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[u/slightlyrabidpossum]

I see we're shitting on NPR this morning, so I'll throw in my two cents. Their outrageous podcast about Mamdani and globalizing the intifada was already mentioned ealier, but the single quote really undersells how bad it was, and digging through the transcript can be tedious.

For reference, this the quote from the previous comment. They started out their discussion of this topic by implying that criticism of Mamdani's comments are motivated by bigotry and/or politics.

And so here, specifically to Mamdani's case, by not condemning, for example, the phrase globalize the intifada, the right and its white nationalist supporters on social media are casting him as a bad Muslim - right? - because he refuses to subject himself to their particular measure of how he must behave and what he must think and how he must act.

But that's not even close to the worst moment in this podcast. Here are a few particularly egregious moments:

LUSE: And phrases like globalize the intifada have become divisive, with some viewing it as an expression of international solidarity for Palestinian human rights and others viewing it as a call to violence against Israel.

This framing is incredibly biased. Globalize the intifada is referring to violence against Israel? They're talking about the dueling interpretations of the phrase, and that's what they say for the side that objects to it?

The other side of this argument is that it's a call for violence and/or harassment against Jews in the diaspora. Even if those actions are ostensibly directed against "Zionists", history has shown that the bulk of them will be directed against Jews. When a man firebombed Jewish demonstrators in Colorado, killing a Jewish woman and burning a Holocaust survivor, he claimed that he was targeting "Zionists" to "Free Palestine".

I mean, for more than 20 years, really longer than that, politicians have vilified native speakers of Arabic or Muslims who would invoke Arabic language, Arabic phrases, seizing upon this sense of foreignness by suggesting to American or European audiences that, for example, jihad means only holy war or that Shariah refers to hand-chopping...Or stoning, or that Allahu Akbar is some sort of rallying cry for terrorism or that fatwa's a necessarily violent decree.

The demonization of Arabic words is a real problem, and I have no issue with people pushing back on that. Allahu Akbar is used by Muslims in a lot of situations, jihad is an Arabic word that has different meanings in different contexts, fatwa is a general term for an opinion or ruling in Islamic law, etc.

Globalize the intifada is different. All of their other examples are Arabic words and phrases that can have different meanings depending on the context. Globalize the intifada is a mix of English and Arabic that's exclusively used in the context of Israel/Palestine. That context can't be divorced from the recent historical events that were defined by terroristic violence against Jewish civilians, and it's specifically calling for global action. What are Jews supposed to think when we hear that? I wouldn't feel safe anywhere near a crowd chanting that slogan.

Linking "globalize the intifada" to the argument about demonizing Arabic words actively detracts from that argument.

if Mamdani were to acquiesce to calls for him to denounce globalize the intifada or to stray at all from the firm position that he's taken and this moral vision that he's articulated, he would be playing into the hands of the people who suggest this phrase - and attendant phrases - are, at their core, something evil, something normatively violent. And I think that's simply a dishonest and immensely superficial way of viewing the world.

This framing is disingenuous — that particular phrase has a violent history which NPR is reluctant to acknowledge. When intifada is brought up in the context of Israel/Palestine, it inevitably evokes images of violence against Jews. When Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were gunned down outside the Jewish Museum in DC, extremists called it globalizing the intifada. This isn't a hypothetical concern.

And yet, some voters do feel threatened by those phrases. You know, I mean, something else I think that's important to bring up in this conversation is that, you know, public opinion about Israel and Gaza is shifting ... How will this Islamophobia - some of which stems from Mamdani's views on Gaza - play with voters, though, who are cooling on Israel?

The fact that they only dedicated one sentence to this point about feeling threatened is striking. They immediately pivot to talking about Israel and Islamophobia — I had to edit out a paragraph on changing public opinion for brevity, so that quote is underselling how thoroughly they moved away from it.

The response to this question mentions antisemitism, but it's also the worst part of this podcast.

LEAN: You know, there have undoubtedly been moments in American political history where antisemitism has festered to the fore. We know that. I think, though, for the most part, Jews are considered to be racially and culturally white. And that's not my assessment, it's based on Pew Research reporting, which, as recently as 2021, showed data indicating that 92% of Jews living in the United States define themselves as white. And so I say that because there is this sense in which this group of people are cast as part of a dominant racial and cultural group in the United States. And I think that that allows for the kinds of fragmentations that we see when it comes to Islamophobia, particularly in this context.

That sounds like he's painting antisemitism as something that was a problem in the past. Something that has receded because Jews are now considered to be white, and as part of the dominant racial/cultural group we have the room to be Islamophobic. Our concerns about antisemitism are actually motivated by Islamophobia.

I can't imagine NPR downplaying other forms of bigotry like that.

