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Trump is functionally intellectually disabled. He's also a narcissist whose beliefs are morphed soley around what is beneficial to him in the extremely near-term. You are not cynical to think Trump hasn't given this an ounce of serious thought.

Its incredible how he manages to take the wrong side of EVERY SINGLE ISSUE. Like it's uncanny.

>economists Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel is not an economist lmfao. He is an anthropologist and ideologue who has little to no understanding of economics. Essentially every paper he publishes is dishonest exercise in motiviated reasoning claiming to be economics (but usually including no actual economics theory or concepts) to reach his intended conclusion of 'capitalism bad'.

What can't this drug do lol

real wages can still rise while cost of living rises faster

No lol, 'real wages' is an economics term that refers to the purchasing power of wages after accounting for inflation.

The first blurb is so funny when you remove the reference to semen-defaced-images from it.

With any luck, you've never heard of – let alone searched for – so-called ‘incest porn’ [...] But trust me, [it] exists – and thanks to the tireless efforts of survivors, campaigners, and legal experts, [it] will soon be illegal.

Incest porn is genuinely so popular and so tame compared to other porn, this must be a joke or an exercise in some sort of shared social denial.

On the other hand, I do agree that non-consentual sharing of semen-defaced images should absolutely be illegal.

Israel is undeniably commiting genocide in Palestine and (tangentailly) it disgusts me that so many people in this subreddit are unwilling to admit that or make endless excuses for it.

Carney won because he's a 6'3" chad while Pierre Poilievre is subhuman

I don't doubt it happened but I literally can't hear any booing.

I'll cancel later today, not one fascist pig is getting my support

Upon discovering the lawmaker’s past public support of Israel, left-wing advocates slammed McBride, arguing that a “queer” politician should empathize with the plight of the Palestinians and adopt a stridently “anti-Zionist” stance.

Crazy how leftists and ultra-progressive are openly trying to co-opt the entire idea of gender or sexual diversity into being subset of their personal brand of (often extremist) politics.

This is the kind of content that the dems need to bring to the table to counter the modern right online. We need to stop finger wagging and making canned statements and being 'shocked and upset', and start throwing real punches in modern media formats.

So excited for Gavin Newsom 2028

“Godwin’s Law” says that the longer an online discussion continues, the probability of invoking Hitler and Nazis approaches one. But that law was coined many years ago. The odds today that extended debate will descend into anti-Jewish conspiracism seem almost as high. Now a constellation of figures — from JD Vance, the US vice-president, to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man — are, wittingly or otherwise, making antisemitism respectable again.

America’s anti-Jewish threat comes largely from the right. Zohran Mamdani, New York’s likely next mayor, is widely accused of antisemitism because of his criticisms of Israel. Equating the two is highly questionable. He denies the charge and a non-trivial slice of Jewish New Yorkers back him. Even if Mamdani exercised the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant on Benjamin Netanyahu (he could not) would that stem from prejudice? Sixty-eight per cent of American Jews have negative views of Israel’s current government. Mamdani’s critique is no outlier.

Now take Vance. Confronted by a stream of anti-Jewish hatred on a Young Republicans WhatsApp group, the vice-president dismissed it as the kind of edgy humour in which kids indulge. He was referring to men in their twenties and thirties talking of sending their political opponents to the gas chambers. Whatever his other flaws, Mamdani does not speak like that. A conservative student last week asked Vance why the US helps Israel “considering the fact that not only does their religion not agree with ours, but also openly supports the prosecution [sic] of ours”.

Vance did not contest that most ancient of antisemitic tropes. More troubling, the audience applauded the question. Vance’s efforts to keep the Maga movement’s swelling ranks of antisemites onside without alienating traditional Republicans are destined to be clumsy. There is no elegant way to triangulate Holocaust-deniers with people who grasp basic history. Vance is chiefly after the Christian nationalist base. The term “Judeo-Christian” does not feature in his vocabulary. His aim is to be Trump’s natural heir.

Which invites the question of where Trump stands. On a personal level, Trump always claimed to like Jewish New Yorkers. More recently, he has won the loyalty of several Jewish donors by targeting antisemitism on US campuses. Critics of Israel are branded as Hamas supporters. Foreign students are routinely denied visas for voicing online criticisms of Israel. This seems likelier to fuel the problem than to fix it.

Either way, Trump has built his appeal on licensing every prejudice under the sun. That includes the west’s deadliest. In the primeval soup of nativist social media — and especially on Musk’s X — Nazi admiration is no longer in hiding. Some of the Maga right’s Hitlerism is presented as tongue-in-cheek. Since the online left likes to toss around the Nazi charge (see Godwin’s Law), the alt-right is merely trolling its accusers. After a while, however, satire turns into the real thing. Now it threatens to enter America’s bloodstream. Observers draw comfort from the fact that leading Republican senators, including Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, have condemned antisemitism. Yet the same figures have done nothing meaningful to confront the toxic movement from which it comes. You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

America’s worst phase of antisemitism came before the second world war. Charles Lindbergh’s America First movement accused America’s Jews of trying to get the US embroiled in a European fight. “Antisemitism has been in the bones of white Christian nationalism in America in a way that it has never been on the left,” says Robert Kagan, author and historian. The equivalent today is the “great replacement theory” which holds that Jews are trying to make whites a minority by importing brown people. Musk stokes that theory. As does Tucker Carlson. Last week, Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes, one of America’s leading Holocaust-deniers. The podcast was something of a love-in.

Carlson, like Vance, knows how to read the market. Having helped spawn a beast, riding it comes naturally. If they dismount, others will take their place. Cruz put it clearly: “If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool, and that their mission is to combat and defeat global Jewry, and you say nothing, then you are a coward and you are complicit in that evil”. Cruz was right. Had he been feeling braver, he would not have stopped there.

I love /r/conservative threads on this. They never actually talk about the merits of the bill, or if they genuinely think it's a good thing. It's all 'Haha, leftists will be so mad!', 'It's the law now', or [generic commentary on the process the senate takes to pass the bill]

I know they'll fall in line soon. But its funny to see how they evade critically thinking in the meantime.

From the past two years of discourse it's become clear to be that NL will never stop making excuses for Israel.

Every time Israel repeatedly commits some new crime against humanity or openly pursues war for the sole purpose of preventing peace, NL will respond with shock as if this is some crazy unusual isolated incident from an otherwise well behaved nation.

This isn't just abitrarily comparing the situation in Palestine to the Holocaust. The parallels to this specific alleged plan by the Israeli and US government to the Madagascar plan are obvious.

Both are (were) plans to ethically cleanse a region by forcibly relocating the millions of targeted residents residents to Africa. That's a very clear, direct, not arbitrary comparison to make.

Well, if Trump codified it it must be true!

Neolib may not want to hear this but i am starting to think Bernie Sanders is the guy

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Most effective EU led military operation

You know, if Canada wanted to become a 51st state....

Hard to focus on the office when all my coworkers are insanely hot

Median voters on the right would cheer on a dictatorship that openly made their lives worse as long as it made the lives of minorities/liberals/other groups they don't like even more worse.

So fucking stressed, maybe I should end it all?

I've already switched to a new brokerage 🤷‍♂️