The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but itâs also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are âHeritage Americansâ. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
you see tons of boats like this with the quad engine at any local marina. i assume theyâre mostly just hobbyists
if theyâre smuggling people, then they just did something way way worse imo
I think itâs pretty weird. like packing a tiny boat to the gills with people seems strange for smuggling?
like after seeing this video i really am wondering now if the US military just murked a boat full of migrants
it seems strange to put 11 people on the dinghy if youâre running drugs, no?
many people are saying that this resembles medieval monarchies but no, actually they did not posses unilateral power in these areas either.
i think itâs bad that the executive can unilaterally spend money, levy taxes, and declare war idk man
how many left in the arsenal at this point?
>HEY THEY DONâT HAVE AN AUMF FOR THAT
lmao
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
surely Yglesias is conveying opinions from the suspicious proletarian masses with which he has regular contact and not using them as a hand puppet to deliver his elite preferences.
look sir, weâre working as hard as we can to keep your voters home but thereâs only so much we can do. please donât give iran a list of all our agents.
California better make it as hard as possible for Joe Rogan listeners to get to the polls or trump is gonna decommission an air craft carrier and give it to China
trump destroying the USâs long term military capabilities in order to get states to suppress low propensity republican voters
it is remarkable how big the gap is getting between *democratic voters* and the party elite on I/p in particular. not sure thereâs anything else like that right now? maybe overall dissatisfaction with how strongly the party is fighting Trump
investor money for lib publications requires outright contempt for zohran, thatâs the litmus test basically.
fascinating to me that you can keep raising money for these kinds of niche publications as long as they visibly hate people 10% left of them or layer their left leaning views through a slight reactionary tinge.
revoking TPS for Venezuelans fleeing maduro was really interesting. this mightâve been a staunchly conservative demo if they had a path to naturalization but heâs putting them in death camps in El Salvador
oh
I think we need to put these people in camps
so funny how many political cartoons made to make fun of FDR just make him look fucking cool
im afraid there is only so much edpol can do when the job listing is âtexas game wardenâ
i think "there should be no jobs which routinely involve the use of force against civilians and if any job of that sort exists, additional duties should be added to it until no one for whom that is an attraction wants to do it."
this is basically why cops canât retain college grads no matter how high they raise the starting salaries
Law Enforcement being a culturally chud profession is actually a huge problem in the near (surviving this admin & reasserting rule of law after) & long term (the actual governance problem of enforcing liberal laws) & solutions that arenât âwe should simply not have copsâ are in pretty short supply
itâs funny but american racism basically started with this (there are anglos and non anglos)
being from a majority white country like Venezuela or Cuba or Argentina doesnât really factor into their accounting. This is also hispanic immigration, which they intend to curb
itâs funny in the context of this guy in particular because heâs asking for a special dispensation on a technicality.
w/re: to immigration policy though, I donât think this distinction is accounted for at all. Like Trump does not see a difference between Cubans and Guatemalans
yeah I donât think american racial heuristics have an answer for this so itâs probably contextual. my dad was considered hispanic as a kid and probably white as an adult now that he doesnât speak with an accent.
i think youâre right that either of these people might be classified as white or hispanic but those are distinct categories in most peopleâs accounting.
i mean, Americans donât really account for white hispanics at all. They basically do not think this is something that exists
synthesis of these views is trump towns built in the Mojave
bessent strikes me as someone who might actually be housing supply pilled but the GOP base believes that density above 2000people/sqmi leads to civilizational collapse
my best guess is they end up doing some greenfield development in the middle of nowhere on federal land
this is also why a lot of hispanics thought trump meant like the indigenous groups in Central America but not the Europeanized mestizos or âwhiteâ Venezuelans. American racists donât see any difference between these groups
listening to the LA city council talk and itâs like âoh, this is some old world racismâ
the closest we get to this tbh is like big city neighborhood-ism
not sure if itâs worse to have like five dumb as shit racial categories which you overlay on the entire planet or an intricate web of ethnic grievances like euros do. seems like a question which the 21st century is poised to test
i fear Americans lack to sophistication to express prejudice toward a nomadic indo eurasian ethnic group who migrated in the 7th century to europe while being largely accepting of all the indo eurasian ethnic groups which migrated in the 5th century and abandoned pastoralism
yarvin is in the latter category but heâs still an an amateur racist compared to Europeans
tbh I think this is just another instance of americans not being able to understand advanced race theory â˘ď¸ like to even the most racist americans, there are max like 12 racial categories.