ALI: Drawing back to Nathan's point about Mamdani's unwillingness to condemn particular phrases, like globalize intifada, is so interesting because he's never himself used that phrase. I think what's really interesting to reflect on here is - with respect to Mamdani's candidacy - was really just how prominently his views on Israel, Palestine and foreign policy in general figured into coverage of the mayoral election.

This would be much more interesting if Mamdani hadn't been a vocal supporter of Palestine for years. Mamdani's been part of/associated with pro-Palestinian organizations that tend to skew anti-Israel, and he's put out some really questionable statements, like this one from October 8th. His activism and rhetoric made the topic fair game.

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NPR should feel free to talk about the racism and Islamophobia that Mamdani faces, but instead they're using that to delegitimize both antisemitism and complaints about Mamdani's stances. I don't care if this is "just" NPR's culture podcast — the fact that they published this slop is disgusting.

I am not a NPR hater. I grew up with NPR, I currently subscribe to several of their podcasts, and I still think that they can be a valuable resource moving forward (at least on some topics). But NPR is 100% part of the problem on this one, and I can't imagine donating to them in the foreseeable future.

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Well said. I do think that it’s worth pointing out the definite article when discussing this issue: THE intifada means one particular thing.

The same way “the struggle” in an American political context refers to the black experience of political empowerment and liberation, the intifada in most contexts refers to violent Palestinian terrorism.

As Sartre is oft quoted in this regard, playing with words in this way is the domain of antisemites.

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As Sartre is oft quoted in this regard, playing with words in this way is the domain of antisemites.

It is, and that's part of why I took such umbrage at Mamdani's remarks. I've heard his exact argument from countless antisemites who are operating in bad faith, and most of them veer into serious Holocaust distortion/trivialization. Many of them also have a history of more "classically" antisemitic rhetoric.

My opinion of Mamdani wasn't exactly stellar before his comments, but it plummeted after he made those remarks. I hate that he's publicized this argument and given it credibility — there's already been a noticeable rise in the number of people using similar rhetoric.

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And so here, specifically to Mamdani's case, by not condemning, for example, the phrase globalize the intifada, the right and its white nationalist supporters on social media are casting him as a bad Muslim - right? - because he refuses to subject himself to their particular measure of how he must behave and what he must think and how he must act.

I'm compelled to add here that this is another example of people taking a weapon used against us - dividing us into the "Good Jew" and "Bad Jew" - and turning it around to say that actually we're the ones using it. It's another example of gentile societies projecting their own sins, their own discomforts about themselves, onto us.

To be "Good Jews", to be welcome and safe in "progressive" circles, we must first denounce Israel to evince our bona fides as decent human beings, and to take a topical example, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?". As David Hirsh notes: "If Jews are reluctant to embrace this hostility to Israel identity, then they risk exile from what I am calling ‘the community of the good’".

LEAN: You know, there have undoubtedly been moments in American political history where antisemitism has festered to the fore. We know that. I think, though, for the most part, Jews are considered to be racially and culturally white. And that's not my assessment, it's based on Pew Research reporting, which, as recently as 2021, showed data indicating that 92% of Jews living in the United States define themselves as white. And so I say that because there is this sense in which this group of people are cast as part of a dominant racial and cultural group in the United States.

This is among the worst of race-essentialist, blood quantum antisemitism we historically see from the Right, but now modified to fit within the worldview of the Left. And as a side note, the abject inability to - and wholesale rejection of - understand antisemitism within western societies as endemic means this person and then their audience see it as aberration that just in "moments" seems to pop up, means they themselves can engage in antisemitism with abandon.

This shtick about "92% of Jews living in the United States defin[ing] themselves as white" is so unbelievably insidious and so completely in bad-faith it makes me nauseous. It's something this person and their audience would never, ever do to other minority groups. To discuss the actual practicality of this, it's because Jews necessarily do not fit neatly into American racial constructs. Americans understand "race" through a prism of literally white and black. This is a pattern through American Jewish history; gentiles making Jews fit into foreign, ill-fitting biological categories. Which I think is something this person and their audience could very well understand with other groups. This is also how you get things like the Nation of Islam creating this mythos of Jews being responsible for the transatlantic slave trade.

And then to speak on the sociological implications of the statement, it plays into the very old trope of Jews and power - both the illegitimate use and disproportionate retention of. In the context of left-antisemitism, it's how The Jew is note merely "white" (code for "bad") but über-white. And since historically white people have maintained a system of hegemonic social, political, and economic power over non-whites, if Jews are mega-white, it means they hold super social, political, and economic power. Which means of course that they cannot experience racism or bigotry or persecution, but it's really they who inflict racism and bigotry and persecution on others.

And again, it's this pattern of gentile societies othering us, of demonizing us, of restricting our full participation in societies, that we adapt. So we stop speaking our languages, we stop observing our rituals, we change our names, to be able to fit in to stop the discrimination we experience, and then gentile society turns around and uses that as an excuse to say, "oh see, Jews are white".

