Seems like you’re arguing for the sake of arguing.

Trump is a pseudopopulists, he fools people into thinking he is fighting for them while fighting for himself.

We need real populists, that go after people’s needs, not pseudopopulists like in GOP.

Yeah, there are games where side quests are just cookie cutter and all look the same and there are ones, where you won’t get full experience of the game unless you also do side quests and they can even affect game ending. Witcher 3 was such experience for me. If I would just storm through main quest, ignoring side quests I don’t think the game would leave as much of a lasting impression as it did.

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The far right populism is a pseudo populism. Real populists are (as name suggests) for the people.

Thanks, that explains it.

Let’s not wrap it in some mysterious “big businesses” it is really oligarchs vs us, they take more and more of wealth making all of us poorer and then use media (which they control) to say it is because of minorities our lives are so shitty.

I highly recommend On Freedom book by Timothy Snyder which talks how we are being manipulated to go against our best interest.

I think everyone should read it and be aware as things won’t improve unless we start fighting back.

I think the biggest issue was actually with messaging. Democrats were still pretty much relying on MSM which almost no young people watch.

I think that beyond what Sanders says what left needs are young people, true populists (as opposed to pseudopopulists ones like MAGA has) with progressive messages.

https://runforsomething.net/

From people close the me, the ones that are MAGA/religious all were actually the most depraved ones when they were younger.

I don’t know if they think of they have to make it up for those years to still be able to get to heaven or something.

There supposed to be his sentencing on 26th, but after he won I doubt it will be anything.

Edit: after looking more into it, looks like he is appealing that president elect has the same rights to do any crime as president based not on Constitution or any law but on the DOJ memo.

Author gave many reasons I saw on social media, especially the top ones she mentioned like economy concerns or that she is a communist which are the opposite of reality.

She concentrated on what people are saying instead of why.

We are living in a world where huge part of population abandoned traditional news such as TV, newspapers and is getting their vote about the world via social media through memes and influencers.

The biggest problem with it is that this unlike traditional media is open to foreign interference. We had report of American bloggers being paid by Kremlin ridiculous amount of money, we have evidence of bots being used to persuade public opinion, astroturfing groups on Facebook and other social media that were traced to Russia.

And we still did nothing to stop it.

Half of America lives in a different reality. And it isn’t just America but those efforts are happening also in Europe and other Western countries.

I’m Polish, I played it a while ago, and might be forgetting details, but I don’t remember those chants being in Polish.

What actually happened? I know nothing about it except the name. Why it is considered dead by others?

LOL I thought of Witcher too.

Ryan is good explaining how military operates, how weapon works, but this is really about predicting what trump will do, and frankly this is much harder to do.

We talk about common sense, it is a non brainier, as helping Ukraine stop Russia is the most beneficial thing for the US and the West. As he pointed out, Ukraine losing likely will bring war to the rest of the Europe and Taiwan, but trump might not care.

What worries me is that so far trump never stood up against putin, he insulted many world leaders, but never did that to putin.

The reason likely is that he was almost bankrupt and putin help him get on his feet, he has a huge debt to him.

I also link to Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/gOwjmKMmkV4 he is generally more familiar with strategy and so far was on point in his comments (I also believe Ryan is watching him too). Again, we are trying to predict what trump will do, which is not as easy and his decisions seem to be more about what gives him immediate benefit.

The absolute worst scenario that could happen is that the NATO collapses. I hope that won’t happen.

The argument was that Russia has no chance against Poland, because how it is doing on Ukraine.

But it won’t be Russia vs Poland it will be Russia + Ukraine + (whatever else putin gets on the way).

He also won’t have any problem sending Ukrainians to die fighting with Poles.

Foreign policy is important for too as it also affects US domestically.

Having said that, US president can do very little to stop the conflict if fascist like Netanyahu doesn’t want to cooperate.

You’re forgetting that if Russia takes Ukraine it can use their resources to continue fighting.

Nazis were weak when they attacked Czechoslovakia and then Poland.

I read recently “On Freedom” by Timothy Snyder and he mentions that. Billionaires are sucking or wealth and when we suffer, we are told that this is temporary and toward a greater good (which never comes).

Sadly it is successful and a lot of Americans believe that.

It opened my eyes seeing how we are set up to fight each other (blaming minorities) while oligarchs are making our lives more miserable by hoarding country’s wealth.