you think I’m defending the genocidal losers

If the shoe fits

15% of russian GDP has already been seized

Do you know what GDP is?

obviously there’s no accountability under this administration

When was the last administration that experienced accountability? Even Nixon got a pardon

You’re assuming a level of competency that the current FBI and DOJ have not demonstrated they possess.

one side sucks so clearly that means the other side is absolutely perfect

It’s funny to hear liberals defend the genocidal members of the Democratic Party by insisting “we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”.

But when you’re a guerrilla resistance fighting of the Japanese at their most bloodthirsty, or a country that’s painstakingly recovering after suffering more bombings in a year than all of Europe suffered in four, the bar gets raised through the roof.

You idealize tyranny and oppression

You are living under a totalitarian regime right now, you big dummy. You don’t seem to mind.

It’s jibberish. Might as well be calling Trump a TERF or complaining that Andrew Cuomo isn’t Italian.

totally-not-zionist “lefty” Mandani

What?

Obviously, the solution is US slavery

US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

More rats sensing the ship is about to sink

Nah. Loomer is a chronic attention seeker. She’s just saying anything that will get her name in the headlines one more time.

In a few years time, depending on what happens in the next year, you might think that the entire MAGA movement was a hallucination

They’ve straight up murdered people en mass. They’ve “doubled Gitmo” with their concentration camps in Honduras and El Salvador and God only knows where. That’s not something you can just undo or walk away from.

If MAGA feels like a hallucination in another few years, it is only because of a massive cover-up by the Still Extremely Fascist media. It will be a prelude to another fascist surge and another wave of totalitarian violence.

You: I consent

Host: I consent

Cloudflare: Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?

FYI, the debt will be paid by Russian war reparation

The EU equivalent of saying Mexico Will Pay For the Wall.

War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land

Western financing to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment program that has required austerity and privatization measures, including the creation of a land market for the sale of agricultural land. President Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector. Findings of the report concur with these concerns. While large landholders are securing massive financing from Western financial institutions, Ukrainian farmers — essential for ensuring domestic food supply — receive virtually no support. With the land market in place, amidst high economic stress and war, this difference of treatment will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses.

Ukraine’s been operating under the same Shock Doctrine that came for the rest of Eastern Europe following the collapse of the USSR (and much of Latin America and Oceania before that). The government is perpetually in a state of debt to its EU neighbors and it is constantly hemorrhaging state property at cut-throat prices to lowest-bidder private interests.

The looting of the Soviet sphere isn’t new and it isn’t the result of the Russian invasion. But the sudden acute need for foreign cash, combined with the mass displacement of Ukrainian citizens, has accelerated the process enormously.

One of Trump’s most persistent habits is to peel the mask of the Neoliberal Deep State and reveal the beating heart of Fascism beneath. Every other President would issue weasel words, parade about in defiance, and then quietly bend the knee to the Saudi Prince behind closed doors. Trump slaps MBS on the back and says “Killing journalists is based” right there on national TV.

The latest batch of released files has included some of the laziest and most haphazard redactions I’ve seen since Bush was on his way out in '08. These Congresscritters aren’t wasting staff time on cleaning up their info-dumps. It’s all just going out the door every Friday.

The latest traunch of emails has already clipped the wings of Larry Summers, Michael Wolff, Peggy Siegal, and Kathryn Ruemmler. I don’t think its a coincidence that Prince Andrew was getting the heave-ho weeks in advance.

The Epstein Files are leaking like a sieve. By the time we get a full accounting, I’m curious to know what’ll even be left to reveal.

If you’ve seen what was in the last batch of Epstein emails/texts, it shouldn’t be a surprise. That’s the shit they leaked? What are they holding back? My god, how many Obama staffers was Epstein buddies with? How many Israeli MPs? Put the whole of Lower Manhattan and half the Hamptons on the god damned sex offender registry. Dude was everywhere.

The man is absolutely radioactive. Never even mind the Republicans, there’s zero chance Chuck Schumer wants anything else getting released. Epstein could bring down everyone in DC over 70.

Rep. Clay Higgins

I guarantee you he’s Eskimo Brothers with Roy Moore

I see through your sarcasm. This is a Reddit-tier bannable offense. -100 Credit Score Points. Don’t make me report you to your landlord.

I don’t hate everyone in the middle east

Name one good Arab.

Are you saying everyone in the middle east is part of these organizations

I’m saying you know virtually nothing about the region, you’re just regurgitating the bigotry you’ve been force fed since kindergarten.

I respect Cuba 1000x more than China.

I think the most telling indictment of the Chinese government is its failure to extend aid to its ideological allies abroad, whether that’s Cuba or Kashmir. But when you’re lifting 200M people at home out of poverty with industrial improvements and agricultural modernization, its hard to complain. Beijing has done an amazing job of not-getting-into-wars. More than the Russian Soviets managed by a long shot.

Unfortunately, they’re still a one-party state without free and fair elections.

You could say the same thing about California or Florida. What’s annoying is that “one-party state” is held up as some kind of indictment without regard to how popular the party is. Like, I hate Texas politics, but I’m not naive enough to believe the state lacks a Republican majority. I’m not going to hold Cuba to a higher standard, simply because they’re venerating Che Guevera instead of T. Boone Pickens.