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  1. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    20 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Time will tell.

    You know, I am now thinking that I'd like to see Trump and MAGA try to undo EVERY bit of progress made by Biden and his party and more.

    Let's see how the people really like it.

    In fact, from the viewpoint of accelerationism, let's truly hit rock bottom by having another crisis that's so widespread that it becomes truly as bad as the Great Depression and WWII were combined. That way, the country will have no choice but to go through another New Deal kind of revolution that will springboard us to a new era of radical reform

     

     

     

  2. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    17 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    To transcend neoliberalism requires exceptional development -- basically Tier 2 -- which less than 1% of the planet has.

    We can't transcend it just by screaming and flailing our arms. We need to raise the rest of the world first. Neoliberalism has a long way to go before it exhausts itself. It's like a booster rocket that is still only half way through its burn, but leftists are screaming to dump it.

    Okay, but at the same time, is what I've been saying about how we are transitioning out of it slowly into social democracy through something like 2 steps forward, 1 step backward the right way to look at it what's happening?

    Also, I thought neoliberalism was only in stage Orange and that solid Stage Green (which is the last Tier 1 stage) is where neoliberalism no longer dominates or exists anymore. 

  3. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    The economic inequality in America is still truly terrible and now our country is going to be run by Trump and his billionaire oligarchs in his administration in an extreme right-wing hyper-capitalist manner. Obviously this will make the economic inequality even worse in a number of ways.

    But If Americans still crave for more neoliberalism, then why since the election of Obama in 2008 have there been more and more popular major social democratic policies enacted by the government down the line? 

    Why didn't the Republicans during Trump's presidency eliminate every single liberal policy enacted during Obama's presidency that led to greater long-standing progress for our country in many ways? Moreover, why did Trump and his party struggle so much with enacting much of their agenda through Congress that the only things they successfully passed legislatively that were hard right-wing and for the rich elites were the Trump Tax cuts and a partial deregulation of Dodd-Frank?

    Why were the Democrat's progressive policies during Biden's presidency cause even more of a break from the decades-long dominance of neoliberalism than during Obama's presidency? Why am I even hearing that the Republicans in Congress no longer have the appetite they used to have for trying to repeal Obamacare and don't have the will to repeal much of the economic populist policies passed legislatively during Biden's presidency?

    Is this because our country is going through some kind of non-linear transition from neoliberalism to full social democracy?

  5. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    So did Biden. So what?

    The ceasefire happened because it was favorable to Netanyahu for whatever reasons. Not because Trump said so.

    Netanyahu was delaying this deal for months to make sure Dems lost the election. So here we are. He couldn't keep up an endless war forever. He need hostage back and so forth.

    Yeah, I think that there must've been some kind of catch here. Probably the terms in this deal were very favorable to Bibi and his right-wing coalition but very unfavorable for the Palestinians and the left-wing down the line.

     

  6. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Yeah, but it won't happen due to corruption, greed, and unconsciousness. So buckle in.

    What about the growing movement of progressives, climate activists, and younger generations of people throughout the whole country who are all deeply concerned about climate change more than ever before?

    Why hasn't the suffering from it and majority support for attacking climate change already been enough to wake up enough of the masses to take some serious action on it?

    Are too many Americans still too afraid to change over to wind, solar power, EVs, and other alternative energy sources because they still aren't familiar enough with all of that?

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    1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

    Yeah, I think Fink gives Trump too much credit. As if Trump ever cared about Palestine. This misunderstands Trump's motives and agenda.

    The US has leverage but it wasn't used, not by Biden nor Trump.

    Yeah, and I don't like how Mearsheimer is giving a lot credit to Trump too.

    Though even if the US has leverage, that still wouldn't be enough to permanently stop Israel from murdering people in Gaza, right? 

  8. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Because there is no solution to ending oil. Oil is not going away, period. No amount of crying or moral outrage will change that.

    There is your fantasies and there is reality.

    Of course we can’t rid of all oil now or for the foreseeable future, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do more to transition from oil usage to renewable energy. 

    Wasn’t that the main point of the climate provisions in the IRA?

    Didn’t you say before that transitioning to renewable energy as fast as possible is more important than ever?

  9. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Zionists are not going to fundamentally change their behavior because they don't see anything wrong with their behavior.

