Calling political opponents Communists is as dumb as calling them Nazis.
Talking endlessly about Kamala’s cackle is as tedious as talking about Trump’s hair.
Saying “color revolutions” is as obnoxious as saying “white woman tears”.
“The Deep State” is as non-existent as an epidemic of lynching.
Worrying about WWIII is as neurotic as worrying about a climate apocalypse.
Expecting either Trump or Kamala to destroy democracy is silly.
Seeing people battle imaginary Communists and Nazis is embarrassing.
We get exactly the politics we deserve because we are sloppy and let ourselves be swayed by meaningless slogans.
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Hear, hear!
Muh Centrism now! Muh Centrism forever! The surest path to truth is the middle because both extremes are dumb and shallow!
But seriously if your natural inclination is moderation or centrism, the last couple of decades of American politics have become increasingly uncomfortable. And dumb. And shallow.
And people get the politics they deserve. But unfortunately because we live in a society, you also get the politics they deserve good and hard!
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Had to Google Godwin’s Law and, yes, we definitely need to bring it back.
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Totally. Any extremism is unproductive. And everything else you said. We end up with screwy politics because we don’t want to keep our emotions in check and think about what words actually mean.
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Possibly OT, but it made me laugh:
https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1829291690277966165
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Bothsiderism at its best. The New York Times can’t do better!
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There’s some truth to these terms so I wouldn’t like to completely disregard them.
For example, the deep state is not some shady cabal inside smoke-filled rooms. It’s just the vast, unelected, and unchecked government bureaucracy that actually executes government policies. This is how Obama could simply write a “Dear Colleague” letter (not even law yet) and it led them to implement all the worst features of Title IX at breakneck speed, because the bureaucracy was ideologically aligned with the policy. And Trump’s military generals literally lied to his face about syria troop withdrawal (claiming they left when they didn’t) because they were ideologically opposed to this decision. The deep state is the bureaucracy that cannot be fired.
Same way, color revolution is also a useful term. For example, the US Embassy in India directly sponsors people like this lefty moron, supports every anti-government protest no matter how ridiculous their demands are, promotes sub-nationalism within India (ambassador have only recently started to call people Tamil or Telugu or whatever state they’re from instead of just Indian). They’re very happy to exploit any existing fault lines in India, be it regional or ethnic. So it is hard to imagine they’d be doing this in other countries too. What do you think foreign NGOs in a country do if not shit like this?
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“…so it isn’t hard to imagine…”
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Color revolutions is a term used for the mostly non-violent revolutions that happened in states that at some point were Soviet republics. Are you implying that you think they were fueled by NGOs? Inauthentic?
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Obviously not. I think the term has expanded to include all non-violent revolutions, not just in ex-soviet states. I could be wrong but that’s my impression.
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You spoke specifically of the US Embassy in India supporting “every anti-government protest no matter how ridiculous their demands are” and promoting “promotes “sub-nationalism within India”. There hasn’t been a revolution in India recently.
So what does what you talk of have to do with the term “color revolution”? US influence seems to be your main complaint. Foreign influence is a conspiracy theory used to discredit color revolutions.
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Wait, you’re right! I misunderstood the term, sorry.
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“Color revolutions is a term used for the mostly non-violent…”
Usage evolves and while the original was descriptive, at present the term is used mostly (almost exclusively) by those who want to imply that people never rise up against a dictator unless the CIA is manipulating them (used a lot by defenders of lukashenka in 2020).
One of the more depressing features of modern political life is how many simps for dictators there are in the west, putain, lukashenka, xi, maduro are all beloved by west-hating westerners…. they haven’t worked themselves up to drooling over Korean dumpling boy Kim, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
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https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/
The deep state. In a just world this person would be in jail for treason.
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What would you be saying if agreeing to follow Trump’s plan resulted in something similar to the Afghanistan withdrawal – say a terrorist attack and deaths of US troops? We can’t know, right?
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It does not matter. The military cannot be allowed to have a mind of their own in a democracy. Whatever happened would’ve been and should’ve been Trump’s responsibility.
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There is no “would have” in history. We can only look at what actually happened.
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Ironically, the Afghanistan withdrawal comes closest to us knowing what would have happened. Since Biden followed Trump’s plan, it is very likely that it would have happened the same way under Trump.
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