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“And yet, I will still say that stopping this war and getting out of it is the best that we can do at this point,” he continued. “And so that’s why we are still hoping for a deal, even though we have to admit it’s a losing deal for America.”

So he doesn’t want it to continue. He just decided to publicly insult Trump’s fragile little ego as a way to… get him to commit to the deal?

Anyway in about 4 days Trump will be threatening to blow them back to the stone age again so it doesn’t even matter

Lol but only winning the popular vote by 2% against a patently idiotic, unqualified pedophile and rapist seems like a disaster on its own.

Since when was believing him a good idea? I think without some substantial evidence, the 2024 election deniers are just like the 2020 election deniers. We should absolutely look into it. But no evidence is no evidence any way you cut it.

Everyone points out that Kamala got no votes in a specific (NY?) county but it’s a religious community that is basically told how to vote by religious leaders. This is only from memory so feel free to correct/provide further evidence

Is your username a portal reference? Because from what I’ve heard that game is super fucking sexist. It’s like a misogyny simulator, right? Chell constantly getting insulted for her weight and intelligence by some machine probably programmed by a man. How could someone be so sexist as to even like that game?

That is what you sound like talking about South Park.

Not encouraging you to watch it, but this…

The show may have also contributed to ‘both sides same’ idiocy

Is kind of hilarious. I’m going to assume this is because of douche vs turd (aired 2004). It does mock both parties, but do you honestly think that the democrats never put out a bad candidate? Do you even remember who ran for dems in 2004 without looking it up? Don’t you think it’s an actual problem that most of the time a lot of people don’t actually like the candidates?

There is a deep problem in American politics, so a comedy show makes fun of it. And you turn around and blame the show for causing the problem. To be honest it is absolutely no surprise that your country is going to shit.

And just to clarify:

When Obama won, most adult characters that people like were celebrating for days. Like continuously.

When Trump ran the first time, they mocked him by replacing him with an awful existing character who ran on the platform of literally fucking all immigrants to death and had no idea what he was doing. Hilary was just… kind of shit. It’s incredibly obvious: one is awful, the other is uninspiring. Like real life where she actually managed to lose.

And in the most recent season they went harder against Trump than they ever have about a politician. He spent most of it cheating on his wife with literal Satan and trying to abort the baby with the help of Peter Theil.

In contrast, they didn’t even mock Biden as far as I recall?

Sorry to say you’ve been misled by someone who has another reason to dislike the show (or more likely, who also hasn’t watched the show)

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and your ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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Ratios and proportions?

Fucking rich coming from someone who killed millions.

But sure the social democrats are the problem, LOL

Av a proper gander at that word innit

“Breaking” news just means the story is still unfolding aka breaking

…Can I see it?

The whole truth?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your brain?

What about a thermometer?

“Extending” is the key word here. You aren’t extending any power if it’s your own nation, it would be the other party who did that.

Anyway, thanks for the link, I’ll check it out!

Kicking someone out is not “extending power over foreign nations.” That is “resisting foreign nations trying to extend power over you.”

You’re being ridiculous and clearly not taking the definition as intended. Your definition is the problem here

Ok thanks.

Your definition seems a little cherry picky. Ignoring the obvious role of hard power and over-focusing on capital seems like a mistake. But I don’t know enough anyway. Wiki’s definition makes more sense to me

Would Russia be imperialist if everything was the same except they had more finance capital and less commodities trade?

Hmm OK. I don’t think you really addressed my question but it’s fine. Everyone’s imperialist. Except Russia of course, famously progressive Russia.

Anyway, thanks for explaining what you meant

So Russia with more finance capital and less commodities trade would be imperialist, but the way it is, they aren’t?

I think I get what you’re saying now. But it seems so arbitrary. Why should I give a shit who’s imperialist by this specific definition? It would basically make 0% difference to how much Russia is a problem for the world

I see where you’re coming from now. I think if you define imperialism in that way, it makes sense that you would consider all of those countries imperialist.

When markets are fully saturated domestically, capital expands outward. Once industrial and bank capital grow, they merge and dominate the entire economy, resulting in the dominance of finance capital in the economy …

But this whole description seems weird to me. Are there any powerful capitalist countries that could avoid this?

And I still don’t think Russia could possibly escape this definition. They have BRICS and are a major oil trader. They physically are trying to occupy another country right now. They use Russian language and state media to influence Eastern European countries in particular.