"We'll show all those pointy headed smarty pants who's boss!! We're taking over!"
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I didn't have this on my bingo card when i was growing up. I was told we were the science superpower and the best country in the world.
Now you realize they were all lies.
And the NY Times helped. Carrying water for war criminals lost the dems the election. Heck of a job, NY Times.
the dems are very capable of losing an election on their own
The paper of record.
America is likely unique among superpowers, as it is INTENTIONALLY trying to commit suicide. Other empires throughout time died from disaster, neglect, and "fuck that guy", but never quite in this fashion.
America has no reasonable excuse for what it did to itself, and will be a case study for millennia to come.
It's also speed running with destroying itself. Although the signs had been there for a few decades now, the way it went down with trump was just amazingly fast and interesting in a morbid way
It would be kinda neat if Summoning Salt did a mockumentary about the Trumpian Speedrun. Maybe in collaboration with BobbyBrocolli.
Millennia seems wildly optimistic on this trajectory
Guess we have to recommend kids who want to do real science in their future to learn Chinese or Korean.
This story is brought to you by the NYT in more ways than one.
A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
I think united states is envious of chairman Mao and wants to have their own cultural revolution too. Already had the military parade that outshone that of President Xi. Now have to outdo him in killing academics and intellectuals.
I think they view the downsides as temporary pain to achieve an end goal, which is an ethnostate for white people. Their philosophy hasn't been under the table at all, they say societies which benefit only one race (and obviously falsely, one set of beliefs), are better than those which have internal strife. All of this is laughable, since Israel has achieved as close to an ethnostate as we've seen, and yet they're unsustainable.
These people have failed upwards their entire lives, so they all feel confident that in the event of failure, they have the capital to smash and grab before the end using insider information. They're the worst humans on earth.
After years of giving a platform to climate change denialism, transphobic fearmongering, pearl clutching over too much woke at liberal colleges, both-sideing the efficacy of vaccines and indulging in Covid conspiracy nonsense, the NYT has finally achieved its goal.
It's time for America's Great Leap Forward.
What a perfect moment as we are at the edge of a cliff
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Yeah, but we got to own the libs. Are we not "great", again?
Also, outlets like the New York Fucking Times get to pretend to just float above it all, being "objective" in their reporting, because - say it with me - "both sides".
We definitely are something again. The hate for the mere mention of "progressive" in this country is baffling. Like a toddler that doesn't want to grow up.
It's especially stupid because we tend to poll progressive on the issues. And yet we keep getting regressive policy.
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Yes we will destroy ourselves, but think of all the libs that will be owned!
Well the country was colonized by religious nutjobs that didn't like the rise of intellectualism and enlightenment in Europe so this is rather more of a return to form.
That is a gross simplification. We're the first people here great people? Absolutely not! But to boil them down to one zinger is very dishonest, at best. And remind me what was going down in Europe around that time? Oh, the church was murdering people that didn't prescribe to their very specific belief structure, including scholars?
Here's some good key words for you to try searching the next time you're making shit up about that time period.
Hasbergs
Fredrick V
Matthias
The "first people here" were the natives we massacred
To be fair the pilgrims were offered sanctuary in other countries first and then got mad that everyone wasn't exactly like them. That said a lot of the other initial colonizers were people being outright evicted from their home countries for non-religious reasons.
Hasbergs
Habsburgs?
Fredrick V
Who? There were lots of European monarchs of that name and number
Matthias
Who? It's a pretty common name.
You're right. They were also a bunch of genocidal hypocrites who, "believed all men were created equal" yet enslaved multiple continents while raping their way across it
who, "believed all men were created equal"
Who claimed to believe...
Its not in danger or peril, its already dead. China is already the leader.
All because Russia has a tape of Trump "assaulting minors".
White People Twitter is your citation? Social media was a mistake.
I mean, it's probably true. Those tapes almost certainly exist and Putin has means to get them. But also, yeah, almost certain is not a fact. This is one of those cases where citing can only reduce the credibility of a statement by pretending there needs to be something more definitive than, "well, obviously."
There were at least 3 beyond highly likely sources for the concealed tapes:
- Epsteins island center where things were recorded
- A backup in Epsteins Manhattan office location (which had its safe opened after which the fbi left, came back later only to find the safe empty.)
- Ghislaine Maxwell who was rumored to know of or have a location of her own.
Seeing how Putin is very adept at working in shaded circles it's very reasonable to assume he now is in possession of a copy.
Not even unthinkable that epstein sold/gave putin a copy himself when he went there when Trump also had regular personal dealings in moscow.
There's a much simpler way, Trump has been visiting Russia since the 80s. Their government could have just set it up when he was over there and filmed it.
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