It's Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black: Trump's New America

[Dr. Medulla]

Cool. Cool cool cool. Turns out everything was great all along (part infinity in a series).
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Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/p ... mbers.html

NYT doesn't even have to pretend the economy under Biden was bad anymore because Trump will get to reap all the rewards if he doesn't fly our economy into the side of a building with a tariff war.

Don't forget deporting a decent chunk of labour force!

[Dr. Medulla]

Lest you think he's above the game, Musk is just like Uncle Gary.

[Olaf]

Apparently during her live talk with Musk, Alice Weidel claimed Hitler was a communist. I don't even know how to comment this shite anymore.

[Dr. Medulla]

Apparently during her live talk with Musk, Alice Weidel claimed Hitler was a communist. I don't even know how to comment this shite anymore.

I've said before that it's curious thing how the right has so fully embraced—become drunk on—all the lefty academic fads of the 80s and 90s—deconstructionism, poststructuralism, postmodernism. There is no firm reality or meaning to anything, only what we want it to be at this moment.

[Dr. Medulla]

No! Me tell joke! Not you, me!

Trudeau revealed that the subject of annexing Canada through economic means did “actually sort of came up at one point.”

He shared how he steered clear of the conversation by offering up another proposal.

“I started to suggest, well, maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain parts. (Trump) immediately decided that it was not that funny anymore, and we moved on to a different conversation,” said Trudeau.

https://archive.ph/UHv6Q#selection-4607.0-4619.226

[Flex]

No! Me tell joke! Not you, me!

Trudeau revealed that the subject of annexing Canada through economic means did “actually sort of came up at one point.”

He shared how he steered clear of the conversation by offering up another proposal.

“I started to suggest, well, maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain parts. (Trump) immediately decided that it was not that funny anymore, and we moved on to a different conversation,” said Trudeau.

https://archive.ph/UHv6Q#selection-4607.0-4619.226

Christ, trump is such a pathetic weasel.

[Low Down Low]

Apparently during her live talk with Musk, Alice Weidel claimed Hitler was a communist. I don't even know how to comment this shite anymore.

Well, they weren't called the National Socialist Workers Party for nothing, right Wasn't Mussolini a genuine commie until he discovered it was much more fun, and lucrative, to kill them?

[Dr. Medulla]

Apparently during her live talk with Musk, Alice Weidel claimed Hitler was a communist. I don't even know how to comment this shite anymore.

Well, they weren't called the National Socialist Workers Party for nothing, right Wasn't Mussolini a genuine commie until he discovered it was much more fun, and lucrative, to kill them?

To be fair, communists, socialists, fascists, and Nazis share a common root, which is a utopian mass politics, where the historically excluded are supposed to overcome aristocrats and/or capitalists. They reject both monarchy and liberal democracy in favour of something that is supposed to overcome historical injustice (whether class, race, etc). It's up to each person whether you want to emphasize where they diverge or what they have in common—if you're not scoring political points, I'm fine with either really. Which still doesn't make a lick of sense to call Hitler a communist.

[matedog]

Apparently during her live talk with Musk, Alice Weidel claimed Hitler was a communist. I don't even know how to comment this shite anymore.

Well, they weren't called the National Socialist Workers Party for nothing, right Wasn't Mussolini a genuine commie until he discovered it was much more fun, and lucrative, to kill them?

To be fair, communists, socialists, fascists, and Nazis share a common root, which is a utopian mass politics, where the historically excluded are supposed to overcome aristocrats and/or capitalists. They reject both monarchy and liberal democracy in favour of something that is supposed to overcome historical injustice (whether class, race, etc). It's up to each person whether you want to emphasize where they diverge or what they have in common—if you're not scoring political points, I'm fine with either really. Which still doesn't make a lick of sense to call Hitler a communist.

A quick look up of the wikipedia entry on Night of the Long Knives is helpful on this matter.

[Low Down Low]

Apparently during her live talk with Musk, Alice Weidel claimed Hitler was a communist. I don't even know how to comment this shite anymore.

Well, they weren't called the National Socialist Workers Party for nothing, right Wasn't Mussolini a genuine commie until he discovered it was much more fun, and lucrative, to kill them?

To be fair, communists, socialists, fascists, and Nazis share a common root, which is a utopian mass politics, where the historically excluded are supposed to overcome aristocrats and/or capitalists. They reject both monarchy and liberal democracy in favour of something that is supposed to overcome historical injustice (whether class, race, etc). It's up to each person whether you want to emphasize where they diverge or what they have in common—if you're not scoring political points, I'm fine with either really. Which still doesn't make a lick of sense to call Hitler a communist.

There's no rhyme nor reason to it. From all I've read, in the strict context of WW2, the communists were among the fiercest and most effective resistance fighters against Nazism. The allies were right to fear and distrust Stalin, but this led them to deprive resistance groups across Europe of badly needed supplies and also led, shockingly, to the British army killing more Greeks than the Nazis before them. All this historical context is lost now, of course. It's all up for grabs, as you rightly point out.

[Olaf]

I'm just curious whether we'll see thousands of angry, disappointed neo-Nazis leaving the AfD and joining the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht now. Probably not.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm just curious whether we'll see thousands of angry, disappointed neo-Nazis leaving the AfD and joining the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht now. Probably not.

How neat. You leave a political party and form a new one with your name in it. Like leaving UFO to form The Michael Schenker Group.

(More than a few have suggested that one of Trump's ambitions is to change the name to the Trump Party. Which is difficult to dismiss.)

[Olaf]

I'm just curious whether we'll see thousands of angry, disappointed neo-Nazis leaving the AfD and joining the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht now. Probably not.

How neat. You leave a political party and form a new one with your name in it. Like leaving UFO to form The Michael Schenker Group.

Imagine my surprise when I opened the bathroom window this morning and was greeted by her Mona Lisa smile luring me off of the oppressor's wagon.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm just curious whether we'll see thousands of angry, disappointed neo-Nazis leaving the AfD and joining the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht now. Probably not.

How neat. You leave a political party and form a new one with your name in it. Like leaving UFO to form The Michael Schenker Group.

Imagine my surprise when I opened the bathroom window this morning and was greeted by her Mona Lisa smile luring me off of the oppressor's wagon.

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How about this Neumann fellow? A bolder smile, but what's his position on wagon riding?

[Olaf]

I'm just curious whether we'll see thousands of angry, disappointed neo-Nazis leaving the AfD and joining the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht now. Probably not.

How neat. You leave a political party and form a new one with your name in it. Like leaving UFO to form The Michael Schenker Group.

Imagine my surprise when I opened the bathroom window this morning and was greeted by her Mona Lisa smile luring me off of the oppressor's wagon.

20250112_124500.jpg

How about this Neumann fellow? A bolder smile, but what's his position on wagon riding?

Green Party hippie. Trying to turn us into Holland with his "bicycles first" policy.