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JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europe’s leaders
(www.theguardian.com)
Putin is getting a brilliant return on his investment.
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Russia: Great intelligence services, shit army, no navy
Well got to min max and humans historical max out the Intel Stat versus other animals so it's traditionally move. Plus you know, massive embezzlement opportunities.
If they could stop drinking for a couple decades I think they could do some awesome stuff. When the Soviets first took power they were prohibitionists, and that generation of Russians went on to beat the Nazis and launch Sputnik, despite Stalin.
Russia feels like the kid in school who you know is abused but is an asshole because of being abused. The Golden Horde was awful, to be sure, but we all need to let the healing happen.
Reminds me of family guy Ireland before whisky.
https://youtu.be/7-yQ4s6IBec?ZGzGcnBg86TWheeA
If they ever do, maybe They can something like in Atomic Heart. Good communist technology for all people to enjoy right now I'm questioning if murica can not be a cyberpunk dystopia. Which would also fall in like with Atomic Heart....
Also makes me think of a guy I know who I went to high school with, just incredibly smart. Ended up getting to the National Science Fair and got an honorable mention and also a bunch of newspaper attention. Fifteen years later, he was in prison for getting caught with a backpack full of meth cooking equipment.
I can't remember the last time I saw him sober. Even after he got out of prison, I don't know if he was still doing meth, but I only ever saw him in bars drunk off his ass after that.
He's still a super nice guy, but his brain is basically scrambled eggs.
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suppressing free speech
Shutting out far-right racists and literal foreign agitators
mishandling migration
Racism
and ignoring populist concerns
More racism
Feels like the New Axis is starting to take tangible shape.
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“Vance leaves the US and thinks the rest of the world thinks of highly of him as his brain-dead countrymen do.”
He’s such a fucking buffoon.
He's just reading what his Russian speech writer told him to.
"blistering attack" is one way to say it, I'd say bigoted rambling is better way to describe it
Hey, at least they didn't use "slammed" again.
“The mice in fact are tyrannical oppressors for not opening the door to listen to what the fox has to say!” - JD Vance
Nope, mister G.O.Pudge, we do not have to include Nazis.
What does the fox say?
Fuck off with that BS. We don't need you authoritarians to illegitimise our leaders, insert a racism wedge between us and misrepresent what our "populous" wants. We know that our values are not aligned with a conservative, VP-to-fucking-trump, Putin's puppet, project 2025 POS. And we don't need to look for a "threat of within" when we need to stand united against russia and now US influence.
When AfD neo nazis, the richest asshole in the world, the US leadership, Putin and north Korea all praise and support each other we can see through your BS.
Dear Goober-Veep,
The threat from within is the Nazis, not the people who refuse to listen to the Nazis. They’ve been handling Nazis longer than you’ve been alive. Shut your fucking pizza pie hole.
That dipshit has no right to criticize anyone.
This is the guy who is an apologist to anti-Indian hate speech... while being married to an ethnic Indian.
He’s nothing more than a performer now. Ask yourself every time: who is he performing for right now that he believes will increase his political power? I’m not sure why he wants power. He wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Alienating whatever remaining trade partners you had outside of the two local ones, which your friends in the administration tariffed and threatened to annex, is going to go tremendously. Sure are putting America First... in line to find out what happens when no other country is willing to trade their resources with us or buy our goods.
Unless AfD gains power. Which is one of the reasons they want AfD to gain power. Part of the new Axis is part of the old Axis.
"Blistering" suggests it had merit.
I prefer to think of it as likening his opinions to cold sores.
the french did some great stuff with just a metal blade
And a bit of timber.
America is a big dumb golem used to do the violent bidding of whoever is able to control it - mainly Israel and Russia.
A mere 1B donation get you control of a 800B a year military. Talk about ROI!
Not sure if European couches are into the whole eyeliner thing.
Yeah wtf is up with that??
I think this people have long already disqualified their ability to speech anything worth of coherent value, why keep listening them or take note of their words? They do not follow the rules of that game, is not possible to play on the same terms so that battleground is a distraction at best, a cancer at worst.
Don’t feed the troll, don’t support the bully.
Lol is this a tongue in cheek self aware comment? I had to start and restart each sentence a few times.
Europe America is lost. Protect yourselves from us.
I want to join in the take of "What an out-of-touch moron" but I honestly think Germany might be fucked. Meetings with AfD behind closed doors and no one in the German government appearing to have a spine to do anything about it indicates that Germany is just the next in line to slide slowly back into fascism.
France is not far behind, either.
We're about to see how the next elections turn out. Maybe all is not lost yet.
It's not a threat from within, when you have blatantly switched sides and are on the "outside".
They want to weaponize you against me because I may not look like everyone on the “inside” even though I clearly am.
We will be squished in between Putin and his lapdog. Fuck this timeline.
death to america?
putin's bitch. so what?
Peter Thiel: "Good Ubu. Sit Ubu."
mishandling migration, and ignoring populist concerns.
I think Vance is a tool, but can someone explain how these two points aren't objectively true?
“In Germany, a firewall has long existed preventing mainstream parties from engaging with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland owing to its Nazi origins. But Vance said there was no room for such barriers.”
Is this the ‘populism’ you’re so concerned about?
While Vance is whining about European censorship, his boss in the US is throwing legitimate press organizations out of the White House briefing room and removing any mention of people of color or LGBT people from education and government documentation.
I didn't mention the censorship because he is wrong about that
I also don't agree with his quote about "no need for barriers". I wasn't aware he had said that.
He is referring to the poor handling of migration in Europe, which is true. And the general ignoring of popular outrage at how migration is managed.
That he is a fascist dickhead is indicative of the problem. Many many people who are not racist think migration is handled terribly in Europe and the problem is moderate politicians are hopelessly slow to engage with this and as a result the only people talking about it are fascist nutbags...
For Vance, this is just “otherism”. It’s an old trick — your problems are not something you actually need to take responsibility for — it’s all the fault of the “others” in your country. While migration may be a hot mess, the republicans play the card of “all crime is due to these others”. Pay no attention to the grifters elected in the US currently stealing all your money and data.
Indeed. Which makes it an even bigger problem that there are hardly enough moderate politicians saying "here's what we hear you saying about migration and he's what we will actually do to rectify that"
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Migration being a model for creating both a scapegoat and a lowest of the low wage slavery class is a capitalist and fascist strategy. Vance acts as a critic of it, but right wingers, populists, are never onboard with enabling new residents to have better chances, education, work etc.
"Mishandling migration" is a pessimist position. With this position you can be wrong all the time, and then when an event occurs that false in the pessimistic view "you" claim full victory. It is similar to the story of doctors and a terminal patient that keeps outliving the diagnosis (although doctors dont celebrate the moment thay are proven right).
For example why "populist concerns" are not to be taken too seriously are football hooligans. True (white) nationals tearing down city centres, yet you don't hear anything about "bad integration" or "religion of peace", or any conversation from that corner.
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The least useful, biggest idiot.
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