remzem
4hr ago
Another week, another "Democratic" European country banning the leading opposition candidate from running.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to a five-year ban on running for public office for embezzling EU funds, a major political earthquake. The ruling, which takes effect immediately, is likely to bar her from running in France’s next presidential election
and people think these are our allies? We should be sanctioning them, not paying for their security and subsidizing most research, pharmaceuticals, etc.
remzem
21hr ago
isn't she only latina on paper? Her dad is argentinian, but he's half scottish half english. Her mother is from zambia, but she's half english half spanish. So she's maybe a quarter spanish, the european sort. That's why she doesn't go for latina roles despite speaking spanish and growing up in a spanish country, doesn't want to risk the woke furiosa. Funny to think she's only American because her parents happened to be passing through though. If the birthright citizenship stuff gets undone she'd no longer be a citizen.
remzem
6d ago
I mean putting a disclaimer that you are going to ignore the obvious valid counter to your argument doesn't really work.
College campuses have been riddled with death to America and racism towards whites for ages. It's not until they start shouting death to Israel that the government takes action. It's clearly has nothing to do with furthering American interests and we should point this out.
remzem
6d ago
Vance said that he was out doing an economic event in Michigan in the group chat. So it seems more like he just didn't have the opportunity to bring it up with Trump.
Something I found more interesting is speculation as to why Waltz had Goldberg already added in signal. Seems possible he might've already been leaking to the press and accidently added the journo instead of opening a chat with him. He's probably the least "team Trump" member of Trump's administration other than Rubio.
remzem
6d ago
With how many neocons are still infesting the admin and how leaky they tend to be it actually might. Not if you invite random journalists though.
remzem
9d ago
eh, they're still better off than Europe. Ethnic German tfr isn't any higher than ethnic Russian. The Europeans have inflated their numbers by importing foreigners, but this is actually a long term detriment. Currently in modern countries you need around a 70iq to at least function, but with ai and multi function robots around the corner this is increasing. Wouldn't be surprising if around 85 is needed to function by 2040-50. Assuming we aren't all obsoleted by some kinda singularity level event.
Majority of immigrant populations are maybe 85 iq. So about half of them will be societal deadweight, at the same time the productive population is declining. It's worse in some places, somalis are maybe 70 IQ, and they have a TFR of 5 or so in Sweden.
Really only east asia is looking good these days. US might just avoid Europe's fate if populism can kick out the globalists. Oceania despite their best efforts might be saved by geography. It's east asia's century though.
remzem
10d ago
Except Trump has been far more explicitly White identitarian than past Republican candidates and he is doing better with minorities. Meanwhile the dems are the most openly ethnic spoils and patronizing to minorities they've ever been and they're losing votes.
Seems White identitarianism is something asians and latinos paradoxically find appealing. Maybe they just prefer a cohesive world view to the chaos and racial spoils systems of multiculturalism? I mean when white supremacy culture is things like expecting people to be on time, or be quiet and respectful in public white supremacy doesn't sound all that bad.
Or maybe they think of themselves as white (for the latinos)? Either way going back to the pre-Trump era republican strategy of trying to run latino candidates or do stunts like Bush delivering a radio address in mexican seems like a losing idea.
remzem
10d ago
/r/conservative is regularly brigaded by liberal reddit users that upvote RINO comments. It's pretty dead now, everything is on x.
remzem
10d ago
Probably for the best that the stuff in museums just gets locked up in some Indiana Jones esque storage somewhere given the current religious hysteria among that class of people. Otherwise they might end up throwing it all back in the dirt like in Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/mungo-reburial/105014182
remzem
12d ago
Nah, its his second term and he came back with a bigger win than he had in 2016. Can't point to Trump as being some erroneous figure that mind controlled millions of Americans into voting for him. Even in 2016 this was copium from the establishment, the polling data showed that he was more in tune with the voting base than the old guard neocons. Isolationist populism is here to stay.
