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Centrist Committee posted:in that case why not just hand over the finance ministry to musk directly and save the environmental destruction That's true, I forgot he can just tank it any time he wants
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Honestly it's pretty clear that Bitcoin isn't hard crashing any time soon and maybe more developing countries should buy it. Not permit its use as a currency, obviously, but invest in it as a way to generate free money for cash-strapped nations that doesn't involve the IMF. Eh. Probably what the spooks want. After all, why are they even still around? Solving sudokus that you can trade for drugs by idling your car is one thing. But then leaving a permanent record of transactions? Seems like a very big brained move. So why keep them around? Could it be that they degrade countries', like Venezuela and Iran, ability to maintain capital controls while doing a DOS attack on their electricity infrastructure? All while sending copious amounts of MyCrimes.txt files to the three letter agencies?
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Cup Runneth Over posted:That's true, I forgot he can just tank it any time he wants annihilating belarus' pension system because of bad molly
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Doctor Jeep posted:good, gently caress em
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Doctor Jeep posted:good, gently caress em
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they did what we did...in response to us doing it that's whwhwuy they're fascists
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What's the play here? Does Venezuela think they can actually get a prisoner exchange? It'll be a good test of "we don't negotiate with terrorists! Well, maybe sometimes...."
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net work error posted:What's the play here? Does Venezuela think they can actually get a prisoner exchange? it worked for China. but it's still probably less likely to work here
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The gamble is whether the US try some sort of special ops extraction where they end up killing the hostages anyways. That'd be a significant increase in aggression.
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Doctor Jeep posted:good, gently caress em
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net work error posted:The gamble is whether the US try some sort of special ops extraction where they end up killing the hostages anyways. That'd be a significant increase in aggression. Jesse, what the gently caress are you talking about?
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The second episode of Jon Stewart's new show pretty much validates every one of his left critics. He talks about how mask and vaccine mandates aren't really violations of freedom (no argument from me here), but then brings out a panel of people from other countries to talk about what real oppression looks like, and one of the dudes was this guy. I was holding out hope that maybe a little bit of Stewart's politics have improved since he left the Daily Show, but if anything he seems like he's become a closer caricature of what leftists who haven't watched too much of his show imagine he's like. Echo Chamber has issued a correction as of 18:30 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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Echo Chamber posted:The second episode of Jon Stewart's new show pretty much validates every one of his left critics. what was the dudes take on oppression in VZ? was it the standard “psuv is popular and thats not fair to us, the liberal elite” like every vz criticism has been
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:what was the dudes take on oppression in VZ? was it the standard “psuv is popular and thats not fair to us, the liberal elite” like every vz criticism has been
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Echo Chamber posted:and had to resort to undemocratic means to fortify his position, like accusing rivals of being pro-American. Lmao, after 4 years of russiagate 
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Echo Chamber posted:The second episode of Jon Stewart's new show pretty much validates every one of his left critics. https://www.mintpressnews.com/whos-behind-the-pro-guaido-crowd-besieging-venezuelan-embassy-in-dc/258533/ quote:Francisco Márquez, the executive director of Visión Democrática, is the political advisor to Juan Guaidó’s fake ambassador in Washington. lmfao
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Did they even mention US sanctions? The panel itself was kind of restricted, because Stewart's questions were framed in the context of the canary in the coalmine for the US. He doesn't seem too concerned about the differences between Sisi, Maduro, and Duterte, other than acknowledging/claiming they are different forms of oppression. Venezuelan guy claims his country was a democracy before Chavez ruined it. Stewart confirms the talking point that Venezuela is a dictatorship; doesn't push back at all because that wasn't his intent.
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https://www.alcalorpolitico.com/informacion/que-no-ganen-el-halloween-ni-fiestas-paganas-iglesia-promueve-el-holywins-355154.html lol good pun
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Echo Chamber posted:The second episode of Jon Stewart's new show pretty much validates every one of his left critics. Am I right in remembering that Jon Stewart claimed a few times on his tv show to be a democratic socialist?
