North Carolina Republicans just nominated a right-wing conspiracy theorist known for quoting Hitler

Jiminy

Great news

jet199

You encourage people to get in these boats then thousands will die.

Thousands already have died and the left don't care. They love that they can use it as a political point scoring tool.

TaseAFeminist4Jesus

I pray for their souls

IkeConn

Glad it wasn't Florida or Texas.

BOT---BOT---BOT---

The governments of Africa slaughtering the people they lord over - and the neighbors as well.

03:53 @BonZomvi We're nazis
03:53 tommm nazis?
03:53 @BonZomvi 卐卐卐卐卐卐卐卐卐卐
03:53 @BonZomvi Yea
03:53 tommm for real?
03:53 @BonZomvi real shit 卐
03:53 @BonZomvi We nazi, fascist, racist
03:53 tommm what does that mean, i read stories, but i dont really know.
03:54 @BonZomvi Mang
03:54 @BonZomvi How old r u
03:54 @BonZomvi Do u even have an education
03:54 tommm 24
03:54 @BonZomvi nigga did u live under a rock for 24 years
03:54 tommm i almost have my bachelors in compsci.
03:54 @BonZomvi U don even know history?
03:55 tommm yeah, but i did not know that nazis exist in modern times.
03:55 @BonZomvi lol
03:55 @BonZomvi We'd be considered nazis for our viewpoints
03:56 @BonZomvi U don kno about the neo-nazis in Ukraine?
03:56 @BonZomvi Or what we call it, Jewkraine
03:56 @BonZomvi Or Hoholkraine
03:56 tommm sorry, i dont know.
03:56 @BonZomvi don worry
03:56 @BonZomvi Just heil and go on

/SLAPS

Cancelthis

The governments of Africa slaughtering the people they lord over - and the neighbors as well.

Cancelthis

The correct geopolitical response :

Well, it won't be coming from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris - or Gavin Newsome.

One more correct reason to shut the entire U.S. government down.

neolib

This is early reporting - R 17k / U 71k is the edited version, with numbers swapped (original R 40k / U 17k, here are they both, you can inspect for the signs of photoshop https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1644226867623280641).

I also have the original 3mb full-size png, which was shared on 4chan (with R 40k / U 17k numbers): https://files.catbox.moe/7lk6a9.png

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I see what you are referring to now, but some of the reported numbers are still quite bad

https://apnews.com/article/leaked-documents-classified-russia-ukraine-e351c6613e69bf8d714b03e367543da8

He and others would not go into detail, but at least one of the documents shows estimates of Russian troops deaths in the Ukraine war that are significantly lower than numbers publicly stated by U.S. officials. Under a section titled “Total Assessed Losses,” one document lists 16,000-17,500 Russian casualties and up to 71,000 Ukrainian casualties.

neolib

Ukraine casualties roughly 10x Russia's

Nothing like that in the leaks, there was an edited screenshot shared by Russian-aligned bloggers and Tucker.

ceck

As a side note, ACoUP is "a collection of unmitigated pedantry" and it's really interesting and entertaining reading.

That aside, I also have seen many smart folks saying that Ukraine is losing very badly. I trust Larry Johnson's judgement in many things, and Larry Johnson linked to:

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/offensive-confirmed-afu-strikes-hard?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-e65011fe-e710-42c8-a375-d98c3fec7b08

from his site at:

https://sonar21.com/vladimir-putin-does-love-tanks/

ceck

I followed the link and found some text as follows:

I STAND AGAINST SATAN YOU CAN NOT VOTE YOUR WAY OUT OF ZOG

Part of the MYTHOLOGY surrounding Trump is that "You can't buy Trump, HE HAS HIS OWN MONEY". THE JEWS BOUGHT DONALD TRUMP IN 1990 , WHEN THE ROTHSCHILDS BANKS BAILED HIM OUT TO THE TUNE OF ONE BILLION DOLLARS. Thats inconvenient FACT # 1. Inconvenient FACT 2 : ALL OF TRUMPS KIDS ARE MARRIED TO.......JEWS.

JEWS DID 911 JEWS are behind the CLOTSHOTS JEWS RELIGION HAS CODIFIED THE GENOCIDE OF ALL NON JEWS "TIKKUN OLAM" WAKE THE FUCK UP OR WE ARE DEAD

I am not sure I understand the argument. The claim is that Israel controls Trump (and lots of other stuff).

Certainly it is well-known that Trump has a disproportionate number of Jewish power-brokers in his support network. For example, Trump's former mentor, Roy Cohn, is often cited as a Machiavellian Jewish power-broker. Maybe the argument is supposed to be "powerful Machiavellian Jews (who resemble Roy Cohn) control Trump." If that is the argument, I guess many people would consider it to be common knowledge and not worth debating. I suppose some people would say that Trump is controlled by powerful Machiavellian capitalists but it's unfair to notice the ethnicity of those capitalists.

By "Israel" most people mean "the government of Israel." However, the author might mean "powerful international Jewish interests" or even "the hive-mind of international Jewry."

One reading of the argument is that given Inconvenient Facts #1 and #2, we can infer that the government of Israel controls Trump. That argument might need some refinement. For example, assuming a combination of Jewish in-laws and the Jewish-run Rothschild banks control Trump, it is not clear that the government of Israel controls the Rothschild banks. In fact, the Rothschild banks might control the government of Israel, rather than the other way around.

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IDK what ACoUP is, but according to the leaked documents, our own intelligence seems to conclude that Ukraine is losing very very badly (Ukraine casualties roughly 10x Russia's), and that this counterattack will be inconsequential. Though obviously they will go on television and tell you just the opposite of this so nobody complains about the billions of dollars of weapons we keep sending over there

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I would believe that. Israel controls the us.

Ferretman

"Provocation"....like the Berlin Wall? The tyranny that was East Germany? Armed border guards who shot anybody looking to flee?

That kind of "provocation"?

Alphix

Bitcoin is outside of the grasp of the Fed, it's good enough.

panel30

Taking things up a notch, Putin officially decreed that, as of April 1st, 2022, Russia will only accept rubles, gold, or bitcoin as payment for energy exports to “unfriendly” countries.

Bitcoin? I didn't realize bitcoin was so reliable as to make it onto a list like this.

Dregan

Great article, history is repeating itself...by design.

Alphix

Nobody's read this? No takes? No comments? Goddamn, what a tough crowd!

Alphix

In fact this article perfectly sums up my thoughts on the Ukraine-Russia situation. VERY MUCH worth reading IMHO.

IkeConn

Remind me when she takes power.

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We already got her. Her name is Annalena Baerbock. Freshly brainwashed with "value-oriented" foreign-politics from WEF's young-leader-program.

She is so damn fucking stupid that she openly admitted not caring about her voters at a conference in Prague. Ukrainian fascists are more important to her.

Perhaps she really believes to be the only person with a German passport able to speak English on this planet.

Stupid enough a puppet, she definitely is.

IkeConn

Sounds about ripe for a new Hitler.

JasonCarswell

Insightful.

I have thought about it.

And my best nutshell summary: Patriotism is a blindness.

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I know. But "patriotism" as it "is" is rather pointless.

My thinking on this goes like this: Mostly patriotism is used to construct "reasons" to wage war.

War is a waste of energy, resources and especially souls, but also immanently a part of a society that relies on abundance of "everything" all the time as a principle.

Only when there is perpetual destruction, there are reasons for perpetual recreation of the same old bs, so to say.

It's hard to describe or explain without diving too deep into these seemingly endless rabbit holes of absurdities.

I'm quite sure, you already thought about that one, too.

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