That's why they went after a weaker target in Spain.
I mean, it didnt really work in Spain either. Sure, they ran buck-ass wild for a while, but then eventually Franco said "You know, I could just kill the bastards. And I am a better general than them anyway." and they lost there too (just with more chaos and war before Italy).
Because it is. Those who want to destroy the West know that too many of their enemies have rediscovered the "Happy Warrior" philosophy, and it is what allowed them to make 2024 too big to rig in the US. So they are forced to try and make people demoralized so they stop fighting.
Treat them as the enemy interlopers they are, because they are either an enemy pretending to be your ally, or an "ally" trying to stab you in the back (which is the one you should fear more).
'they buy A LOT of military equipment from us so we don't really care about this'
And frankly, I would rather this be the attitude we go back to. I am well past the point where I care about if a nation is a democracy, a monarchy, or even a dictatorship. I only care about "Will they be a friend of the United States?" If yes, that is all that matters. If no, then it doesnt matter anyway.
And once Leftist narratives were challenged on those lines, and quickly debunked... in the 1870's... they became mere articles of faith by people who claimed to be intellectuals and faithless.
Along these lines, it is why basically every iteration of Communism/Socialism since 1914 has been increasingly convoluted and insane ways of denying the fact that Marx was wrong and his theories were proven wrong in overwhelming numbers.
Because according to Marx, when World War 1 began breaking out, the workers of the world would recognized their shared solidarity and overthrow their bourgeois and monarchist masters. Instead, they signed up by the millions to go kill each other for king and country, and the only one to fall to Marxist ideals was the ultra-conservative, backward nation of peasants (instead of the industrial titans Marx promised).
And since then, the Socialist who didnt suffer an existential crisis from this have been trying in increasingly more desperate ways to prove they arent wrong, from arguing people's comforts were brainwashing them, to saying they were too stupid to understand and must be lead by the nose by their enlightened betters, to just accepting Nationalism was a fact and how do we work from there.
The Frenchies are ones to talk about "unstable political situation".
He even shares the same backstory as his revolutionary Communist heroes .
The gay catboy doesnt understand love and relations between men and women? Who knew.
Looking into it, it is apparently a firm called Silver Lake (based out of Silicon Valley) and is having a significant chunk of money thrown in by a group of Saudi investors.
Moreover, we have seen what happens when Feds dont have their ducks in a row before going for things like this, after what happened with the Diddy trial. So it is vitally important they have it locked down that people are guilty of the things they charge them with, doubly so due to the political nature of what the Left is becoming.
Guess I should pay more attention. With that said though, I think that raises the odds of retaliation, as Sacramento doesnt exactly have as much going for it on the crime front as LA does.
Could be LA being LA, or it could be Leftist retaliating over the Kimmel situation.
Honestly, both are likely.
Additionally, from what I understand from things I have looked up, New York has strange ways of naming their charges that are not shared by other states. So in this case, 2nd Degree Murder would be the equivalent of 1st Degree Murder in any other state, and 1st Degree Murder you basically have to murder a cop before they can do it.
It is the same as how the New York Supreme Court is actually the Appellate Court for any other state.
John Brown wasn't even a Leftist. I doubt he even knew what it was. I think they just affiliate themselves with him because he was a maniac. They don't talk about his murders.
Yeah, Brown was just a religious zealot, who literally believed he had heard the word of God tell him to go on a genuine, unironic Crusade and that the Southern Plantation owners were actually demons in the service of the Devil, and that by igniting a slave revolt it would bring the righteous hand of God to smite the demons. I am sure it is just a coincidence this didnt lend to excellent tactical command and resulted in his forces walking into numerous ambushes until, like I said, no Jayhawk or Redleg wanted anything to do with him and told him to do his own thing.
It was mostly me just commenting on how he is the cause celeb among a lot of Leftist as a "symbol of revolution", yet he was a religious zealot (which they would claim they hate) and failed at basically everything he did and only accomplished escalating tensions and violence to the point it made sure the Civil War could not possibly be avoided.
I need to know more about Cassius Clay, because the way that the Steven Spielberg movie portrayed him, he was probably crazier than John Brown, and more corrupt than all of Lincoln's staff, but was actually competent. Depending on his approach to the South, he might belong in the Villain column.
I dont really know about his time as a politician as he was actually not in the political arena all that long (he served one term in Kentucky before being run out by a coordinated campaign because of being an abolitionist), and spent far more of his time as an activist giving speeches. I could see some ways he was crazier than John Brown (after all, after getting jump by 6 assassins and managing to kill almost all of them, his only response was "I felt the utmost indignation"), he was actually one of the single most effective Abolitionist in the United States in terms of actually changing peoples minds. On top of getting Russian help for the Union during the Civil War (they provided some warships to help hunt Confederate blockade runners) and helping to negotiate the purchase of Alaska while he was ambassador to Russia. I thought you had seen this one before?
Burning of Kent State ROTC building - Attempt to murder 300 cadets while they slept, and is why the National Guard were at Kent State in the first place. When the Ohio National Guard were separated and attacked by rioters, they shot into the air and hit several random students. That is the only part that anyone hears about.
And in a good example of how hard the Left Wing grip over a lot of historical events are, if you have ever seen anything related to Kent State, you would think it was some universally reviled event where everyone was siding with the students against the Guard. But in reality (and this has started to be pointed out more recently), polling in the aftermath of the event at the time show the majority of Americans actually sided with the Guard and favored the crackdown on the student protest. But good luck knowing that with any media on the matter.
Same thing with the Coal Wars, where I see so many of the usual suspects treat them as heroes when in reality they were thugs who had formed their own militias for the most part and it is why they needed military firepower to dig them out.
The one I always go to as well (just because it's personal) is the fact that so many of especially the Left Wing glaze John Brown (hence all of the "John Brown Gun Clubs"), even though he was a bloodthirsty psycho who failed at everything he tried. He was such a bad commander when he was in Kansas that no Jayhawk Militia's (the Free State militias) wanted to work with him, he was directly responsible for Bleeding Kansas escalating from a handful of skirmishes between light forces to a full scale mini-Civil War by executing a group of civilians because one of them had been a slave hunter a decade ago. And of course, his raid on Harpers Ferry that did not kick off a slave revolt, only made the South paranoid that the North wanted to kill them, and of course started with him killing a freed black man for the crime of "Not joining my revolution." Meanwhile, if you wanted an actual symbol of the Abolitionist cause who was actually effective at his job and was the badass people pretend Brown was, you would look to Cassius Clay, but the Left Wing has suppressed him for decades.
Reach was also pretty popular, which can extend it somewhat.
Yeah, the only thing I really remember coming out of it is she got an interview on Triggernometry where Konstantin spent the better part of an hour just slapping Wu around and pointing out the hypocrisy of a lot of what she is doing now in the aftermath of what she did in the past. And how it is awfully convenient that she is having a "change of heart" at the same time her ideology is losing.
Yeah, the Huey Long Leftist I have always said that even though I dont think all of their ideas would work (I am actually not totally dissuaded on the tax policy he came up with) and that they tend to overlook the problems that came with Long's ideas (there is a reason Louisiana was/is one of the most corrupt and underdeveloped states in the nation), if they won an election I could at least live with it and survive until the next one, and be with some simple "Told you so" when things happen and might not go according to plan. After all, I at least trust they would listen.
As opposed to the Mamdani or AOC types, who would make me start counting my ammo and double checking that I am sure on who my battle buddies are.
Honestly, with some of the arguments he got up to recently, it seems like Dev took the even more bizarre and unhinged answer of he seems to unironically think that the government is always right, and that we should be some technocracy of expert elites. Which is such a bizarre take because it is literally the system we have been living under that he calls out issues with all the time. But I guess he just became like the Leftist he used to decry and is like 5 seconds away from saying "Real Technocracy hasnt been tried yet!"
The true way forward is to employ both tactics. You use the marketplace of ideas with the center types who can be persuaded, and then you tell the Leftist that they are spiteful ghouls who deserve to be destroyed. That way is the way to actual victory.
Just as a reminder of how far off the deep end SFO has gone, this is your reminder that he was working some political organization started by Brianna Wu with the goal of electing more Democrats, despite the fact that as a Canadian those policies and parties have virtually no effect on him (outside of foreign policy and trade, I suppose), because he thought that Trump and the MAGA movement had become radicalized extremist who needed to be stopped at any cost.
I used to like him back in the day in the same way I do Shoeonhead as a "reasonable left wing voice". But he stopped being reasonable, ironically at the same time Shoe is going "Maybe...the Left is actually a dangerous cult..."
It's just bad timing. The sale had started a day or two before the assassination.
It is kind of funny that the assassin is refusing to cooperate with the police, but literally everyone else around him (including his own butt buddy) are singing like canaries.
and run $215 million of political ads smearing you. - Again, missing the reference. But probably good. Your ilk needs to be stopped.
It is probably referring to the "Kamala is for They/Them, Trump is for you!" ad that ran in 2024, that after-the-fact media research showed was the single most effective ad at swinging Independents away from Kamala and toward Trump.
To which I suppose my response would be: Why did you let the situation get so bad that that is the opinion of the average normie to you? After all, the rest of the LGB dont have that issue.
Feral teenagers actually cause a disproportionate amount of crime.
Proving once again that Heinlein was right.
Perhaps, or they only showed up once and I misremembered.
I also find it strange that they make a report for a rule violation and not, you know, just make a comment calling it out.
As someone from the area who saw a lot of what didnt get to the news, it wasnt "controlled op". It was "grifting lawyers." The entire family were lawyers who used a ton of loopholes to create a "church" so they could avoid paying taxes, and then since they knew all of the laws they would deliberately goad people into attacking them and then sue those people sure in the knowledge they were going to win (this was how they made most of their money).
More than once they got caught on hidden cameras admitting that they didnt believe anything they were saying and it because they knew it was the quickest way to get people attakcing them, which made for easy lawsuits.