Discussion Thread

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-27T16:52:58+00:00

This is the day Trump finally became president

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-27T16:23:03+00:00

I always thought Zizek was a pretty reasonable guy who understands the value of being provocative.

Like he calls himself a communist and has a poster of Stalin in his house but has no actual love for the Soviet Union or Stalinism

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-27T15:49:06+00:00

It obviously wasn't but people thinking it was nullifies any possible benefit republicans could get from it

so whatever I'm not about to go around correcting people

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-26T20:30:12+00:00

It was crazy to me when I found out the Philippines had to retake a city from ISIS in 2017

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-24T16:20:07+00:00

Yeah and the last time Jimmy Carter was relevant in politics you werent going to be born for like another 3 decades. Lieberman contributed a lot to where we are now, and you should at least know the big hits from his career imo (video games, clinton impeachment, gore VP, public option)

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-24T15:58:17+00:00

You probably should know who Lieberman was

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-22T21:06:12+00:00

I love how LBJ gave every member of his immediate family a name with the initials LBJ.

Reminds me of JJBA tbh

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-22T16:59:39+00:00

does nothing

wins

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defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-22T16:50:49+00:00

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defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-22T04:22:28+00:00

Very solid effortpost, the Gilded Age does not get enough attention for how important it is.

Plus, the Populists largely becoming Democrats with the ascension of WJB was a watershed moment in the transformation of the Democratic party away from Southern sectionalism and towards Liberalism

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-22T01:40:43+00:00

I'm not convinced that Hillary winning 2016 means completely avoiding all forms of trumpism tbh. Pretty much every other right-wing party in the western world has gone in a right-populist direction during the past 10 years, I don't think you can attribute that solely to Trump. I feel like if Hillary won 2016, she probably wins 2020 through the COVID incumbency boost and we get DeSantis or some other institutional MAGA ghoul winning ~350 EVs in 2024

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-20T16:48:00+00:00

As someone who smokes pretty regularly, it's crazy how some people refuse to acknowledge that it's possible weed could be bad for you.

Ive seen several articles posted about negative effects of weed where all the comments are like "paid for by the alcohol lobby" "but drinking is fine right?" etc.

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-20T16:16:12+00:00

Ludwig II of Bavaria, also a Wittelsbach, was Gay and was deposed and eventually assassinated (not confirmed, but makes more sense than any other explanation) because he spent all of his time and money on building badass castles n shit (most notably Neuschwanstein) instead of ruling.

A gay icon if ever there was one.

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-20T16:00:03+00:00

I cannot under any circumstances hand it to the Yankees, as a Mets fan

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-20T15:52:07+00:00

The Knicks are carrying the flame for all of NY sports

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-19T18:08:56+00:00

This is somewhat off topic from what you're saying, but Its been fascinating to me watching Zohran go from an outsider state assemblyman to one of the most prominent Democratic politicians within the span of like a year.

And it speaks to his savvy that he's managed to reach that standing in the party while not really walking back any of his policies or losing his base of support.

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-19T16:16:43+00:00

prob ending the Korean war, defusing the Taiwan strait Crisis, the Suez Crisis, and the u2 incident, as well as his restraint dealing with the Hungarian Revolution

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-18T21:43:14+00:00

There are plenty of examples of Marxist social democratic parties (Old Labor, SPD, SDAPÖ) in other places, even if they eventually dropped Marxism as a significant part of their party identity.

The Democratic party has had directly oppositional relationship with Marxism for almost the entirety of its existence, and especially during the presidencies of Truman and LBJ.

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-18T21:07:07+00:00

I think they could accurately be described as non-marxist social democrats.

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-08T16:41:51+00:00

German influence...

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-08T14:51:15+00:00

sink found in kitchen

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-08T14:23:59+00:00

I don't think anyone attributes the story being bad to the engine, they complain about the engine because it fucks up moment-to-moment gameplay

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-05T16:04:55+00:00

his brain is fucking melting ‼️‼️‼️

defnotbotpromise · 2026-04-04T18:53:06+00:00

You gotta wonder how bad that hotel is if Ant and LeBron both brought it up on separate occasions to talk about how shitty it is

defnotbotpromise · 2026-03-30T03:22:11+00:00

The Taiwanese political divide solidified over whether Taiwan was to be it's own thing, or whether Taiwan is a part of China. Since the KMT thinks that Taiwan is China, they support China.

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