It is astonishing how badly suited Keir Starmer is to the current moment. Just astonishing
One of them is a ludicrous, inconsistent map built off insane assumptions that only an uneducated idiot could make that falls apart within minutes of any considered scrutiny. The other is from a children's books with flying brooms and magic potions
dawg what are we doing here
theyâre probably going to control f this change so i expect yes
important question!
he was so real for this
if you can break this correlation, it is a civilization-defining feat.
They don't respect REAL Americans. (State school grads who move to cities)
not of me tho, im built different
âambitious druze colonelâ made me give it a second look
i sorta assumed this was about america on my first reading bc I missed the one state part and i was like âyeah, probablyâ
trump is unironically trying to take this from us. driving our Asian supermarkets out of business
this is so fascinating
wait what
imo americans have such bad taste that our markets work worse
even the discourse kind of acknowledges this? Like thereâs tons written on gayborhood gentrification.
yeah in literally every city I have ever been to in america âtransplantâ is queer coded
seeing the lays flavors in china is like a gorbachev supermarket moment
this country does capitalism worse than the socialist countries
the correct response to these people is to laugh at them btw. this is obviously internalized shame projected at people who have real jobs.
lmao the other guy lives in fucking Long Island bsky.app/profile/pcbe...
look man, youâre a midwesterner. I donât know what to tell you.
this is like refugee stolen valor
this guy spent his entire life from his early childhood onward in Minneapolis.
related but ânobody can move to the cityâ is insanely homophobic/transphobic imo. literally just telling red state queer people to die
Sourdough bread slaps, that is all.
I can't wait until Mon Mothma maneuvers her faction to a majority vote in the Fifth General Party Congress and purges all your asses for revisionism.
partisanship is the most understandable part about this
Yes, there's just a complete rejection of the concept of individual morality, replaced with an allegiance to some amorphous sense of "public opinion". You can actually just have opinions about people! And act on those! That is, in fact, how this whole fucking system is supposed to work!!!
i do sincerely think for some it's a "none dare call it treason thing". like once they saw that people getting away with this kind of shit weren't rejected by voters they felt like they had to put aside whatever feelings they had about it
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
far cheaper apparently
i think the most angry people on Nextdoor should not be given a license to kill
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
Rome had all three! There was a reason the grain shipments from Egypt and Africa were so important. Rome could not feed itself otherwise
like âurbanizedâ premodern societies either had 1) high levels of trade/specialization between component parts of the empire 2) slaves whoâs output could be stolen and repurposed to sustain the urban population 3) concentrated urban elites who demanded 1 and 2. Westeros had none of these things
like what didnât make sense about Westeros was that this was an agricultural society with fairly distributed power structures so the cities that should not have had anywhere near that number of people
Rome was also a highly urbanized slave society, not a feudal state. the function of having regime soldier-police inside the core cities was to prevent urban riots from toppling the regime.
Rudy Giuliani was returning a set of stolen breezeblocks to a nearby orphanage construction site and taking the apprehended suspect to the nearest police station for processing, hence eyewitness reports describing him being accompanied by a âbricked up baddieâ
like it is pretty much incompatible with historical materialism as a chronological process - the foundational view which you need to hold to be a Marxist?
i am not a Marxist but this retvrn to pre modernity stuff is like the least marxist worldview imaginable?
much like politicians, if you do not pay cops, they will find the money somewhere else
note on unit 465: grass too tall - take their left hand and fine them 1 months pay
the near-term problem with modern cops is that they donât actually answer to a democratic government and we should reign them in
look, im not saying this is the final iteration of the state but i really will not tolerate retvrn shit here
got bad news for you about what preceded modern law enforcement
stiff the soldiers and scorn all other men. thatâs the quote, right?
stiff the soldiers and scorn all other men. thatâs the quote, right?
the total elite capitulation means that the remaining check on his power at is that the military probably wonât shoot anybody on his behalf. he seems like heâs really trying hard to force them to decide
the thing is that he could basically rule by fiat, possibly even secure his own regime longevity past his term, if he wasnât surrounded by people who want to use him as a vehicle to burn everything down
itâs like he wants to get color revolutioned
i believe the golfing footage because no presidential double would look that much like a melted candle