Massive massive efforts and cash spent on propaganda, basically

BDS works. Keep doing it

Amazon already undermined the value prop of prime because every single product they sell is knockoff garbage you’ll be lucky if it works out of the box. Even name brand stores Amazon still ships counterfeits through. Amazon is a ridiculous waste of money these days

If Trump wins, what is happening in Gaza will be genocide on Jan 21st.

If Harris wins, it will continue to be complicated and tragic for 4 more years.

And yet I don’t find it surprising that the ee is backing genocidal maniacs, that seems pretty par for the course

Frodo was saved by the community he built along the way. That’s why we build community in the first place. Media literacy isn’t that hard if you put your mind to it!

I’d vote for Frodo, since he’s ignoring all of the ridiculous political bullshit and actually trying to do a revolutionary act by building a fellowship and working together with his friends to destroy the source of the evil rather than fighting over who is the best one to control the evil.

I swear it’s like you people haven’t even read the books!

Was Galadriel pledging strong endless support for a genocide? I don’t remember that part of the books if I’m honest.

Probably do what everyone else does and make up some reason to call the US to come fight for them

The cum is secure. I repeat we have secured the cum

Musk talked a big game to literally immediately fold. As expected

Why use critical thinking when instead I can just believe everything US backed organizations tell me!

I think this is likely. I could see the US starting a proxy somewhere in South America too but nothing feels particularly primed for it. Taiwan definitely seems like the next major bet.

If it’s not Taiwan, it might be somewhere else that is regional specifically to keep China busy. India, something like that. The US values Taiwan extremely highly because of TSMC so they may decide that starting a war there is too risky.

Turns out that being the front of yet another US/Russian proxy war sucks, as it always does, and maybe you should have thought about that before happily volunteering your country for the job.

I’m sure the next country the US wants to proxy into oblivion will learn from Ukraine, right?

Genocide, same thing they’ve been doing with infinite help from the US

I used to think that these sorts of people were hurting the cause but over time I realized no, not really. Mostly because the kinds of people who engage with that sort of dialogue try to use it as a weapon, saying things like “see THIS communist says x y or z and that means YOU’RE saying x y or z too.” Then you try to engage with that conversation and one of two things happens. Either you explain no, that isn’t what we believe and here’s why and they listen, or they shout NO TRUE SCOTSMAN at you and pretend like if anyone ever identifies as anything, that means everyone that also identifies as that must be the same. The former group isn’t negatively impacted by patsocs because the former group aren’t fucking stupid, and the latter group will never engage with you or anyone seriously no matter what you do, so why bother wasting your time.

This lesson helped me a lot once I realized it. Only engage with people who will actually earnestly engage with you. The others are someone else’s problem or require a different organizing strategy.

That’s okay the free market will fix this by destroying society as we know it leading to the next great mass extinction of which humans will be a part of. It’s not a big deal really.

I do the opposite. I will run any game EXCEPT D&D. This gets people to try new games, and if they really wanna do D&D they can do it themselves, learn how to DM and run a group, and then I get to play. It’s been a pretty flawless strategy for me overall

I hope so. Now we just also need it to be over for Kamala too and then maybe electoralism might mean something.

There is nothing wrong with liking sports, sports are cool and fun and can be healthy social events. For someone who is a casual sporting event enjoyer, sportsball discourse is kinda rude and minimizing of their interest.

There is a lot wrong with defining your entire identity around sports and acting like a child throwing a temper tantrum when others don’t also base their entire identity around sports. It is for those people that sportsball discourse is not only suggested, it is mandatory, because those people should be shamed into doing something useful with their lives. This is doubly true for people who base their entire identity around some specific subset of sports and who reject any sport outside of that subset. If smacking ball with stick across grass can be a sport then pretty much anything can be a sport.