Shh, let him cook

I took 3 vaccine shots today. No big deal

I’ve come to the acceptance that most people already have their opinions and will just use whatever theories are out there to justify them. They are not doing any critical thinking or care about pursuing the truth.

The way to convince them is through their social relations. The more they are surrounded by people who arent libs, the less lib they will become. Its frustrating but youre not going to change someones mind with a well constructed argument

A shooter cites great replacement theory pushed by Fox news as the reason for performing a mass shooting at a mainly black grocery store -> not related to Tucker Carlson

A shooter cites palestinian suffering for reason for shooting Israeli officials, cites examples of injustices from over 10 years ago when Hasan wasnt even a thing -> this is because of Hasan

Good news for those countries where the foreign students come from. Less neoliberal morons will be produced in the world

“do not support it” can also be they just dont support adventurism, which is in line for them.

Ngl though I badly want someone to drop a “the chickens are coming home to roost”

Lets get it

“Acts of violence don’t win wars. Neither wars nor revolutions. Terrorism is useful as a start. But then, the people themselves must act.”

Dont have much to say other than we need some sort of demonstrative example of justice to make it clear to these people there are consequences to being a leech on society

Wait, is also Irish and he got diagnosed with cancer

Im sensing something fishy

Im thinking of compiling notes on Ukraine-Russia war just so I can have better recall when i start talking to people about it. Maybe for other countries/geopolitical conflicts as well.

How do you all organize all this information?

We’re done aren’t we

Democrats are just a fundraising corporation. That is why they will never change their politics.

There are popular liberal / left figures online that democrats could tap into, but the most popular tend to be too far left of the party leaders to support.

Almost as if the democrats’ political stances literally represent no one other than a portion of the bourgeoisie which is a problem if you are a political party that relies on votes. At least the republicans know how to grift their base.

yea I looked up the author’s background and looks like he’s only been in academia. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but he’s kinda living up to the stereotype

I see the dems want to turn California republican. Bold strategy lets see if it pays off

Oh, i didnt concede on Putin being a fascist, i actully pushed back on that. I meant “sure” as in i didnt really care to argue that and i honestly didnt have a good argument in my mind at the time to explain why hes not a fascist. But i did not say i agreed with him on that.

Funnily enough i did mention what you said to him about the rise of Putin and he’d just divert. I wanted to talk more about NATO interference in Ukraine rather than Russia and get that across to him.

He also argued in bad faith, saying Zelensky put forward peace deals that gives Russia the land they occupied, and Putin rejected them but to my knowledge that is untrue

Was having a struggle session with a friend over Ukraine. I kept having to repeat that I’m not pro Putin. Im not even sure what his argument was. Then he kept going on about Putin is a fascist and I need to be against him. Sure, but thats getting away from the the fact that the ethnic Russians have been getting fucked by the Ukrainian government and American imperialism interfering with Ukraine:s right to self determination, so that they can get used as a NATO pawn against Russia.

It kept feeling like he wanted to push that what Russia is doing to Ukraine is like what Israel is doing to Palestine, and if I suggest its not like that then im pro-Putin.

I think it’s interesting to look at the technical and highly skilled work that a country requires. I feel the US strategy is to depend on educated foreigners to come to their country and contribute to American economy and technological development, while the citizens who are educated here are given the lowest quality education because of austerity. It’s incredibly short sighted.

Yes