loony tunes if you think nasrallah hadn't made himself functionally redundant after 30 years as the figurehead of hezbollah's militant wing. his death alone doesn't matter half as much as what his successful targeting means, alongside the supply chains/communications systems being compromised -- the...

they care a lot about the free market when venezuela nationalizes its oil industry tho

it's important to note that communism is less a question of distribution than it is one of ownership. anyway, i don't think the biden and consequent harris administration give too much of a hoot about the free market, especially in the face of climate crisis, when they impose sharp tariffs on chines...

Israel ain't going nowhere and if Iran tries there will be a big Bang... https://twitter.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1830315701829062891 this is quite a remarkable sight, since afaik the IDF doesn't even *usually* attempt to use skunk directly on palestinians, as it is an endocrine disrupting substance...

iNcog wrote: ↑

31 Aug 2024, 13:24

Cometk wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2024, 08:28

i've seen enough

wym

lock 100% for democratic party, but i'll be technically prudent and save my guessthechance for september till the end of the month

i've seen enough

[mention]u13[/mention] Resolves to "yes" if Ukraine and Russia negotiate an end to the military conflict, if one side sues for peace, or if one side unconditionally surrenders. Does a ceasefire count? I think so, yes. If we're lucky enough that that happens I figure it is more likely than...

@Dolan agree with you on just about every point. the prediction then is mostly about when we can expect certain developments to occur; from your prognosis, dec 31 2024 is perhaps an uninteresting date to set the prediction at. some time next summer then?

Niche would be fine (I can always add a way to filter by category if needed). The vetting system (every new event needs to be approved by an admin) is mostly to check if the resolution criteria hold up to scrutiny thoughts on predictions re: the war in ukraine? there are a couple of ones that could...

We need to bring Biden back to the fore. You may not like him but he's the best candidate we have to defeat Trump

multiculturalism a failure, nordstream blown up by a ukrainian, bless us with your anointed foresight o' dear @Dolan

275up 25down for $70 in west coast america. our people yearn for freedom

Regardless, the left's inability to face the reality that multiculturalism was a failure is a major reason so many people are voting for right wing populists. was the stimulus for your posting of the article the recent riots in the UK? It's somewhat lazy to just dismiss the Danes as unreasonable ou...

Mette Frederiksen, the current prime minister and a Social Democrat, criticised mass immigration in her autobiography, writing: ‘For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.’...

What's the biggest general worldview thing? My biggest thing is probably that I moved significantly towards pragmatism on the idealism <----> pragmatism spectrum which caused, among other things, a move towards the center politically. i'm something of a fukayamaist myself, just i believe liberal ec...

What's the biggest thing you've changed your mind about in the last 5 years? for some reason i read the question as "what are the 5 biggest things you've changed your mind about in the last 5 years" so i'll answer the question that way anyway 1) the exigency of political violence 2) the c...

Prior to last night's assassination of Hamas' political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh, the man who was in charge of the hostage release & ceasefire negotiations, Israel murdered over thirty members of his direct and extended family in Gaza. When visiting the destroyed home of the Haniyeh family i...

israel already had guarantorship from america for a ground war against hezbollah, but now, having killed the head negotiator for the gaza hostage release & ceasefire process in tehran, it has sealed the deal with palestine, yemen and iran; there is no longer an illusion that there can be peace. ...

attempted airstrike assassination on a hezbollah leader in Beirut, assassinating the chief diplomat of hamas Haniyeh in Iran, Tel Aviv getting touched by drones launched from San'aa, we're in the final days the Entity is cooked

Oh, and when the military courts in Israel are forced to acknowledge the prison rape going on because the guards doing the raping can't help but upload it to Telegram each time, all of settler society will band together to break into the military base for the right of their soldiers to continue rap...

[mention]u13[/mention] it seems like you despise the aggression of the USA over the past 80 years, and even describe it as genocide. It also seems like you hold China in high regard. This seems hypocritical at best. China is unhinged, and historically does not seem to value human life. Even as we s...

it took me two reads this morning to begin to understand this paragraph. i haven't read it since and might not read it again, and have already forgotten what it was about and what i had begun to understood, and

i actually don't, and the knowledge isn't valuable anyway. i prefer not knowing

not to mention the ignorance of what "control" could possibly mean in this context, when it comes to the exploitation of labor & mass private accumulation... "Control" can mean many things but it's my word, so how can I be ignorant of what I meant by it? I meant to make a di...

Intentionally writing your posts so that I, a college educated native English speaker, have to read them multiple times and sometimes open up the dictionary to understand what’s being said, as well as relying on shock value, is actually the opposite of a being a good way to try to get your point ac...