She’s cooking, the important thing is she is shifting left even if it’s not as fast as we would like her to go at.

Yeah, before Harris there was discussion of doing a lightning primary with just mail-in votes or at least settling at the convection instead of just anointing Kamala.

Trump was smart enough to cut a deal with RFK Jr. instead of just scolding his voters. Had Kamala conceded on Gaza, I’m sure the Greens/PSL would have dropped out.

The funny thing is they could’ve ran a lightning election, but the Democratic Party is terrified about, “what if voters don’t choose the anointed candidate?!”

PSL landslide soon!

Tbf Russia could conceivably buy it and move it to the DPRK.

The US has already decided it’s going to leech prosperity from its semi-colonies to build itself up. Europeans are going to realize that if you rely on the Empire to prop you up, they can tear you down just as easily.

Is the only legitimate government of Korea ready to take the arduous march to finally liberate the occupied South and unify Korea once and for all, free for the first time in over a hundred years?

Some things might be common, but there’s no such thing as “normal”. Life is short, enjoy it however you can.

Honestly, I think the Palestinians are cooked regardless, their fighting is unbelievably brave and valiant but unless Israel triggers a major regional war (which sadly, it doesn’t seem like even Iran wants) nobody is coming to save the Palestinians. The ONLY ones who can put a stop to this genocide is either Russia or China and they just don’t seem interested in exposing themselves because Israel has shown time and time again to be a vicious attack dog with a population that supports even the most horrifying war crimes in human history.

Plenty of European normies don’t understand that their wealth and prosperity was only necessary to act as a bulwark against the USSR and leftist ideals. They were left with prosperity out of convenience since there was no reason to attack them after the illegal dissolution of the USSR.

However in the Second Cold War, if the US needs to have a roaring economy at the cost of Europe, Canada and other prosperous allies, then it shall be done. Just like Mexico and Japan were growing too quickly for the US’s comfort and had to be quelled.

People forget that in the 60s and 70s Mexico’s economy was growing by leaps and bounds, even in Mexico this has been memoryholed. In the 70s as the US abandoned the gold standard, the US forced Mexico to sign up to the disastrous Petrodollar Recycling Scheme which basically allowed their government to spend freely by exchanging future barrels of oil for US dollars (in exchange for ONLY holding US dollars as their reserve currency). Even the corrupt PRI knew this was a disaster waiting to happen and demanded that future barrels of oil traded for dollars would maintain their value at the moment they were swapped out and not change based on the value of the barrel of oil in fluctuations.

But the US refused. That meant that when Mexico borrowed (they called it a swap but it wasn’t) $100 when barrels of petrol were $100 it would be fine, but when the barrel of oil dropped to $50 they would get a new bill added to their debts. Supposedly if the price of oil went back again, they’d get the difference, but not as cash, but as an IOU.

When the commodity prices collapsed, Mexico was in too deep with the US and they “solved” that issue with IMF loans, in exchange for “restructuring their economy to sound economic policy” aka neoliberalism. This then caused the disastrous 1982 crash and then were forced into signing NAFTA which annihilated them.

May Korea be freed from the American occupation in the South.

Many Israelis feared and continue to fear a two-state solution because the Palestine “territories” wouldn’t be crushed and could self-govern. That would terrify the “Israelis” that the nation needs the most to thrive economically: the tech sector, the university professors, the doctors, lawyers, judges, engineers, diplomats, etc. both keep the economy going, are also the ones who have the easiest pathway to flee. People tend to forget that the reason that Ian Smith’s White Minority Rule coalition lost in the elections was not because the white Rhodesians all of a sudden grew a heart and decided to help liberate the poor oppressed black Zimbabweans, but because the African Bush War had decimated Rhodesia’s economy due to a massive brain drain. All of these people left and the average white Rhodesian hated black people but was willing to vote for anything to stop the bleeding. If anything farmers refused to give up the racist fight even after the whites in government had agreed to end the white minority rule, these farmers told the new government that the natives would have control of their farms “over my dead body!” and they obliged.

I honestly think that they had nothing else to do with the character, the moment the fanbase of the first movie got too toxic, they decided to bury this incarnation of the Joker. So what to do with a non-canon Joker?

A shitty cashgrab movie, of course.

Russia literally has nukes. Hell, even without The Bomb, Russia has 10x the population, all Putin needs to do is declare Total War and initiate a general mobilization of troops.

Ukraine exists only insofar as Putin’s patience allows.

