remzem
1d ago
The third world isn't naive enough to think the USA brings prosperity to 3rd world countries these days with the last 40 years worth of examples. This is a western conceit.
remzem
1d ago
The Monroe Doctrine had the tradeoff of staying out of Europe and non-american continents. We aren't pulling out of Taiwan and won't the ME as long as congress is owned by Israel. This is just a convenient framing for this one specific issue, globalism being sold as the Monroe doctrine.
remzem
1d ago
Nope, it'll eat up airwaves until the midterms. Americans want to focus on America, that's why he's been dropping so hard in the polls for the first year. Immediately started to bomb and lost basically everyone under 40 after the Iran stuff and Epstein. They'll lose the midterms by a landslide and it'll be nothing but downhill from there. You older voters just don't understand the newer generations. I'd expect a short term bump as the brohaha low T people feel bigger for a bit. Then steady decline to the midterm losses.
remzem
2d ago
Yet it takes a kid youtuber to catch billions in Somali fraud at home. At this point I'm pretty sure the US has been run by the CIA since at least Kennedy and all the rest of democracy, the federal government and congress is the equivalent of handing your little brother a controller that isn't plugged in when he wants to "play nintendo" with you.
remzem
2d ago
Boomers did. I don't think the younger generations will given the current debt level.
remzem
2d ago
Seems like that ship sailed ages ago. Even before this you had MTG leaving and Tucker criticizing him, while Pence and Bush praise him. I think at this point the question is more how much this will end up tanking Vance? He's done almost nothing to separate himself from the Epstein coverup, the foreign wars, etc. Just kinda sat in the background and done cheerleading when asked. Seems like his chances are going up in smoke.
remzem
17d ago
I think it's mostly the US importing foreigners and their grudges. It's primarily Rubio's thing, he's an anchor baby of Cuban refugees. There's a lot of focus on Israel and they probably approve as well given Venezuela and Iran's ties, but there is less focus on the huge failed elite caste that was outcast from South American countries and has settled in the Florida GOP which as a lot of influence with Trump. The neocons of course approve because this keeps blood flowing to the forever war machine until Trump can get decimated in the midterms and they can send 100s of billions to Ukraine again, but this is mostly Rubio and that foreign influence group's thing.
Yes, either Zelensky/Rubio will be successful in convincing Trump that completely unrealistic demands on Ukraine's behalf should be added, in which case Putin will reject it and the neocons will push Trump for more sanctions. Or Z fails and Trump has an excuse to finally bail and pull intel and support, dumping it on Europe. Either way the war continues and the outcome is the same, just the timeline changes.
Conservatives really need to learn that the corrupt swamp cannot be taken out with the corrupt swamp's own tools. Buy guns people. You aren't fixing things by voting and things will only get worse.
edit: since I forgot how feminized this place is and don't want to get accused of fed posting. Rawls was a moron, institutions are downstream of culture. Our culture is shot, institutions will continue to degrade. The people that will inherit what is left will be people that have high trust and cohesive cultures + birth rates + guns (security). If you really want to be double safe find one that already has parallel institutions, like education (religious communities) money (crypto?) etc.
remzem
1mo ago
The most shocking thing is that Rubio isn't even doing this to protect Americans. Rubio is doing this on behalf of a foreign country.
remzem
1mo ago
Seems like framing the "Big 5" liberals score higher on Openness to Experience, Cons to Conscientiousness through a Christian European historical perspective. As far as I remember those traits still predict political orientation even in cultures that don't have that specific history though. So it seems more likely its a conflict rooted more in human psychology and not specifically European history or Christianity. Vaguely remember reading some evo pysch theories out there about disgust response protecting against disease and risk and curiosity leading to resource / knowledge accumulation, but evo pysch always felt like a pretty non sciencey science to me.
remzem
1mo ago
You don't seem to understand what "don't trust your lying eyes" means. It means trust me over your own experiences. A random maximally emotionally exploitative WaPo article is not my own experiences. My own experience is that there are still far too many foreigners out and about so ICE needs to step it up, start denaturalizing as well.
A better example would be what the Trump admin is trying to do with affordability and food prices after their shellacking during the elections. People feel that the economy is still bad and things are still too expensive but they're on an all out blitz to deny this and claim prices are down. This backfired for Biden (vibecession) and will likely backfire for them as I don't see many conservatives buying it.
How does blowing up a few tiny boats require the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group? The tiny boats and drugs are the pretense for what is coming.
