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Feral Finster's avatar

What happened was that progressives were offered the whip hand, and if the cost of getting the whip hand was acquiescence to forever wars, then they were fine with that.

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DogH2O's avatar

Sounds masochistic like people who compulsively cut themselves with sharp objects and sociopathic like people who feign empathy to manipulate their constituents. If they have a shred of conscience, they will repress that empathy to gain privilege which makes them neurotic AF. Competitive self determination within politics and economics is total BS and fraudulent.

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Feral Finster's avatar

It is truly odd when I find myself in agreement with a dog.

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DogH2O's avatar

Path to peace? Stop competing which fosters and engenders vanity, secrecy, coercion, corruption, anxiety, despair and chance. How is this done? Open knowledge and consensus using evidence based science is how. This is literally the whole turnkey solution. The basis is ensconced in the ideas of competitive self determination vs cooperative self determination which are capitalism and socialism ideologies respectively but we choose to move past that terminology due to irregularities in popular perception.

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M N's avatar

Why are you unable to call the Russian invasion what it is: an invasion? You keep using terms like "proxy war" as if there was conspiracy to attack Russia. A reminder: on 2022-02-24 Russia INVADED Ukraine. Ukraine DID NOT attack Russia. Ukraine isn't interested in Russia's territory. Ukraine isn't making nuclear threats, Russia is. Ukraine wants to be left alone. I don't describe myself as a progressive, but the follow-up question you could look into after your headline is: Why are self-described "independent thinkers" parroting Russian talking points?

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Boris Petrov's avatar

You are a Russia troll because you forgot to add the obligatory word “unprovoked” before saying invasion -- that is not allowed in a “democratic” US ;-))

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Thank you very much. It is never explained WHY such pathological hate of democratic capitalist Russia and total support of Nazi-dominated Ukraine government !!

Roots for this propaganda predate the Russia-gate FBI-DNC hoax and FBI 2020 election theft.

Stand with Russia – it fights for all of us against bipartisan fascist US/UK warmongering clique.

Jacob Dreizin – Oct. 13 – Racism and anti-Semitism in Ukraine

https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/10/12/shut-up-dumb-surfer-girl/

https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/10/09/war-crimes-2/

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M N's avatar

"democratic capitalist Russia"? Hilarious.

Have you tried going protesting in "democratic" Russia or using the phrase THE WAR?

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Certainly more democratic than fascist US

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Boris Petrov's avatar

About strange nude man attack on Pelosi: Paul Pelosi was most likely attacked by a male prostitute

An unavoidable conclusion about Paul Pelosi

1. Assailant in his underpants

2. Paul Pelosi knows his name and tells police he’s a “friend.”

3. Assailant asks “where’s Nancy?” to make sure she’s not home.

4. Pelosi takes bathroom break from spat and makes 911 call

Conclusion: This guy was a sex partner or male prostitute!

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M N's avatar

Focus on your country. Maybe look into the mysterious falls from windows and balconies occurring in your “democratic capitalist Russia”. One example: Ravil Maganov. Good luck.

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Cabinet of In-Considerations's avatar

There are no progressives in Washington. They all just become the Political Elite as soon as they are in. The sell out the working class and the poor and all they care about is keeping corporations and financial industries happy. They are not the friend of most citizens. They are frauds and it is gross.

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