***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[rexanglorum]

Both funny and bleak all at once.

NOW kneeling before an NFL game is ok.

 

[mister friendly]

They didn’t kneel before Broncos/Chiefs game, it was a moment of silence.

 

[Belgium]

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/...n-may-invade-armenia-in-coming-weeks-00121500

Blinken warned lawmakers Azerbaijan may invade Armenia in coming weeks​

He also said State isn’t planning to renew a long-standing waiver that allows the U.S. to provide military assistance to Baku.

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]

 

[kungfu koala]

mans shakes hands for a living.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

It’s the same reason why German neo Nazis wave confederate flags and Gadsden flags when they are marching in the streets of Germany where public displays of swastikas are illegal.

It’s the same reason why racist cops and villainous plutocrats so often collect Nazi memorabilia.

It’s why the members of the far right in New Zealand, like to do drinking songs about Rhodesia.

Settler-colonial-backing white supremacist want to do three things.

1.) signal a certain global settler colonial solidarity.
2.) intimidate indigenous people nearby or whomever else they consider to be undesirables.
3.) make those two signals in a way that will lessen legal and social culpability (and often lets them make a statement about how they’re the real victims here. e.g. “they’re trying to silence me just because I love history)


What Mast is doing is basically wishing that he could wear a Kyle Kittenhouse or a Derek Chauvin screen print around the Capitol but he knows that expressing his beliefs that way would garner too much backlash so he finds a more indirect, a more cute way to signal which groups of people he sees as fully human and those which he does not. Dude would love to see an other settler colonial States unilaterally besieging and bombing densely populated places inhabited by non white people. For now at least, Mast will have to be content with just Gaza getting flattened.

I don't find this global settler colonial solidarity theory very compelling.

a much more plausible explanation imo;

America is majority Christian nation, where WWII, 911, and the war on terror is one of the most defining historical events, and has historical geopolitical interests in the region.

I don't think you need a global conspiracy of settler colonialists to explain why the US political class would be inclined to support Israel over Hamas.

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[mplsdunk]

So stop responding. F’em

 

[frink85]

she was eloquent and calm and explained her point very well, comments are a ****show. what else is new

 

[mplsdunk]

It’s not her battle to take on, she isn’t responsible for what happened or convincing every idiot otherwise.

 

[mplsdunk]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Trump gonna win every one of those voters that claim they are on the fence.

 

[mplsdunk]

I think it was one in the fence

 

[Methodical Management]

So stop responding.

The indignity of answering the question is a far lesser affront than the presumptive suspicion the question represents.

It is the attitudinal analogue of "papers, please."

The subtext is, "convince me you're not one of the bad ones. Convince me that you're human."

This is part of the experience of living as a minority in an oppressive society: your very presence is considered suspicious. You are constantly prompted to justify your existence, prove that your intentions are pure, provide assurance that you're not "a threat."

If you were asked if you support looting and riots in 2020/1992, if you were asked if you support terrorism in 2001, if you were asked to sign a loyalty oath in 1943, you were not presented with a question - but a command to roll over, show your belly, and submit.

 

[mplsdunk]

2020 was wild, and I def wasn’t on the side of the police.

I’d rather have seen every mpd precinct burnt to the ground than all of lake street personally.

Now “luxury” apartments take the place of small businesses.

 

[Methodical Management]

2020 was wild, and I def wasn’t on the side of the police.

How often were you asked if you support police brutality?

I trust that you see the point.

 

[mplsdunk]

How often were you asked if you support police brutality?

I trust that you see the point.

Never

I’ve been traveling and people hear where I’m from and ask what’s wrong with the police.

That’s as far as it’s gone.

 

[frink85]

wow. at 5:12 he just totally ****s on the whole union and everyone in the room and turns the movement towards his reelection. who could have seen that coming?!

 

[mplsdunk]

He wasn’t even at a union shop.

True scumbag. Probably just got paid to be there and took advantage of the strike.

“Just do me a favor and tell your union to endorse me”

 

[elpablo21]

Both Sides with another W

 

[chao7]

Both Sides with another W

I just thought I was in a daze from the green and hard seltzers. Was like what the ****

 

[IATT]

dwalk31

 

[kdawg]

dwalk31

I thought real mean didn’t use the teleprompter?

 

[Based Jesus]

"After giving our full support to your oppression we will now be TRIPLING (0*0*0) our aid to the victims we created."

Pause for applause