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someone modded me like a week ago for not adding a politics tag and now this

fandom is complete shit for sure

there are plenty of new country artists that are great, they just aren't the pop country people.

billy strings
benjamin tod/lost dog street band
tyler childers

i like some country music but garth brooks was one of the pioneers of garbage pop country. he was basically the florida georgia line of the 90s

advocating for a 'one state solution' is advocating for genocide, regardless of which state someone thinks should cease to exist. it isn't possible to abolish israel or palestine without an actual genocide occurring

i have been around this long. as long as lue still exists i will still be here until i am the last lueser (or one of my descendants is)

i thought it was great and can't wait for s2

wnba pay has actually increased a fair amount in recent years and if the hype and popularity clark has generated follows her to the wnba it will keep going up. the most important thing for athletes/leagues to getting crazy salaries in the tv deals. if even half the people that watched her tournament run tune into her games in indy the wnba tv deals will go way up

complaining about weezer while watching fuckin' kiss? hell nah, this has to be trolling lol

bibi should be in prison for his open corruption and blatant attempts to neuter the courts in his power grab. the people of israel and palestine would be so much better off if that psycho wasn't anywhere near power.

Fenriswolf posted...

Yawn more useless personal anecdotes based on stereotypes and hearsay. China's domestic policies are irrelevant to their foreign policies.

Facts based on actual research shows that Chinese economic investment in foreign countries are far more benign. But hey keep regurgitating nonsense Trump used as propaganda in the trade war.

https://rhg.com/research/new-data-on-the-debt-trap-question/

you continue to evade actually addressing the issue, which is why china is pillaging resources of impoverished nations by cutting deals with brutal regimes?

asset seizures are 'rare' because china just cuts another deal to pillage more resources. if china was just some benevolent benefactor they wouldn't be contributing to unprecedented levels of deforestation and strip mining any resources they can lay their hands on.

keep mindlessly shilling by linking to articles that make china look even more predatory and evil in its foreign relations, you are just making my job easier.

at this point putin has basically just signaled that he will stay entrenched in ukraine to save face. he has basically no chance of actually toppling the ukrainian government and is just throwing tens of thousands of russian lives away to maintain his poorly crafted and crumbling facade.

the west has to keep sending aid to ukraine. russia continuing to fail and languish is not only a moral and ideological victory, it is a strategic coup that gives us more influence in eastern europe than the west has ever had. helping ukraine is the right thing to do but it is also the strategically sound answer as well. we have nothing to lose and everything to gain by continuing to help ukraine defend its sovereignty

trump wanted to start a war with iran when he was in office. if he thought he could use war as a pretext to cling to power and avoid his crimes he would enthusiastically jump in. there is no doubt trump would have openly called for an actual open genocide and supported israel in taking the most extreme course of action imaginable

Fenriswolf posted...

I like how you completely ignored my point, and just put your fingers in your ear and repeat US propaganda from the Trump administration. Fact remains that your claims of "debt traps" does not correlate with actual data which clearly shows that China has renegotiated most of its loans. It only seized assets in ONE occasion.

https://youtu.be/7gwgcIfzttA

https://qz.com/1391770/the-anxious-chorus-around-chinese-debt-trap-diplomacy-doesnt-reflect-african-realities/

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/data-doesn-t-support-belt-and-road-debt-trap-claims-20190502-p51jhx.html

you are regurgitating chinese propaganda while ignoring china's blatant pillaging of land and resources and trapping multiple impoverished nations in generational debt. they are using the same playbook the wagner group and russians are using, buying a foothold with corrupt regimes while pillaging resources and destroying the land.

'renegotiating' debt traps =/= forgiving debt, they are just leveraging their position to accumulate more and more resources while offering short term payoffs to specific regimes they know are open to selling out the future for commas in offshore bank accounts.

china's current "belt and road" model of neo colonialism is the most blatant and appalling example of modern exploitation. they have long been content to bulldoze low income families out of their homes to build gaudy eyesores that will be empty in a decade and offer nothing but financial ruin to local communities. china has taken the long held western tradition of exploiting impoverished nations and trapping them in generational poverty and perfected it with their own brand of evil for the 21st century. chinese foreign policy consists of uncontrollable greed and the spreading of misery in their wake.

Fenriswolf posted...

