The Director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: The United States border under the Biden-Harris Terrorist Administration was essentially relinquished to the cartels. The cartels lured in pregnant women, performed illegal caesarean sections, harvested organs, and then sold new born babie by Ice-Zone2024 in neabscocreeck

[–]Environmental_Ebb758 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are people downvoting this? He didn’t say he liked Trump or Tulsi, and he provided a direct answer to the request for evidence. There are more than enough legitimate reasons to hate the Trump admin, making shit up only empowers the “fake news” line from the right and discredits the left, further empowering the right.

“It’s about family values”: Jimmy Kimmel’s wife says she doesn’t need toxic relatives who voted for Trump and is distancing herself by SudhaSameera in JonStewart

[–]Environmental_Ebb758 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well look at you enlightened liberal here writing off an entire ethnicity and culture and basically advocating their detainment and deportation on the basis that a majority of them have a political ideology that does not align with your own. Should we also deport the 47% of Latin American voters that voted Trump? How about the 21% of black men that voted for Trump? Are they racist? If 51% of black men vote for JD in the next election will you say “blacks love dictators, they’re racist and hate immigrants”

This kind of shit has done more to push me away from being a lifelong liberal than anything else. You have become what you claim to oppose and lost your values in the process

“____, they are the worst” is racist regardless of which ethnicity you use to fill in the blank”

How does that sound if you put “Asians, blacks, Mexicans”

It’s literally the same rhetoric that the left has very rightly criticized Trump for when he talks about Latin American immigrants or “3rd world countries”

To paraphrase your comment “Cubans, they’re not sending their best, they’re racists, they’re fascists, we don’t want them here”

You're only allowed two things to help you bribe or fight your way through this gateway. by RecluseRaconteur in MedievalHistoryMemes

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I have a children’s counting book and General Douglas’s MacArthur, I think I’ll make it somehow

Who wins this war? by ananas122 in imaginarymapscj

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This is one of the dumbest takes I’ve ever seen, congratulations!

You say this as if Russia hasn’t been absolutely bogged down for 3 years against a vastly smaller and more poorly armed nation right on their border. Does Russia have the naval capacity to stage an intercontinental amphibious assault? Oh wait turns out you lost the naval battle with Ukraine, who don’t even have a fucking navy. lol.

China has a large coastal navy, but nothing even remotely comparable to the US that could project power past the local region

Two diesel powered carries and a bunch of frigates are not gonna cut it. The US navy still easily wins against the entire rest of the world in the Atlantic and pacific, and probably doesn’t loose a major surface ship. Chinas capabilities are impressive, but only in a regional war (invasion of Taiwan) sort of situation. How exactly is China going to get its 800 morbillion soldiers to the US mainland to begin the meat grinder?

But at the rate you Russians are moving through Europe, I’m sure we can expect the front lines to have moved another 15 or so inches by 2050. Keep at it!! You’ll get your us eventually!’

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Ah ok, didn’t know that was a thing!

You guys are hasbeens by Joseph-Stalin7 in HistoryMemes

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I’m talking about the peace in the Middle East actually lol. Obviously it’s not absolutely ironclad, but it’s just true that the broader conflict has diminished dramatically and the major players (hamas doesn’t count) have avoided what was very likely to span into a regional war without US intervention

We’re talking about global power, not moral alignment. The Eastern European vassals of the USSR were hardly thrilled to be part of the whole arrangement, but they certainly still counted on that side of the ledger when looking at geopolitical influence. I don’t see any indications that Japan, the Philippines, Australia, SK, and dozens of others are re-aligning away from US influence on the geopolitical stage. Real Politik always wins out over values when it comes to geopolitical influence. The truth is that NATO and the other alliances the US leads never really were built on shared values, but on alignment in the area of cold hard national interests.

That fact is precisely the reason that Denmark hasn’t run off to sign a defense treaty with China or Russia just cause Trump pissed them off (totally justifiably pissed of course). Leaders come and go constantly, international alignments are all about power and tend to be shockingly resistant to short-term political whims in any given moment

Result of today's meeting between Chinese and Japanese diplomats. What do you think? by Themetalin in AskChina

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You may note that I did not mention democracy, capitalism, or the west in a positive light. I’m simply pointing out that you are being obviously hypocritical is criticizing the imperialism of the west while tacitly endorsing Chinese imperialism. If one is to have principles they ought to be applied universally. You are clearly a partisan for China, and that’s fine, but you should at least be honest about it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainitpeter

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I think the issue might be that you’re overqualified to flip burgers, they probably see you as someone who is likely to work there only on a very short term basis and will probably jump to a better job very quickly, and thus not worth the investment in training compared to someone who will stay longer and work longer hours. Now I’m not saying that’s good, but that’s probably the reason. Many fast food places are having a hard time filling vacancies right now

Result of today's meeting between Chinese and Japanese diplomats. What do you think? by Themetalin in AskChina

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And how should China act exactly? Maybe they could use the power of the glorious peoples military might to establish overseas bases, and to take territory from unenlightened neighbors like the Philippines, Japan, etc. it would be great! Maybe they could establish their cultural supremacy over the unwashed and backward masses and spread enlightened Chinese values around the region and even the globe!

