This new cold war is stillborn. As educated middle class Chinese youth become more active in western media, peace will be more appealing than war. Military escalation is unlikely but not impossible.
@matildabress
Hi! Former Diane staffer here. Thanks for your concern, we're really broken up about her passing. We used to love the office Christmas parties where we would wheel her down to the capital tunnels, each pull off a finger nail and then leave her there till new years
@ByYourLogic
Mad man strategy. They're trying to show Hamas that they don't even care how many 20 yo TikTok baddies they lose because the next one has already been collected by the semen squad and is 18 months away from officer training
@JStein_WaPo
There's no way this distribution of wealth effects politics, right? Like the people at the top don't donate to campaigns and own consulting companies and media companies and politicians that legitimate the system tho right? We still live in a democracy or somethin? Coke or Pepsi?
@PopulismUpdates
The dog is CCP affiliated. Commander Biden is the known former vice mayor of medium sized Chinese city "Jinan". Commander was communicating directly with Xi Jinping and the rest of the standing committee, most likely.
@BecomeGoblin
Yeah. You should check out factory farming now. Pigs, cows and chickens depending on the farm don't even have enough to lay down and they often get sick because of the unclean conditions
@NateSilver538
@TheStalwart
If capitalism reflects human nature, why did Europe have to do imperialism to get Asian and African goods before ww1? Why couldn't they just trade?
@ProjectLiberal
The British empire starved 10s of millions of their colonial subjects to death in British India despite being the most wealthy, powerful, liberal, empire until that point. Any thoughts on that or are you just about posturing?
@ettingermentum
I love the contrast between the pod save guys saying everyone needs to work extra hard to get Biden reelected because Trump is so dangerous and then Biden just constantly trying to lose but get praise from cable news outlets while doing it
@USA_Polling
Lmao. Why even ask this question? Most Americans don't know what either word means. Capitalism is what Republicans do and socialism is what Dems do is probably what most people think at this point
@ettingermentum
It's the Internet. The Internet has shaken the culture industry to it's core. Culture used to flow from Hollywood studios and New York media. It still largely does but the Internet allows for some marginalized people to produce culture themselves.
@ettingermentum
Let's just be honest here, the people that voted Clinton in the 2016 primaries were not ready for the first Jewish president. Simple as.
@JonahDispatch
It's not 2003 anymore. You can't just insinuate a Muslim journalist is a secret terrorist sympathizer and expect people to be ok with that...
@ProjectLiberal
What if the most powerful, wealthy country in history divided a poor asian country in two and then propped up dictators until they eventually developed industry, all while preventing the world from trading with the other half?
@ettingermentum
What a time we live in. There's at least a 60% chance a Whitehouse/Senate/House rep staffer will read this. "Sir, he's the 25th most subscribed politics substack writer."
@ettingermentum
If that conversation went on 20 more mins, Nixon could have invented critical gender studies. Would have been the one good thing he did without being forced to by new deal Dems in Congress
@baseballot
If Dems wanted to win, they'd pick someone ready to get to work on day one. Someone that the people of the 3rd district are familiar with. Someone with the experience necessary to solve the problems faced by everyday Americans. They'd run Santos. He'd be a free vote on everything
@hasanthehun
Folks sometimes say that if Jesus himself were to come down and run for political office he probably couldn't win. After what happened today I think we can stop the speculation.
@HotlineJosh
I like the strawmanning of progressives. I don't know what Bidens strategy on covid is but I am pretty sure it's not pandering to progressives. In fact, cutting down the isolation time was pandering to airlines.
@ettingermentum
I hope Brandon loses the popular vote and wins the electoral college. Probably the only thing that gets red states to agree to a constitutional amendment on the electoral college
@kenklippenstein
Democracy is all about "messaging" to the pod bros. Action, policy and structure are like the weather. Something no one has any control over. Except Republicans.
@vilehog
The 1/2 to 9/25 gap. Commander is a clone. The secret service was using that time to train his replacement how to bite people. Don't be fooled
@ByYourLogic
Riddler: "salam alaykum, Mr president"
Bugler: "Wa ʿalaykumu s-salam. Let me introduce you to my friend Larry. He uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gives great head."
@iowademocrats
Good point. When is the letter condemning the civil rights movement? You would have been against them too, you just had the benefit of being born into a world they had already done their work on.
@ByYourLogic
If you go one year without being tardy, they overthrow the civilian government and make you president. No one's been able to do it yet. Inshallah.
@brianbeutler
I think you cracked the code with this one man. I'll be waiting patiently for your next q drop decryption. Thank you for your service.
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@ettingermentum
The Biden NLRB has been much better than I could have imagined (I'm not a labor lawyer). It seems like the main issues are structural. Taft Hartley has got to be ammended and the NLRB needs a LOT more resources
@ettingermentum
Isn't Matty supposed to be an Archon of the moderate pragmatic crowd? More evidence that centrism is not moderate or pragmatic, just the ideology of the wealthy.
@ettingermentum
I'm gonna start using this strat. "It pains me to do this. Ive never wanted to say this. My mother raised me to know better... But liberalism is the ideology of the ruling class and fails to deliver just outcomes even on its own terms. If you're an uncritical liberal, you aren't
@WeaksauceSC
@ProjectLiberal
My point is that liberalism has created many of its own horrors but liberals conveniently ignore all that and fixate on Lenin or Stalin like they invented hunger or something
@willmenaker
This is incredible! I've heard of talking out of both sides of your mouth but they don't even get different people to push the various propaganda stories! It's the same guy! Don't they at least know good cop bad cop?
@TheOmniLiberal
Totally true except for the fact that genocide isn't just whatever you say it is. It's a legal definition and the ICJ has said there is enough evidence to have a trial.