LMAO. Like the fact that Chinese loans actually account for less than the IMF? And the fact that China has in fact renegotiated and forgave much of its loans, and it's the developing countries approaching China?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-17/the-myth-of-chinese-debt-trap-diplomacy-in-africa
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2022/05/20/chinese-loans-and-investment-in-infrastructure-have-been-huge

You remind me of this American woman who thinks the Chinese building ports in Africa is worse than the US starting wars.

https://youtu.be/n8Y57ULVqC8

china is the current prototype for neo colonialism. they are not only exploitative, they are at times openly racist.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinas-ugly-exploitation-of-africaand-africans

and we see how china is making a mad grab for african resources while attempting a debt trap scheme. they are causing unprecedented deforestation on the continent and mining resources at mind numbing speed. the economic impact is short term as outlined in the yale article below and the longterm ramifications will mean continuing to raze the land and pilfer resources while trapping poor nations in generational debt. russia is engaging in the same kind of behavior by using groups like wagner (the neonazi militia) as a proxy.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dark-legacy-of-chinas-drive-for-global-resources

Fenriswolf posted...

Most Western countries also developed thanks to their colonial projects, but in the developing world many still live in poverty due to most of their resources being stolen even as of today.

neo colonialism is definitely still a problem, with china being the main culprit today with them blatantly stealing resources and trapping poorer countries in generational poverty. the united states has never been blameless in that regard, but china and to a lesser degree russia are doing it much more openly and blatantly now

falayyou01 posted...

Western countries have better social views on average? Says who?

in the early 1900's stuff like being gay or being black in public was illegal. this has gotten much better. the right is trying to go backwards on many of these issues, but society at large and legally we have progressed a ton compared to where we were then.

i would imagine other countries outside of the west have progressed in these areas as well, but i live in the west and know it is easier to live for people now than it was then. definitely significant progress in the last 100+ years. in the united states women can now vote, black people can legally go anywhere white people can and gay people can't be arrested for existing.

hulkhogan1 posted...

The moment when you realize its 2024 and the world is still just as childish as it was 100 years ago.

the world in 1914 was definitely no more irrational than it is now. the world is generally better now due to better technology and medicine, and western countries have much better social views on average, but the leaders of nations now are no better when it comes to rational decision making in foreign affairs. you get good ones and bad ones and many more bad than good

darkace77450 posted...

They're already claiming Iran's doing this because they know Biden's too weak to have Israel's back.

and when they find out the us is shooting down drones they will ignore that and try and finger paint another illogical picture with shit

ayatollah khomeini was lucky his regime survived the blatant attacks on women that could have toppled it a year ago. attacking super militant israel probably isn't great for the longevity of that regime.

regardless, this is bad for the world no matter what happens

also wtf at mario2000 just repeating chud talking points verbatim now

Tanthalas posted...

Accusing Biden of enabling genocide is just the new hes too old.

Just an excuse to drive abstention and get Trump elected.

yep, that's exactly what it is and the chuds are super transparent with that. that trumble user has based his entire gimmick on doing that one thing while downplaying the shit trump actually did and claims he will do

snowden was never anything but a russian shill. imagine claiming the moral high ground for leaking documents of which 99%+ weren't relevant to what you claimed and then fleeing to live under and shill for putin

shooting 96 times is insane and potentially could have hit an innocent bystander but the guy getting killed himself is fair, next if he actually fired first. cops should be fired as the one that fired 50 rounds would have had to reload or change weapons which is just absurd overkill

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i agree it is the most overrated of the pre xii games. it was good but not as good as the others of that era.

also 8 is unfairly maligned. it is a great game

switch is the best nintendo console ever and a top 3 console of alltime at worst

there hasn't been a good final fantasy since x

Full_Pokedex posted...

I'm guessing it will be some anti capitalism dribble like what's popular in media now.

almost nothing in media is actually anti capitalist, it's more often just anti exploitation

driving the economy off a cliff after downplaying a pandemic he was partially responsible for by dismantling the response team put in place by the obama/biden administration is not a positive

any abortion bans are happening because trump put religious nutjobs on scotus. that needs to be the main attack ad played on repeat by the biden campaign and whatever superpacs. if given the chance he will put more of them on there and risk banning interracial marriages and generally people losing more rights

i feel better about wisconsin than nevada but think both should not vote for trump. i think a generic republican like nikki haley could win wisconsin in a super close election maybe but can't imagine enough people flipping back to trump

Block_that_Kick posted...

