Democratic leadership is gonna fuck everything up. We need a new branch of the party similar to what the tea party did for Republicans. They may not be relevant today, but I believe they permanently changed the Republican Party (for the worse in my liberal opinion).

They took that page down

Did ABC take the link down? It's not there anymore EDIT: Nevermind I found the link https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ocasio-cortez-loses-bid-top-democrat-house-oversight/story?id=116874211

Really, it's these establishment Democrats that have made it the party of slow reaction times, large government, and inefficiency. AOC should be elevated, and elevated, and elevated again. She's an American hero and patriot and should have been given more responsibility long ago.

Build a drone. Learn how to fly it. Even better for long range, are the wood and paper rc planes that are expendable and being used in Ukraine.

Or designing our own versions of the cardboard ones from all our empty amazon boxes.

I remember Robert Evans from BTB saying that when he worked in journalism, ANY story on a rich person was automatically followed up on by a lawsuit from the person in question, so they'd have legal on a retainer ready to respond.

He did it better the second time around.

The first time looked a little awkward (though definitely recognizable as a Nazi salute.) The second one was spot on.

We do t deserve Bernie

My grandfather was in the Navy on the pacific theater. Japanese fascists, German fascists, Italian fascists, all died the same way.

You may want to reread some history, there were plenty of Nazi sympathizers and collaborators (read: nazis) in the US back then too.

See, that's the issue though, you say they "think you were on the wrong side"... but they don't think. They put on a hat with the team colors and just thoughtlessly repeat the chants as the organist plays the fight song.

Yeah, the people who see this as a significant deviation from the norm aren't exactly incorrect, but I wonder to what degree they really understand the total history and scope of america as it has existed for basically all of it's span. What we've done, in this country.

WW2 was between Russians and Germans. All the other stuff was barely a side character subplot compared to the Eastern front.

For example, in the Western front the German forces dealt more casualities to US and UK troops than the Allies did to the Axis by quite a lot too. Reading stories and diaries of American troops they would remark how astonishing it is that their German POWs were all either very young, or very old, either way remarkably unfit for combat. German command in the Western front was in shambles, because the vast majority of their efforts were going to the Eastern front. More Germans died in the battle of Stalingrad alone than in the entirety of the Western front. There were sieges in the Baltics that made Omaha Beach seem like a pretty lucky bet. The Belarusian grassroots genocide by Germans is hardly talked about, yet were just as brutal as they were against jews. The Siege of Leningrad is the type of nightmare fuel, hell on earth that Spielberg would never dream of touching. The West puts so much self importance about their fight against the German Nazi Machine, meanwhile it was the communists who did all the work while Western capitalists profited every step of the way since the beginning. And as you pointed out, America had and still has a strong Nazi following, also curiously backed by billionaires.

Now the collective West is the new Nazi party, and like it or not it's up to Russia and China to stop them again.

EDIT - Just wanted to point out that a lot of the horrors of the Eastern front is equally blamed on Stalin too, Baltic people hate Germany and Russia the same for WW2. Every side of WW2 sucked horrendous ass, and nobody won in WW2 (except for capitalists)

Sounds like they're still cowards. Well, at least they're consistent. Enemies that are consistent are easier to study and destroy.

LBGTQIA+ folks aren't magical unicorns... They can have garbage takes just like anyone else.

You support the NRA?

You want to repeal all gun regulation?

Defend both of those immediately or show yourself here as a troll aiming to sow discord along an oddly narrow path.

Those phantoms are in our government and marching in our streets.

Lewis or Chesterton had something similar, that optimism and pessimism were both dishonest, but patriotism was necessary to existence. Probably Lewis

Same. The enemy literally studies how to make us give up, and these screens we're constantly touching are totally part of it.

snip from the last good thing I read on reddit:

The term "disinformation" undersells the problem. Because much of Russia's social media activity is not trying to spread fake news. Instead, the goal is to divide and conquer by making Western audiences depressed and extreme.

Sometimes, through brigading and trolling. Other times, by posting hyper-negative or extremist posts or opinions about the U.S. the West over and over, until readers assume that's how most people feel. And sometimes, by using trolls to disrupt threads that advance Western unity.

[edited for going on at length]

Also for anyone interested in very left wing very American media, there's a podcast called "Alice Isn't Dead" that's basically a radio show of a woman driving a truck looking for her missing wife, filled with musings on America and it's nature. It's by the nightvale people and it's good enough that I have less radicalized friends that enjoy it

TIL! That's what's up. People acting like this is all brand new lol...

Here's a lovely bit of spoken word from Utah Philips as thanks for the link.

i never realized that in the final battle between the forces of good, evil, and indifference that the indifferent would be by far the largest and most dangerous faction

...and the other half was left in Germany to fill up West Germany's intelligence services.

Just the most brilliant

oh alright let's all just give up then

Part of fighting for it involves planning in case the fight is successful, and that planning includes picking candidates, so my original comment stands.

That game was such a brutal critique of American nationalism and Christianity's role in it that of course the right loved it for the aesthetic alone

In a very permanent fashion.

By "dealt with", I don't suppose you mean inviting them in for tea and cake?

Yah, they should. A good fascist is a dead one

Where are the 2A nutjobs now?

They're the Nazis

The 2A nutjobs are the neo-nazis.

Because capitalism has ensured that the "good economy" isn't reaching the average working class person like it should.

The Republicans have been grooming the country for this for decades now.

WW II was probably the best thing to happen to America, economically and in a lot of other fields, science and tech for example.

The world wouldn't have half of the technology we have today if it wasn't for America figuring all this shit out during and after that war.

And America got to keep everything, unlike some other countries. There really is no excuse.

Boomers are called that for a reason. Families not only boomed, but most parts of life as well.

(Note Im not advocating for war, Im looking at history)

Our top line numbers may look good but there's real problems under the hood. Our homelessness is the highest it's been since we started tracking it and food has increased in price much farther than most people's wages. It's not about the gross amount of money. It's about what that money can buy. And the answer is increasingly, not much.

The socialism and history understander has logged on

I dunno whether or not you've been hit with this before, but if you haven't, it's your lucky day, have a two hour miniature documentary on the bombs specifically, and how they weren't really justified at all. People should probably still be pissed about it. I'd also say that stuff about japan being locked away from the resources it needed, is kind of dubious. I dunno if it passes the smell test, it smells like modern japan post ww2 nation building narrative stuff, to me. Maybe if we include "in the form it was in" to encompass the entirety of their imperial exploits up til that point. We maybe get, at some point, to the further debate about opening japan up as a more isolationist country through the use of force, by the US specifically. None of this is something I'm prepared to talk about in any respectable level of detail.

As for the prevalence of violence and war crimes in the world, I'd say, yeah, pretty undeniable, undeniably common. I don't much like war, many reasons, that is among them. I think that vietnam, and the continued and unerring deviation from what vietnam basically was, all the way until the modern day, where we're funding an apartheid state that's bombing a minority population, is a testament to the character of the united states. Which is not to say it's beyond rationalization, or is done out of pure evil, rather than cold self-interest, but I think that the true and fundamental character of the united states, as illustrated from those foreign escapades, is kind of self-evidently apparent. Trump's only notable characteristic is that he's turning that gun towards the domestic population a little more, or that he's more rhetorically fascistic, or some other difference, but this sort of a behavior is something I fully believe to be within our fundamental character as a nation. As a political system. Elon exists on that continuum.