    All they do at this point is manipulate public perceptions and scheme behind closed doors to push through their agenda. There is nothing more to understand about this situation.

    So then, isn’t Finkelstein exaggerating the leverage the US has over Israel for stopping this war?

  10. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    3 minutes ago, Thought Art said:

    Can't help stupid.

    Yeah, but most people believe climate change is a very serious crisis in our country and want new-age reforms done for this issue. 

    Also, why haven't the growing large progressive and youth movements on climate change been enough to make it an exceptionally important issue in people's minds?

    I can understand why if say a majority of old people wouldn't care or worry about this issue for themselves at all because they've already lived out most of their lives and know that they only have a relatively short amount of years left to live.

    Yet, most young and middle-aged people in our country know that they will have to live with this serious problem for several decades and that this issue will continue to get worse and worse and worse for the rest of their lives.

    Is it because most people are still prioritizing financial affordability and other things over climate change at this point in time?

  11. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

     

     

    People are already suffering from climate change more so than ever before!

    Most Americans especially the growing generations of younger people in our country say that they believe the climate crisis is real and the majority of Americans support climate reforms!

    “72% OF US BELIEVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS REAL”

    Source: Yale (12.13.2023) — When asked “Do you think that global warming is happening?” — 72% said YES. Pew (10.25.2023): 71% say that climate change is “causing harm to people in the U.S.” and 63% expect that harm from climate change “will get worse in their lifetime.” 

    https://www.cbsnews.com/politicalclimate/

    This isn't the 1900s or early 2000s anymore where the vast majority of people during those times weren't affected by it, the degree of the climate wasn't nearly as bad as it has gotten in recent years, and most people didn't even believe that climate change was real!

    So, why hasn't the legitimate worry about this issue amongst the majority of Americans gone down lately instead of spiking up?!

    Why wasn't climate change even a salient issue at all in the 2024 general election and why did America elect the worst climate change denialist ever for president instead of someone like Harris who would've been as progressive as Biden was on climate change, even despite Biden passing the most historic piece of legislation ever in US History for dealing with climate change?!

  14. Posted

    On 1/8/2025 at 10:08 PM, NoSelfSelf said:

    Its a guilty pleasure,one doesnt openly talk about things what he does behind close doors.

     

    On 1/9/2025 at 7:34 AM, Princess Arabia said:

    @NoSelfSelfanswered your question. Do we talk about our sex life in detail here on the forum. Why not? Same reason.

    Well then maybe we shouldn't make it a secret guilty pleasure anymore.

  16. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

    California is one of the most progressive states that is why, but not by much. LA apparently cut their fire department budget by millions even after experts have been saying for years a major fire like this can sweep through LA. California has some of the most hypocritical housing and zoning rules for what's supposed to a progressive bastion. Ocean property has gone up in general across the country and world. People want to live in warm areas if they can and swim in the ocean on the weekend, the rich work remote now so they can overpopulate these areas away from cold and dangerous business metropolis centers up north. People are going to continue to reap natural paradises as long as the market demands it without any thought to serious long term conservation. Dollar speaks louder than any policy or threat that isn't immediate. 

    But the reason it is more progressive than red states are is because of how developed they are and the demographics they have. 

    Leo talked about this before.

    I don’t know what happened with the LA fire department. I am they’ve made mistakes that need to be urgently addressed but they are still ahead of most states on climate change and taking care of the natural environment.

  17. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    59 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

    Because people don’t particularly shine their consciousness on important matters but instead put the vibes and culture wars first. A lot of people would rather argue about all the silly shit, leave troll comments on social media and own the libs rather than set their bias beliefs aside and expand their consciousness. Many of these people will need to have their homes destroyed and face these issues to shock them out of their silly games. 

    I get that, but California, Illinois, and New York are blue pro-environmental states because of those factors I mentioned. Those same factors also exist in Florida. It's not some backwards rural state with older and less educated folk like in Alabama or Mississippi.

    Besides, Florida already has a lot of floods, hurricanes, and other weather-related problems for many years.

    So again, why have states like California been more on the ball and proactive about climate change than other very developed states like Florida? 

     

  18. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    Floridians better wake up before they all drown and become crocodile bait.

    Miami is sinking and will continue to sink and has floods even when it's not raining. Not to mention the hurricanes it has every year.

