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  • 4 out of 8 New Nepali Ministers Drawn from US Government-funded Fronts

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  • My best guess is Nepal will be used to try and force a divide between India and China. Idk if they'll pull some Ukraine-style land dispute that pulls one or the other into invading and causes border drama, or if they're just going to use it as a base for ethno-nationalist tensions and trying to tear the Himalayan region apart through sedition. Hopefully both countries can keep the shit contained and, within another decade, we'll see leftists booting out the puppets in Nepal again.

  • Ken Klippenstein Reveals Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

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  • Yeesh. Not a pleasant time.

  • Ken Klippenstein Reveals Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

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  • I would have been surprised if they did. There's just a lot of misinformation and overcorrection going around, so I'm hearing "they're making up the trans roommate" more often than not, and it's all getting confused for me.

  • Ken Klippenstein Reveals Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

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  • So, is the trans partner/roommate thing true or not? It's hard to get any facts straight.

  • LEAVE AMERICA! YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AMERICAN! STOP TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR PITIFUL IMPRESSION OF EUROPEAN SOCDEM POLITICS! YOU ARE SOMEHOW WORSE! COME TO VIETNAM! WE LOVE YOU! STUPID!!!!

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  • I would if I could, but aside from teaching English (which I have terrible experience with), I don't think I have any labor to offer that would get me a visa or a job there...

  • The Clone Economy

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  • This would make a great short film. Like an episode of Black Mirror or something in that vein.

  • What if Trump attends Chinese Military Parade on September?

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  • Liberals would liken him to an "evil Chinese dictator" stereotype like they try to pretend him and Putin are "evil Stalin" stereotypes. Probably see memes of Trump as Mao, and a revival of anti-CPC discourse, but applied to Trump as "ruining America" or "selling us how to foreign powers" or "wanting to be authoritarian".

    In all the ways that matter, nothing significant. He's a duplicitous bastard who can't be trusted, so he may talk nice about Xi for a week before going "he's not giving us Taiwan even though I asked nicely, what a tyrant" and going right back to anti-China warhawking. China certainly isn't going to do anything for him just because he showed up to a parade. No other country is going to change their views because of it. US rivals know the US is two-faced and vile, and Trump is the personification of it. US allies hate him for saying the quiet part out loud but jump when the US says "frog" anyway.

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  • PSL says "anticommunism is the unofficial religion of America" and it's true. Both major parties claim the other is communist, because to many Americans, communism is just the equivalent of Satanic.

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  • What annoys me is how blatantly constructed the narrative is to try and convince Americans that Trump is a foreign and unique threat, and only by continuing arming Israel and Ukraine can you truly show your opposition to Trump and other "tyrants".

    I looked into 50501 to try and get a feel for their platform, since these protests were suspiciously well-advertised and didn't seem to say much beyond "Trump bad". All I can find are the usual Democrat talking points: vague promises of civil rights and justice, punctuated by an explicit promise to arm Ukraine and Israel and support them no matter what. Well, Ukraine is explicitly mentioned, Israel is implied.

    I've also noticed the narrative keeps trying to focus on the imagery of a military parade as "authoritarian", when it's not inherently so. Media, influencers, and protesters keep comparing Trump to Mao and Stalin, and the whole of the Democrats' messaging has been giving very big "what are we, a bunch of Asians?" energy.

    Protestors, thankfully, aren’t really out there for 50501's platform; they're there in solidarity for immigrants and Palestine as well as being anti-Trump.

    But yeah, they have been more insufferable than ever lately. Tbh, I've talked to Trump supporters whose heads aren’t as far up their asses.

  • Level of Bonapartism in America right now

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  • Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only person put off by this. 50501 and the "No Kings" movement has been rubbing me the wrong way, and being unable to quite describe why had me second guessing myself.

  • Ukraine refused to accept 6,000 bodies of dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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  • Western history for sure, but I imagine Russia, China, and most of the world will recognize the truth. It just sucks for us stuck living in the empire.

  • Ukraine refused to accept 6,000 bodies of dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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  • The objective, I believe, is just to make it as grizzly, bloody, and awful as possible, because they have the full backing of Western media. The history books (in the West, anyway) will blame all of it on Russian aggression, and this narrative will be driven into everyone who will listen, in every region they can get their slimy tentacles into.

    It's been their game plan all along, as we all know. From the very beginning they intentionally put artillery next to active schools, hid their soldiers in school buses and ambulances, and did everything in their power to maximize their own civilian death tolls, knowing Western media and audiences would blame Russia for every death that could have been easily avoided. These people are fighting for control of the region to remake it as they see fit, and for all their talk of nationalism and the Ukrainian people, they will gladly sacrifice the entire population if it lets them rule what's left to be "pure".