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PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:Am I right in remembering that Jon Stewart claimed a few times on his tv show to be a democratic socialist? to be fair, Jon Stewart's political positions exactly match those of a self described "democratic socialist"
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PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:Am I right in remembering that Jon Stewart claimed a few times on his tv show to be a democratic socialist? At best, he treated socialism as seriously as he did conservativism, as a legitimate ideological option. (When debating conservatives who use Socialism as a boogeyman word, he would push back not by claiming some liberal policy isn't socialist, but by saying "What's wrong with socialism?") Echo Chamber has issued a correction as of 12:36 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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Stewart has always struck me as a truth-is-in-the-middle kind of liberal. Not that he agrees with centrists on every single thing, more that he lionizes the very concepts of moderation and compromise and as a result isn't willing to accept that one side might just be completely wrong on everything and not worth engaging with. I think the thing that most disturbed him after 9/11, and the thing his show caught on for criticizing, was the "with us or against us" style of politics that Bush And The Gang pushed hard, and then that the Tea Party-era GOP took to another level by obstructing literally everything Obama did even if they agreed with it on principle. I will forever remember his Rally For Centrism and Moderation back in 2010 when his metaphor for politics was zipper merging on the highway ("you go, then I'll go") because that encapsulated that he thinks both sides have some good ideas and they should take turns enacting them when they win elections.
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vyelkin posted:Stewart has always struck me as a truth-is-in-the-middle kind of liberal. Not that he agrees with centrists on every single thing, more that he lionizes the very concepts of moderation and compromise and as a result isn't willing to accept that one side might just be completely wrong on everything and not worth engaging with. I think the thing that most disturbed him after 9/11, and the thing his show caught on for criticizing, was the "with us or against us" style of politics that Bush And The Gang pushed hard, and then that the Tea Party-era GOP took to another level by obstructing literally everything Obama did even if they agreed with it on principle. zipper merging on the highway is always a complete shitshow because even one rear end in a top hat can easily gently caress it all up so I can see why someone would use it as a metaphor for the US legislative process
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radical centrists: "truth is always in the middle, we need to compromise" *murders 3 million jews*
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I don’t get it, at this point Anez is done. what does giving her an award accomplish at least giving it to your little Venezuelan puppet
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CharlestheHammer posted:at least giving it to your little Venezuelan puppet You mean Guaidó? Not even a participation medal he can achieve. He's the ultimate butt monkey.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t get it, at this point Anez is done. what does giving her an award accomplish i think it's meant to make bolivia look bad venezuela has already been made to look like poo poo, almost nobody in the EU is going to stick their necks out for them. bolivia, though, has open supporters and has been annoyingly hard to attack due to the extreme success of the morales governments
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t get it, at this point Anez is done. what does giving her an award accomplish Muddy the waters. Wikipedia's article on Áñez already says that her arrest for ordering the massacre of 36 Indigenous protesters is "political persecution".
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Chamale posted:Muddy the waters. Wikipedia's article on Áñez already says that her arrest for ordering the massacre of 36 Indigenous protesters is "political persecution". "a move which several international organisations labelled political persecution" (one of them is Human Rights Watch) You could use the same wording to support any false claim, like "many non-governmental organizations claimed the 2020 election was fraudulent". galenanorth has issued a correction as of 18:13 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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Something about Anez hiring mercenaries to murder her political opposition and then doing a million :'( photo ops from the window of her cell reminds me of Sinema but I can't really put my finger on it.
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30.5 Days posted:Something about Anez hiring mercenaries to murder her political opposition and then doing a million :'( photo ops from the window of her cell reminds me of Sinema but I can't really put my finger on it. the bloom county comic about admiral poindexter where a very cute dog is accused of crimes against humanity and shrugs through it but instead it's one of those lovely 20 year old toy dogs with heart worm and that crap encrusting their eyes
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PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:Am I right in remembering that Jon Stewart claimed a few times on his tv show to be a democratic socialist? Lewis Black did, or maybe just straight up socialist, as his parents were proud socialists apparently. vyelkin posted:
I remember the closing speech of that thing caused a bit of a stir when he compared marxists to racists, but looking at the quotation now I think he was comparing the competing images each party's partisans have for each other. Problem is the Democrats aren't Marxist at all and the GOP is racist is as poo poo. Dreylad has issued a correction as of 01:39 on Oct 20, 2021 |
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