Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "Pod Save the World"
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It's worth pointing out that if the communists somehow did take over your existing money would likely be worthless immediately, a core tenet of communism is that everyone's assets get pooled and redistributed according to need, not according to how much paper money you have. Only someone who knows nothing about communism would try to argue that they'd stockpile money for that, it's like stockpiling rock salt in preparation for a drought. Even us communists know this kind of thing. Also, if you're trying to get out of the country the cash is literally worthless if there isn't a US government to guarantee it, it becomes fancy Monopoly money if their is a revolution.
It'd be nice if the dems could do a public inquisition and root out the various conservatives that are ensconced in the democratic establishment. Also you guys really, REALLY need some kind of party whip mechanism, how are there no consequences completely abandoning party lines in a partisan system? Why does the party let these scumbags use the party name to get elected? Most of them would flounder immediately if they didn't have the support of their party, dipshit manchin didn't run as a republican because he knew it'd be easier to get in as a dem, which is revealed by him betraying the party over and over on key votes, he votes red and steals the state's ability to elect an actual blue senator.
For the record the keel of a ship isn't actually under water for it's whole length, you generally have a keel stick out at the bow (and possibly stern depending on the ship), and that's a spot that's pretty hard to see from aboard the ship without actually climbing down (which is pretty dangerous/a huge hassle on a big ship). I see people pointing out that they probably hung out on the rudder, so it could also be that, but keel doesn't just refer to the part of the ship that's underwater, it's the spine of the ship, running from the tip of the bow the stern.
The US is too eager to suck up to modi because he's a nascent fascist, and US business interests always choose fascists if they can, so I don't expect much push back.
I suspect part of why dogs don't need to pee the same way involves them not sweating iirc, humans sweat constantly so our ancestors needed to be paranoid about being thirsty, our bodies run way too warm, if dogs get too warm they can just go somewhere shady, humans need shade and they need to find water ASAP or they'll die of dehydration. It's a wonder our ancestors survived at all, but until we got tools we were not a dominant species.
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I don't really agree that the US has 'isolationist' tendencies, studying it's history it was mostly expansionistic, manifest destiny BS is still believed fervently by the dullards, but there are a TON of stupid people and they each get a vote. The US's foreign policy can mostly be boiled down to the fact that it doesn't want to ever help anyone, period, that's where it has 'isolationism' down pat, but it loves to do interventions and invasions if they'll make money for the well connected (like resource extraction companies that made serious bank in iraq, and were going to in afghanistan but the US couldn't even half-ass conquer the place). It's the same reason people are 'supposed' to have guns in the US, we all watched those Westerns, which are treated by right wing nutjobs like they are documentaries about the Wild West, staring all those big name academics like John Wayne, and there was never anything wrong with solving problems with gun violence, because the good guys always win, right? Nobody, not even the police (especially not the police) have to help them if they have a gun, if they have a gun you can pretend they are 'self-sufficient'. It's the same reason you guys don't have healthcare for all, and everyone poor is just fleeced by the system (they pay very high rates for very bad treatment in a ton of cases), and the rich are pampered endlessly. The US doesn't believe in help as a concept, the dislike of helping foreigners is just an extension of this pathology. If you really think about it the US was literally founded on the rich not having to pay taxes, and the civil war was fought because southern shitheads couldn't figure out that it's wrong to enslave things, at least the region is still being punished economically for being dumbasses, much of the South is dirt fucking poor, and with the worst government services in the country. Why didn't the rich want to pay their taxes? Because it would help others by redistributing the wealth they have (and thus deserved to have, in their view), to this day many right wing Americans think progressive taxation (or anything that taxes the rich at all) is 'punishing success', and that's why they fight for lower taxes for people who don't have to work for their money. I guess what I'm getting at is that the US is more or less an evil country, and that is why trump beat clinton (narrowly, and only after the FBI director, a staunch conservative, publicly announced a BS investigation against her just before the election, one of the few really great examples of the deep state in action btw, and it's pro-repub). The US likes to vote for presidents they think are evil, because if they elect an evil person they assume this person will be 'strong' because evil people literally think evil is strength. It's like I was born into a cartoon world or something, with a literal 'evil country', and the whole country is pretty near blind to it. The right thinks if you elect someone compassionate the country will 'lose', because only evil people win (technically evil people do tend to do better in the US, because it selects for them.