    Despite Florida's shift towards being a solid red state, its demographics remain remarkably similar to those of Illinois, New York, and California. In terms of GDP per capita, education levels, urban and suburban development, population size and density, cultural and racial/ethnic diversity, age diversity (including a very sizable young population), and level of secularism, Florida's profile aligns more closely with these states than with traditionally conservative states like Mississippi or Alabama.

    So, why aren't there enough people and organizations in Florida pushing back hard enough against the bad environment policies enacted by DeSantis and his radical right-wing state government?

  19. Posted

    3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    MAGA whines about how climate change is hoax, then cries when their home burns down.

    Classic example of how the conservative mind doesn't care about an issue until it personally stings them in them ass.

    Drill baby drill.

    Sadly, these natural disasters are very likely going to get worse and worse during the next 4 years as Trump and the GOP deregulate a lot of environment. The radical right-wingers on SCOTUS have already been striking down a number of environmental protection-related laws for many years, especially during these past 4 years. 

    It's remarkable that the Republican Party was once a staunch advocate for environmental protection, from the early 1900s to the 1970s. Even President Nixon, not typically known for his environmentalism at heart, implemented significant policies for improving the natural environment during his presidency, that made up a comprehensive environmental program including the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

    Hopefully, Newsom finds some way to mitigate this disaster and make the optics of the situation not bad for him for his potential presidential run. He already has had a lot of problems that have happened under his watch such as previous big wildfires, high levels of homelessness, and previous high levels of crimes in various cities.

  20. Posted

    On 1/6/2025 at 8:23 AM, Princess Arabia said:

    Nobody shames the men in porn. They get called names like long-john silver and the big hurricane diver and sasquash biggie dicky. Lol I just made that up.

     

    On 1/6/2025 at 8:20 AM, Princess Arabia said:

    Aren't you aware of this. Don't you follow these stars. Don't you watch porn. Do you think you're all alone. Millions do. So why not have a following. They are not shamed, people project shame unto them. It's the one's uncomfortable with their own porn watching that tries to do the shaming. Meanwhile.......

    But then why don't we talk about pornstars as a more everyday topic like we do with mainstream celebrities?

  21. Posted

    It's very frightening that he's saying all of this, especially given the newfound power he will have as president.

    However, I think he would need the votes in Congress to do something that insane and barbaric and I don't even think that the Republicans in Congress would approve of it. Many of them like the new Senate Majority Leader Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson aren't that crazy or that extreme.

  22. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    It doesn't matter how developed or how much IQ you have, self-deception will get you.

    Christianity is a mind virus. If you have been infected with that virus from birth, it is almost impossible to extract.

    Christianity is HIV for the mind.

    You can have whatever IQ, it won't cure your HIV.

    This is why people keep returning to Christianity. It is lodged so deep in their minds that even mystical experience will not dislodge it. In the end people cannot handle total descontruction so they just return to some comfortable construct or fantasy. They were never in it for truth, they were in it for good feelings.

    Then, why do societies with higher levels of education tend to be more secular than countries with lower levels of education?

  23. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    16 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

    I’m surprised Hardkill hasn’t already written 10 paragraphs.

    I don't know much about Canadian politics. However, from what I understand, Trudeau's party is in trouble because they are being blamed for similar things that have been going on in the US including the lingering effects of inflation, housing shortage, economic inequality, toxic polarizing media landscape, xenophobia, racial demagoguery, etc. 

    Although, those factors seem to be even worse in America.

  24. Posted

    OP, don't tell me the right-wing media got you.

    Do you realize that America has more mass shootings than every other developed nation in the world combined?

    Also, while I'm uncertain about the future of America under Trump's potential second term, I'm honestly still ambivalent about the need for everyday citizens to own guns. Throughout America's history as a sovereign nation, there hasn't really been a significant instance where citizens needed to protect themselves from government tyranny.

    Given the current level of freedom and fairness enjoyed by people of all backgrounds in America, one could argue that there's even less justification for widespread gun ownership.

    Historically, the Second Amendment originally meant that only US Citizens who were part of a well-regulated militia could own a gun; however, SCOTUS in the early 2000s twisted the interpretation of that amendment by ruling that the right to bear arms extends to individual ownership and use.

    Has there ever been a time when the people of your country needed guns to protect themselves from government tyranny?

    Also, watch professor Lichtman explain why there needs to be heavy gun control throughout the entire nation: