What monopoly?

Again, you’re assuming that this belief exists in a vacuum and not as part of an elaborate belief system with clauses specifically meant to address this. Besides, your average leftist believes that if you (well society at large more like) disagree with them millions if not billions of people will be condemned to lifelong poverty for generations. The scale is a bit smaller than eternal damnation, but really this is just how it goes when you have strong/high-stakes opinions about anything.

A “true” believer therefore has a moral imperative of destroying diversity in order to protect other people.

I mean they have a moral imperative to try within whatever limits their interpretation of the religion imposes, but that’s it. It’s not like these religions imply, say, putting followers of other religions in reeducation camps. One can fully operate in a diverse society while still thinking “I’m right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to this thing,” for the same reason having political opinions isn’t mutually exclusive with diversity. BTW Islam =/= Islamism. The former is a religion; the latter is a political ideology based on the religion.

Frankly the “pay someone to talk about how awesome your product is” brand of ads has always been kinda creepy, so this is par for the course.

If this is sarcasm, hats off for pissing off so many people while being right. If it’s not, then… uh… I’ll refrain from speaking my mind so my comment doesn’t get deleted.

Cautious bet on number 2 from me.

Adding to my somewhat short list of good things Trump did (I consider a dumber officer corps for the American war machine a good thing).

If I had a nickel for each peninsula that’s shaped like a boot I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Its slowness (thinking of the glacial pace of sanctions here) means that it’s effectively funding Russia’s war effort then funding the opposition to in it Ukraine. Also its failure to address rising costs of living and adoption of anti-immigration rhetoric is fueling the far right, which is notoriously pro-Russian. Every other EU policy I see in the news is basically outright self-sabotage.

And the first pic suggests that all 3 countries present a united front against EU, which is not true either.

Yeah true.

How so? Even if we ignore the pro-Russian far right and the political establishment(s) giving them legitimacy, I haven’t seen anything resembling resolve, let alone competene, from most EU countries. Hell, those guys are still dragging their feet on sanctions and importing Russian gas.

Subtility: 0.

The subsidies aren’t special at all compared to US and EU ones, and they’re apparently going to be phased out over the next 5 years. This supposed evil scheme just doesn’t seem to exist; the truth of the matter is that China just makes better and cheaper cars.

So you’re saying it’s generally a good idea but because now some of the Dems support the idea, we should no longer publicly support

No, they’re very clearly not saying that. They’ve explained themselves already, but to add to their point: Liberals have a long and consistent history of coopting working class movements, using them to achieve their own ends and then throwing the working class under the bus, going so far as to violently suppress the movement if it doesn’t fizzle out on its own. There is no reason to believe US liberals (aka Democrats and any Republicans willing to defect) won’t try to use this very successful playbook, so it needs to be counteracted starting right now. Organize a general strike and don’t let anyone who won’t support universal healthcare within a mile of it. The DNC isn’t currently the one holding the guns, but that doesn’t make them any less of an enemy to the working class.

Missing the EU on the right side, because let’s face it the EU’s biggest enemy is itself (and its weird dedication to licking Uncle Sam boot).

You’re a hypocrite and I legitimately hope Trump throws you into a concentration camp. Have a terrible day.

How many people did China displace in the 21st century? How many did it kill? How many regimes did it overthrow? Because the War on Terror alone displaced 40 million and killed 5 million.

It’s funny how these guys are only like this when their enemies are in charge.

Seriously, can this woman just disappear from existence? Like at least Biden learned to keep his fucking mouth shit after killing American democracy.

Frankly if you were ever counting on Harris and crew to save you you were already lost.

China making bad quality stuff is an outdated stereotype. I hate to sound like I’m a China fanboy because I’m not, but it’s really undebatable; they’re the future now.