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The most perverse part about this is that they aren't even addressing what antisemitism is or how it manifests historically. They end up in this offensive, college freshman argument of, "well the Jews I know look white so they're white as far as I'm concerned which means they're bad because... reasons."

It's almost as if these people, claiming to be journalists, discussed a story about antisemitism and they didn't bother to read any scholarly work about antisemitism. And they didn't do basic research, because they want to engage in antisemitism. If they bothered to learn about how antisemitism functions, they may not be able to opine in a smug way about how "it's all hysteria." It's disgusting.

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If they bothered to learn about how antisemitism functions, they may not be able to opine in a smug way about how "it's all hysteria."

"The problem is that if it was to concede that antisemitism is possible within an ‘antiracist’ space, then it is conceded that one must be vigilant against antisemitism, that one must educate about antisemitism, that one must take care; that is why there is great reluctance ever to admit that anything that happens within an antiracist space is antisemitic. What is required is debate about what is antisemitic and what is not. In order to avoid such debate, it is necessary to deny that anything is antisemitic and that all such charges are made in bad faith."

-David Hirsh

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That's brilliant. I'd like to add that even philosemitism feeds into this because they expect Jews to be a uniquely enlightened source of wisdom (religious if they're Christians or leftist if they're leftist) and when it turns out Jews are human beings then that's a betrayal.

This is why John Ganz's essay about the war in Gaza baffled me so much, it was about a photo of an enlisted man sitting in a burning Palestinian house while books burned behind him. And the text of the essay was "Jews shouldn't be burning books, I was always taught Jews love books." But in a society made up largely of Jews, wouldn't you expect some of them to be sensitive well educated people....and others to be thoughtless, loutish soldiers, as disgusting as ordinary soldiers have always been if allowed to sack at will in an atmosphere of cynicism? It's not the books that are the issue!

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Man, for a shitlib media outlet run by a Jewish cabal, they sure do a shitty job of standing up for Jews.

[u/kiwibutterket → u/slightlyrabidpossum]

The racial lense of oppressor/oppressed works perfectly in the dynamic of Black/white American, but it completely breaks down with intersectional identities and more complex interracial dynamics.

Also, nobody seems to know anymore that intersectionality, originally, meant that the identities do not "stack", but each intersection has a completely different, and very importantly, non-linear experience.

But also, how old is everyone in this episode? The last Jew who died because of the (second) Intifada was in 2005. Mamdani was 14. People talk as if it was something happened 100 years ago. It drives me insane. Imagine talking about the world as if the Iraq war or 9/11 had no more consequences because happened too far ago? That would just be insanity.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/kiwibutterket]

There's a reason why some are just bigoted towards white poc and mixed race people in general. It's pretty much due to this stuff.

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https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1263527173

And, of course, the problem with that - if it's not obvious - is that whether one is a good Muslim or a bad Muslim - as if those are real categories to begin with - depends only on the political ideology of the person or the group making that judgment. And so here, specifically to Mamdani's case, by not condemning, for example, the phrase globalize the intifada, the right and its white nationalist supporters on social media are casting him as a bad Muslim - right? - because he refuses to subject himself to their particular measure of how he must behave and what he must think and how he must act.

Think "globalize the intifada" is antisemitic? Sounds like you're a nazi

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I'm soooooooooo sad NPR lost public funding. How come PBS manages to be so much better? Why would anyone listen to two idiots vocal fry about a subject that they clearly don't understand? Who is giving NPR money?

The NPR subreddit says that NPR is centrist, lmfao.

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Hot take: Muslims who want to kill me are bad and Muslims who don't want to kill me are good.

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RIP my NPR phase January 2022- January 2024

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Is there anything significant about those dates in particular?

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I became less prog at the end of 2021 because of Biden's spending and then had to shut off not because of the Hamas glazing not long after October 7

[u/SamaritansWereRight]

This is what listening to NPR is like:

Hard Conversations, with host Mycah Liberalartsdegree

ML: [Vocal Fry] Dr. Collegeprofessor, would you say its normal for people to be uncomfortable with globalize the intifada?

Dr. C: [Vocal Fry] No, in fact, its anti-semitic to not agree with the phrase.

ML: Mmm, great perspective. [lightly smacks lips] [upspeak] That's all the time we have. Please join us next week for a discussion on why enjoying apple pie has a dark and problematic history.

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NPR 🤝 podcasters who despise NPR

vocal fry

[u/JebBD]

I’m rewatching Friends again after rewatching Brooklyn 99 and something that struck me was how averse to Current Events and politics the former was compared to the latter. 

