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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
And to add another made up grievance to the pile so that they can claim Ukraine isn’t negotiating in Jeddah and keep support turned off. -
I have exactly zero percent sympathy for this person’s activities or views but it is impossible to view this any other way than a blatant attempt to deport someone for protected speech. They haven’t even provided examples of his support for Hamas rhetorically, just that he led a campus protest.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
The Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee endorsed Trump because they thought he’d get Imran Khan out of jail (no) and now they’re begging Trump not to go through with a Pakistani travel ban. The leopards wanted Desi cuisine.- 9930 replies
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Here is video of the terrifying gray haired Banderities assaulting our poor embattled veep and family.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Curtis Yarvin explicitly wrote that Europe should all be under Russian domination, complete with masturbatory prose about Cossack cavalry hooves on Parisian cobblestones. Very typical of Russophilic lightweights whose entire experience is reading some Dostoevsky and Lermontov and maybe a couple weeks of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Just a complete disconnect from the Russian world as it exists. They’re like Weeaboos except they control our government.
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My favorite part of Ana’s bit is his firm belief that imperialism and interventionism is bad but at the same time Russia should get to explicitly tell Poles, Czechs, Balts, Ukrainians, Moldovans, and anyone else within their “near abroad” what alliance they can join.
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I will fully cop to believing that refusing to believe what Russians say to each other in favor of Western technocratic explanations that we understand better is a big reason why we are all here today. The thing is that Russia doesn’t need a reason to invade its neighbors. When Russia is weak, it lashes out. When it’s strong, it takes what it can. When Russias neighbors start to get too strong, Russia gets nervous and attacks. When Russia’s neighbors are too weak Russia seizes the opportunity. Russia, contrary to Russophiles’ fantasy, is a massive and well-armed nation that has more and not less agency than all of its neighbors. The only field-tested way to keep Russia in its box is to extend the Western deterrent, clearly and decisively.
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“Would a real fascist do X policy” is a fools errand because fascism, its implementers, and its philosophical forefathers were explicitly anti-rationalist and uninvolved with political science as we know it. This is especially true of the economy, which Hitler was notoriously uninterested in. Franco did an about-face between planned autarky and market reforms and saw no conflict with the fascist state. Fascism is an anti-rational mood or vibe that places collective “national greatness” and the interests of a nation (inseparable from the state as controlled by a leader) above all else while completely subordinating the individual and attacking or eliminating those defined as outside the “nation”. The economy is an instrument to achieve those aims and there are no prescriptive economic policies or even political principles. Even racism isn’t required, an out-group can be selected along other grounds. A genuine theocrat or free-market zealot might be brutally authoritarian but would not be “fascist” because elevating a faith or the market above the “nation” and its leader is antithetical to fascism which identifies “national greatness” as the highest metaphysical, spiritual, and temporal value. In the past I’ve been cautious about using fascism to describe anything in the United States, preferring “authoritarian” even for DJT. But I believe that MAGA has coalesced into a fascist movement. MAGA’s instrumental and incoherent stance towards market economics and Christianity (where the latter two may be useful, but MUST be subordinate to MAGA) rhymes with historical fascism. The rhetoric about Americans being ready to suffer economic hardship to restore America is very fascist. And on the economic front, the emerging partnership between tech and MAGA and especially Musk is resonant of fascism’s relationship to industry.
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1. JD Vance is lying, the protest was down at the end of his street and he had to go seek out the protesters to engage. 2. I’ve been to pro-Ukraine protests with my own children. JD should take the advice of Czech hockey hall of fame Dominik Hašek.
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But Anastasis doesn’t even have to take my word for it. Putin explained why he invaded for 90 minutes to Tucker Carlson, which was the perfect venue to rant about NATO and shock therapy. Instead he explained that Ukraine isn’t a real country and he took it because Russia wanted it, with references to Rurik and the Zaporizhian Sich. It’s absolutely incredible how asshole Russophiles simply refuse to let the man speak for himself.
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Ana has a view, common to university undergrads, that the world basically operates like a man playing billiards by himself, where the player is the United States and other nations ricochet about in pre-set courses because of what the United States does. It’s very stupid and reductive. Shock therapy and its legacy is a topic of hot debate across the former eastern bloc. It’s important to know that “shock therapy” was a set of economic and market prescriptions to guide nations towards a more open economy. The corruption, gangsterism, and political dealing that went along with it in Russia and some Soviet states (including Ukraine) was not part of the prescription, was not necessary, and was a choice made by the people who engaged in it. Former Warsaw Pact states like the Czechs and Poles went through the process too, as did the Balts, to dramatically different results and dramatically lower (but not non-existent) levels of banditry. Russia’s behavior is a choice made by Russians. Poor, persecuted Russia is not forced to march into its much smaller neighbors and take things to defend itself. It does that because for centuries it has been a predatory, expansionist empire and Russians continue to see the world in those terms.
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Incidentally Russia’s hostility towards any successful small-l liberal neighbor closely tracks with MAGA’s anger at Canada. It’s not about trade or defense spending or anything else. The simple existence of a successful more liberal nation so close to MAGA is seen as a rebuke and potential threat to a paranoid and authoritarian regime.
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This is unironically as close as you can get to actual coherent Ana thought on this or any other question.
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Russia felt so threatened by NATO that in the half-century following World II it invaded two members of its own counter-NATO defense bloc and forced a third to implement martial law upon threat of invasion. It’s just astoundingly stupid to make the argument that Russia needs a NATO threat to invade and subjugate its neighbors, they are more threatened by their own treaty allies than by NATO. The common thread in all of them as well as Ukraine and Georgia is that Russia is threatened when its neighbors choose to liberalize internally.
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Modern diesel electric boats are quieter than nuclear powered submarines when submerged and running on batteries. We don’t use them because we need to perform global extended patrols across open ocean. For the German (and Swedish, Norwegian, Italian) mission a diesel electric boat is not just cheaper, it’s better.
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