Well, now that the GOP has gifted Arizona on a silver platter for the Democrats, Im feeling much much more comfortable about Bidens chances in November.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8cb87845.jpg

republicans are not winning wisconsin either

edit: trump specifically is not winning wisconsin. they have gotten repeatedly ratfucked by a gop supreme court and other blatantly gop gerrymandered shenanigans recently as well

the tails/hoth/rod types on those subs seem to base their entire lives around gamefaqs. it's honestly insane

uconn/purdue is prob the best possible matchup. best two teams all year, should be great. edey against clingan will be an incredible matchup. uconn opened as a 6 point favorite which seems about right. purdue can win but edey will need to play great and the guards will have to hit some 3's.

that was the most blatant moving screen ever right in front of the ref. geno was off on his player, not the refs because he knew it was a blatant offensive foul

purdue in the championship. unless alabama makes like 20 threes i don't see how they can beat uconn but would like to see a good game at least. purdue/uconn would be a helluva final matchup and we haven't had the best two teams all year in the final in recent memory

obviously not. it's mario for sure with link getting an honorable mention

Punished_Blinx posted...

Politically Correct/PC
Social Justice Warrior/SJW
Woke
Now it's DEI

Irs funny how they all unanimously move on when they realise they eventually make themselves look stupid by overusing the word so much.

they all get their marching orders from the same grifters

easily the ability to warp. 250k isn't a crazy amount of money, if it was like 100 million + i would prob take the money but you could easily make 250k in no time just being a sideshow

they can't even make sense when they try to be 'subtly' racist. baltimore elected their mayor, he won a primary and general election

Trumble posted...

A huge difference being that NZ isn't supplying weapons, or obstructing UN resolutions, or sending military support to the region, or...

Plus, as mentioned, my vote will be going to the one relevant party that doesn't support them at all. Because that's what I *can* realistically do. Who on a side note are about as far from "far right lunatics" as you can get without venturing into the left wing equivalent territory.

trying to nitpick levels of support and justify new zealands level of support just betrays the obvious fact that you don't actually give a shit about gaza

TimeForAction posted...

Good thing the popular vote means something

polls exist for states like pennslyvania where biden leads by 5-10% in the most recent polling

Trumble posted...

There you go again, putting words in my mouth. My country's support is in the sense of that politicians aren't taking a strong enough line against it. Not in the sense of that they're fucking supplying weapons. Even Winston Peters, probably the most pro-Israel person in there, wants to see a ceasefire; and while it's hard to take his word too seriously, at least he hasn't been taking significant actions that contradict his claims.

We aren't fucking like you.

new zealand is using the exact same rhetoric the biden administration is. they both support israels 'right to defend itself' while admonishing unnecessary deaths and military action.

you don't give a shit about gaza, you just want far right lunatics in power

WingsOfGood (Topic Creator)1 hour ago
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undefined posted...

quote where i said that?

undefined posted... it's a suspicious death and should be investigated as such but suicide is usually a highly irrational action and people that commit suicide are generally not in a normal state of mind

i said it is suspicious and should be investigated....are you not able to comprehend what you read? i never commented on john barnetts state of mind at all

Trumble posted...

I've denounced Republicans plenty of times when it's relevant, but since for the most part they've only come up as a deflection and everyone already recognizes they're shit, there's not much point.

It's no different to Israel supporters insisting everyone who doesn't end every criticism of Israel with a statement about Hamas being bad must be secret Hamas supporters.

your stated goal is to try and convince people to not vote for biden so it seems super relevant since you are trying to get trump elected.

luckily you are really bad at this and the only people circlejerking with you are other nihilists and trumpers

specialkid8 posted...

Y'all keep saying this as if liberals can define it either.

liberals aren't the ones using it as a catchall term for things they don't like. the morons insurrection supporters are the ones doing that

Trumble posted...

Why waste time on an impossible goal?

so it's worth shitposting for hundreds of posts if you are shitting on democrats but you can't be bothered to denounce the people you are trying to get elected?

you aren't very good at this

Trumble posted...

And at what point during this did I suggest anyone should vote Trump?

Prior to being educated on some of the finer points around US elections, I was saying vote someone else. Since then, I've been saying vote Biden if you absolutely have to but don't fucking criticise those who can't bring themself to do so, and consider using the threat of non-voting as leverage to pressure him into changing course on Israel. On both sides of that point, I've held that downplaying or deflecting what he's doing is unacceptable.

What fucking part of that is supporting Trump?

the part where you downplay evil shit trump did and are totally ok with him getting elected

that fucking part

Trumble posted...

Ah yes, despite repeatedly stating that Trump is worse, despite the only thing even resembling a defence of Trump being calling out hypocrisy, I must secretly support Trump.

Fuck off with that crap.

you openly support trump winning the election in '24 by using hours everyday to advocate people don't vote against him. you aren't fooling anyone