Skiluros

Is Tuberville lying?

It's been a long time since I lived in the US, but I do remember not being convinced by the sincerity of many senior politicians around things such as abortion, free markets and so on. It felt like a ruse to gain/maintain power and promote the interests of whatever oligarchs they were working for.

One notable example would be local senator Rand Paul promoting the use of ivermectin for COVID a few years ago.

I had several acquaintances who studied to become doctors. From my interactions with them, I got the impression that the US medical education system was rather demanding and did not allow for random degeneracy.

I believe Paul finished a highly competitive US medical school, so it is reasonable to assume that the tantrums around using ivermectin for COVID were driven by political consideration. It seems that Paul knew that it was not a legitimate medicine in context of COVID and he knowingly promoted misinformation (and put people at risk) for political gain.

Is this a similar sort of scheme? i.e. Tuberville's granddaughter is actually vaccinated and her parents and Tuberville actually support vaccination in private but Tuberville is acting out publicly for political reasons? I am assuming it is not possible to find out whether his granddaughter did or did not get vaccinated (medical privacy).

Or am I overthinking this?

It seems like the only semi-viable alternative to oligarch run social networks.

I am not American, but behaviour exhibited by oligarchs such as Zuckerberg/Musk (and these are just the ones that get in the news) is not at all surprising.

Once again playing dumb. Lemmy is rife with this sort of tankie rhetoric, it is rather transparent.

As I said earlier, let's hope one day you and your family will be on the recieving end of russian genocidal imperialism.

We both know your statement about "number of military bases" is nonsensical and malicious. And you continue to ignore (and whitewash) russia's genocidal imperialism in Europe.

Your replies (and attempts to pretend no one can see through them) prove my original statement that it is reasonable to have a zero tolerance policy towards tankie scum.

Don't play dumb with me!

As far as i’m aware there aren’t any russian military bases in europe on the other hand there are hundreds americans.

You are denying that russians are occupying multiple regions of several European countries. Including banning local language/religion/culture, setting up mass torture interment camps, forced russification and settler colonialism.

This is not comparable to hosting a US base in your country (and you know it). You also ignore the fact that US bases are there to not let the russians do what I described above (which you also know).

You are also malicious about framing "russian propaganda". Can you name me three famous russian propagandist with doing a web search?

Let's hope one day you will be on the receiving end of your support for russian genocidal imperialism.

It's reasonable to have a zero tolerance policy for tankie scum (including tankies who are trying to hide their views by JAQing).

In just this thread you openly supported russian genocidal imperialism:

As far as i’m aware there aren’t any russian military bases in europe on the other hand there are hundreds americans.

And your whole "both sides are the same" is clearly a ruse.

You almost certainly don't speak russian or Chinese. You've never lived in russia or China and you have zero understanding of their worldview (with respect to russia specifically, I can say a strong majority of russians are genocidal imperialists) or their propaganda.

US authorities didn't even bother prosecuting specific individuals from HSBC's US branch involved in money laundering for cartels, HSBC's US branch only had to pay a fine.

I overall sympathize with the message of this article. Defeatism is of course never an option and historically oligarch/plutocratic regimes tend to succumb under the weight of their own contradictions (I am talking in the long term).

However, the last paragraph doesn't sit well with me:

The Trumpist movement that ascended to power on Monday is relying on a tired, defeated America, one too diminished to do anything but submit to their demands and schemes. But the American spirit is indefatigable: it loves freedom and equality, abhors tyranny, values minding your own business and hates, above all, to be told what to do. When Trump was last in office, Americans found, at the end, that they did not like it. They will not like it now, either, and that dislike, however tardy, will have political consequences.

People in other countries do enjoy being told what to do? In many, many countries people have fought (and continue to fight) against such overwhelming odds that are inconceivable to the average American. And is it wrong to say that perhaps at least some Americans do like being told what to do? As long as the correct marketing/polemical approach is used (e.g. oligarchs promoting their interests/corruption via PR strategies that leverage copytext with an emphasis on polemics around "freedom" and "individuality"). This is of course not unique to the US.

Either way, we are all in for some interesting times.

Raiffeisen has been "leaving" the russian market for 3 years now.

This should have been done in 2022 and shown to voters that their money is not being used (I am ignoring the Budapest Memorandum in context of US/UK for the sake of argument).

This is like a weird personal thing that I can't even explain. For whatever reason, the Y axis becomes labelled as X in my mind in random situations. And I use charts (and other data visualizations a lot).

The funny thing is when I am thinking of X, I don't have this urge to call it Y. If I am looking at horizontal, X is the first thing that comes to mind. But not with Y.

Yes, of course the Y axis.

I work with charts/vizualizations/data a lot, but for whatever reason I reflexively mistake X/Y a lot. It's not even funny.