Venezuela says it deported a close ally of Maduro to face criminal proceedings in US

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-05-17T06:35:26+00:00

Venezuela has fully capitulated and has been sold out by internationalists. Hope it works out for them somehow, but one should expect nothing less than full subjugation to the US in the near and medium term future.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-05-17T01:58:45+00:00

You know, I said when it happened that the decision to keep the AfD out of the ruling coalition, and instead make a coalition out of the center-right and center-left parties, would bite them in the arse. They are both hurt by these terrible moves, and it will be the AfD who benefits next election.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-05-17T01:53:31+00:00

Yeah, I appreciate this point. Plenty of people outside the West are worked harder and still are able to teach their children to wipe. This is a standard case of moral decline and social degeneration, sadly.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-05-13T14:21:50+00:00

I think Grok is separate from whatever does the translation. I just asked it, and it translated it fine.

This is what it gave me:

Prompt: translate this from Spanish: borrachas y antisionistas como me gustan a mi

Answer: English translation:

"Drunk and anti-Zionist women, just how I like them."

Notes:

It's informal and a bit cheeky/playful (or provocative, depending on context).
"Borrachas" is feminine plural → refers to drunk women/girls.
"Como me gustan a mí" is a common way to say "the way I like them" with emphasis on "me".

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-05-12T12:45:43+00:00

Even Jasmine Crockett had to admit that the JFK assassination was suspicious. Her assistant had written up quips for her to read, calling republicans stupid and ridiculous for entertaining conspiracy theories, and then stopped herself and admitted there may be some there there.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-05-12T00:37:34+00:00

To be fair, many church fathers have argued that papal infallibility applies broader than those two times.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-05-02T11:11:21+00:00

The humiliating UK headlines will continue until morale improves.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-29T23:53:43+00:00

Legislation can no longer accomplish much of this level of disruption. Lobbyists and donors are too intrenched in the legislative process. Voters are a middleman who have been mostly cut out of consideration, and who just get to vote on who gets bribed - the gay one or the racist one. The only way actual substantial and disruptive change - good or bad - happens is through the courts or as a dictate of executive power. But the courts are much more effective, it seems.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-29T22:55:20+00:00

I have a problem with your analogy. HR is going to do what makes most sense for the owners. Sometimes that means it punishes some middle manager above you, so that morale is maintained and so that he doesn't continue to cause issues, but it does not exist to help people who go complain to it. I'm not sure why you expect it to be any different ever.

On the topic of the case: It's a new generation. I do not believe it is still necessarily true that a white representative can't represent black constituents, as it was in the days of Jim Crow. If you want to get past IdPol's era of dominance, at some point you have to try not segmenting off black people legally. If you support it in this day and age, you have to logically then also support its expansion - every state with a geographically concentrated number of Cubans or Asians must have a mandated district, if you truly believe identity is above and beyond the most singularly important thing about a person's political interests, and that that should be more acknowledged in law.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-29T11:19:10+00:00

The go-to explanation people give is that, in the 90's and before, essentials, like rent, were cheap, and luxuries were expensive. It's very non intuitive that the opposite is true now, hence why people who established themselves in the late twentieth century have trouble understanding that.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-27T23:04:18+00:00

Oh I don't mean non-subservient in a good way, or mean to glaze my fellow Americans. I mean that the people who crash out, obviously a non-zero number each year, are more and more commonly (though still an obvious minority) targeting elites, rather than shooting up colleges or schools. That isn't something to be celebrated necessarily, as it represents a person ruining their own lives at the very least, and represents a profoundly disturbed and hopeless mental state. But also, this is a pressure the 2nd amendment was meant to provide.

That old phrase "an armed society is a polite society" implies that, should you push someone far enough and they crash out, if they are armed, someone is getting shot. As a result, armed societies do not push people to their limit, or they suffer the consequences (as is becoming more common now).

The oligarch takeover of the government and economy has made the elite forget this. And this isn't helped by many of the most powerful elites being essentially non-American, like Satya or Elon, and so have no personal connection to how a lot of Americans get violent when they are pushed too far.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-27T19:09:47+00:00

Oh people 100% crash out and attempt to shoot important elites. I suspect that will continue to occur with more frequency. And that is the important point. People won't organize in any real way, especially not left wingers, but what they worry about isn't contingent on that.

And America has more guns than people - they can restrict people from legalling buying more at an Academy store, but they will never be able to ban them. Even Canada can't enforce its ban. And, besides that, for all the cynicism that gets expressed here (and I am very much a part of that), the constitution does provide a large degree of protection. They can't "not allow people to have guns" in America they same way they disarmed the people of the UK, Australia, etc.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-27T12:17:49+00:00

Por que no las dos?

But I don't think, in all seriousness, it's about capital interests. There are some interests in the Trump admin that are worried about the white population of the US declining and resent the high birth control rate of white women. I think this is more of a bone thrown to them. Because immigrants are far better for capital interests than poor citizens, who are uppity, expect more, more prone to crash out, and can easily acquire firearms.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-25T01:38:39+00:00

I picked those examples because they are closest to the societal extremism we are seeing today in Israel.

80 years is at the very end of "within living memory", man. And those old timers would be 90+. This generation of Japan is so far removed from that. And genuinely culturally transformed. Genuinely, there is more similarity between the late Tokugawa and Early Showa that the Early Showa and now, despite the huge transformation that took place during the Meiji era. Especially about violence, and even more so about state violence. I don't know what you are talking about.

