Thr moment US boots hit the ground, WWIII has begun.

Youre God damn right they will.

Didn’t stop the democrats from giving the boot to Al Franken halfway into his term.

Two things can be bad.

Why haven’t the democrats kicked out Fetterman?

Taking a step back and having the revelation that your electoralism means definitive genocide no matter who’s in power should not be a reason to dig in and defend your electoralism. It should be reason to tear everything down.

Otherwise, youre taking the stance that Palestinians have a duty to allow themselves genocided to buy yourself time for more political waffling.

“Look how bad the other side is”

Doesn’t work when your side just fell asleep at the wheel and let the opposition take control. And that’s the charitable take. Your side decided it was more important to fund a genocide than combat all the scary things in the first list.

How else you going to live out your badass road warrior fantasies??

Fucken dunce…

Dumbass cop was about to pitt maneuver this truck into an innocent car.

God I fucking love his mustached, balding doofus.

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Meh, youre making this post itself from .world, which itself just last week had a massive struggle session as its most prolific mod was under fire for claiming the genocide in Palestine is unrelated to US politics. If that’s not propaganda, I dont know what is. I dont know of any other instances that have the same censorship issues as .world.

Except no, they literally do.

The Epstein strategy was one where people were hoping that a Trump-led DOJ would release material necessary to take down Trump - who runs the DOJ. It’s a baffling, failing strategy.

Your original (implicit) point was that people who have lived experienced in the era of the USSR disliked it. That’s just not true. All you have is anecdotes - and anecdotes mostly from USians, at that.

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 66% of Armenians thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful

In a 2016 survey, 69% of Azerbaijanis believed life was better under the USSR.

In a 2016 survey, it increased to 53% of Belarusians saying life was better under the USSR

Another Pew survey, also in 2017, showed that 43% of Georgians thought the dissolution was a good thing, compared to 42% who thought it was a bad thing.

In a 2016 survey, around 60% of Kazakhs above the age of 35 believed life was better under the USSR.

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 61% of Kyrgyz thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 16% who thought it was beneficial.

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 42% of Moldovans thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 26% who thought it was beneficial.[7] Regret about dissolution later increased to 70% according to a 2017 Pew survey, with only 18% saying the dissolution was a good thing.

Levada polling since the mid-1990s on the preferred political and economic system of Russians also shows nostalgia for the Soviet Union, with the most recent polling in 2021 showing 49% preferring the Soviet political system, compared to 18% preferring the current system, and 16% preferring Western democracy, as well as 62% saying they preferred a system of economic planning compared to 24% preferring a market capitalist economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union

Further, let’s look at the actual referendum:

Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?

Yes - 77.8%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum

It also doubled life expectancy. How horrid.

Last week, Tibetans and friends of Tibet around the world marked the 67th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10, 1959. That day, tens of thousands of Tibetans protested against Chinese military occupation and were massacred. The Dalai Lama escaped into exile, where he has been ever since.

The uprising was orchestrated by the CIA, and the Dalai Lama is a pedophile, slave-owning, CIA plant who had no problem with literal fuedal slavery in Tibet in the late 50s. What you call a crushed uprising was actually a historical liberation for the serfs in Tibet - of which some 90% of Tibetans were serfs in the years preceeding their liberation.

I worry for Cubans. Don’t get me wrong, the way the Chinese are providing solar is downright heroic and undoubtedly saving lives, but this comes at a time when the US is expressing interest in taking over. These solar moves from China could be seen as a way of saying “Cuba is under our wing; dont go starting a boondoggle”, after which you know western leaders would immediately start a boondoggle.

Cubans are under intense pressure, and im sure their people and leadership are struggling to navigate in a way that keeps Cubans safe while also minimizing risk of conflict.

This lays bare the actual reasoning and motives for US “aid” around the world: to wield power and obtain leverage.

Samantha Power, the former director of USAID, also laid bare how the US weaponizes humanitarian aid by masking its strategic interests with the rhetoric of altruism. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Power acknowledged that the agency has “generated vast stores of political capital” in the countries where it works and uses its leverage to bolster American financial interests, like helping a US company “enter a new market.” New Jersey Senator Andy Kim, a Democrat who once worked for USAID, was even more blunt. “USAID isn’t charity,” he wrote in a post on X. “It’s a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment. Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/usaid-trump-musk-history-controversies/

This doesn’t help your specific problem, but for what it’s worth: airvpn allows you to set a port # which is retained when the VPN hops to a new server, or is reset. In other words, I set the port # in airvpn a year ago, and i have kept the same port since. I haven’t kept super up to date on VPN trustworthiness, so maybe airvpn is no longer recommended.