If anything Trump is popular enough with his base that the more he pushes the more the Overton window will shift and the more things like torching NATO or militarily taking Greenland become acceptable. I mean we have conservative talk show hosts that are fairly main stream now noticing how odd it is that no other country is expected to be multicultural and to not have a dominant ethnicity or culture. That would've been unthinkable on a major platform 10 years ago. Its the kind of thing citizens had to whisper about anonymously in dark corners of the internet.
remzem
12d ago
Private entity, whose board of directors is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Except for the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State and President of the National Defense University who are ex officio members. Very private industry. Definitely not another CIA front trying to keep its regime change operations hidden away from public oversight.
remzem
14d ago
substantive criticism = cheesecake_llama is a drug addict that broke their brain with drugs because I disagree with their political opinions?
remzem
15d ago
Is there something about this post you wanted to discuss? or are you only posting it so you could quote autistic people making awkward digs at other autistic people? boo outgroup via proxy.
remzem
24d ago
I think if we're all being honest there is an actual difference between wars of aggression by a major world power and in Europe than elsewhere in the world. Wars of aggression by smaller players is one thing but major players is another. I think it's in everyone's benefit that the major powers stop it, right?
Kosovo?
remzem
30d ago
After they scolded him for not being thankful enough Zelenskyy has gone on a tantrum on twitter doing a copy pasted thank you to every world leader other than Trump. lol
remzem
30d ago
American hyperagency strikes again!
Okay if it's not our war then it shouldn't make much of a difference if we just pull all funding and stop providing intelligence?
remzem
30d ago
As opposed to, say, holding a peace summit with Russia without inviting Ukraine to the table, which didn't legitimately hurt relations?
I mean the Europeans had peace summits with the Ukrainians without inviting Russia. At least the US and Russia having a meeting about their proxy war involves the actual players instead of completely irrelevant countries.
remzem
1mo ago
Not really true, Putin has offered deals on Russia's rare earth minerals in it's new territories.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdx7488g5o
Seems unlikely to happen either way, any meaningful security agreements and Russia just continues grinding Ukraine down and refuses to deal. On the other hand westerners are still adapting to multipolarism and the idealism they could afford under the old unipolar order being gone. So making a deal with Russia for any sort of resources would be a hard sell right now.
remzem
1mo ago
That's an interesting neocon fantasy, but the text was leaked https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-the-full-text-of-the-final-us-ukraine-mineral-agreement/
remzem
1mo ago
It's a nothingburger. The more important stuff to watch is how the US and Russian talks go.
The full text leaked https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-the-full-text-of-the-final-us-ukraine-mineral-agreement/
and it states that only new mineral reserves will go to the fund. Which won't be happening any time soon given the condition of Ukraine.
The Government of Ukraine will contribute to the Fund 50 percent of all revenues earned from the future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets
It's also not to repay us for all the money Biden wasted, it's just to invest in Ukraine.
Contributions made to the Fund will be reinvested at least annually in Ukraine to promote the safety, security and prosperity of Ukraine, to be further defined in the Fund Agreement. The Fund Agreement will also provide for future distributions.
It provides zero security agreements either. Basically it was an attempt by the deep state to further entangle the US in it's Ukraine mess. Except Trump didn't want to provide security, and Zelensky didn't want to give away 50% of it's current mineral wealth to crony capital US contractors that'll "rebuild" Ukraine while skimming off tons of the money for themselves, USAID style. Not without security guarantees at least.
So the deal got watered down to nothing.
remzem
1mo ago
This still doesn't make sense to me, debt spending isn't an alternative for increasing the labor pool. The debt will have to be repaid or it will simply spiral and the welfare state will collapse, and Germany is even more constrained by being part of a shared currency whereas the US is not and the dollar benefits from being the world reserve currency so our money printing decisions are our own and costs can be foisted off on the rest of the world to some degree.
There's also a limit to productivity based on labor that doesn't change by throwing more money at it. If you want a bunch of infrastructure projects military or otherwise and your labor pool is limited spending more money would increase demand for foreign labor and the pull factor, not reduce it.
This is all hinging on the neoliberal assumption that more immigration is an economic boon in the first place as well. When it comes to Europe and most of their migrants being MENA or sub saharan this doesn't seem to be the case.
Pretty similar to Trump, byzantine campaign finance rules that no one really follows only get maximally enforced when it furthers the interest of the ruling elite.
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