remzem
10d ago
It's play acting. The same people with the crocodile tears over this were laughing when people were getting locked up for protesting not being able to see their dying loved ones during covid and had no problem with the complete suspension of rights when it was their team in power or jan 6 protestors getting solitary for loitering. They regularly vote unanimously to extend the patriot act overreach, etc, etc, etc.
remzem
11d ago
It's all play acting. Most of the American's that are "frightened" about this deportation don't actually think they are at risk for being deported. Where would they even deport actual Americans that didn't come here as looters? Most of em are from parts of Europe. You're gonna threaten someone by deporting them to the UK? Germany,? Scandinavia? Most of the left supposedly want that.
What they think is at risk, and correctly as this is what the actual fight is over, is the shadow government. By circumventing all the procedural nonsense and bureaucracy that the establishment has built to defend it's own interests Trump eats away at their power. The arguments they are posting here are the same sort of fake outrage and concern they were pushing about Elon gutting USAID or how social security was going to collapse and stop working if you audit it, or really anything touching any of the many other appendages of the shadow government.
remzem
12d ago
If he were actively using it to censor and promote his own viewpoints I'd call it buying power, but since beyond a few erratic bans over personal grudges he is not it doesn't really qualify. More like liberating the public square.
Yup, that's me. The biggest lib on the Motte.
It's all relative. You are far to the left of me.
remzem
12d ago
A single non censored source of information vs completely managed media = buying power. I think libs are just used to having complete authority over communication via control of media, hollywood and the power of false accusations of the various "isms" to deter any critical speech and formation of grassroots organization.
It's such a load of hypocrisy. Like the whole Bernie, AOC nonsense tour. The Oligarch has bought our government, Trump is Musk's puppet. Trump? a puppet? I think he's easy to manipulate, but he's not someone you buy. Meanwhile they ignore that the dems are propped up by Gates, Bloomberg, Soros, Cuban etc. and the last guy they installed up as president had to literally be led around by handlers and fed his lines.
remzem
12d ago
I don't really see how it is "buying" power. Musk and Trump shared similar ideological paths. Starting as moderate dems that became disillusioned with an increasingly authoritarian left as their business projects hit endless red tape and corruption while interacting with government. Spoke up about it and got the state media attacking them. It's not at all surprising that they ended up influencing eachother, they're friends.
If you're referring to the election in general money wasn't the deciding factor, Kamala outspent Trump by like 50% or something, 1.6b to 1b. So whatever power was bought, less of it was bought by Trump. He won on policy.
Soros follows the traditional shady lobbyist m.o. where he doesn't bother trying to convince the voters like Musk does, he just buys low level politicians, or influences vulnerable populations, low iq minorities, vulnerable children at college campuses. It's not really the same.
The left mostly has themselves and their incredibly rigid ideology to blame for Musk.
AIPAC would be the more relevant group to compare to Soros. The things Musk is doing are all things Trump ran on. War with Iran and taking the territory of Gaza are not.
remzem
13d ago
It's pretty blackpilling. The US has basically devolved into a nation of crack addicts. If Americans aren't literally fat, and most of them are, they are spiritually fat. Endlessly chasing fulfillment via the next product purchase while never actually finding it. Capitalism is great at giving people what they want, and what they want is to be a cancer-esque fleshy growth on a couch in front of a screen.
Endless dollars flow to China, where they are spent on housing, industry, energy projects, military that dwarfs the US's in efficiency and output and soon will in size, and so on. While in return stuff that will be in a landfill in 2 years flows to the US. Housing is in a crisis, energy grids are strained, infrastructure is crumbling, industry and even the knowledge to build and repair stuff has been offshored. Meanwhile Americans are up in arms (as long as its via a screen and doesn't actually involve lifting something) that they will have to buy a new iphone every other year instead of every year. If tariffs get really bad all the modern cell phones where you can no longer replace the battery might make it to their planned obsolescence age!
remzem
14d ago
ah yeah, I didn't realize you were reducing them to black and white. That I don't agree with at all, they both suck.
remzem
14d ago
That was the view during the old failed historic post cold-war order. That order failed rapidly. Now we take a dim view of spending our money to play world police.
