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Apparition of Jack replied to enchanted's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
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https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-client-list-trump-administration This is pretty freaking funny ngl. Seeing MAGA conspiracy freaks twist themselves into knots finding reasons why their god-saviour Trump wouldn’t release the same list he’s obviously on is fantastic.
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Apparition of Jack replied to DocWatts's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Alright. Point taken. I do still suspect he got up to some shady shit with Epstein though. -
Apparition of Jack replied to DocWatts's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I’m reminded of Disney cartoons mocking Hitler, Mussolini etc during WW2 to invigorate the populace and improve morale. I can understand the desire to appeal to decorum, truly I do, but sometimes you just have to face the fact that the things some people do truly are that ridiculous / destructive that the only way to get people to wake up is to point them out for the crass buffoons that they are. Donald Trump, Stephen Miller etc are not mere victims of circumstance. They’re adult beings will full agency over their actions. If they wilfully use their power to steal from the economy, promote violent hatred and rape the civil institutions that prevent society from collapsing, fuck em, they should’ve known better. EDIT: Donald Trump is literally a child rapist who uses his power and influence to avoid punishment for his crimes. You can’t get much more foul than that. -
Apparition of Jack replied to DocWatts's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
This is just what the world needs right more. More gloves-off satire and mockery of the clear insanity that is the Trump regime. The scenes at the Trump White House genuinely reminded me of old early-2000s South Park, lmao. His bullshit needs to highlighted for what it is. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Rafael Thundercat's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Dude was a globe-trotting crack-smoking escort-banging playboy millionaire, he probably knows a thing or two on how to look fashionable -
Apparition of Jack replied to Daniel Balan's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Their endgame? Collect all the infinity stones to snap NATO out of existence, I imagine. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Lucasxp64's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Is there any way to nuke the global debt system without destroying society as we know it? lol -
Apparition of Jack replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
To be fair most Jews did live in the West before then. Eastern Europe had basically turned into the Jewish homeland. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
No, im not sure where you got that. I’m generally pro-Palestine, it’s just that I see a lot of toxicity in the Palestinian side too. I think both the Israeli government and Hamas are scumbags, truthfully. I think violence causes more problems than it solves. And I think both sides misunderstand each other. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Scapegoating. Jews make an easy target. Their religion feels “familiar” to other Abrahamics but not familiar enough that it still seems strange (read: “dangerous.”) The association with Jews and money also makes them another popular target. Then of course there’s the fact that many Jewish communities have historically been protective of their culture (meaning people see them as “suspicious others”) and the whole “chosen people” thing (although I would argue this isn’t unique to Judaism), and you have the perfect recipe for people to make up all sorts of conspiracy theories. Really, at the end of the day, it’s just people projecting their worst fears about themselves onto someone else. Jews are stereotyped as “greedy” and “manipulative”, but look around you and ask what culture isn’t? White people are greedy. Arabs are greedy. Corruption exists in all cultures, the idea that Jewish people are “inherently” worse than any others is just… hateful nonsense. It’s a shame too, because there’s a lot of beauty in the Jewish religion. Go read some Jewish poetry or medieval Jewish theology on the nature of God’s love and it’s hard not to feel moved. I really hope one day humanity gets over its urge to find one group of people to blame for their problems. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Apparition of Jack's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The hilarious thing to me is that Trump ran explicitly on releasing the Epstein files. Trump is so used to grifting that he never expected that his grift would one day come back and bite him in the ass. Just further proof you can only lie for so long before the truth catches up with you. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Apparition of Jack's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
That’s not the point. Even despots need their base’s support to push their authoritarian agenda. If enough of those people turn on Trump, he’ll be hamstrung until 2028 and won’t be able to do whatever he wants (there’s also the possibility if he gets really unpopular he’ll be impeached and removed, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves ) -
Apparition of Jack replied to cistanche_enjoyer's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
@MarkKol @Vibes Jewish people aren’t “suppressing whites”, they’re just people doing people things -
