We were born too early to witness the sack of Rome, but we have been born just in time to witness the death of its farcical imitation.

I’m preemptively making a prediction to be wrong about

Well chaps, I want to wish you all good fucking luck in WW3

What does he say? I can’t be bothered to use tiktok.

On Zizek as a whole, I distinctly remember somebody asking him something about Kosovo, when there were talks that it was gonna be partitioned once and for all. He says that he supports it, in that Kosovo gives Serbia the obviously serbian parts, which is common sense. But then, for a guy living in the balkans, he says something unimaginably stupid and pretty much racist. He thinks that kosovo should get a part of Sandzak (which is a province of Serbia containing a majority Bosniak population), as if he cannot imagine that maybe Bosniaks are satisfied with the way things are right now, as opposed to living in a country where their language (and consequently the language of the majority of South Slavs) is actively being suppressed. As if that would be good thing simply pertaining to the fact that they share a religion with the Albanians of kosovo. Also the notion that Serbia should give something up to make it fair, as if simply recognizing the territory which was illegally taken from it isn’t enough. If this is how informed he is on the region he hails from, you can imagine the credibility of his opinions in regards to foreign policy in general.

I mean yeah, but let’s not kid ourselves on who the shot callers in the EU are. I guess I was wrong about the Germans, but I have no doubt that if the French and the British decided to go with America, they would as well (and the rest of the EU being hipnotized by russophobia, they would easily fall in line). Don’t forget, the number of US military bases in Germany.

Another thing that I forgot to mention is also obviously the fact that the europeans are bying american gas at much higher price than they used to buy russian. All because of their dumb little neoliberal ideology.

Europe, during that shift, will either join the US in failing or just easily slide over into more equal footing with the rest of the world.

I mean, will they? I don’t have the graph right now, but I’m pretty sure that the EU in the case of global redistribution, would literally be the only ones who would lose out. Even the US, with how unequal it is, would on average actually stand to gain

I think this is enticing, and could fit Laussen’s contradiction because Europeans are pretty self-righteous and maybe unwilling to fully subsumed themselves to US interests when against their own.

I mean, we literally had that in the Nixon shock, where they lost out on exchanging their dollars for gold, and they didn’t make too much of a fuss. Even before, the british in the form of debtors gave up their companies, liquid reserves, and the frozen account of 15b pound sterling with their colonies just to pay off lend-lease, only to then later on get fucked in the position of creditor themselves by the aforementioned Nixon shock. It’s just that in every situation they could have gotten out of being under the american yoke, they always proved subservient anyway, even when their own interest should’ve been paramount.

Besides, I agree with xiaohongsh@hexbear.net that China’s best bet is to lift the global south out of poverty by a new Marshall Plan, rather than to hedge their bets on the EU. They’re simply too unreliable, driven by a neoliberal ideology which mainly concerns itself with defending themselves from muh gommunism (now in the form of Russia and China).

I’ve had it for about a week now, I’ve kept the outbreak from getting too bad but it still itches so bad, and I have it EVERYWHERE. On my face and lips, I have a patch in my ear, on my dick, all over my hands and arms, everything is suffering. I already washed myself with dish soap so it’s not spreading anymore but goddamn if this isn’t hell

He must’ve made a recent visit to a nursing home and she got jealous. Only reason I can think of

If this causes a 30 years war in the US, but this time a Orthodox vs. Catholic vs. Protestant battle royale, I’m all for this.

You have 5 seconds to beat it before I add you to the list of NSF casualties

GTA Gooner City

The funny thing is, up until now, it was a dead man’s race. The students trying to resolve their contradictions of revolutionary fervor and liberally brainwormed non-violence (which has now been resolved by embracing those liberal brainworms and with them, representative democracy) and Vucic, who is just laughably incompetent. Unlike his predecessor Milosevic, he has absolutely 0 backing in any discernible ideology whatsoever, other than pure clientelism and self-interest. His regime is a house of cards, it’s only the students’ disorganization and their fanatic adherence to non-violence that has kept him in the game this long.

Serbian students call for early parliamentary elections

Just gonna copy my comment from the other thread

This declaration was literally just preceded by some liberal moron professor calling a handful of leftist students the “Khmer Rouge” and them being associated with a marginal leftist party in Serbia, which itself he alleges is being financed by the CPC (even though he doesn’t provide any evidence for either of these claims whatsoever). He made these claims alongside accusations of this “minority” of students “sabotaging” the “majority” from voting to participate in the elections. Did I mention he considers it a bad thing that the students are anti-NATO? (like they didn’t literally bomb the country, how could they possibly dislike them?). Because this request for the elections is gonna be accompanied by a list comprised of professors chosen by their students, there’s a decent chance this fucking charlatan makes it on the list of those 250 professors. Makes me scared of the possibility these professors might be majority pro-EU, which doesn’t bode well for the geopolitics of the country, especially not at this fucking moment.

I mean, it’s commendable and all, but ultimately it’s just gonna succumb to compromise and politcking. A similar situation happened in Montenegro. There it was right wing clericalists vs. a western backed neolib government (I know, the balkans are fucking weird), and in the end, the western backed dictator is casually enjoying life outside of jail like nothing ever happened. Same thing is gonna happen here, except maybe Vucic will get 5 years in prison (10 max), and everyone will accept the compromise just to get rid of him. Ultimately not much will change, although people might finally be exposed to a capitalist system which cannot justify itself being bad just by being “crony”.

Edit - Another thing I didn’t mention: This declaration was literally just preceded by some liberal moron professor calling a handful of leftist students the “Khmer Rouge” and being associated with a marginal leftist party in Serbia, which itself he alleges is being financed by the CPC (even though he doesn’t provide any evidence for these claims whatsoever). He made these claims alongside accusations of this “minority” of students “sabotaging” the “majority” from voting to participate in the elections. Did I mention he considers it a bad thing that the students are anti-NATO? (like they didn’t literally bomb the country, how could they possibly dislike them?). Because this request for the elections is gonna be accompanied by a list comprised of professors chosen by their students, there’s a decent chance this fucking charlatan makes it on the list of those 250 professors. Makes me scared of the possibility these professors might be majority pro-EU, which doesn’t bode well for the geopolitics of the country, especially not at this fucking moment.

I mean, I think I fulfill the criteria online. In real life with social anxiety however…

With RFK in charge, soon enough he’ll (hopefully) be the first human victim of the horse flu.

Exactly this. You not only have to have confidence, but also be witty and have a bit of bravado ideally. You also have to treat fascists as fucking fascists, don’t be charitable whatsoever, initiate the name calling and openly mock them whilst being cool headed and above the situation itself. Many leftist instead engage in debates where they let the fascist speak, express his views etc. You need to call a spade a spade immediately, not fuck around for the sake of liberal civility.

Caesar and Mr. House from FNV

That the liberals are so enamored with their checks-and-balances system that they will do absolutely nothing, or at least not realize that they actually need to militarily resist fascism. They just think their aforementioned system will do self-correction and stop MAGA.

Depends on the country, I feel like. In fact, my own nation is one of those nations that treats expats exceptionally well, but my nation is small and an unusual place to emigrate to (for now at least, I feel like more people are picking up on how cheap this nation really is, along with the nightlife and women etc.). On the other hand, Russia I’m sure has to be somewhat used to foreigners, at least in Moscow where these people would be emigrating to.