US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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To my understanding, another huge part of the problem of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire was that the Ottomans typically chose to have small, highly literate minorities in charge of governing the masses. As such, you'd have Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians, etc. ruling over large swathes of Arabs. When the Empire fell, Euros and later Americans tried to make Westphalian nation states (Arab Baathism) out of the ashes. These two things dovetailed into the slaughter of all those literate minorities and the rise of insane gangsters and religious zealots who were convenient to the cold war powers.
Installed foreign elites don't typically do well once an empire falls. Anyone explain that to our friends from India?
 
I remember reading some of the speeches and essays by Nazis in the 1930's and was utterly shocked by how it all read at a grade-school level.
Turns out populist hate movements rely on simplistic rhetoric and attract idiots as a result. It's why Nazis fail at debate and why current Nazi "intellectuals" write articles disproving that Jews invented fire and vitamins.
 
thats why they have to be banned from everywhere and denied free speech it's because they're so bad at convincing people and nobody can relate to what they say thats why nobody can be allowed to hear them
They're actually just extremely fucking annoying. Like you can have a thread about how to make a good quiche, and some Nazi will jump in and say "WELL FIRST WE NEED TO SETTLE THAT FRANCE ABSOLUTELY HAD IT COMING IN WW2 AND SHOULD HAVE LEFT GERMANY ALONE WHEN IT INVADED POLAND," and now the thread completely sucks because some asshole blew shit all over it.
 
They're actually just extremely fucking annoying. Like you can have a thread about how to make a good quiche, and some Nazi will jump in and say "WELL FIRST WE NEED TO SETTLE THAT FRANCE ABSOLUTELY HAD IT COMING IN WW2 AND SHOULD HAVE LEFT GERMANY ALONE WHEN IT INVADED POLAND," and now the thread completely sucks because some asshole blew shit all over it.
yeah thats why every social media bans nazis and not trannies its because the nazis are so goddam annoying and the trannies are delightful and add a lot to the conversation
 
yeah thats why every social media bans nazis and not trannies its because the nazis are so goddam annoying and the trannies are delightful and add a lot to the conversation

You should ask yourself why Nazis get banned from places that tolerate words like kike and nigger and have low tolerance for trannies, not Facebook.

It's because they're irritating idiots.
 
thats why they have to be banned from everywhere and denied free speech it's because they're so bad at convincing people and nobody can relate to what they say thats why nobody can be allowed to hear them
That's not my position. I support the opposite, let Nazis talk freely. Look at what happened on X, the Nazis were running free for years and the movement degraded to the point where Nazi ideals are considered to be associated with third world browns and low quality people. Major Nazi accounts have to block people who contradict them because of how weak their arguments are (throwing "free speech" out of the window btw).

Hitler wrote about this in Mein Kampf:

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Casey throws away Ohio with the help of Grok:


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High speed rail is extremely overrated and California should've prioritized expanding the LA and SF regional rail systems before even so much as considering the HSR project for the future. The LA metro is so small for a city comparable to NYC in size and population and the $34b+ spent on HSR so far could've been used to construct multiple new regional rail lines and extensions instead.
I agree, but LA isn’t as dense, which is probably why people don’t consider the rail as important. Personally I think LA could be a great city again if it had a proper city wide rail system, they purged the homeless, and got rid of all the Mexicans, but none of this will ever happen.
 
I agree, but LA isn’t as dense, which is probably why people don’t consider the rail as important. Personally I think LA could be a great city again if it had a proper city wide rail system, they purged the homeless, and got rid of all the Mexicans, but none of this will ever happen.
If they purged the Mexicans, there'd be no need for rail because there'd be no traffic.
 
I agree, but LA isn’t as dense, which is probably why people don’t consider the rail as important. Personally I think LA could be a great city again if it had a proper city wide rail system, they purged the homeless, and got rid of all the Mexicans, but none of this will ever happen.
Lower density just means that you'd build up the system but have it operate at a lower frequency and make the switch between metro to commuter much earlier as seen with the Miami rail system.
 
Main kampf is the same type of book as anything Marx wrote, but it IS funny when people pretend Das Kapital is about economics

Now I m thinking of some twilight zone esq episode where the main character fight to go back in time to "Deal" with hitler. The dude comes back and instead of killing hilter nothings changed, because he went back hot hilter to do an audio book of mienkampt.

Samething with marx
 
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