remzem
14d ago
North Korea has nukes and hasn't used them. Pakistan hasn't used theirs against India. If those two have managed to avoid nuclear war I really don't find the hamas or Iran suicide argument that compelling. Even if they were they'd nuke Israel and get obliterated in return before they went for the US anyways.
remzem
15d ago
If Israel were an independent country I'd sort of agree. They're both crap and I don't care if they all kill each other. Israel is the US elite's sugar baby though. So the more often they sabre rattle the more often daddy USA has to spend a few billion of our tax dollars to divert a carrier group to the region to take care of Bibimbo Netanyahoo and save their trade routes or what not.
remzem
15d ago
Do... do supreme court justices not know that El Salvador is out of their jurisdiction? Or do they think because Trump is within their jurisdiction they can force him to send a Seal team to extricate an illegal, possibly murderous gang member, migrant that will just get deported again anyways? How do they expect to get this man back? Does facilitate just mean Trump calls and asks in a sarcastic voice for him back and Bukele knowing Trump doesn't actually want this says no. Then Trump throws up his hands and we move on? It's bizarre the amount of effort and resources globalists will tie up to keep the whole illegal immigration grift going.
remzem
15d ago
I wonder if the people picking AfD in polls now have finally discovered conflict theory, or if they are still mistake theorists that will all evaporate next election when the CDU lies to them again.
remzem
15d ago
16 verified and 150 "according to Zelensky" in a war with something like 500-700k per side is volume to you? There were far more North Koreans than that and even that was nonsense propaganda trying to drum up more public support since they seemed to just be in it for the chance at real combat experience not as a real supplementary force. If China wasn't being mostly neutral Ukraine would be wiped out by now. There'd be 1000 grean swarms daily with their industrial capacity.
remzem
18d ago
Eisenhorn was pretty good and would fit this I think. He's a rather grey character even from the crazy perspective of the Imperium
The Malazan series maybe? personally dnf'd it since it lacked character focus and development for me but if you dig worldbuilding its kinda king.
The Sun Eater series by Cristopher Ruocchio, one book still not out, but you'd have 6 to read to catch up. MC starts out idealistic but things change quickly.
The Bloodsworm saga by John Gwynne recently finished. I'd say it's borderline, characters are mostly following their own motivations, killing is just part of their world, maybe a bit of commentary on slavery but it doesn't feel like a modern sermon it is guilty of the fantasy thing where women have unrealistic combat ability however.
Powder Mage series and it's sequels seemed to mostly avoid this but it's been a while since I've read them so I could be misremembering.
The Witcher series would probably fit this if you haven't read it.
Been recommended The Black Company by Glen Cook a lot for this sort of fantasy, but haven't personally read it yet, on my to read list.
Just started Heroes Die, part of the Acts of Caine series as I was looking for something similar to what you're describing after how guilty of all this Sanderson's latest was. I'll update if it's any good I guess.
If you don't mind manga Berserk fits, and it's not fantasy but I just finished oyasumi Punpun and that story definitely doesn't sanitize it's characters thoughts author might fit your sadism complaint though, even though the characters don't.
remzem
21d ago
10 million illegals? Child abuse and mutilation mandated by the government?
remzem
22d ago
The conscription thing isn't really true. Russia conscripts twice a year starting in april and october every year and has done so dating back to the soviet era. Western media seems to always run the story like clockwork around this time of year despite it not being anything new. They might end up on the border and could see combat there, but the people fighting in the territory of Ukraine are voluntary or mobilized reservists, with the caveat that the voluntary come from very poor regions and receive significant sign on bonuses.
remzem
23d ago
Already denied by Trump administration
"This ‘scoop’ is garbage," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X on Wednesday. "Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete."
remzem
25d ago
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.
remzem
25d 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
26d 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
1mo 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
1mo 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.
Calm your tits It's not happening, though now that I think about it, if it does happen it's probably not a bad thing. The left has become increasingly violent and anti-semetic, with the blm riots and polls showing most of them are okay with political assassinations, they are a very dangerous group, more dangerous than muslim extremists even. They really have only themselves to blame.
(that's not happening and it's good that it is)
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