LonerBox responds to Noah Samsen and SoyPill selective framing of the Israel-Palestine conflict:
"Imagine you're watching two guys having a fucking street fight, but as a spectator, you can only see one side. The other person is invisible. If one person is erased from the situation, the other person looks fucking insane, like some weirdo flailing around aimlessly."
"That's how the Israel-Palestine conflict is viewed in the West. Israel is the only side people see doing things, while Hamas, armed groups, and the political discourse on the Palestinian side are completely ignored."
"You'll hear crazy shit from both sides, but people will cherry-pick the most extreme Israeli interviews and present those as representative of the entire conflict, while completely ignoring the other half."
"If you do that, Israel starts looking like some quasi-Nazi state that's bombing houses and destroying Gaza for absolutely no reason. And if that's the only perspective you're exposed to, why would you ever have a nuanced opinion about Israel?"
Nah, I hate the version of socialism that is explained to me by the socialists themselves.
1. They can't explain the most basic, core elements of how their economic system would actually function in a real-world setting. Their vision gets incredibly convoluted and foggy when you introduce anything beyond the purest form of industrial workplace co-ownership, like contracting temporary specialized labor.
2. Socialists handwave the obvious knock-on effects of their system, like lack of outside investment or fiduciary responsibility brutalizing a nation's ability to dynamically allocate resources or develop innovative technologies with large up-front costs and no guarantees of future profits. Oftentimes they will just end up re-inventing capitalism, but with extra steps, to solve these problems.
3. More often than not, socialist "ideas" or "policies" are just vague, meaningless truisms that literally anybody would agree with (everyone should be able to afford healthcare, housing, groceries etc.) while also claiming socialism is the only conceivable method of achieving these ends, despite zero real-world cases to support this claim (and countless cases to the contrary).
4. Socialists will openly own the fact that any "counter-revolutionaries" who don't buy into their ideology cannot be allowed to exist within their society and will either be forcibly re-educated, thrown in a gulag, or killed. They know their system can't even theoretically function in anything beyond a totalitarian, single-party state where adherence to their ideology is compulsary.
Socialists have no real plans and no real solutions. Their ideology collapses under a feather's weight in scrutiny, and so they end up just avoiding any scrutiny at all, while forcefully encouraging their peers to do the same. Socialism/communism/leftism is nothing more than an idealistic aesthetic being sold to the politically illiterate, much like fascism. And, exactly like fascism, the ideology grants a false sense of moral superiority to those who buy into it, and anyone who falls short of total ideological alignment is viewed as a mortal enemy who must be destroyed at any cost to forward the mission.
Of course, for most Americans who are warm on "socialism", their only concept of socialism is "free healthcare, reduced wealth disparity, cheaper housing" -- ideas that have nothing to do with socialism and which liberals in our capitalist society already unanimously support. They don't recognize they are being taken for fools by actual socialists who want to fundamentally restructure their society in the shittiest ways imaginable.
Hold on, folks. Can we talk about Hakeem Jeffries for a second?
He spent four years in the minority with no gavel, no subpoenas, and no committee chairs. And he still got results. He forced the vote on the Epstein files, and it passed 427 to 1.
He forced a House vote on extending the ACA tax credits, with three Republicans signing his petition. He forced a vote to restore union rights for a million federal workers.
He helped get Ukraine aid through. And he ran months of war games to prepare for every dirty trick this regime might pull on the midterms.
Three days before the election he told a rally: “One of the first things we’re going to do is run Pete Hegseth out of town.” That doesn’t sound like a guy without a spine to me.
He’s said “accountability” in dozens of speeches. The subpoena power arrives January 3rd, and you’d better believe he plans to use it.
I get it. We’re all hungry for hearings. So am I. But responsible leaders don’t promise revenge on camera, they build cases that hold up.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi made the job look easy, because she was insanely good at it, and she is precisely who has showed him the ropes.
That job seems hard as hell to me, and that's probably why whenever "popular" Democrats are asked if they want it, they're like "Nope. And I will be voting for Leader Jeffries."
An overwhelming majority of Democratic members of Congress plan to back him as Speaker, but he hasn’t even been sworn in as Speaker yet. Let him do the job before we cut him off at the knees.
Republicans would LOVE it if Democrats did their dirty work for them, knocking out our FIRST Black Speaker of the House in history.
JFC, even the horrible, lying jackass Mike Johnson got TWO FULL YEARS, and he accomplished NOTHING for the American people.
Affordability. Accountability. That’s what the MAJORITY of voters asked for, and he’s laser-focused on both.
Give the man a chance.🙏💪