CTHlurker

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[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seems like the Palestinian people's remaining hope is that Trump gets personally insulted by Netanyahu deciding to break the ceasefire.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Latifundium was the area around Rome i think. It now refers to an area with massive plantations (and often times slavery) where a small group of people own massive land areas and use them for cash crops at the expense of everyone who has to work for them. Oftentimes used when describing South America, particularly among leftists who refer to large landowners as Latifundistas (probably didn't spell it right, I've never learned spanish or portugese)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifundium --> Decent wiki article

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Benny Johnson is REALLY good at telling rich, white, lead-poisoned boomers what they want to hear. Being good at that specific thing makes you an important part of any fascist coalition, especially given that groups wildly disproportionate power and wealth.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

you made me remember that republican local politician who argued that since White is a color, then he should count as a person of color. Legit one of the weirdest attempts at identity politics I have ever seen.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

It's a lot easier to think of "growth" as their religious mantra. In actuality, most of them aren't looking to grow forever, but rather to pawn their business off to a different idiot. It's honestly really cool how most of the Western world's economies operate on "bigger sucker" syndrome, where you're constantly looking for a bigger idiot than you who is willing to pay more for your asset than you paid for it yourself.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

A big problem that he is going to cause is that all the fucking CIA-aligned freaks in Europe are STILL going to be in power while the various intelligence agencies rebuild, unless Trump manages to mortally wound them, which I somehow doubt.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Dipshit faildaughter remembers that she is the face of the rapidly declining economy with a shitload of weapons available for purchase on its eastern border. Would presumably like to not get got by the myriad of people who now consider her the source of their problems.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Mandela was kind of forced to delay/abandon that part (at least accoring to Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein) because every time he would mention it, the currency traders in London and New York would make the Rand nosedive and immediately lose a bunch of value. That was a massive problem for a country that was trying to maintain itself amid rising costs of borrowing.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

They seem to have taken the title as an instruction in creating a combat-form of Liberalism. If we aren't careful, they will make us abandon communism through their mean tweets and snarky clapbacks.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

I seem to recall a WTYP episode about the Train Maya, where the mexican guest-host talked about the Mexican Army having quite a lot of influence on Mexican politics, and that AMLO was kind of afraid of potentially getting couped by the army, which was why his reforms couldn't fundamentally touch the main points of corruption/sidedealing within the army. Some of that might have been cope that AMLO wasn't as radical as some people hoped for, but it was probably also true to an extent, particularly given that previous links between the Mexican army and the US.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 52 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Isn't WhitePeopleTwitter the headquarters of the Brunch-liberals? I remember blocking that sub during the first trump admin because half of it was Jeff Tiedrich clapbacks, and all the comments would just be puns / songlyrics / Reddit-injokes that stopped being funny in 2013.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also, wasn't Koba a georgian folk-character? Like it's a name that was associated with Georgia, so at most not knowing his lastname would have gotten "Ioseb from Georgia" in trouble.

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