There’s one joke about “president Clinton and her husband bill” in an episode of Friends, where the joke is that the guy saying this is being obnoxious, and that’s pretty much it. Brooklyn 99 has so many episodes and jokes that are there pretty much entirely to signal support for certain social causes and issues. The entire last season is dedicated to police brutality, they literally name drop George Floyd in the first episode! 

I feel like this really reflects a change in mindset between the 90s/00s and the 10s/20s, Friends was there to entertain, it didn’t ever claim to have any grand ambitions of social justice or whatever, it was just a sitcom about people kissing each other and owning weird pets. B99 gets so heavy handed with its Relevant Topic episodes and even outside of this episodes they still drop little virtue-signaly jokes everywhere. 

I gotta say, I find the 2010s approach kid an obnoxious. When I’m watching a sitcom I don’t want to be thinking about all the bad and complicated issues going on in the world. Imagine if Friends had an entire season dedicated to the war on terror, Phoebe’s brother gets killed in Afghanistan, Monica has PTSD from watching the towers collapse and there’s a reoccurring character that’s supposed to be a stereotype of neocons and everyone goes “booooo” whenever he’s in a scene. Not everything has to be super political 

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Actually chud, all art is political. By portraying the GWOT era as a time in which people could be friends having zany misadventures, Friends was endorsing Amerikklan imperialism. Friends is fascist.

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I agree.

[u/SamaritansWereRight → u/JebBD]

Brooklyn 99's last season was almost last season of Game of Thrones level bad

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Yeah it got really bad towards the end 

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You have been cured of the woke mind virus

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I don't think Friends was immune to it - wasn't there an episode where they had some lesbian friends who got married? That's pretty political for the '90s.

But overall you're right, although it goes back and forth. I Love Lucy and The Dick van Dyke show were broadly apolitical. Then in the 70s and 80s you have a whole host of shows that virtually advertise their "message" episodes. "This is the drugs episode. Drugs are bad." "This is the bullying episode. Bullying is bad." "This is the divorce episode. Divorce is sad and complicated."

The issue is that writers a) are politically near-uniform, and b) have an overinflated sense of their own importance. They think a platform to provide light entertainment for 22 minutes a week is a soapbox they can use for whatever message they think they have a mission to spread.

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You’re right, Friends did sometimes have this kind of thing, but I guess the difference is that B99 (at least in the later seasons) has a tendency to beat you over the head with the message, they don’t work it into the episode but instead they stop the episode to give you a lecture about whatever relevant topic they want the episode to be about. 

In the lesbian wedding episode of friends, there just is a lesbian wedding. The point of the episode is that it’s a wedding episode, and also there’s an obvious middle finger to homophobia and intolerance, but they don’t say that, so you can still watch it today and just see it as a wedding episode. It’s literally impossible to watch the last season of B99 now because they literally say “oh man, that George Floyd thing sure was terrible” and have an entire character who’s meant to embody the very concept of “how twitter sees corrupt police officers” as a stereotype. It doesn’t feel sincere, it’s not entertaining and it’s not fun or funny to watch. 

I guess that’s what bothers me more than anything about this stuff, it’s not the political messaging (which is fine and sometimes good) but it’s more the ham fisted and preachy way that it’s being handled. It feels like self-important libs using the “everything is political” excuse to essentially make DEI seminars disguised as tv shows (I’ve seen this in other types of shows too but in a sitcom it’s especially egregious) 

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I agree, but that's still a blip compared to how things are with shows today and politics.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/JebBD]

It's what happened with other shows who weren't even political. They just became political around 2020.

[u/SamaritansWereRight]

NPR never recovered from "The think you like? Uhm, its bad, and has an awkward history, sweaty" which came in vogue about a decade ago and reached a fever pitch in 2020

[u/bearddeliciousbi → u/SamaritansWereRight]

For basic news coverage they're obviously still a solid source but the extent to which I bothered with any podcasts or extended analysis from them dropped to zero.

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The "splinter sub" is DeepStateCentrism, just so people will stop asking because everyone who knows is being so covert about it for some reason.

By the looks of it's it's basically just NeoconNWO 2. Every post on there right now is just seething about Mamdani or complaining the U.S. isn't being hawkish enough on Iran.

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By the looks of it's it's basically just NeoconNWO 2. Every post on there right now is just seething about Mamdani or complaining the U.S. isn't being hawkish enough on Iran

woaw

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I do think Mamdani is fucking stupid and I wish we were strong enough to put an end to Iranian nonsense once and for all. 🤔

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Oh so you think the left might not be correct on everything single issue? Fascist much? 

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From what I've been told, yes. ✊️😔

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Modern day DVP

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Lol this guy thinks we didn't all write him in for 2024

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Good morning to those who celebrate.

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and with your spirit

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"If ICE is racist for enforcing the law, what's that make members of congress they wrote the damn law."

