That makes no sense. How is our economic system highly controlled in the US? Corporations run rampant, with scant regulation compared to some places like Europe.

A government’s size being big doesn’t instantly equal less capitalism if that government doesn’t do as much as it could to reel in corporate interests.

Case in point, our government here in the US is big but is controlled by corporate interests to such a degree that despite knowing about human made climate change since the late 60s, basically nothing has actually been done about it. Or how whenever there is any push for even a public option to live alongside private insurance, insurance companies go into overdrive running ads and paying politicians to push back against it so it never gets brought up after an election season.

Capitalism is a system of economics. It can exist with or without a government also existing.

Yes as a long time PC gamer, I don’t understand why people act as if steam and valve are gods. Like ok cool it has the most games and whatever, but they’ve been going downhill. There’s so many random asset flips and porn games now, and their sales have been shit for years now. I remember games going on sale for 90% off during seasonal sales, and all the % off coupons they’d just randomly give out. That never happens now.

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How dare you! Circles!? They must be stars!!

“trump worse” doesn’t mean that this isn’t bad. The bar is so fucking low at this point, and even then Dems can’t clear it.

Looks like we have another holiday to add to the calendar.

I get that, but ceasefire to me has always meant a stop to the fighting, indefinitely. Basically, the fighting stops without any stated end. If it does end, it ends. But the time limit aspect, at least from my understanding, isn’t specified.

I do get your meaning tho, and in that context it is considered a ceasefire. Thanks for the insight, I had actually forgotten about that WW1 reference.

First of all FF7R shouldn’t be considered as remake, it should be considered as its own spinoff / sequel

Fucking finally someone gets it!

Give him a year or two and he’ll be back on their payroll. He’s gonna get the rahm Emanuel treatment.

Why is everyone calling this a ceasefire deal? It’s only for like, 4 days. It’s a pause.

Israel do love them some war crimes

Idk why every publication talking about this keeps pointing out that he was in the Obama administration. The guy has served in multiple admins over the years, dating back to the reagan admin I think.

Also grayzone? No offense, but those guys are loony. Founded by a guy who is a regular contributor to RT.

Translation to normal English:

“This spread brings us one step closer to killing all the dirty subhuman Arabs. Heil Bibi!”

Lol love hearing jackasses say “you don’t understand the real world” when it’s actually them that doesn’t understand the real world and as an excuse to justify a genocide.

When the US took out Osama, it didn’t do it with bombs. It was with special forces. Same is needed here.

• In favor of gun ownership without governmental limitations

Yea, because it’s done so well for us in the US having lax gun laws, right?

• Wants to freeze relationships with China, Russia, Brazil because they’re communists.

Umm, someone has no idea what communism is…

• Against the Pope because he represents evil on Earth, and because it promotes communism which goes against the holy scriptures.

Fucking WHAT 🤣 ok this jackass obviously hasn’t read the new testament either. Because Jesus and what he preached was the antithesis of what he stands for.

Ok I think you may be thinking that I’m blaming Islam on this. I’m not. I’m an ex-muslim myself, so I know the religion and nothing in the Quran tells Muslims to hate Jews or whatever, the opposite actually. He’s using religion as an excuse despite it saying otherwise, which makes others who don’t know about religion blame the religion or culture for his actions.

Also I know the issue is Zionists and Zionists have done a great job conflating Zionism and Judaism. But the letter says both Jews and Zionists in different places, because bin laden was conflating them himself. Not right, but still that does show some antisemitism there that he continuously conflates the two, leading him to blame Jews sometimes rather than clearly being against Zionism.

He kinda keeps bringing up Islam and how the Americans and Jews are against them. So yea kinda think Islam played a big part in his thought process. Or at least his version of Islam.

Well it was partly that. He also goes on to talk about how the US should be Islamic too, which isn’t a good look.

But yea, it really isn’t hating the US for being the US.

The sad part is he makes a lot of good observations and poignant criticisms, but just has to throw religion in there and some anti-Semitism.

Israel is special. They get treated like they’re absolute angels.

Just look at American media. Despite the Palestinian death toll, despite the lack of long-term goals, despite all the genocidal rhetoric, they’re still defended and will ask Palestinians they bring on who just lost some of, or all of, their family ad nauseam if they condemn Hamas and believe Israel has a right to defend itself.

Idk if it’s western guilt over the years long history of antisemitism or what, but they treat the state of Israel like they’re holy, just, and pure. And all that does is set in this idea amongst Israelis that they are those things and as such have every right to do what they do. Not all Israelis, but more than there should be.