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alcoholicorn

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  • "Joe Biden's fault"

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  • People like you silencing dissent is precisely how the DNC deluded themselves into believing they could win while running to the right.

    The only time we see the democrats accede to popular opinion and do the things they need to get elected is when is so exceedingly obvious that there is no other path that they can't pretend otherwise, and the moment that pressure lets up, they will stop. They only told Biden to drop out when he had no path to victory, and the moment Kamala looked like she'd win, the dems embraced every policy that had killed the Biden campaign.

    They had polling data, they knew that banning tiktok wouldn't increase their chances to win, but they did it anyway. They knew that sending cops to kick the shit out of politically active college students wouldn't help them win, but they did it anyway, because they thought they could do that and still win.

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  • You don't need to receive money to spend money if you print money. The purpose of taxation is to reduce the monetary supply.

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  • Federal taxes don't actually work that way. The federal government prints its own money. All taxes effectively go into a giant shredder and are unrelated to spending.

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  • That division is much, much older. The beltway is full of people who benefit from corporations or come from wealthy families and are materially aligned against the working class, and their ideology reflects this. These people as a group stand to lose more from the democrats moving to the left and hurting the bourgeoisie than winning than staying in the middle and losing.

    This is a common dynamic historically; liberals in power need the people to maintain power, but their interests aren't aligned with the people, so they pass policies that marginalize their own base of support, and so the conservatives take power and then do counterrevolution.

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  • Further evidence that the democrats can be moved if we don't let them maintain the delusion they can win while trying to be republicans: The entire party told Biden to drop out when it was clear he had no path to victory.

    Sadly Kamala was allowed to believe she could win while embracing the same policies and messaging that killed the Biden campaign. Instead of screaming at the party to campaign on overwhelmingly popular left policy necessary to win the election and use every power at the democrat's disposal to accomplish it, blue MAGA told anyone pointing out that we're headed back towards the waterfall to shut up and paddle harder.

  • What hyped thing did you fall for that you now regret and have to live with?

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  • VR had such a bright future around 2014; between VRChat, tech demos of VR browsers, big players like MS and Sony getting into VR, and generic hacks to port old games to VR, it seemed obvious that companies were going to start re-releasing old games in VR (since you couldn't run modern AAA games) and most every app would support VR and multiple users to make better use of the network effect.

    Except instead 99% of games released for VR were just underwhelming tech demos and the only people who pursued creating a metaverse were short-sighted, rent-seeking, cryptobro parasites.

  • What hyped thing did you fall for that you now regret and have to live with?

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  • Try flipping it.

  • ‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting

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  • I never thought of that, next time I talk to a Russian I'll ask. I suspect was probably more like watching Newsmax given the role Russian media plays in maintaining power. There's probably an editorial explaining why Yeltsin getting drunk and falling in a river in DC was actually a diplomatic masterstroke.

  • ‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting

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  • Protecting the people in eastern Ukraine was a justification they used, which they wouldn't have been able to use if the right-wing government the US propped up in kyiv hadn't passed discriminatory laws and failed to stop azov and friends from shelling them.

  • ‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting

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  • Putin wouldn't have been able to occupy the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine if he invaded out of the blue, there would be a massive insurgency, let alone justify the necessity of the invasion to the people he depends on to remain in power if there hadn't been a coup.

    But yes, Putin would never have come to power and former USSR countries wouldn't have a problem with right-wing nationalists if we hadn't supported Yeltsin's coup and then intentionally immiserated the population during the 90s.

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  • They've been on this trajectory since 2014.

  • ‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting

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  • Was Putin also calling the shots when Europe's deal required Ukraine sell off its ports and power grid?

    Ukraine was always going to get stripped for parts, that's why the west invested billions in making it happen.

  • It's not what it looks like!

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  • Evil was winning, we're watching the collapse of the evil empire from within.

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  • What are they supposed to do? Tell their audience to run into the woods and start a protracted people's war? Get in non-productive arguments with even less-informed chatters?

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  • As others said, the topic is likely to come up, I am trying to prepare OP to have a respectful discussion instead of going in as some "debate me" redditor who thinks he can change an expert's mind armed with cable news and wikipedia.

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  • Do you really think you'd be prepared to debate someone who has direct access to primary sources and has been paying close attention to those issues due to literally living there for much longer than you? The fact that you thought you'd debate them instead of learn says enough.

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  • Congrats, you can understand why everyone in the comic is reacting that way.

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  • Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.