There’s only one way out

That’s right, we need to VOTE!

It’s the one thing leftists have never tried before. So get out there and HIT THE BALLOT BOX!

You will have two choices

If there’s one thing a leftist can always trust, it’s someone standing in a position of authority and saying “You’re Either With Us, Or You’re With The Terrorists!” and then demanding we swear unswerving loyalty on pain of death.

it’s the responsibility of all Americans, regardless of how you voted

Well, you first. Tell us how your plan works out when you get back.

US developers and commercial investors (along with their European peers) are going to move on all that vacant Ukrainian real estate like Joey Chestnut on a hotdog cart. So much of what has kept Ukraine going to date has been Zelensky eating foreign debts that far exceed his country’s GDP. When the bill comes due, Ukraine’s going to be crushed harder than it was after the USSR collapsed.

The US will be more than happy to turn Ukraine into the next Israel, flooding it with western settlers and carving it up into a thousand different micro-states.

Once the war is over regardless of who wins you now have a large number of people specialized in drone warfare re-entering civilian life.

We’re already seeing this technology pop up throughout Iran, across Africa, and among both state and guerrilla fighters in the South Pacific. For all the lauding of Ukraine, the folks who are really making the most of this are Houthis and what’s left of the Wagner Group.

One of the ironies of this conflict is how many of these smaller militias are running circles around Silicon Valley tech firms - your Andurils and Mithrils and Raytheons and Northrop Grummonds. The Pentagon is spending a cool milly a unit to send up Reaper Drones that get knocked out by some particularly clever goat farmers with $200 in parts from Temu and a bootleg Starlink subscription.

Americans have been shitting on Mexico for the last 200 years. It’s amazing how long they were willing to eat it up and ask for seconds.

replace white with Han

The first foreign policy you’ve proposed that I like. Let’s take this idea global.

still has no direct evidence

Questioning the testimony of a German white nationalist with a professed declaration to Christianize all of China when he says that the CCP is stealing the organs of Chinese residents based on name-comparissons between phone books year-to-year is actually Holocaust Denial and I won’t hear any of it.

I’d rather live in Xinjiang than be a black American any day

I gotta say, there’s a real critique of China that does single out how the state police services treat Muslim Uighurs as the kind of subject of overpolicing that’s comparable to the treatment of black residents of St. Louis or Houston or Miami.

I strongly suspect living as a poor Muslim person in Xinjiang isn’t as far away from living as a poor black person in the Gulf Coast as leftists would like to believe. It’s just fucking obnoxious to see neoliberal shits declare “And that’s why we need to point a bunch of missiles at Shanghai!” while simultaneously crying “Why don’t black people vote for us?!!! They must have been tricked by Russia!!!” every two years.

Interesting “West vs rest” moment on French TV with the President of Congo, the 2nd biggest country in Africa.

The host asks: “Are you saying that the Chinese or the Russians behave better than us, Westerners, currently, in your opinion?”

“Oh absolutely!” he replies, “You don’t quite understand African realities… it’s astonishing to see how we are very distant in terms of cultures. We cannot understand why you come to give us lessons, for example, on human rights.”

Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.

~ Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia

Well, that’s just antisemitism.

Mods! MODS! If this was Reddit, you’d be so banned right now.

I had a Sonata that I drove into the ground over 15 years. Loved it. Only gave up on the car when I got rear-ended and my insurance decided to total the vehicle rather than pay for repairs.

The very same.

The nature of human language, I suppose. The modern usage of a politically charged term can often run away from it’s original intention.

There are multiple organisations invested in rating democracies worldwide

And they all want to put tracking cookies on my phone when I visit their websites.

Your first link - EIU - is to a financial services company. Your second is an info aggregator that just links back to the first. Your third link keeps thrusting a poorly designed “Donate Now” splash screen that I can’t close in my face every time I try to scroll the site.

Their assessment of the US democracy

Is just a number you can point at and say “Big Number Good!”

Which is fine if you’re here for the jingoist American Exceptionalism. I can dig around in Yandex and find some metrics in Alexander Dugin’s “The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia” that lay out why Um, Aktuly, it’s post-Yeltsin Russia that has the most virtue and the greatest pluralism and the strongest rule of law and blah blah blah.

But if it’s just a number you get to point to, without any foundational theory of why you came to it, then you’re the Pabst Blue Ribbon of political theorists. “It got a big blue ribbon! It’s the best! What more do you need to know?”

Chinese democracy is an oxymoron.

It’s so funny to see what Americans think of as Real Democracy in East Asia.

You’ve got Taiwan, with it’s Parliamentary brawls over procedural motions. South Korea is on it’s sixth Presidential arrest and prosecution. Japan has elected an open and notorious fascist intent on re-militarizing an island on the brink of an ugly recession. The Philippines president and vice president are each conspiring to kill the other. And, in every one of these countries, you barely need two hands to count the number of families that outright own the economy.

But China has a single big popular party that consistently delivers economic growth and quality of life improvements and safety and ecological reforms and education and health care and housing. And they keep winning these enormous landslides of popular support. That proves it’s Fake Democracy, because, I guess there’s not a second Evil Party full of people who want to ethnically cleanse everyone in the first party.

The CCP strait up sucks too.

Ffs, why? I read this constantly. Nobody seems to be able to explain why a CCP bureaucrats is materially worse than someone from Norway or Indonesia or Brazil or Australia.

It’s always just “China did something bad! Do not compare it to any other country, it is uniquely bad because it is Chinese! No, I can’t really explain the thing they did. But it’s worse than genocide, I promise.”

Obviously, it’s English Lit, because you’d only get one for the articles

Congratulations, you’ve made Audible weird.

The last four people to try and assassinate the President lived somewhere between Pete Buttigieg liberalism and 4chan Libertarian on the political spectrum.

So much of this screaming and crying about the “political left” is Republicans trying to work themselves up into a big enough lather to burn down a Synagogue with a “In This House We Believe” flag out front.

It’s the same hysteria that got whipped up over Muslims after 9/11, “Woke” during Obama, or COVID masks/vaccines. As deranged as it is misplaced.

The dispute is over whether it should be a military base of a foreign power

Every other carmaker will do the same if it works

most Christian dominations are rather chill nowadays and recognize each other

I mean… kinda. My Jewish father peaced out of a Methodist service that he decided was too antisemitic for his tastes. I’ve sat in Catholic mass where the priest was a very thinly veiled White Nationalist. Second Baptist, in Houston, only exists because too many rich oil money shits decided the First Baptist Church was too Woke.

We’re not at 30 Years War levels of interfaith schism. But there’s definitely bad blood, if you know where to look.

Mormonism literally extends the Bible with some American Exceptionalism shit.

Plenty of the American Churches do that. Hell, even the chill ones. My friends go to a Unitarians Church that do readings from the Declaration of Independence and Emancipation Proclaimation. I’ve been to churches that proudly hang the Stars and Stripes above the pews. One that hung the Stars and Bars, even.

That’s not unique to Mormonism.

Might as well list Catholicism under Judaism if sequels to holy scriptures that alter pretty much everythivg count as the same religion

Literally what “Judeo-Christian” implies

Mormonism quite literally does not fit within Christian theology

I have it on good authority that it is the only religion that TRULY fits within the Christian theology, and it’s all you other guys who are wrong.