Did vivek-loser get hit in the head really hard before this talk?? Can anyone explain how a war the US isn't fighting is going to turn into a republican started war that the US is fighting???? I know republicans don't actually have to make sense anymore to appeal to their voters/base (it's why trump can ramble incoherently for 45 minutes and the dumb chuds all cheer), but this is too stupid even for them. ...and he closed it off by more or less saying that even if we knew the holocaust was going on (which we did, and didn't really care about by and large), we wouldn't be justified in doing something about it? Also technically by vivek's brainwormy argument you also can't defend yourself? I know he's a feckless coward (they all are, every fucking republican is a coward at heart, it's why they are conservative, their brain's fear processing is overactive), but seriously, how can anyone argue 'there is no politically correct war' and not be laughed at?
Also, trump 'doesn't want to say' is code for 'I'm owned by xi, putin and the gulf dictators and will do whatever they order'. If china invaded Taiwan there is zero chance the US intervenes if a repub is in charge, and even Biden probably won't actually intervene militarily, I feel like if they wouldn't do it for Ukraine vs russia they sure as shit won't do it vs china, which is a much, much scarier opponent, we hear a lot about how incompetent the chinese military is, but the US hasn't had a proper win in awhile (not sure if the first Gulf War counts or not, it's a very sketchy war and lots of war material wasn't accounted for after the war), and has actively lost quite a few wars since WW2 (which was very much a team effort btw!), I think Biden has to say he'd intervene, but there is likely very little interest in risking American lives vs an army that is more than 10 times the size. Then again, I could see trump being incredibly cozy with modi (they both hate Muslims and can bond over both of them getting brutalized by the oil states, many of which are Muslim), but it's incredibly hard for india to invade china to support the US on this, the only country that probably could invade china to help would be russia, and they are presently pretty close to china (closer than they have ever been in history perhaps). It seems likely that the US will talk a bunch and send a bunch of carriers and subs, but I doubt much happens. I've certainly be wrong before, but seeing the world mostly say 'you're on your own' to Ukraine was scary.
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My favorite right wing movie is probably Wolf Warrior, but most good martial arts movies are openly right wing conceptually, and who doesn't want to have a few beers and watch a guy annihilate some baddies? That said, I hate to break this to you guys, but almost everything that Hollywood churns out is, deep down, right leaning propaganda. Hollywood exists exclusively to keep the masses distracted and reduce the likelihood of a major revolution, and you don't prevent a revolution by making actual progressive media the norm. The more 'entertaining' a movie/show is supposed to be, the further to the right it's symbolisms and messaging will be. I noticed this first as a kid when I realized all the left wing kids shows were unwatchable preachy trash (that was actively designed to demonize progressives), and everything right wing was designed to be 'fun' (it always appeals to our worst nature; conflict is solved through force, peace is only achieved through violence, and is maintained thusly). It wasn't until later that I realized the reason it was so important we all lean right was that our social order (of rich exploiting the poor as brutally as they can, and protesting it is criminalized harshly... we live in a society run by right wing assholes that were selected by the previous members of the ruling class and then assigned as many billions as necessary to ensure their empowerment) is propped up by Hollywood's extensive propaganda network... with a huge side benefit of causing a constant influx of desperate migrants to the US who are eager to fill the bottom rung... not because others moved up, but so the social order can go deeper down, nobody is supposed to move up, just more tiers on the bottom). Those migrants are driven by the promise of Hollywood, that the US is 'the land of the free', when it's literally doing everything in it's power to reinstate feudalism.
I wish an economist would compare state debt to the debt of wealthy people. I think your guest is right, state debt is nothing like household debt, and part of that is because household debt is predatory, while debt for the rich is an asset in every way... rich people can borrow money, invest that money, and then borrow more money based on the debt they have accrued, then pay it all back off of the earnings of all their debt. Meanwhile a household that has debt is positively hounded for having it, poor people are brutally punished for debt, the rich are heavily rewarded for identical behavior, and the pressures on a state are much closer to those on the rich than those on the poor. Heck, just compare state debt to corporate debt and even obtuse people should be able to recognize that the state is infinitely closer to a giant corporation than it is to the average worker. I think Krugman described some of these right wing bogeymen ideas as 'zombie ideas', things that everyone knows are dead but get up and come after us because something unpleasant is animating them, and that thing isn't logical/reasonable. People don't actually think immigrants are taking away their jobs (they create more jobs than they take because they work so hard), they just don't want to see so many brown people, paranoid people have a visceral reaction to people who they think are 'different' so it's really beneficial to a politician to demonize immigration, it's easy voters that otherwise don't care about your platform, hence it being used by the various populists funded by the right wing establishment.
