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25 Jul 2026, 12:27 am

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Chinese Catch-22: Media that want in-depth analysis of domestic issues need a license, but the license is only issued to those media that do not do in-depth analysis of domestic issues.

The next level, add another licence.

Oy, you gotta loicence for that loicence.

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28 Jul 2026, 5:36 am

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An expectation.
The explosion of AI and robots will keep prices down.
The time of great material abundance, as Marx called it, will soon come.
Then, the second part of the prophecy，the selfishness of human nature, all kinds of governments and the wars they bring will disappear and become exhibits in the Museum of History.
It is possible that this prophecy will come true.

By the way, Marx's prophecy is easier to fulfill than Jesus'.

I'd like to elaborate on these points, like that Yugoslavian user did. But it would be long and tedious, and I hate that.

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03 Aug 2026, 2:25 pm

How can we convince 77 million people to accept that the 1950s are over, ditch the Cold War-era red scare mindsets, and shut up about "welfare queens", so that we can become a social democracy like the Nordic countries?

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04 Aug 2026, 2:14 am

People who proselytize to a captive audience should be trespassed and banned from wherever it is that they're doing their preaching.

Their freedoms end where their victims rights and freedoms begin and that includes freedom from religion. Freedom of speech does not include a right to engage in harassment, which is what occurs when the audience is captive.

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04 Aug 2026, 10:30 am

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And she's already claimed "persecution".

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04 Aug 2026, 11:41 am

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And she's already claimed "persecution".

Yes, that seems to be a common crybully tactic. Interfering with their abusive behaviour is the real injustice, rather than their abusive behaviour being the problem.

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04 Aug 2026, 12:32 pm

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How can we convince 77 million people to accept that the 1950s are over, ditch the Cold War-era red scare mindsets,

You can't, because contrary to YOUR preferred brand of propaganda some of us are aware of the fact that certain countries during the Cold War were indeed a threat to us and other parts of the world.

Just because Joseph McCarthy overexaggerated Communism to keep Americans living in constant paranoia to further his own political power grab does not mean he was wrong.

It's people like this who would gladly let the Trojan Horse in through the city gates and risk a good sacking because they ignored all the Cassandras out there warning of the trap being laid before them like in The Iliad.

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05 Aug 2026, 6:10 pm

Understanding The AIPAC Cycle:

AIPAC funds candidates
Candidate gets elected
Elected officials vote to send more money/weapons to Israel
Israel send some of that money back to fund AIPAC
Repeat

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06 Aug 2026, 5:30 am

Some of you don't know the origin of the term "Woke," and it shows.

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06 Aug 2026, 7:17 am

MakaylaTheAspie wrote:

Some of you don't know the origin of the term "Woke," and it shows.

Does it really even matter what the "original" meaning of the term was at this point? Most of us know by now that it's SUPPOSED to be about promoting awareness for social justice and accountability and yet it somehow became instrumental to the far left Gen Z twats for engaging in online cyberbullying against anybody who does not conform to their point of view.

It's basically now a big "f**k You!" to MAGAs and the rest of us non-conformists and a blueprint for ruining all our favorite movies, TV shows, and video games in the name awareness for society's percieved injustices.

So again, does it really truly matter what the ORIGINAL term meant when we can see for ourselves the effect that the word has had on society today???

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06 Aug 2026, 5:33 pm

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

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06 Aug 2026, 5:43 pm

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Likewise, some even argue that all extremists, across the political left and right, in fact, support similar policies, in a view known as 'horseshoe theory'. However, not only do recent studies fail to support such beliefs, they also contradict them ... Van Hiel also found that left-wing respondents reported significantly lower endorsement of values associated with conservation, self-enhancement, and anti-immigration attitudes compared to both moderate and right-wing activists, with individuals on the right reporting greater endorsement of such values and attitudes ... Overall, van Hiel provided evidence demonstrating that Western European extremist groups are far from being homogenous, and left- and right-wing groups represent distinct ideologies.

I see your horseshoe and instead propose a fishhook:

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Simon Choat, a senior lecturer in political theory at Kingston University, has criticised the horseshoe theory. In a 2017 article for The Conversation, "'Horseshoe theory' is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common", he argues that far-left and far-right ideologies only share similarities in the vaguest sense, in that they both oppose the liberal democratic status quo, but that the two sides have very different reasons and very different aims for doing so.

Choat uses the issue of globalisation as an example; both the far-left and the far-right attack neoliberal globalisation and its "elites", but identify different elites and have conflicting reasons for attacking them. Additionally, Choat argues that although proponents of the horseshoe theory may cite historical examples of alleged collusion between fascists and communists, those on the far-left usually oppose the rise of far-right or fascist regimes in their countries. Instead, he argues that it has been centrists who have supported far-right and fascist regimes and have preferred them in power over socialists, and that the horseshoe theory is biased towards centrists, who he says use it to smear or attack the left more than the right.

He cites the example of the 2016 United States presidential election and the 2017 French presidential election, in which supporters of Bernie Sanders and Jean-Luc Mélenchon were alleged to have preferred or voted for Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen.

In this sense, he argues that the horseshoe theory is used to engage in red-baiting or reductio ad Hitlerum, which allows them to "discredit the left while disavowing their own complicity with the far right." Choat says that "it is patently absurd to compare Stalin to present-day leftists like Mélenchon or Corbyn", and concludes: "If liberals genuinely want to understand and confront the rise of the far right, then rather than smearing the left they should perhaps reflect on their own faults."

This might explain why the Democratic Party fights moderate leftists so much harder than they fight Republicans.

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06 Aug 2026, 7:02 pm

^I think that whoever came up with the "fishhook theory" just came up with that as an excuse to promote "us vs. them" mentality just as much as the far-right extremists, including the MAGAns.

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06 Aug 2026, 7:09 pm

UncannyDanny wrote:

^I think that whoever came up with the "fishhook theory" just came up with that as an excuse to promote "us vs. them" mentality just as much as the far-right extremists, including the MAGAns.

I think fishhook theory holds much more weight than horseshoe theory, considering horseshoe theory doesn't survive even the mildest of critical examinations.

Horseshoe theory is the sort of idea your grade 9 history teacher offers up and hopes none of the kids are informed enough to rebut. It's based on superficial similarities that aren't actually very similar in practice.

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06 Aug 2026, 9:14 pm

The MAGA right pretty much wears their evil bigoted intentions on their sleeves but the far left seems to engage in a lot of gaslighting, canceling, and projecting to win arguments and get their way in everything.

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09 Aug 2026, 12:16 am

funeralxempire wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

And she's already claimed "persecution".

Yes, that seems to be a common crybully tactic. Interfering with their abusive behaviour is the real injustice, rather than their abusive behaviour being the problem.

I hope her next flight is one way...to Pyongyang

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