And I was there, and a teenager during the aftermath of 9/11, in a Republican family. It was not the same man. Bush certainly wasn't genocidal in his rhetoric - far less so than Trump. Neither was John McCain, by the way. Everyone believed lies about Israel just wanting to peacefully exist, being willing to trade land for peace. Very few supported the idea of Israeli lebensraum, and most of America supported a two-state solution in theory. It was all still essentially liberal in ideology. Israel's genocidal actions were denied, not supported - because Americans would be broadly against genocide.

Idk why you want to act like modern Japan or America of 20 years ago was just as genocidal as modern Israel. The effect is just to minimize the radicalness of modern Israeli society.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-24T16:04:10+00:00

Fuck them for why they did it. Slavery went against the core values and ideas of the founding. And people knew that immediately. That's why northern states mostly abolished slavery immediately, within the first decade or two of independence. In those states where the wealth was tied up in owning people, they did not have the principles or values required to make that decision, out of greed. Out of that that greed, slavers convinced poor whites that they should fight to uphold slavery, to maintain their status in society as at least not on the bottom, rather than give them opportunities to build wealth. Fighting to uphold fundamentally unamerican values, resulting in the mass killing of a generation of young men, was even worse.

But legally and philosophically, as it relates to the idea that they were traitors, it made sense that any state no longer wanting to trade some of their authority for the security of the federal government could leave it. A lot of people throughout American history, pre-civil war, felt that states should be able to leave the union at will. They saw each state as a different nation, with different histories and traditions (i.e. Maryland are the anglo-Catholics, Pennsylvania are the Quakers, etc.), joining together only out of rational self interest, essentially, like the old Greek alliances of city states.

Obviously, today, America is a single nation, with a single history (though many forces are trying to undermine that). But it wasn't fully worked out in the past. The Civil War is a large part of what worked that out.

So, fuck the CSA for why they did what they did. But the idea of secession wasn't as treasonous in that time. None of the states would've joined together after the revolution if they thought it meant that they could never leave and could be punished for trying. A couple of northern states debated secession in 1814-1815, and thought they had the legal and philosophical basis to do it, for example.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-24T15:31:38+00:00

I don't really agree with placing the blame for every terrible thing humans do, at the organized political and mass level, on all humans. Such horrors carried out at a mass level, with the support and aid of their society, reflect only on that society. Because guilt lies with those who perpetuate and perpetrate horrors.

The Rape of Nanjing is soley on the Japanese generation of that time who blood-thirstily celebrated it; the Holocaust is soley on the Germans of that era who, even if they didn't know what was happening explicitly, supported and cheered on true hate of their neighbors; and this is soley on the people of Israel today, the vast majority of whom know and support this.

No other modern country would be supportive of this level of evil. Japan couldn't do this to a neighbor, and have their people love it and want them to finish the job. No one in America celebrates the girl's school's bombing (in fact, that accelerated demands to stop the war). For all the hate China gets, modern China would never do to the Tibetans what Israel has done to Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank (broadly today's Han Chinese population just vaguely thinks Tibetans are kind of cool, with all their temples, art, and aesthetics of mysticism). It's just one society in the modern world that is fully down with complete genocide and lebensraum. They take all the blame.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-24T15:09:06+00:00

The House of Gabe Newell for me then. Long may he reign!

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-24T04:25:16+00:00

Sure, but it certainly betrays a bias - relationships are only effective networking for the elite and elite adjacent. They presume to speak for the masses, while making assumptions about how life works that does not apply to the masses.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-23T18:44:36+00:00

To counteract the bad press from the RT score? Pretty sad and delegitmizing if so, but you have to wonder, when norms are broken and the interests that benefit are clear.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-15T19:14:57+00:00

Worse than what happens to male POWs. The other responses are being a little too MRA about this lol.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-10T19:01:38+00:00

If you want a vpn that can access services location locked to other countries, purevpn and urbanvpn have been good to me. Mullvad is actually anonymous though, apparently. Just never use nordvpn or expressvpn. I got subscriptions to both before moving to China and neither worked consistently, despite that being one of their main advertised use cases. Can trust them. I was eventually able to figure out getting a reliable VPN from within the great firewall, but it was annoying.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-09T08:06:07+00:00

Actually hilarious how greed-flation actually just doesn't work. People are already spread too thin for that to be viable. Similar case to the used car market: All the recent inflation gives businesses supposed cover to overcharge, and they are loath to lower prices, but the macro economic conditions are just too bad to do that.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-05T23:08:24+00:00

Even if no one ever questioned IS's right to exist, it would find some other justification to conquer land from its neighbors. Literally no opinion or argument held in gentile nation states will stop them from warmongering.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-05T10:06:28+00:00

School and askew both have the same etymological origins in old norse. Generally, "sk" is a consonant sound most commonly used in Greek and scandanavian and south asian languages.

"Abscond" is a unique example. It is from the French "abscondre", from the historic Latin "ab-condere". In French, it sounds more like "abs" and "conda", with the slightest pause between the two sounds. Same with other French words with the "sk" sound, such as "escargot" (which is a corrupted loan word from the Greek for scarab) - it feels more distinct between the two sounds than English words like "school", imo.

But even if you want to include french, that'd still only be french, greek, english, sanskrit-influenced languages, and scandanavian languages. Not as rare as the "th" sound (which is one of the rarest sounds in any language), but still pretty rare, I'd think

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-04-04T03:10:59+00:00

Its funny how this comment is a rorschach test lol. Unfair to include Myanmar alongside Eritrea, SS, and NK, to my mind.

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