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@OopsGuess @wolfghostninja You're talking to the kind of white boy who thinks because of his skin tone and grandfather's country of birth he combines all the virtues and capabilities of Einstein, Michaelangelo and Henry Ford.

And is yet too stupid to see the idiocy of his "argument".

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@GenXGirl1994 Sad fact: almost the whole of the public facing American "left" is "vote blue no matter who" in effect if not in direct statements.
All kinds of self-ID "Marxists" hold to some version of "vote whoever you want unless you are in a swing state (where it matters); then vote Dem."

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@Frederi81545084 @kennardmatt I suppose it's a minor boon that his name isn't Barnaby Spitz-Raine III or something?

These people talk about "socialism" and "the working class" the way science fiction authors talk about "jump engines" and Idirans.

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@johnnybridge2 @noirnen Oooh... deep.

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@al_prairie @ThePaikinPod @Billbrowder You're missing the swastikas, dude.

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@spenglerandreas @MartinSellner_ @grok: Which players of the Paraguayan national football team have a migration background, i.e., have ancestors from other countries, were born abroad, or played for other youth national teams?"

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@KhaosodEnglish @PravitR What phrases do you use to describe the torrent of farang criminals pouring thru Thailand on the regular?

Farang fraudsters? Grey whitey?

In spite of constant reports of Caucasian & other US/EU types committing crimes in Thailand, I can honestly say I've never seen a "label".

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@connyb @jesperbkk The question isn't the point.

This is just a standard ferengi performance post... Thais are greedy, Thais can't be trusted, Thais are stupid.

These Eurotards are famous for it.

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@jonkay @JohnPaulDanko Given that your notion of "normal" includes support for genocidal rapist Israeli terrorists?

Fuck off, Jon.

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@jonkay @vincentneilho So, let's see: opposing genocide is antisemtism.

Grow a brain, Jon.

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@roachscholar @jacobin @annierlevin She's busy at the opera.

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@Packet33688 @PravitR @PravitR knows which side his bread is buttered on. In general the "international community" (US/EU academics, NGOs, neolib "Forums" etc) is likely to side w Cambodia because it's historically established as the "bigger victim".

Pravit & his ilk make bank calling Thailand "Bad".

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@RogueKite @aronaya If figures associated with the US right, like Carlson, Massie and MTG, find it politically beneficial to oppose war and call Israel genocidal, well good for them. And good if more Americans also oppose war and see Israel for the genocidal terror state that it is.

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@RogueKite @aronaya As an anti-imperialist antiwar non-USan socialist I don't find your notions of "left" & "right" either interesting or meaningful.
The liberal establishment in the US is pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-American imperialist hegemony-- whether you call it "left" (Dems) or "right" (Repugs)

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@RogueKite @aronaya For people on the actual left, ie outside the liberal bubble USA, if US winds down its war machine & stops slaughtering non-white people or generating hate for states like Russia & China among its brainwashed "citizens"?

Who cares if a domestic right does mean things to USans?

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@RogueKite @aronaya As an anti-imperialist antiwar non-USan socialist I don't find your notions of "left" & "right" either interesting or meaningful.
The liberal establishment in the US is pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-American imperialist hegemony-- whether you call it "left" (Dems) or "right" (Repugs)

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@RogueKite @aronaya If figures associated with the US right, like Carlson, Massie and MTG, find it politically beneficial to oppose war and call Israel genocidal, well good for them. And good if more Americans also oppose war and see Israel for the genocidal terror state that it is.

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@RogueKite @aronaya Anyone who thought before reaching "this point" that opposing the war "inside" the electoral system was an option likely to reap results has clearly not been paying attention over the past, what?, 70 fvcking years?

The far right is faking?

lol... what are you doing ffs?

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@AntonyGauthier2 @PravitR Pretty sure that turning them all off for a whole year wouldn't save half what Siam Paragon uses annually.
Interesting to calculate the power saved by reducing hours and raising temperatures to 25-6 in every giant mall in the country.

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@KhaosodEnglish So who was driving the sports car?

Journalism, eh?