservatives taking advantage of how uncritical the DNC is of conservative politics. when the DNC decided to cram the most ancient and reactionary piece of shit in the party into the oval office, the one who
…that should have been your clue that the democrats are not interested in what voters want and are content to chose a barbaric future of repression and cruelty for the masses. and here we are 4 years later, all social-program promises broken, the economy in meltdown, with two right-wing colonial proxy wars (one internationally recognized as a genocide) in two different regions, multiple coup attempts, and war mongering against china. one is not worse than the other. one is merely different than the other. it is a symbolic distinction without a material difference.
if the democrats had any interest in doing something better, they would not be backing biden and trying to bully everyone into supporting him. the longer the party keeps him in the slot, the more obvious their lack of true concern for a trump victory becomes.
nice! after i got mine (2018), i tried to get people to refer to me with the honorific “Maestro”. it failed to catch on. maybe you will have better luck!
yeah right. i’ll stick with my 8 Week Insatiable Jackhammer™ Workout and Nutritional-HGH Program, developed by Rex Van Jungle a 4th generation Special Forces trainer who is on death row at Corcoran for executing his entire family with wrestling moves.
what kind of loser so readily dismisses the guy who tried to blow up the workplace. so long as the bomb guy was taking steps to avoid harming any of the workers, i say hear him out.
also, if a dude who can’t move or communicate with any coherency can “crush it”, it might be time to re-evaluate the organization.
sorry for torturing this metaphor, but they started it.
a lot of dems like to pretend the DNC primaries are some sort of democratic filtering process, instead of this opaque ratfuck where a handful of party bosses atop political machines in gerrymandered-safe districts horse trade and purposely make mass participation difficult with various mechanisms to disenfranchise poors, dilute or diffuse popular candidates.
i dunno if you’ve seen that rhetorical move dems make now where if someone refers to one of the party as “democrat” they say it’s a republican slur, that their party is “democratic” and should be referred to as such. lmao. meanwhile, the republican party is more democratic in its presidential primary process than the DNC. notice how the GOP couldn’t block their populist insurgent candidate, but in 2016 bernie had an insurmountable “superdelegate problem” where a bunch of party insiders would get to completely overrule the actually elected delegates. or when the Nevada primary in 2016 was abruptly ended by a controversial “voice vote” with the party chair claiming hilary won to a roomful of boos, gaveling the session closed over objections, and having the police clear out the room. or the whole “shadow app” thing in 2020 for iowa where Mayo Pete claimed victory with <2% of the votes in and winning some statistically impossible number of coin tosses… because somehow dozens of coin tosses are part of the democratic process for democrats in iowa? meanwhile, bernie still actually won iowa, then new hampshire, then nevada. so the party called in jim clyburn to crank his red state machine for biden, summoned obama to do a full court press, started ratfucking the mail-in primary voting options for an emerging covid, and had Snake Warren (who lost her own home state) stay in while everyone else dropped to bleed votes off bernie and elevate biden.
when these clowns insist that we need to vote for their shitheel to save democracy, they can be disregarded because the US presidential election has never been subjected to the forces of democracy, quite often due to the intervention of the DNC. what they want you to protect are their illusions and rituals.
the Batman vs Superman by Frank Miller had Superman as effectively being a military asset following the orders of the commander in chief / Ronald Reagan. Frank Miller is pretty fucked up in the dome, so it’s kinda fash v fash.
the setup: Batman was old/kinda-retired but Gotham became even more dangerous/violent crime, so Batman starts doing his vigilante thing again, which bothers the political leaders for making them seem ineffective to the public. then he publicly murders some baddies, and the Prez decides he needs to be brought down and orders superman to arrest him for murder.
superman is OP AF but it’s made him lazy/confident, and Batman could see this coming, so he has this entire strategy worked out, taking advantage of Superman’s “honorable” way of doing shit and Superman’s desire to bring Batman to justice, instead of just straight up killing him. also, he is Mr. gadgets and gizmos and traps designed just to hurt and confoud/frustrate superman. to batman, if he can get superman to use cruelty, torture or just kill him from frustration, he’s proved his point.
anyway, it’s an interesting, if problematic AF read. it also paints superman as basically an amoral douche for just following orders of the US president and resolving himself to never question them. like just out there constantly protecting America from the consequences of its empire.