BeaverFever
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Biden Gives Republicans What For
BeaverFever replied to Nationalist's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Dont hold your breath, @DogOnPorch is infamous for slinking away when he’s in a corner He won’t answer you. -
So far Musk’s incompetent management and “tyranny in the name of freedom” explain why hes supporting Republicans Elon Musk's flaming Twitter fiasco is what the US will look like if MAGA wins the midterms …. Part of it, no doubt, is the schadenfreude of watching Musk fall on his face after he was able to fool so many people for so long into thinking he's some kind of genius. But, if I may be an optimist about human nature for a moment, I also think it's about something deeper. The story of Musk buying Twitter and the story of MAGA Republicans attempting to end democracy are in many ways the same story: Entitled dipshits whose resentments over a diversifying system lead them to take an ax to the very thing they claim to love. For Musk, it's Twitter, a platform he claims he wishes to "save" but which he will likely destroy in record time. For Republicans, it's the U.S. and democracy itself. Flat-out false claims of a "stolen" election are being used as a shield to wage all-out war on the very concept of free and fair elections. Republicans say they wish to "make America great again," but in fact, their plan is to end the very democracy that conferred whatever greatness America ever had. .., Instead, we can look at what's happening to Twitter, which is swiftly turning into a Nazi-drenched hellscape fueled by the grievances of crypto-buying misogynist dweebs. And I'm far from the only one who sees the destruction of Twitter under Musk as a synecdoche for what's awaiting the entire country if Republicans win in the midterms. … So many echoes of the larger political situation in the U.S. The mass firing of staff, only to beg some of them to return? Reminiscent of how Republicans want to lay waste to the urban centers of the U.S., even though they are the most economically productive parts of the country. Musk's self-congratulatory rhetoric about "free speech" followed by his banishing people for setting up parody accounts to mock him? That sounds an awful lot like how the Trumpers constantly complain about "cancel culture" while also banning books, terrorizing librarians and using police violence to silence peaceful protesters. Even Musk's dumb plan to replace Twitter verification with a pay-to-play "blue check" program feels evocative of our larger problem of watching once-trusted institutions — such as the Supreme Court — being hollowed out and refilled with authoritarian hacks who have no fealty to facts, good faith or reason. Indeed, the two stories are converging. Musk's insistence that he's entitled to advertiser money is being embraced by Republican politicians, who are threatening to legally terrorize companies who prefer to spend their money elsewhere. Which is to say, in the name of "free speech," they're trying to force companies who don't want to sponsor racist speech to do it anyway. ….. https://www.salon.com/2022/11/08/elon-musks-flaming-twitter-fiasco-is-what-the-us-will-look-like-if-maga-wins-the-midterms/
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Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Denial of my last comment: “What Tucker and friends are grooming you to accept reality s an authorization one-party state like Orban’s Hungary on the basis that democracy is bad and the founding fathers never really intended for people to have much of a say in who runs the country. Their solution is a world in which The Party alone decides which sheep get eaten and which will be protected, on a case-by-case basis depending on the sheep’s identity and on what that identity group ‘deserves’ “ -
Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
That’s not a denial -
Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Yes but in practice you hated that it kept you from banning hijabs and same sex marriage as just 2 examples. The gay hijab-wearing sheep were protected from wolves like you and it made so angry But we’re off track. What Tucker and friends are grooming you to accept reality s an authorization one-party state like Orban’s Hungary on the basis that democracy is bad and the founding fathers never really intended for people to have much of a say in who runs the country. Their solution is a world in which The Party alone decides which sheep get eaten and which will be protected, on a case-by-case basis depending on the sheep’s identity and on what that identity group “deserves” -
The Wreckage of Neoliberalism
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
When you dig into the data you see that whole “the world is flat” claims of people like Friedman use “averages” that gloss over rising inequality around nthe world. For ever new tech billionaire in Mumbai there are hundreds of peasants who’ve been run off their land or displaced by a global agribusiness The “market efficiencies” of cheap disposable pseudo-designer Joe Fresh clothing sold in your neighbourhood grocery store is offset by the more than 1,000 Bangladeshi workers killed when the 8-story sweatshop building where those clothes were made collapsed. Triple-digit casualties from fires in sweatshops making export goods are still a regular occurrence. The increasing numbers of migrants at the US southern border aren’t coming because globalization has made their life better, they are the rural poor of the global south whose lives have been made worse ”The world is flat” predicting that globalization and the intensity will be the great equalizer logic comes from the same line of turn-of-the-21st century thinking as the infamously wrong “The End of History” which predicted that all the nations of the world will soon be singing kumbaya and basically acting in harmony with each other in one big peaceful worldwide community. Once you start looking past macro indicators like GDP and GDP per capita and actually start examining how different groups of people have fared you can definitely see there are big winners and big losers. As the rebuttal to “the world is flat” thesis goes, “actually, the world is spiky”. -
Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
The point of inalienable “rights” is to prevent a majority from passing laws against a minority- eg the sheep’s legal right not to be eaten means wolves vote to eat the sheep is invalid. Just like during the muslim hysteria where rights prevented the majority from banning hijabs (outside of Quebec and its use of the NWC anyway). -
Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Forgot to mention: thats what minority rights are for to keep the wolves from voting to eat the sheep . But you guys hate “minority rights” don’t you? -
Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
How so? -
Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Me? You’re the one using that flimsy logic to prop up your flimsy arguments -
1. a) On what basis do you call them “Zionists”? On the basis that they appear to have Jewish ancestry? b) Why are Jews less entitled to be at the top of the power structure that people of other ethnic ancestry? 2. The disproval of the centuries-old antisemitic “Khazar Myth” by modern science is also well documented 3. If its off-topic then why did your Kremlin-paid friend bring it up and why did you like it?
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Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Lol that line is really overused by liars, scammers, screwups and failures “If I’m being widely criticized then I must be right!” -
1) Unless you’re pushing a Jewish conspiracy agenda the origins of the Ashkenazi are irrelevant to this discussion and to the ancestry of senior US government officials (who may or may mot be Ashkenazi) 2) The claim of Khazar origins of the Ashkenazi has been thoroughly debunked as an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Modem genetics testing confirms they are a mixture Middle Eastern and European descent
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Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Lol some “populist” you are! But historically populism has always been a ploy for dictatorship so I guess you still are right on track. -
Election Headline from the Year 2025
BeaverFever replied to BeaverFever's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
The term democracy IS being used correctly. Republican authoritarians trying to set the stage for an American Putin or Orban to sit on the throne are the ones playing word games, all part of their program to groom the public into accepting authoritarian rule. That’s the REAL groomer threat people should be worrying about. As the article says, get used to the term “Contingent Election” as one of the many plots Republicans have their eyes on, in order to try and ignore the will of the voters.