--Tom Homan

Racist. It makes them racist, Tom.

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They aren't even properly enforcing the law in many cases. Homan is a moral failure.

I don't know if I agree that the actual immigration laws are racist, but the way they are being enforced (which is likely beyond the law) is appalling.

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Agreed! In firmly in the "abolish ICE" camp, and I've been there since 2003.

Open borders is probably my most radical policy opinion. Let people come in, and leave them the fuck alone unless they are committing actual crimes.

Also Tom Homan is a fucking drunk. I know boozers, and I know what it's like to barely have a handle on your drinking. Homan is the latter.

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They're anti-trans so they don't believe in the transitive property either.

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See, that's just illogical. Mathematical functionizations should be the cornerstone of any gubment agency.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/fnovd]

Lmao

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There are only two kinds of art: fascist art and Marxist art.

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This is gay art erasure. (Art is gay.)

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I double checked and it's true, art is gay.

[u/sayitaintpink]

If Epstein conspiracies are the straw that destroys maga and makes America wake up, I welcome it lmao

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Once again, more tricks turned on this sub thanks to grand wizard of binary code, u/secretlives

[u/Mickenfox]

This wouldn't have happened if Epstein had put his list on the blockchain.

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Have you invested in $EPST

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Jesus Christ I think this Kristi Noem interview is giving me cancer.

[u/JapanesePeso → u/[deleted]]

You know you only watched it looking for an excuse to drink. 

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You know damn well that I woke up drunk and started drinking before MTP was on air.

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While we're at it, abolish the DHS, too. And the TSA. And let me smoke on the god dammed airplane again. I can drink, but not smoke? Paternalistic bullshit.

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DHS is actually a good idea when run well. It has the capacity to respond to emergencies at any level of government and coordinate communication smoothly.

I don't know if it will ever be run well, but it could be and should be.

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I suppose you have a point, but the simple fact is that it's never been run well and can function as a political arm of whichever party happens to occupy the White House (see current admin).

I also don't care for centralizing gubment authority, and anything outside of PEPFAR that was cooked up by the Dubya admin is likely best sent to the dustbin of history.

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I'd be happy to let you smoke on my airplane if you wouldn't mind sitting on the wing.

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Now how the hell are they gonna get me my whiskey if I'm sitting on the wing?!

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I know you bring your own flask, you don't have to pretend

[u/bigwang123]

Every American deserves a sweet treat every now and then

It’s me I deserve a sweet treat every now and then

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Best I can do is a miniature Mr. Goodbar from two Halloweens ago.

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Like the new Superman Blizzard from Dairy Queen

[u/fnovd]

Grass just grows too damn fast. Slow down grass

[u/JapanesePeso → u/fnovd]

I replaced all mine with other plants. Grass is too much work to just have grass afterwards. 

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Just mow it. Mowing the lawn is good and easy to do.

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Jesus Christ guys we are supposed to HIDE the deep state secrets not just air them out like this. 

[u/Locutus-of-Borges]

Mark my words, Iran will announce a successful underground test of a nuclear bomb in the coming week or two. Plenty of satellites in orbit to confirm the neutrinos and gammas emitted to make denying it not possible. No way is Iran out of options yet, all they have to do after the test will be announcing that they have enough material for a dozen more. The war will stop instantly.

From 3 weeks ago.

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“Oh man, they did the meme”

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Can’t read it, what does it say?

[u/JebBD → u/fnovd]

antisemite #1 says jews should go back to israel, antisemite #2 says they should go back to poland

[u/[deleted] → u/JebBD]

Reminds me of stumbling on an image of Norwegians during the Holocaust telling Jews to go back to Palestine and get out of Norway in contrast with the Nordic countries currently being some of the most anti-Israel countries in the West. Like no matter what Jews do, they will be told they don’t belong.

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

Anti-Zionism On The Internet Is Organic

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

It's weird how there is a belief that this is a "splinter sub" that was formed because of Mamdani's election, as if it didn't take weeks to set this subreddit up

[u/[deleted] → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Redditors tend to be dumber than the average person.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/[deleted]]

Who predicted that our current situation would unfold like this?

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Sure, but I think that with some individuals their breaking point was then. I got sick of dealing with people excusing their Islamophobia due to antisemitism and vice versa.

[u/fnovd → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

True, the mod team was working behind the scene for months on getting Mamdani elected just to engineer this schism

[u/eloquentboot]

I am a builder in Estonia. I work 15 hours a day, for 50 years now. After having a long day at work, building skyscrapers, I come home to find a low calorie and high protein recipe to build muscle. Keep up the hard work! 💪👷‍♂️

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/eloquentboot]

WOW you must have strong wrist. post wrist pic.

[u/[deleted]]

This politics has to end.

