Quote (theCrossbones @ Sep 9 2024 04:22pm)

Per Politico
Why I even bother with the cult

Donald Trump is laying the foundation for a “rigged” debate on ABC News before he squares off with Kamala Harris.

In interviews, fundraising appeals, rallies, and posts on social media, the former president has repeatedly blasted the host network and accused its top talent of being biased against him. He’s even accused the network, without evidence, of providing the questions in advance to the Harris campaign.

Quote (SkySwallower @ Sep 9 2024 03:24pm)

We do not really have heavy partisan propaganda in the same way you have e.g. fox news. I can assure you everyone left of the far right in europe is terrified of another trump term, especially because of the implications for ukraine and russia.

Quote (SkySwallower @ Sep 9 2024 03:24pm)

We do not really have heavy partisan propaganda in the same way you have e.g. fox news. I can assure you everyone left of the far right in europe is terrified of another trump term, especially because of the implications for ukraine and russia.

Quote (SkySwallower @ 9 Sep 2024 20:54)

Thanks, that data actually shows an increase in illegal immigration combined with asylum seekers in the last years (at least if I read the charts correctly). Together with the data showing more people being apprehended it seems most likely that there is an increase of immigrants at the border (which causes both more illegal immegrants to get through and more apprehensions).

Apparently there also was a bill to at least make it harder for asylum seekers, that died in congress because of the lack of republican support (at least that how i understand the tkdr of the bill from https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/analysis-senate-border-bill).

I still want to point out that the data suggests an increase in demand for asylum/illegal immigration. This will probably need additional legislation, which democrats tried to establish but the bill didn't pass congress. Feel free to correct me, but is that not how politics is supposed to work?

Quote (ofthevoid @ Sep 9 2024 02:22pm)

What implication, that the war ends? Why is that a bad thing, even if it's conceding the Donbas, a place you never been, never would have gone in peaceful times and has zero impact on your life. Or do you believe if the Russians aren't stopped in Ukraine they'll be marching on Paris? Instead you would prefer some military puppet to continue writing blank checks to continue a war that's claimed so many lives. For what exactly? We see Ukrainian men on the daily forcibly mobilized by slave-catcher tactics. I prefer people that want to live be left alone and not be imprisoned in their own country, instead volunteers like you should take their place and fight a war if that's what you really want.

Quote (El1te @ 9 Sep 2024 15:37)

To add, in my country of Canada this holds true, similar to EU: we don't have a free and fair media, we have an autocratic propaganda network that services and is bought and paid for by the LPC and their left wing collaborators (CBC, CTV, Global etc.). There is NO right wing media that isn't persecuted and demonized as far right (Rebel News and Conrad Black's National Post). We have zero diversity in our media, everything is a script and it's honestly worse than Europe. And oh yeah Conrad Black has been politically persecuted into oblivion, wonder why.

Quote (18nomaUSEast @ Sep 9 2024 03:00pm)

https://www.readthemaple.com/content/images/size/w1000/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/federal-elections-endorsements-with-ownership.png

source: https://www.readthemaple.com/election-endorsements/


did you miss last time I posted or was that just a big ol' dodge into your echo chamber?

Quote (ofthevoid @ 9 Sep 2024 23:22)

What implication, that the war ends? Why is that a bad thing, even if it's conceding the Donbas, a place you never been, never would have gone in peaceful times and has zero impact on your life. Or do you believe if the Russians aren't stopped in Ukraine they'll be marching on Paris? Instead you would prefer some military puppet to continue writing blank checks to continue a war that's claimed so many lives. For what exactly? We see Ukrainian men on the daily forcibly mobilized by slave-catcher tactics. I prefer people that want to live be left alone and not be imprisoned in their own country, instead volunteers like you should take their place and fight a war if that's what you really want.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 9 2024 03:10pm)

Russia already controls the Donbas, and you say that they are currently decisively winning the war on the ground, making decisive progress. So why the fuck would Russia settle for a negotiated peace in which they only get what they already have anyway, and in exchange agree to not press their current advantage any further? Because they're such nice guys?

The argument obviously is that if the West stops its funding and its arms supplies to Ukraine, they will be forced to negotiate a dictated peace with Russia, one which de facto comes very close to unconditional surrender.

Quote (SkySwallower @ 9 Sep 2024 21:19)

If you think Trump prioritizes peace and order in the western world over Putins interest you have not payed enough attention. It is no coincidence that right wing populism in a lot of western countries is founded heavily by russia, it's the easiest way for them to destabilize our society.