Isn't it interesting that neither

Poland nor Hungary is enduring

the chaos and violence

indigenous to mass immigration?

Oh, right, they enforce their

borders and their laws.

 

If you're vaccinated for COVID

Then please don't talk to me

about politics

I can already see you fall for

lies and didn't stand up when

it mattered most

 the kia kamala isn't a smart car;

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 a new twist in political signs effects;

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chinese immigrant slaughters a political opponent, figuratively;

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caitlin sees how the mockingbird media ignores the southern hemisphere except on rare occasions; 

Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist. The mainstream western worldview shrinks the earth down to US-aligned countries and acts as though the billions of people who live in the global south do not share a planet with us.

You really see this illustrated in US presidential election season, when debates will feature five or six minutes on “foreign policy” with the remaining two hours dedicated to “domestic policy” and culture war wedge issues despite the the White House’s relationship with foreign countries having orders of magnitude more significant real-world consequences. Americans discuss election results as though the whole thing revolves around them and their feelings and how much more convenient or inconvenient the next president might make their lives, while Europeans discuss what the results might mean for NATO expenses and trade agreements. The fact that the next US president will be committing genocide, starving people with economic sanctions and increasing Washington’s stranglehold on earth’s population by any amount of violence and tyranny necessary barely ever enters into the conversation........more......

 mr peters calls this essay: orange or red;

Will it be orange – or red?

We’ll know in about 48 hours.  Or maybe not. For some very odd reason that we’re being conditioned to accept as routine – so that it can be routinized – it now takes days or even weeks to determine which of two candidates received the most votes. This is particularly off-putting given most of these votes are collected electronically. Isn’t the whole point of electronic vote-collection to make the process more efficient?

Of course, all it has done is make the process more opaque.

The Great Gripe many have about the last selection is that no one really knows who won.  Well, no one outside the ambit of the rather undemocratic entities – the private companies – who have a lock (literally) on the workings of the voting machines, over which they assert a proprietary claim. This, too, is odd – yet accepted – because it has been routinized. Like the appalling (to those who remember when it was not routine) business of having to submit to being physically touched in intimate areas – to being touched, at all – for absolutely no reason specific to you by a government worker in order to be allowed to board a commercial flight. Once upon a time, people who weren’t criminals or suspected of being criminals were free to travel unmolested, if you can imagine that. It was kind of like being free to speak.........more.....