The typical socdem/communist divide. Morality only exists within “my nation”, and Ethan has identified himself as Israeli, for a bunch of different (shitty) reasons.

There’s a lot of Jewish communists that have written a lot about how crippling to leftist values the existence of Israel has become. Many early communists were Jewish, I mean look at Marx and Trotsky, but in general it’s a lot easier for people to support a stateless and uniform world when you have no state and feel (correctly so until the modern British born, then American run colony of “Israel”) masqueraded are always the victim. Much like the persecuted religious sects kicked out of England to the US, prisoners in Australia, etc. we see how fast the bullied can become bullies once they’re given their own place, money and weapons to bully.

Once Israel seemed like a project that wasn’t inevitable to collapse, there were people who advocated against nationalism, that were brutalized by ethnostates, being given an ethnostate they quickly go from “nobody should be a target, because we’re all humans” to “WE shouldn’t be a target because we’re amazing, all the propaganda I grew up listening to says the same thing.”

I live in NYC, I have never personally done this but I know people who have struggled, and the best thing is to maybe not dress in a suit but your nicest clothes, showered, and groomed enough so people think you’re middle class plus going through one unique moment of poverty and not someone chronically poor… and just go to a food place (not a restaurant, somewhere that sells food… deli, grocery store, maybe even a food cart) ideally in a nice neighborhood. Ask to see the manager or ideally the owner (since they have way more leeway than employees) and without giving this huge sob story, politely ask for food.

They will almost never say no, and in fact you might get lucky and be given a month’s worth of food. It sucks that we have more sympathy for a moment of difficulty for the better off than a lifetime of suffering for the poor but here we are. It reminds me of the state Senator in Wisconsin or Michigan or wherever arguing against free food in schools because kids that don’t get enough sustenance in their youth have a lifetime of reduced intelligence and even charisma and if they gave every kid food, “we’d have no mechanics or bricklayers!”.

When Israel says something warlike (although the truth is usually just in Hebrew) believe them. They’ve made up their minds that they want a wider war in the WA/NA region and will do whatever is necessary to start one. But they have an image to keep up, that’s critical to their national strategy, of acting like the perpetual victim… so they can’t straight up invade anyone.

Other than that EVERYTHING is on the table.

Unless their plan includes creating an army of soldiers raised from the dead (they don’t have access to glorious Juche necromancy) they simply have no plan that can compete with Russia’s tenfold population. And that’s that Ukraine has had a general mobilization and has switched to a war economy… of which Russia has only had to moderately elevate their conscripts and their economy is fine or even better than before the war.

Realistically they are hoping to drag the American military to put boots on the ground, a very very unpopular position. Even for liberals that hate Russia with every fiber of their being.

A conversation with an actual higher up in the American DoD that I know in my personal life has succinctly stated that the US is in a bind that really doesn’t seem capable of overcoming. The power of the US is the dominance of the US dollar, which allows the US to buy actual goods and services with pieces of paper that is printed out of thin air.

When the American Empire overstretched itself trying unsuccessfully to crush Korea and Vietnam, the gold standard became impossible to maintain. Then it decided it could just maintain the petrodollar… but that would mean that Israel, Saudi Arabia and to a lesser degree the other bribed petrostates have to stay in the US’s power bubble. Western Asia/North Africa (commonly known as “The Middle East”) needs to stay poor, crushed and divided to keep oil prices cheap and sold exclusively in US dollars.

What is happening is that Israel and Saudi Arabia were fine allies for the American Empire when the US was strong but as its power is waning, its becoming increasingly impossible to keep Israel and Saudi Arabia content with just being an American pawn knowing that the US needs them so desperately. The truth is that it’s inevitable that Israel, that is openly a belligerent fascist state is going to drag the US into a WW3 scenario, because they know that if their neighbors aren’t annihilated they will inevitably go the way of Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa… there were some voices in those nations who also advocated for broad African genocide but they lacked the hard and soft power to do it.

Israel is a Western cultured and loyal ally of the US willing to do whatever Uncle Sam needs in the region, now other than peace, in the MOST important region for American power. The US’s back is against the wall and CANNOT abandon Israel no matter how much world and domestic upheaval is against them.

Israel will spell the end of American power.

Edit: Which is why neither Kamala nor Donald can promise anything on Israel, the CIA would rather kill them… if Empire was Chess and the US is the King… Israel is the Queen. They’re basically early USA.