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Greenland
At some point you’d think that calling your country a predator would cause the mouth to stop moving for a bit.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
I’m not stealing your paycheck. I’m controlling the cash flow from it.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Yeah this is SUPER unconstitutional.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Please Make It Stop
I hope this kid is FUCKED.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
Fair enough, as very few people self-identify. What is undeniable is that a host of public officials on the left have done a rhetorical or actual about-face to a more enforcement, law and order-oriented approach. There is a spectrum between “public safety” and regulation enforcement that is not bright. Many issues are not “safety” in the sense of violence but remain quality of life issues— shoplifting, vandalism, vagrancy, public nuisance. These give an impression of disorder and unpleasantness and people vote with their feet by just avoiding places where this is a problem, and eventually vote with their votes. They can’t just be dismissed as “part of a big city.” Not even a reactionary issue, Marxists recognized that the lumpenproletariat— vagrants, swindlers, petty criminals, the chronically unemployed, panhandlers, pimps, drunks— lacked class consciousness and did not engage in productive work. Under Communism they were mean to disappear naturally but the theorists were vague on what to do with the extant anti-social elements. Mao toyed with the idea of using them, but realized their presence negatively polarized the peasantry and so chose to do work and re-education camps. The Soviets passed a host of anti-parasite and anti-hooliganism laws to deal with them and made them either sweep streets or packed them off to penal work colonies. If you talk to people who lived through the collapse, no one really misses the ration cards or government stores. They do bemoan the reappearance of деклассированные элементы into public life and the failure of the new capitalist state to defend the interests of нормальные люди. I would be fascinated to see someone actually pitch Marxism or an off-shoot. Make shoplifters and vagrants sweep subway stations or something under the watchful eye of baton-wielding militia recruited from the young cadres so they develop an ability to engage in productive work. Not that I’d vote for it. Just that there is a mechanism there to address issues instead of a lot of assurances that more social workers will fix it.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
Well, the mayor of NYC doesn’t have the levers to create a police state. He does have plenty of levers to really fuck up law and order and there’s a track record of the far left doing exactly that at the local levels. There are also perverse incentives to do it because creating structural change in things like real estate and housing markets is hard and you run into extremely powerful equities capable of pushing back but you can rack up quick “wins” with things like tweaking enforcement priorities.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
The Constitution is in fact designed to prevent the executive from raising his own sources of revenue to fund things he wants to do.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
My experience with shitposters and edgelords of all types is that it’s only shitposting until the Overton Window shifts. Mamdani will succeed or fail based on whether the technocrats or ideologues win battles throughout the institutions. Law and public safety will be most important because success in delivering any public service— transit, housing, public facilities, parks, education— is downstream of safety and order. This is incidentally where the only moderately competent communists and hard-leftists have course corrected and managed to deliver a few wins, and where most western hard-leftists wreck themselves.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
Being a Communist is a symptom of a disordered and incompetent mind. She will be unlikely to do much widespread damage but is axiomatic she will not do anything good. There has never been a competent administrator who has actually believed that stuff. The two don’t go together.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
Her posts are not about land trusts. I think its absolutely fair to call her a communist. Or someone who supports electing communists.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Please Make It Stop
This kid can get bent. I desperately hope that UW is able to force him to stay and they should bench him after he’s played enough games to use up his eligibility that year. Start a whisper campaign about attitude and character, locker room cancer, etc. I’d do that if I were Fisch. He’s gotta have fuck you money by now.
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Greenland
More likely we will again try to purchase it from the Danes and then will be rebuffed, then we will try to pressure the Greenland government to sign a Compact of Free Association and declare independence all at once. Accompanied by the stupidest hybrid campaign ever seen. A reminder that Greenland has the population of Wichita Falls. A reminder we don’t need to really land a small expeditionary force” since—- WE HAVE A MILITARY BASE THERE. I could see an option “C” to infuriate the Danes so much they try to revisit the terms of those agreements which we’d use as a “no choice” excuse. Luckily the Danes are a sober and intelligent people who are not prone to fits of pride. Petition to have the Kingdom annex us for like, 50 years.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
This is exactly what our Constitution was designed to prevent and at this point any benefit of the doubt— if you had it— is gone.
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January 6 revisited five years later
The stab in the back!
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Nothing says “avatar of the will of the people” like your entire palace guard consisting of foreigners.