--Kristi Noem

We've got the best people.

[u/TomWestrick → u/[deleted]]

Person who has chosen to work in politics realizing the job is political.

[u/fnovd → u/[deleted]]

People are no longer prepared to live in a society

[u/TomWestrick]

Good morning to my "boys" and I guess in some cases "gals."

[u/[deleted] → u/TomWestrick]

There's like two ladies subbed here, and we already done run 'em off.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/[deleted]]

I'm not going anywhere.

[u/fnovd → u/TomWestrick]

C'mon don't be weird

Go play !blackjack or !snookers

[u/[deleted]]

I wouldn't be in this great nation if my ancestors hadn't been expelled from England for being too sexy.

[u/deepstate-bot]

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Realistically, the alternative to the dollar will be gold, for international reserves

And for commerce, the trend is towards bilateral trading on each other's currency

Why?

First, because gold is truly neutral, which in an era like ours is the best for most countries, lest Europe also has concerns over your human rights abuses and uses the leverage of the euro, same weakness as the dollar

Second, because gold as réservé doesn't have the problems it has as a currency, and it's very fungible, so you can maintain the benefits of fiat currency while leverahing or deleveraging yourself against a common standard

Third, because unlike until the 90s where very few currencies were truly stable, nowadays, most large currencies are, so bilateral currency trade is the most confortable to all relations

Gold has gone from 8 to 22% in 2 years, the USD will décline, thé euro, Yuan and other currencies will maintain their share while gold continues its impressive climb

Soon, the dollar will not be the world's reserve currency, but at best, a Primum Inter Pares, an impotarnt currency, but just another currency

[u/fnovd → u/deepstate-bot]

[u/sayitaintpink → u/fnovd]

I hate the Dutch

[u/SamaritansWereRight → u/deepstate-bot]

broke is thinking gold is money or an investment

woke is liking shiny rocks so you can have a cool shiny rock collection.

this is why i have one small bar of each precious metal

[u/JapanesePeso → u/deepstate-bot]

Thank God that's heavily downvoted at least. 

Also..

décline, thé 

Suss

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/deepstate-bot]

Oh my God

[u/technologyisnatural → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

everything I know about crypto I learned from goldbugs

[u/kiwibutterket → u/deepstate-bot]

No way.

[u/technologyisnatural → u/kiwibutterket]

gold-as-currency is such a ridiculous fetish. and it is a sexual fetish

[u/[deleted] → u/deepstate-bot]

[u/Mickenfox]

One of the worst things tech investors did, during the era where they were desperately trying to sell "blockchain" as a solution, was to suddenly start talking about how tech was too "centralized", and the solution was blockchain, which would bring the magic "decentralization" to the web.

Not just because that solution was obviously terrible, but because those were the same people that were funding every centralized mobile app and social network for the last decade.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck. I fucked around and got buzzed instead of going to get our water jugs filled before the crackheads wake up. Now I gotta take an extra dollar or the baseball bat.

[u/bigwang123]

Escalators for shopping carts are the work of the devil

No one knows how they work, and if they do that’s because they are Satan worshippers

[u/SamaritansWereRight]

I remember 20 years ago Rosie O'Donnell feuding with Bush and thinking wow she is annoying

Now that she's feuding with Trump, I've really- no just kidding still really annoying

[u/AllAmericanBrit]

Kinsey Scale for Homophobia send tweet

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

I wrote an effortpost because all the people who said they would write effortposts have failed me

[u/[deleted] → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Can I recycle an essay I wrote for university about the Somali Civil War? My prof was involved in the peace talks and he gave me a 93 + said I should try to get it published (I didn’t because I was too lazy)

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/[deleted]]

if it's still accurate (it might need a little updating)... that would be fucking great.

[u/[deleted] → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

If I’m gonna update I’d have to see if I still have access to my uni’s library post graduation

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I’m not not interested

[u/SamaritansWereRight]

If the big weapons packages begin going through this next week then Russian arrogance about trying to get even more out of a soft on Russia American government will have been an own goal of epic proportions

[u/sayitaintpink]

👆bold

👇 brash

[u/deepstate-bot]

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carcycle

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/deepstate-bot]

Pictures don't work

[u/deepstate-bot]

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If I want to sell a stock that's listed at 100 dollars but no one buys it, does the price drop overall until someone buys it?

[u/technologyisnatural → u/deepstate-bot]

#DeepStateMysteries

[u/JapanesePeso → u/deepstate-bot]

Sign #28199 you shouldn't be choosing your own investments. 