  • Does anyone else get angry listening to something and that they literally can't, for example, continue on with a podcast?

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  • Thanks!

  • Does anyone else get angry listening to something and that they literally can't, for example, continue on with a podcast?

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  • I was talking about the remake, lol.

    What's the YT series roasting TLoK? I'm interested.

  • Does anyone else get angry listening to something and that they literally can't, for example, continue on with a podcast?

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  • Another example of something that upsets me, unrelated to this, is glorification of capitalists. Prime example is Duck Tales. I genuinely like the show, except when they bring up how he got rich from "hard work" and never explain what exactly it is that he does to be rich.

    Another example, Legend of Korra, where Asami is literally perfect. No bad qualities at all, and she's the young venture capitalist. Even the two capitalist villains get redeemed and use their industries to create wonders for society by the end.

    And what really upsets me, and makes it slightly irrelevant to your post, is that the stories are so enjoyable that even though that shit made my eyes roll and my blood boil, I sat through both series. It somehow hurts worse when the storytelling is actually good.

    Back to your topic, I guess when people offer dogshit analysis of media that promotes prejudices, capitalist rhetoric, or fascism, that's when it makes me so mad I can't listen anymore. For all the faults of liberal media, I can usually ignore their shitty politics if it's entertaining. Only example I can think of where I couldn't was that godawful remake of V back in 2009.

  • Does anyone else get angry listening to something and that they literally can't, for example, continue on with a podcast?

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  • Star Wars is an especially contentious subject that every "enlightened centrist" and lib manages to project onto history in some offensive way. Really, it's more like a mirror for backwards education of history, so they can just go "when Star Wars does X, it reminds me of how I was taught such-and-such people did stuff." Perfect example being the Ottomans "stealing" children (neglecting the fact many parents offered their children to the devshirme because it could increase their status).

    Another example, one that upset me, was some YT video about the Clone Wars episode where the Pantorans claim an ice moon and the Chairman is trying to kill the indigenous alien species, and ultimately Senator Chuchi makes peace with them by respecting their sovereignty. Somehow, someone argued that the aliens were little better than animals, brutal savages, and Chuchi betrayed her people's interests by letting them keep their planet (which didn't even have significant resources). His defense of that was that it wasn't racism, because these are aliens. I've seen other scifi videos where they justify using flamethrowers on bug people (Geonosians); and a "pro-human" speech for the movie Avatar where the villain conflates humanity with building wonders, not primitive connections to nature.

    I guess what annoys me to where I can't listen is where people find a way to be racist by using proxies so when you point out "that's racist", they just roll their eyes like you're too sensitive and tell you it can't be, because it's an alien.

  • Fascist salute and symbology discourse is tiring

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  • It has the energy of a middle schooler seeing how far he can get away with it, but having a shitty excuse to backpedal with.

    "But, teacher, I wasn't doing that! I was giving my heart out to the class! They're totally different!"

  • The Tiananmen Square "Massacre" Never Happened

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  • I saw an article about how the photo doesn't matter anymore and everything has changed, and I thought people somehow finally realized the picture is taken out of context to prop up a conspiracy theory, but... no. It was an article about AI editing and how people can "erase history" and remove "Tank Man" from the photo and people can be "tricked" into thinking it never happened.

    Which is stupid as fuck. The pic happened. The video happened. Ironically, they do more to disprove the massacre narrative than support it. The massacre didn't happen, and editing a picture isn't going to erase that myth from a country obsessed with believing it.

  • My Professor Emailed Me…

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  • I had several catalysts while earning my BA in History. It's a sick joke, and if you cry foul, they hold you in the same regard as Holocaust deniers or anti-vaxxers because you're "fringe".

    They're half-aware of the double-standard, too. My professors talked a lot about the dubious nature of sources, and how much of modern historiography amounts to reinterpreting the available evidence to challenge narratives, and how much academia requires funding for research and catering to your sponsors.

    My favorite professor told me you wouldn't find any "Stalin apologists" in academia today. He, and others, all astonished (and horrified) me once. We got to do this trip to Italy, and I mentioned an interest in seeing Roma culture. The prof leading the trip (an American, mind you) called them the g-word and said they're all thieves. When I brought it up to my other history professors, all Americans, they agreed.

    The foundations are rotten. The body of "experts" is intentionally stacked to control the narrative. If you somehow get into a level of status and respect in the humanities, it will be through omission or deception. And if you ever speak against the narrative in regards to communism, you will be destroyed. Want to humanize Nazis or explain away responsibility for their actions? You're free to do that. Want to point out the inconsistency of anticommunist fables? You won't even be allowed to operate on the fringes. Even climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers will have more status than you.

    I wish I had any helpful advice.