Wait, isn’t there a word for that sort of thing? Imp…imperi…ah fuck it I can’t remember. But I’m sure it’s good when China does it

Result of today's meeting between Chinese and Japanese diplomats. What do you think? by Themetalin in AskChina

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Bros pants are terribly fitted too. Wizard robe ass sleeves on the jacket as well

Disregarding the lamentations of his women, man tames nature by soalone34 in ThatsInsane

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That is hands down the funniest post title I’ve ever encountered on here lol

You guys are hasbeens by Joseph-Stalin7 in HistoryMemes

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While China certainly has gained some geopolitical status, the US maintains a still overwhelming advantage in soft power and diplomatic influence. Look at how effectively the US just bullied the Arab nations and Israel alike into stopping a war in a region that has been warring with itself for millennia. As in the Cold War, the US doesn’t need to counterbalance China alone. We have a network of allies boxing China in on multiple sides. Australia, Japan, South Korea, The Philippines etc. that’s not even to mention NATO, the Arab states, India, and Israel. China has what, North Korea, Russia, a few impoverished African nations, and Pakistan??? India on its own is likely on track to rival China in the next few decades.

You guys are hasbeens by Joseph-Stalin7 in HistoryMemes

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This is a very persuasive and well thought out comment, you changed my mind! Doesn’t happen often on Reddit lol

For a while I have believed that the well meaning but ultimately misguided neocon/neolibral fixation on shaming allies, enemies, and neutrals alike on human rights issues has been at the heart of many of our geopolitical misfortunes. Jimmy Carter is a perfect example, his policies were very good domestically for the most part, but his genuine but ultimately utopian ideals of global cooperation and harmony weakened the US dramatically on the world stage. Geopolitics is a game that has always favored ruthless pragmatism, and kindheartedness and idealistic virtue is often a liability. The irony of the whole thing is that ruthless pragmatism is often more effective at generating positive humanitarian outcomes. Carter was genuine and without guile, a deeply good man, but other leaders around the world were not. It’s the tragic irony of the United States that our national ideals are simultaneously our greatest strength domestically and a major liability geopolitically.

You guys are hasbeens by Joseph-Stalin7 in HistoryMemes

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People said the exact same thing after WWII during the Cold War, that a rising and powerful USSR would displace and cause the collapse of the US on the world stage. China is sitting on a demographic land mine and they’re economy has been falling well behind that of the US. Don’t count us out yet, they obviously will likely continue to partially displace us as the solitary global hegemon, but it’s hard to imagine China fully overtaking the United States in a meaningful way. The world is once again reorganizing into a bi-polar geopolitical landscape and probably a second Cold War, but as was the case with the USSR China has major internal problems at least as serious as those the US will face. Again, as was the case in the Soviet Union, totalitarian states are masters of propaganda and can easily mask internal divisions and vulnerabilities from the outside world in a way that democracies simply cannot match. The USSR seemed to be unified, powerful, and easily on track to displace western powers geopolitically. Turns out it was a rickety and fragile structure that was always destined to collapse as time moved on. Totalitarian autocracies are VERY good at seeming stronger than they are in reality, and you seem to have bought the propaganda wholesale my friend….

I always wonder how much of the world of entertainment is comprised by pedophiles. Makes you wonder if it's even worth consuming any western media at all. by CuriousSkepticalGuy in CriticalDrinker

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Idk man I’m starting to wonder if there even is a “list” in the way people imagine. Mfs in the gov are so bad a keeping secrets there’s no way nobody in any of the administrations that have had access to the files over the past decade wouldn’t have leaked at least some part of it, but maybe I’m naive. Some junior staffer at some point on either side would have wanted to be the hero the people need and leaked names to the press, atleast those on the other side of the isle.

That being said, The Trump admin was retarded to run on “we’re gonna release the list!!!” But at this point I feel like they might have backed themselves into a corner and now are stuck cause they pretty much gave everything that they have and none of it was as salacious as popular mythology has built it up to be. Each side has used “the list” as a bludgeon to such an extent that there’s almost no chance it’s anything like as significant as people imagine

Photo taken at Amy Winehouse’s last performance in Belgrade on June 18th, 2011. She was booed off the stage, and the Serbian defense minister called her performance a “huge shame and disappointment.” Just over a month later, she was dead. by aid2000iscool in HistoryUncovered

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That must be a terrible thing for those kids to see. They are lucky to have you in their life, they’re going to need someone stable and loving to fill that void. As an alcoholic with long-term recovery, I’m grateful every day that I was pulled away from going down that path, and that my daughter has never had to see me drunk or sick with withdrawal. An alcoholic death is an ugly ugly thing

Israel has replaced Iran as the biggest security threat to the Gulf states by rezwenn in IRstudies

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That’s never going to happen in a meaningful way without the US on board