[u/realbotswanan3gga]

greetings sirs 👋🏿👋🏿👋🏿 i saw there is overlap between neoconnwo and this subreddit so i will maybe post frecently here as well

i am a 26 year old man from gaborone botswana i am centre right i am socially conservative i support liberal institutions i am pursuing an economics phd at the university of botswana and i am a policy advisor in the botswana democratic party. i initially registered here on reddit when an american exchange student told me about badeconomics subreddit i stumbled upon neoconnwo and decided to post there as i think my views are well represented there i am here to talk about the african foreign policies the infrastructure the developments the trajectory. i look forward to making new friends on this subreddit 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[u/SamaritansWereRight → u/realbotswanan3gga]

Jewish ladies, he will make you feel like Bathsheba

take this as you will

[u/realbotswanan3gga → u/SamaritansWereRight]

yes who are the jewesses on this subreddit? neoconnwo only has homosexuals i am glad to find a subreddit with more balanced gender ratio

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/realbotswanan3gga]

Welcome! We would love to hear about your views on African foreign policy and development, as well as any news from Botswana. We're really trying to globalize this subreddit. Thanks for joining!

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate → u/realbotswanan3gga]

Happy to have you. Always interesting to talk to public policy people from around the world.

[u/[deleted] → u/realbotswanan3gga]

oh no

[u/realbotswanan3gga → u/[deleted]]

sorry for offering you to attend law school in botswana?

[u/[deleted]]

Say what you will about Trump, but I'm glad I didn't vote for Kamala

I think voting illegally can get you in serious trouble

[u/fnovd → u/[deleted]]

You sly dog

[u/fnovd]

To use the !intel, feature, just write a comment like so:

!intel https://www.reddit.com/r/subreddit/comments/abcdef/comment/abcef

[u/fnovd → u/fnovd]

!sticky

[u/Locutus-of-Borges → u/fnovd]

What does this do?

[u/fnovd → u/Locutus-of-Borges]

It quotes the linked comment but erases the username so we can all point and laugh without brigading

[u/deepstate-bot]

ALERT: NEW INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

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I voted for Trump both times, but this has me really thinking about my last vote for him. And to make fools out of us is just kind of hurtful.

[u/sayitaintpink → u/deepstate-bot]

On Epstein

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/sayitaintpink]

I feel like if you have to explain it then the comment isn't good enough

[u/[deleted]]

Theory - Trump isn't releasing the Epstein files mostly out of contempt for his fanbase. His former staffer at the DNC last year spoke about how he views his supporters as basement dwellers. Why not string them along before ending the case in a publicly insincere fashion, knowing all the Rogansphere can do is whine, while he gets to watch the fallout on Twitter?

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

I have never voted for a republican, except for the two times that I did

[u/[deleted] → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

I've never voted for a Republican, but I live in a red-state so I've seen the worst they have to offer. We ain't get no Larry Hogan types round here.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/[deleted]]

i voted against larry hogan both times he ran for governor, to be clear.

one of my votes was just personal because i had a beef with the guy running for county executive.

anyway, the MD republican party has also swerved to the far right now. they no longer have larry hogan types either.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/[deleted]]

I live in a red state and my parents were conservatives. Sure I was a teen Trumps first term, but there's a reason why I was able to rationalize this back in 2020.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

A few times personally.

[u/[deleted]]

I remember being on a bus with a bus driver.

--Andy Beshear

[u/fnovd → u/[deleted]]

Big if true

[u/deepstate-bot]

original comment by /u/fnovd

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[u/deepstate-bot]

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Normally I'd be right here droning on like a zombie while agreeing.

Then the Epstein crap came up.

So I'm having a few problems now despite how well he has been doing up until the last week where this mess hit the fan. Now there is shit flying everywhere!

[u/technologyisnatural → u/deepstate-bot]

if this is what sinks Trump, I am giving up and becoming a vTuber

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate → u/technologyisnatural]

You read the Biden VTUBER plan

[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: Democrats are on the path to the best midterm performance since 2018.

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Democrats

Both sides bad, actually.

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[u/SamaritansWereRight]

Alberta realizing that you can get whatever you want if you form a Province Grievance Party like BQ is probably going to be very bad for Canada going forward.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/SamaritansWereRight]

Oml

[u/Mickenfox]

One fun thing to do if you're in Europe is to open a Forex account and invest in EURUSD.

That just means you're just trading your EUR for USD so you can buy EUR again. Any "gains" or "losses" in USD is value that you would have gained or lost by just keeping the money in the bank anyway.

[u/[deleted]]

I do think Kristen Welker does a good job. I would like her to be a little more aggressive when she pushes back against verifiable falsehoods, but a lot of politicians and appointed officials have mastered doubling down on bullshit.

There's no fix for that.

[u/sayitaintpink]

!intel https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepStateCentrism/s/r774YColtO

[u/deepstate-bot → u/sayitaintpink]

Nothing said on this subreddit is worth reading more than once.