I still can't believe the UK didn't throw johnson out of the country after he both sexually violated a deceased pig AND trampled small children that were playing ball... also, how do you look at that hair and think 'this guy looks like a PM!', he looks like he's too cheap to buy a wig and uses an old mop, it's trumpian level bad. Oh, and seriously, he abused that dead pig, isn't that weird?? What is it with right wing people and REALLY FREAKY shit that they insist they want illegal, only they're super into it and just want nobody else to be allowed to do their fetish? Except the child marriage for girls thing, the right likes that unless it's brown people doing it, than it becomes bad.
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Dude, the establishment looked at china (when relations thawed with the West) and saw cheap labor, and they saw literally nothing else. Rich assholes saw a way to make more money by shipping jobs from here to there and then selling those goods (that won't last as long because the manufacturing workers are less skilled there) to us anyways, at a slight discount that is more than offset by the fact that the average working is making less money, meaning their actual buying power was going down without them noticing, they couldn't pull that off without a china that wanted to build factories for Western interests. It wasn't about some 'great dream' of 'making china a stakeholder', because nobody wanted an empowered china except china, even russia used to be anti-china, it was 100% about making money for the already wealthy. It's not a secret that policy in the West adheres closely to what the wealthy among us want, they didn't want another superpower that can threaten Western hegemony. The tarifs similarly were put in place to protect Western wealth (in particular that of elno himself, because he had zero hope of competing with the chinese on EVs), and it is entirely at the cost of the American public, who will have to pay more for everything they buy that COULD have been made in china, all while wages for the majority aren't really going up. Banning tiktok was done to try to convince the chinese to sell it to Western billionaires, chinese billionaires don't cooperate with those from the West the same way all Western billionaires work together to protect their own from oversight (and the consequences oversight will bring).
There is no real difference between modi and trump, both are vile racists who are trying to win by appealing to the worst aspects of human nature. I assume it must feel good to just get angry and use a minority as a scapegoat (if you have thoroughly perverted your empathy, such that you derive pleasure from harming others), because the voters are shooting themselves in the foot to spite their Muslim countrymen. Again, this is just like the majority of trump voters who derived no benefit other than watching other people suffer during his reign, and many of them will still vote for him after he was objectively the worst US president in living memory (if not history in general). I also was not even remotely surprised to watch the US make a huge push to improve relations with india, apparently modi was far enough right wing that the US 'felt they could trust him', just like pinochet and his ilk.
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I suspect that less educated people expect to have 'their opinions' put on a pedestal, as they are used to from mainstream conservatism infantilizing them, and when these Leftists not only don't pander to them but are openly disdainful of things they consider basic tenets. They aren't even their own opinions, the right literally teaches it's followers the opinions they are supposed to have.
It's my view that the less educated a person is, the more effective/pernicious the propaganda the media spoon feeds us is, smart people can watch a dumb action movie and be aware that it's complete fantasy, but a less sophisticated audience instead learns from it, that's why actual smart people often have a leery view of truly toxic art, even if they love free expression they know how stupid ~40% of the population is. For the uneducated, the closest thing they can get to an education is to consume media. This is why dumb people all share a tightly knit culture of ignorance and actively punish anyone who doesn't conform to their mores, they aren't critical thinkers, they just take the propaganda in and make it part of their identity without questioning it. These aren't secure people who can listen to a podcast of people who literally know better than they do tell them the truth, it disagrees with their beloved propaganda so it must be lies/propaganda. This is also why they have to break stuff associated with 'traitors to the cause', which includes going out and buying stuff to destroy, ultimately meaning they give more money to the businesses they hate, you can almost taste the stupid as it flows freely from their paradoxically empty skulls.
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IMHO what the US gets out of support for israel, other than pacifying the zionists of the world (they are weirdly influential, I think they're trying to get Jews exterminated officially via this cover, but that's conspiracy stuff!), is that israel is an incredibly annoying distraction for people who already don't like the US in that region. Why work to smuggle bombs into the US when you can just shoot rockets at israel for way less resources? It's pretty cold-blooded, but the US wonks figured out that they could trade away israeli lives for American ones, and that the right wingers in israel could use any israeli deaths to both gain popularity, so for the right wing American establishment it was a total win-win scenario, some israelis will die, and the israeli right wing (personified atm by bibi) wins more elections, and he will accommodate the US in any way he can.
I think many people forget that even if the US didn't support israel their would still be PLENTY of reasons to hate them in the Middle East, their is a reason they call Americans imperialists, so while giving israel weapons might make Muslims angry, they're already angry enough that it doesn't really matter.
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