u/jollymeh

Just letting you guys know Zionists are doing another genocide here. I live in Tahoe and a Zionist family moved in next door. I started sending them mail to let them know I'll never support their genocidal mania. Worse yet, I highly suspect they are involved with the elite brainwasher institutuions which are owned by Zionists given they originally are from LA. Is there any recourse we have to Zionists moving in or are we actually going to be subjected to these genocidal freaks living next to us? Is Nevada going to be the new Palestine?

I'm an American liberal (I mean that in the classical way, and when I say classical way I don't mean the right-wing quasi fascist way that MAGA uses when they hijack the term "classical liberal." I also don't mean it in the austerity way which I know is common in the European context) and I really think a federal Europe will be great for the USA and the world in general, not just Europe.

Liberalism has been so successful that it's become the norm and as a result failed ideologies like fascism and communism can just sit on the sidelines and critique liberalism and offer utopian fantasies. Despite the fact that liberal societies are the most prosperous and most free to ever exist and despite the fact that every liberal society that has backslid into fascism or communism or general autocracy has turned to shit and despite the fact that every country that has moved closer to liberal governance has improved it's super easy for people to hate liberalism because it's the norm. It feels like liberalism has been way too successful for it's own good. It feels like it doesn't offer anything new or exciting while illiberal ideologies can offer all sorts of fantasies if people would just tear down the liberal system.

I think a European federation is the next natural step for liberalism. Not only would a unified Europe by a wonderful counterweight to the USA if it ever backslides from liberalism (and I believe a more unified and powerful Europe would be able to better prevent such backsliding than a divided Europe) but it's the first time in decades liberalism has had a goal or dream or something that seems Utopian. You sort of see this energy with Ukraine. People are asking what are they defending and when they ask that they are forced to see that liberalism is not a given and that without vigilance it will backslide or be overrun. I really feel like the failure of illiberal populism to deliver on its promises in Europe and the USA and the tenacity of Ukraine inspiring people has presented Europe with an energy and momentum to move towards federalization that needs to be seized upon.

I think there needs to be a pro-Europe lobby group in the USA and pro-Europe organizations. Right now in the USA a unified Europe is viewed as a pipe dream to make fun of or as a threat. But among liberals the EU and NATO are highly regarded, more than in the past because the populists hate them and the invasion of Ukraine has shown the importance of preventing authoritarians from threatening liberal nations.

European federalization should be a global cause for liberals from Japan to USA to Brazil to New Zealand. Of course, the specifics of federalization and the actual process will be in the hands of Europeans. But having some international fervor for the movement I think could go a long way.

But yeah any foreigners or Americans here? Especially any who are individual members of the UEF who would be interested in working to open an international chapter rather than having all non-Europeans join as individual members.

I'm visiting my mom and we got into an argument on human trafficking numbers in the US and pizzagate, etc. The conversation was getting pretty heated we were talking about excess morality in states with and without vaccines. I told her I got vaccines for a trip I took to Asia (I grew up anti-vax and although I am pro-vaccine I do have a phobia of them from being told how dangerous they are so I'm not fully vaccinated, but that was my first time getting vaccinated and it took months of my reading about their safety profile to overcome the fear even though I've been pro-vaccine for years now it's just this residual feat I have that I'll end up brain damaged from all the propaganda I was told as a kid). And she immediately stopped arguing and just looked so crushed. I really wish I didn't tell her because what's the point. She just got up stunned and walked away and shut the door behind her. It's not a manipulation tactic she's genuinely shocked and heartbroken because from her view I put my body at risk and I may develop side effects and I imagine she feels sad she "did her own research" to protect me and it was all for nothing.

I know she fell for misinformation. I know I did nothing wrong. But I just feel like shit now. I was never planning on telling her because I wanted to avoid this. Anybody else go through this?

I find it really hard to believe that 50 years from now somebody born today is going to go "Those damn Northern Macedonians and their textbooks from 40 years ago..." I find that if all of them were let into the EU and it dissolved the borders they'd all chillax. Nationalism was pretty cool back in the day but these days it seems pretty useless it's time for a European federation.

Do some Slovenians consider themselves more Central European than Balkan in the year 2026?

If I was Moldovan I'd be down 10,000% but I'm not Moldovan so I want to know what you all think

I am a North Macedonian women highly considered a 10/10 with beautiful female features. I was recently having the pleasure to meet some Bulgarian guys they had huge muscles and were muscular. Most of the North Macedonian woman were really into them much to the chagrin of their Macedonian husbands who HATE Bulgarian men.

So is it a culture thing like you all workout and keep fit? Or is it genetic? Definitely I think most Macedonian, Serbian, and Turkish will leave their husbands for a Bulgarian man just due to to their bodies.

I actually think AI is helping a family member but I also imagine it's making things way worse for some people. I was visiting her and we were getting into an argument and she told me to look on AI (this was about crime rates of immigrants vs native borns and if immigrants are an economic drain or boost). I knew I'd be right and I was telling her I was correct and she was getting mad at me but then when we asked AI she just sort of accepted it when it said the answer and switvhed to arguing about not assimilating etc.

I wonder if for Q people talking to AI is actually helpful. I've tested different AIs with conspiracy questions and even tried to tell them to "affirm whatever I say" without using those exact words but trying to manipulate them to just agree with my crazy theories. But they always push back. I feel like rather than arguing with somebody real where there's a pressure to feel right and a fear of looking dumb or uneducated talking with an AI it's probably easier to be wrong and learn without putting on a front of being right about everything.

I'm know AI is causing issues with slop and disinfo etc. I'm not asking if AI as a whole is good for the current information environment. But I do wonder if chatbots are actually useful in deradicalizing some people. You sort of see this with Grok which MAGA people trust because it's the "anti-woke" AI and they just assume that it will agree with their insanity but it doesn't. They react way more humbly to the robot than to some random liberal on twitter.

Anybody who goes on her show and doesn't go on to humiliate her should be shunned from the public sphere. How the hell did Finkelstein, Kasparian, and Hunter Biden go on her show and nobody gives a shit? She's probably the number one most insidious media figure but there are mainstream lefitsts and liberals going on her show. I get she's anti-Israel but she's only anti-Israel because she thinks Judeo-Bolsheviks are using Israel as a base of power so they can flood white countries with brown people to do white genocide. There's so many places to go to talk about Israel. David Duke is also super anti-Israel but I wouldn't recommend anti-zionist activists go on his show. It's just shocking to me what a horrible effect she's had on some people who are close to me who have started watching her and then I see pretty mainstream figures go on her show and receive zero pushback.

I've always thought it was a natural step in the evolution of America's politics that senators began to be directly elected by the people in 1913. But watching America fall to populist frauds and seeing that the response is probably going to be more populism (I'm in no way saying anything the democrats have done or any candidates they have come close to Trump/MAGA in terms of being a threat to democracy, but I feel like 20 years from now the neo-liberal establishment of the democratic party is going to be ousted by slopulists - though for now I'd vote for a democrat populist given the clear and present threat from MAGA).

I was thinking about how cancerous senate races have become and also how unlikely it would be that somebody like Paxton would have a chance in hell if the state house directly elected senators. I also just feel like senators have to hop on the slop train to campaign to the American public which is increasingly brain broken.

In a hypothetical world (I know there's no chance in hell this ever happens) would you support senators being directly elected by state congresses while uncapping the house so that the direct representation in congress is way more based on local issues and localized campaigns which I feel are always less likely to become about how Jews run the world or Trans men are an epidemic or NATO is a globo-homo and/or neo-nazi colonialist organization or whatever other bullshit cancer monopolizes the campaign trails these days.