Consent is currently being manufactured https://x.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1981866833549635597
remzem
2mo ago
It's just a flimsy excuse for regime change cooked up by Neocon Rubio, who has been regularly sabotaging Trump's foreign policy for the deepstate. American's are getting killed by fent and meth, almost all of which comes from Mexican cartels and Chinese precursors. They are mad about this and want someone to stop it. So here comes Rubio to... park 20% of the US navy off the coast of Venezuela which acts as a smuggling hub for a small fraction of cocaine that enters the US (more goes through there to Europe). Cocaine is a drug and it can kill but its more of a posh party drug, it's a white house party drug. It's not something that is killing the poor on the street.
It's all very obvious, this is why they blow up the ships coming for Venezuela instead of recovering them and they don't bother prosecuting the surviving crew and just repatriate them. Otherwise we'd find out there is no fentanyl. The globalists are just taking advantage of populist anger and Trump's naivete to continue their unprovoked wars of imperial aggression. Venezuela will get new leadership courtesy of the tax payer's dime and its oil will go to Rubio's globalist friends.
remzem
2mo ago
"Egalitarian" societies have really not been around long in the grand scheme of things and the wheels are already clearly coming off with cratering TFR and solutions like mass migration causing massive destabilization. If anything the fact that no society that put women in this position ever lasted long enough to become dominant until after the industrial revolution seems to paint a pretty different picture of whether this is a positive thing. At current rates Europe will be ruled by patriarchal muslims in a couple centuries and the US by the amish.
remzem
2mo ago
Why though? This seems irrelevant to the point of the article which is how institutions function under the different gender styles. Men commit more crime, but if masculinized institutions actually severely punish that crime then it gets deterred and controlled. Under feminine institutions you get catch and release or things like the UK covering up rape gangs over racial concerns (not compartmentalizing and neurotically worrying about how justice effects perception of social groups). This seems clearly worse as men don't stop being masculine with feminized institutions, the rest of society that isn't low functioning is just even more impacted by this subset of males.
remzem
2mo ago
Mumbai is crowded. Would you like to live there? Libs worried about rogue ai paperciip maximizers destroying humanity but it turns out they were the paperclip maximizers all along.
remzem
2mo ago
I have a family member that lives in SoCal and they've recently built higher density housing along the freeway and metrolink stop there. The result has been a massive spike in local traffic, the shopping centers nearby are so crowded that they no longer even bother going to them and generally avoid businesses near the freeway, opting to drive to grocery stores and shopping further away. Lights back up to the point that they routinely get stuck stopped at green lights waiting for the intersection in front of them to empty near these areas.
Doesn't really seem like it'd take a genius to figure this out, but it turns out that just because you live next to a metrolink or freeway or other "quality public transit" doesn't mean you will hop on one or hop on the freeway and drive 30 minutes every time you want to leave your house for basic things. Maybe some people use it to commute, but the local area is still negatively effected. Whatever small shopping centers they might build into these higher density housing can't compete with all the amenities offered by the preexisting suburban sprawl. So you basically just end up plopping a bunch more people in an area with roads and parking lots not equipped for it. Also, the rent on these places wasn't any lower and rent has continued to rise precipitously in the area.
remzem
2mo ago
What kind of resistance?
Ramming an ICE vehicle with a car multiple times while armed seems like a bit more than malicious compliance. Every single time a car leaves or enters the ICE facility there it needs riot police to stop protestors from throwing rocks and otherwise attacking the officers. Your post is complete propaganda.
remzem
3mo ago
If they wanted accountability they would just requires id numbers to be visible but keep those ids separate from their personal identity so they can be held accountable without also risking lynch mobs. Newsom clearly is just engaging in stochastic terrorism.
remzem
3mo ago
eh, he also said, "The left has never played by our rules. Only we play by our rules. Our rules are what keeps our side from winning. We either want to win or we will lose under some delusion that the rules mean anything."
remzem
3mo ago
ou know there's also an interesting thing to consider in right vs left violence discussions. The gender gap!
Or you could just poll people.
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52960-charlie-kirk-americans-political-violence-poll
Very liberal more likely to say its acceptable to be happy about public figures deaths and more likely to agree that political violence can be justified.
This really doesn't seem like anything new for any South American ruler to contend with given the US's history in the region. They'd have to contend with internal rivals constantly anyway. No one that takes their rule as granted and gets complacent will ever last in any position like that.
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