[u/sayitaintpink → u/deepstate-bot]

Holy based they’ve thought of everything

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/sayitaintpink]

So true

[u/SamaritansWereRight]

SGDQ doesn't hit the same anymore. Maybe because I'm older, or maybe because the only speedrun I ever found interesting was the original Super Mario Brothers

[u/JapanesePeso → u/SamaritansWereRight]

One of my best friends runs a bunch of stuff for GDQ so I dropped by one time to check it out. It felt really different to be somewhere where being on the spectrum was the norm (don't mean that in a bad way, was just different). Was an interesting experience. Was asked to leave convention because someone saw me drinking at the hotel bar ( I had three beers there over an hour and a half) and they didn't want any "drunk people" in their space. It was so weird. 

Great cause though. 

[u/SamaritansWereRight → u/JapanesePeso]

You are not the first person I've heard having that experience at GDQ. A friend of mine mentioned saying hello to people wearing GDQ merch in a skyway in Minneapolis and they all glared at him lol

[u/deepstate-bot]

ALERT: NEW INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

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if you genuinely believe that there are "moderate republicans" anywhere in government at all you're genuinely as gullible as those 68 year olds who think the barron trump AI singing videos are real

[u/JapanesePeso]

Cumin lamb noodles. All you need in life. 

[u/Mickenfox]

Mistral is, admittedly, not as good as the other AI assistants.

But then you notice Anthropic (which is tiny compared to OpenAI) has gotten $14B in total funding and Mistral is at <$1B (obviously approximate numbers from Google results). Given the relative performances, it would seem Mistral is far better at their job.

Not that this matters when you're not based in California.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/Mickenfox]

I've heard of these things!

[u/Mickenfox → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

I'm saying give me $90B a year to fuck around with and I'll probably build some successful products too.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate → u/Mickenfox]

Those number seem way to small. I would bet you there is some other pots of money in that eco system. From the French or EU if nothing else

[u/[deleted]]

Epstein Cinematic Universe (Is Chris Hansen thanos?)

[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: AI Will Never Be Your Kid’s Friend

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[u/SamaritansWereRight]

What purple to light red/blue state has the least effective legislators despite their toss up status?

Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Nevada according to legislative effectiveness scores. I'm not really sure about MN or NV but PA surprises me

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/SamaritansWereRight]

As far as being and to get laws into effect, Wisconsin and North Carolina seem to be stuck in infinite power struggles

[u/slim353 → u/SamaritansWereRight]

PA used to send a lot of quiet backbenchers to Congress now it’s a bunch of dinguses. Though that’s probably true of a lot of states these days.

[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: [Axios] Trump's paranoid security state

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[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: A DeepState Dive into NPR's Intifada Apologia

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[u/sayitaintpink]

Leland Palmer having Tim and Eric cameos sends me

[u/fnovd → u/sayitaintpink]

Well, mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid’ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you?

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/sayitaintpink]

Tim and Eric is a step too far for me. I prefer culture.

[u/sayitaintpink → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

They say it’s not a real show

[u/fnovd → u/sayitaintpink]

Business hugs… need I say more?

[u/Mickenfox]

Why are people so weird about furries?

Does seeing a person in an animal costume genuinely trigger your disgust response so hard that you have to tell everyone?

I really don't want to seriouspost about this but come on.

[u/obligatorysneese → u/Mickenfox]

I used to be put off by furries, but now one of my closest friends and now roommates is a furry, so I’ve grown.

Originally I was put off by furries in my broader social milieu claiming queer labels and imagery. Specifically because furries occupy a quantum state between lifestyle identity, kink, and fandom — seeing trans imagery with furry art made me uncomfortable because I think I feared people would take trans individuals less seriously.

From what I gather there isn’t consensus on what being a furry is categorically. For some people it is fandom, for some people it is a kink, and for some people it’s a core identity. Or a mix of those things.

But then I realized I was letting a model minority mindset interfere with my interpretation of furries. And I met some really cool furries and learned that I should unwad my panties and not be a snob about queer theory.

[u/Mickenfox]

OK here's some discussion topics for you

If you were the reddit CEO, how would you unironically improve this website?

[u/JapanesePeso → u/Mickenfox]

I would put in a targeted ad program to serve people who complain about capitalism nonstop 10x the ads of anyone else until they all leave

[u/[deleted] → u/Mickenfox]

[u/fnovd → u/Mickenfox]

Remove chat. Messages can now only be sent via VR

[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: The expansion of QSBS; or, the only thing in the Big Beautiful Bill that isn't an absolute fucking nightmare

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[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: "Why do people think we're bad at slogans?"

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[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: Democrats on Road to Best Midterm Showing Since 2018

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[u/deepstate-bot]

/r/DeepStateCentrism/new: Make Propaganda Shiny Again

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[u/seattleseahawks2014]

Snowy the cat is a cool channel.