I feel had for the Russians since they've had bad rulers for maybe 1000 years. Except for Peter the Great etc.
The problem for Russia right now is all economy. The last decade has been weak growth because the whole economy is tied to the price of oil so much. Their main exports are still hydrocarbon and arms, both are holdovers from the soviets.
Putin replaced one set of oligarchs with his own set of loyal oligarchs. Except shifting towards the Church I would not say he has been good for the common man. Maybe his cronies.
I have felt disappointed in Trump ever since the election. Especially the vaccine thing. But he's still the best we have for now. But I think Desantis might be stronger for 2024.
This is true. Things move at the speed of light now. Every new form of mass communication has brought a massive change to humanity. The founding fathers had to write in anonyms in order to convince the rest of the population. We must do the same. We have to work both on a local, national, and global level. The left certainly is.
God is the ruler of the whole world, regardless. This country is just a means to an end. We must think local, but really the Kingdom of Heaven is the most important one.
I agree, I think more jobs are going to be remote in the future. The pandemic proved many office jobs can be like that. Maybe we can "shift" the great reset so that it benefits a lot of smaller towns and people have freedom to move away from cities. Most medium sized cities, especially where social ills like the opioid epidemic are (I grew up in southwest PA) had a lot of manufacturing jobs. I don't know if those jobs are ever coming back in that way even if we cut off China or whatever. So we need new types of jobs to revitalize America.
Yeah, true. I think the left has a serious case of wrongthing not allowed lately, but libertarian (individual freedom to think and decide) values can be in principle be associated with either side - i'd call it the definition of civil liberties.
But in some respect, especially with the dawn of social media/internet, where people can instantly communicate with the speed of light, people will behave differently. We are still social creatures and respond to what people around us do. For most of human history it was basically the clan around us. Now it's more and more of the country if not world. This has happened with every new form of mass communication so it's not new.
The problem is the boycotts are just organized by the radical left way better. It was not till Trump that I felt like the right had started learning how to organize on the internet. The left has done it since I can remember (maybe 2000). That's a few decades that we ceeded culture.
And don't use the name woke coke. That's just faggy.
yes. follow proper opsec. Assume the enemy is watching.
the problem is more than that. This is for example, most of the CEOs of the Fortune 500: https://purpose.businessroundtable.org/
compare to the 'great reset' proposed by WEF/New World Order. It literally is the wording proposed by the founder of the WEF in 1975
The problem is corporate America is infiltrated by globalist millennials.
It's no wonder the biggest health problem in America is obesity. Flynn does pullups the first thing he wakes up. The average American does not.
The problem is that after Jan 6 they are all being watched. After everyone started using the internet for comms, everything became subject to deep packet inspection. We know since the turn of the century the government has no qualms about mass surveillance.
You can't win every battle in a war fren. - Napolean or something.
The problem is - monkey see monkey do. Humans watch what other people do and do that. It's biology (mirror neurons).
Social proof, literally why anything gets popular. The left understands this. We should too.
The problem is that most jobs and opportunities are in cities. Suburbs are where the real battle is.
There are no red cities. The battleground is all the suburbs.
It doesn't help that theretards filmed gobs of livestreams and shared it publically on social media. In reddit they are doing the fbi's work for them (crowdsourcing the looking through videos).
Yes I gotta say except for 2016 the right has never been more organized than the left especially on the internet. The left has been organizing themselves at least since Howard Dean's netroots and Obama. We gotta figure out how to do it. I think Trump's social media will help.
Soros most likely. I was skimming his book Soros on Soros in the library. I thought wtf this guy has been planning brave new world since at least the 80s.
Yeah, that's what made Jan 6 not work. Half the people there pretended it was social club hour.
Better to either form the America Party or reform the GOP party from within. The censures of the Dem's enablers are not enough. Gotta excommunicate the RINOs.
The problem for Russia is that their economy goes up/down mostly with natural resources (especially hydrocarbons). Their second biggest export are arms. They inherited most of these things from the Soviet Union.
To give you perspective, Texas has a way larger economy than Russia with 1/5th of the people. There hasn't been much growth in Russia in the last decade, yet he managed to get himself reelected till 2036.
It's obvious that Putin is good at intelligence because that's his trade. Given that Putin or his crownies control almost all of the media (except for parts of the internet) in Russia, I don't know what is a mirage or not.
My grandfather was from Lithuania and escaped from the Soviet Union. It was never as good as Pravda claimed.
Yeah, the whole arab spring was started by one fruit vendor. It brought down dictators who had been in power for 40 years because people marched in the streets and took over big public areas.