Greenleaf

Afaik she is anti-abortion but wants exceptions for a number of things. This was the standard republican position before Roe was overturned. Still probably the majority position but the nutzo evangelicals and trad caths have become all about removing any exceptions and prosecuting the woman involved in an abortion with murder, so Haley might as well be pro-choice to them.

Americans are all mostly genocidal freaks looking for any excuse to support war

Support war that directly involves the American military. I don’t think Americans care about proxy wars. They all want their Michael Bay movie type wars - their brave American troops bravely vanquishing the cowardly enemy who hates our freedom. Americans absolutely love rallying around the troops and pretending we’re all in this together blah blah blah. Neither Ukraine nor Gaza fit that bill, though. Most Americans don’t want to give Ukraine any money and Biden’s support for Israel is what’s driving his recent nosedive in popularity.

I sort of passively follow electoral politics and I have never heard of Ryan Binkley until just now.

DID THEY GET HIS SEMEN IN TIME?

A few minutes ago, you said you’ve never blown up a pipeline. If that’s what you think is necessary, why haven’t you?

Is anyone here familiar with Makoto Itoh? Is he a pretty sound theorist? I was reading some passages from a book he wrote, and it’s very insightful. But whenever I came across some 20th century academic Marxist I’ve never heard of I always proceed with caution.

I’m confused, I watched the show all the way through twice and didn’t ever really catch anything like that going on. Just a pretty funny show that was refreshingly unproblematic (and also, they knew exactly when to end it before it got stale).

Well I just found my new favorite emoji.

Made me sad in the first half, then delighted in the second half.

Vostok watches

The evil, authoritarian CPC consistently has approval ratings >90%.

And polls show a (much) higher percent of people in China feel they live in a democracy than do Americans.

1.) Russia is not conceding any territory they currently control. And Crimea is about as much in play as St. Petersburg.

2.) Russia will not accept Ukraine being allowed into any military alliance with NATO, and will not accept them being a member.

Russia does not need to budge an inch on those two points because they are winning and outside of NATO getting involved and starting WW3, Russia will only be making gains, not losses.

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Europe is all talk about picking up the slack

This might be true in the very near term. The problem is the Euro population seems to be increasingly fed up with it all and I don’t see that trend reversing. If Le Pen wins the presidency in France on a campaign of ending support for Ukraine; and if AfD picks up a ton of seats on a similar platform; and various parties in smaller countries do likewise… how long do you think that support will last?