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Should be a wild four years.

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Well, to tie this all together, because time is a flat circle...Did you know Jacinda Ardern is currently working in America for the past 8 years at the Harvard Center for Internet And Society and currently training new young socialist leaders? Now, maybe I'm stretching my tin foil hat a wittle bit too far...but isn't it INTERESTING how the Trump Admin drops this seemingly innocuous document, confirming New Zealands ties to the Biden Admin while simultaneously cutting off Harvard for ties to the CCP?

Really gets your thunking cap running overtime huh?
I posted something the other day where a Chinese outlet claimed that Xi Jingping’s daughter moved back to Cambridge in 2019 and of course we all read about how Michelle Wu got money from Chinese intelligence, so Harvard sounds like a lovely place for Jacinda. Hand in glove
 
"Tell the US to go fuck. They don't dictate domestic policy for other countries"

This same person would be 100% flipped if this was Obama or Biden telling a country they have to do something like allow gay marriage or mandated government funded troonshine for trannies.
Oh don't worry, they're perfectly fine telling us our country getting rid of illegals is criminal, but them arresting people for twitter posts,that's alright

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I didn't see this posted on a quick scan of the last 50 pages of the thread.

Enjoy the Biden Administration's STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR COUNTERING DOMESTIC TERRORISM

Declassified.
 

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So trumps given an ultimatum to starmer to get rid of the hate speech laws or face a trade war.
Reddit's response? NOOOO! DONT YOU DARE TAKE AWAY OUR ABILITY TO ARREST PEOPLE FOR NOT LIKING TRANNIES! REEEEEEEE!
I'm not sure what to feel now that the American president probably cares more about British folks actual human rights than 'our' primeminister or king.
Really gets your thunking cap running overtime huh?
New Zealand is often the first market US tech firms test new products, as it is wealthy, English speaking, but isolated enough for a mishap not to wreck the company's global reputation.
 
Go to 400%. Tear the whole damn thing down at this rate.
They’ve reached the stage of pushing all this social media stuff to outlets that goes like “Chinese person explains why China doesn’t care about tariffs” and it’s a 4 minute rehearsed speech that works if you don’t realize that China has no domestic demand and absolutely relies on exports
 
So trumps given an ultimatum to starmer to get rid of the hate speech laws or face a trade war.

Reddit's response?

NOOOO! DONT YOU DARE TAKE AWAY OUR ABILITY TO ARREST PEOPLE FOR NOT LIKING TRANNIES! REEEEEEEE!
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If a phrase is illegal to say in non burger land it should be embedded into the code of this website. We need to force these countries to ban US internet so they can drop the pretense that they don't have a great firewall just like China.
 
When someone else owns the means of your production, you suffer revenue outflows. You lose the ability to perform value added processes on several levels. Someone else creates the physical wealth and sells it to you.

The transnational corporations took pains to position themselves atop the trade barriers, so whichever way revenue flows, it flows through them.
It also dangerously centralizes culture into a select few hands. In the past it was hard for a few people to force cultural norms on society because there were so many different places that had to be persuaded to do so. If you wanted to implement, for example, mandatory pronoun sensitivity you'd have to convince thousands upon thousands of individual businesses (many of whom are simple mom-and-pop stores) to get on board. Now you just need two or three super-investors to pressure a few corporate conglomerates, and presto! 85% of society now have to choose between pronoun sensitivity or lose their job.

And I really can't shake the feeling that it's bad for people to have no idea who their real boss (not just thr middle manager above them) is. I mean knowing that whether you get fired or not is up to some faceless figure acting through several proxies just seems quietly poisonous to one's quality of life.
 
Didn't the Japanese PM or President recently give Trump a golden samurai helmet?
Yeah, just in February

@Martian High Command yes, that’s something that occurred to me. When you’re downstream from revenue like in the service sector economy, that’s REAL trickle down economics, the way the left tried to scare everyone about post Reagan

Marx wasn’t wrong about it being important to own the means of production, but he pulled a sleight of hand. In Marxism, an autocrat who claims to represent the state or the people controls it all
 
You know, it's weird.

One of the better leftists around here many years back was some furry whose name now escapes me, and now one of the better rightoids around here is another furry.

What is up with that? I mean either way they both should be fixed, no offense to Mr. Doe, but it just strikes me as odd.
God bless Ashy. Dude actually tried to use statistics and numbers in his defense of universal healthcare. Miss him.
 
And because I am a woman and women do this during arguments, I started to cry because I was frustrated. I kept getting called crazy over and over again, and it wasn't like I was rambling like a schizo or tarding out. I didn't say all 'jeets must be fried on a skillet, I simply told them like it is. How I can't even get Walmart to look at my applications, while they are one of the largest recipients of H1-B nonsense, how disheartening it is to be told to do one thing all your life, then have the rug pulled from under you because you just never tried hard enough. Your straight A's, all-nighters, juggle sessions with work and college, internships, and awards alike, are not hard work. You have never tried at all, so you must be dependent forever, and there is no forgiveness for you.

I hate how surprised many are about how right-wing my generation is. I grew up in a nihilistic monoculture that robbed me of culture and identity because it was somehow worse than Bangladeshis posting selfies in front of the Hindus they lynched. I'm told I never worked hard and I mean nothing while I grew up with subtarded hoodlums who would steal my shit if I kept my eye off it for a second, where I woke up each morning wondering if there was going to be another gang war on campus. I slipped on blood in the cafeteria once. And I didn't grow up in New York, California, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami...I grew up in what was once a quiet, peaceful city. I'm tired. Burn it down.
read The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David Burns. It's essentially self administered CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and will help you with your self esteem/feeling of being not good enough. You are correct that people of your generation are generally fucked but just because the generation is fucked doesn't mean that you have to personally be fucked
 
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