Apparition of Jack replied to DocWatts's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Whats your problem man? Your anti-westernism is so bad you’ve just stooped to stage blue Trumpist talking points about the very real problems the world is facing. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Hardkill's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Yes, but it wasn’t there fully. Trump is nothing else if not a massive blowback to the decline of white power over America as a whole. America has run out of steam for its Blue/Orange stage. Green will eventually emerge, it’s just a question of how long and how painful it’ll be to get there. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Hardkill's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
America needs to become the Nation of Nations. That was always its destiny from its very beginning. Being a nation built off one race’s supremacy/control is fundamentally antithetical to everything it believes in. No more white oligarchy and delirious self-interest. It’s time for the American experiment to come to fruition and become the beacon of all humanity - not just MAGAts or Christian nationalists. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Shawn Philips's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
And people call me crazy for wanting to strengthen the UN -
Apparition of Jack replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It’s more “trickle-down” nonsense. The idea is that giving people who already have more money than God even more tax breaks, they’ll use that money to “create jobs” and “stimulate the economy.” The problem is, you give a rich person a tax cut and they’re most likely just going to save that money, rather than actually spend it on anything useful, let alone public goods like roads, healthcare etc. Not only that but it makes Medicaid much harder to access, putting the physical health of millions of Americans in jeopardy. Republicans are ideologically opposed to any social programs and they see it as a way to give “handouts” to “freeloaders”, rather than the basic, reasonable investments in the health of their citizens that they actually are. It’s really bad. Who knows how this is going to play out down the line. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Republicans are ghouls. When we finally defeat them our victory will taste all the more sweeter. -
I’m burnt out, man. The Republicans just passed their big bullshit bill that will almost certainly get hundreds of thousands, if not more, Americans killed, and we seem helpless to stop it. The No Kings protests were good but they didn’t result in any material change. Trump’s brand of late-stage fascism seems to just be undefeatable. Mamdani winning was a good sign but he’s just the mayor of one city. It’s like no matter how much we protest, how much we fight, no matter how many important victories we take, Trump will just ruin the lives of millions of people no matter what. I’m fucking sick of this shit but the American political machine seems like an evil beast you can’t destroy. I’m so fucking tired. I want this madness to end, but it seems unstoppable. Genuinely don’t know what to do.
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Apparition of Jack replied to Reciprocality's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Frankly I don’t know. This is something I’ve struggled with as well. I mostly try to rely on my heart / intuition / good advice to keep me going, and hope for the best. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Jayson G's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I’ll put it this way. If you’re: - gay - a woman - trans - effeminate - socially avant-garde - worldly/liberal/progressive etc etc. then you’d be far, far safer in the West than you would be basically anywhere else. Even new powers like China still have massive problems with racism, homophobia, etc. This isn’t just some liberal talking point either; in absolute terms the number of people migrating from the Global South to the Global North just utterly dwarfs the opposite. People want to move to Western countries because their own countries are riddled with crime, corruption, poverty, drug abuse, etc. Despite the bad wrap the West gets (a lot of it deserved tbh), it is still, for billions of people around the world, an democratic “safe haven” and an aspirational model of what prosperous, stable societies look like. Third world countries shouldn’t be demonised, like I said every society has its good points, but neither should we encourage them to overlook their multitude of shortcomings that still harm the lives of countless of their citizens. -
Apparition of Jack replied to Jayson G's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I’m sorry, but there are very real differences in the level of social development between countries, it’s not “reactionary” to point that out. Of course, all societies have good and bad, and if you just want a simple life of fishing and drinking hooch vs grinding your whole life you’d probably do better in some Filipino fishing village than New York, but on the whole the Philippines just has way more crime, corruption, poverty, murder, sex trafficking etc than the US does. Be careful not to flatten differences too much in the quest to make everything “equal.” Third world countries need to engage in serious developmental reform if they want to break the poverty trap. -
Apparition of Jack replied to PurpleTree's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Australia 9/10 Even just ignoring the fact that I was born here, it’s objectively one of the safest and most prosperous countries on the planet. Sure it has its problems but when you compare to third world countries (and even some places of Europe / USA), it’s basically a paradise. I try not to take it for granted every single day.