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Trump is ahead in the betting market odds, and electoral college is in Republicans' favor
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Trump seems like he really does not want to be president, and his first term took a huge toll on his physical and mental health.
I mean, people might not remember this, but Trump almost died right before the 2020 election. He got Covid and was air-lifted to a hospital. I don't think this 80+ year old man's body and mind is going to hold up for a second term, given how unhealthy his diet and exercise has been most of his life, and given how his metal health seems to be rapidly deteriorating.
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We are getting President J. D. Vance in the next few years, in all likelihood.
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"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."
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they expect a war with China, sooner (5~ years max) than later, because the longer the wait the further China and the rest of humanity develops (ie. the harder it will be to slaughter and enslave the entire planet and destroy China and the BRICS nations again
See, this is my main point of disagreement. In my experience, the majority of American leaders truly do believe their own bullshit. A lot of the ghouls in power in America really think "China will collapse any day now because Communism no food, Communism no house, Communism no money!" The reasons the US military says they need to go to war with China in 5 years is not, in my opinion, because they think it's necessary, but because they think it's a great marketing slogan. "WWIII is coming in 5 years, we need to increase military spending now!" It's all about money. And if war with China actually does break out, the USA economy will instantly collapse due to supply shocks. There definitely are a few neo-cons who do want to go to war with China, but personally I would estimate those hawks are outnumbered by fake-hawks by about 3-to-1.
In terms of the presidential candidates, Trump actually kind of likes Xi, Waltz has said China doesn't have to be our enemy, and Vance is so fully bought by Silicon Valley that his billionaire owners would never let him start WWIII. I think Kamala is basically bought out by similar corporate interests to Vance - if Kamala goes to war with China she does not get any more donations from Apple (whose phones are made in China) etc. So that's a big reason why I think the pro-China-war faction will not get what they want. They'll ask the president to send 1,000 drones to Pyongyang to take out 
and the president and his or her neoliberal advisers will just look at them like 
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It is mostly for emergencies. Although in the USSR doctors did way more "house calls" than in western nations, due to the lack of available hospital beds.
Yes this is an unaltered panel from "Once Upon A Time" Astro Boy Tales, Part 3
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Let's go through the options for a China-USA proxy war:
-Indian-Chinese border: geographically impossible, politically way too dangerous
-Xinjiang region: tried it already lol, local Muslim population cannot be swayed to USA's side
-Taiwan: this is the one the military-industrial complex really wants, it would be very cool for everyone operating killer drones (less cool for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who would die). Pros: lots of $$$ for contractors. Cons: crosses a big red line vs. China. Not happening.
-Korea: this is the most likely place for something to pop off, instigated by the USA. South Korea is completely corrupt and tied to the USA, North Korea is very closely tied to China. US military is 100% willing to "fight to the last South Korean," like in Ukraine. Pros: Attacking China without directly attacking China. Cons: calling the North Korean nuclear bluff, possibility that millions in South Korea are vaporized or inflicted with nuclear induced burns and cancers. Really depends if state department thinks North Korea is a paper target or not. Attacking a nuclear power is insane, but there's not that many places left for the USA to go... IMHO a 1% chance of something popping off there in the next 10 years, higher than Taiwan (0% chance).
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based based based based based based based based based 
Yeah it does kind of look like a loaf of bread. Anyway, this is just a reminder that free healthcare is IMPOSSIBLE, we just do not have the technology!
Taken from this thread full of the western world's top minds: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1g3k1vn/what_character_did_you_get/ "MIRROR MIRROR, ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE MOST BASED GAMER OF THEM ALL?" (or) The Western Urge to Create a God and then ask him if I'm being a good boy vs. the Eastern Drive to Kill God (or) Ready Incel One (of) what NEGATIVE material analysis does to a person
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"David Duchovny in drag"
uh buddy I got news for you. https://youtu.be/Gx9JmhoPm20?t=50
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Greek Chorus
Greek Cackling
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said Holden Caulfield.
Happy 20th birthday to this young child! Good luck blowing out all those candles.
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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was based. Stood up to the capitalists and the United States. After he declined a second term as president he became Mexico's Secretary of War and led the effort to declare war against the Nazis and Imperial Japan. Mexico then sent a squadron of fighter pilots called the "Aztec Eagles" to liberate The Philippines from Imperial Japan, and in 2004 The Philippines awarded the surviving veterans with the Philippine Legion of Honor.
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Just imagining Kamala asking her aides, "Do you think we can still win the electoral college if gas hits $50 per gallon?"
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Claudia Sheinbaum's chief of staff is going to be Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, the grandson of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, the most left-wing president in the history of Mexico (he was the one who nationalized the Mexican oil industry and created Pemex in 1938). So maybe that's a good sign.
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what she's really famous for - and presumably why she's an anchor on CBS' morning news show - is being Oprah Winfrey's best friend.
Thank you for reminding me of this. It was a huge part of pop culture in the early 00s but I somehow erased it from my memory. There are probably a lot of people who don't know that Oprah also created Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.
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The lesson that West Germany learned from WWII is that, under the "international rules based order," you're not allowed to do genocide to white people.
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the absolute horror of knowing that many people were trapped there by their fucking employer
Congratulations, now you know how the loved ones of the dead peasants felt during the French / Russian Revolutions, the Jacquerie, etc..
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Highly recommend anyone interested in modern middle eastern history to read this. Gives great insight on how the contemporary Shia-anti-USA bloc formed, as opposed to the many Sunni states collaborating with USA interests today.
I wonder how many corporations have Mechanical Turk campaigns to game the AI system into thinking their products are safe for human consumption when they are not. It's the 21st century version of Philip Morris saying cigarettes are not addictive.
Yes, I am still Astro Boy posting. No, I will not stop until I finish reading the Dark Horse translated compendium. Also, it will be interesting to see if Jimmy Carter outlives Biden.
Context: this guy was an artisan who carved art into grains of rice, but he was put out of business when a machine was invented who could defeat him in carving competitions.
Astro really is a zoomer, exploring his identity to find something that fits.
Don't know why but I found this panel funny.
ww8.mangakakalot.tv
Reading trough Astro Boy now, I see why it is so foundational. Love Tezuka's sense of humor and poetic justice. And his art is both sharp and playful.
deadline.com
>BROOKER: This is going to sound so tragic, but right now there’s a game called Balatro. It’s like poker, and it’s possibly the most addictive thing ever created. It’s currently on Nintendo Switch and Steam deck, but it’s going to be released on phones, and at that point I think humankind’s activity is going to drop about 25%. I play that in short bursts when I’m writing to reward myself. I do like Ghost of Tsushima and Dave the Diver too, but there’s loads more. One of us.
Like, what if they made Dune but with snow instead of sand?
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In the finals, he defeated the competitor from Chile. Hold this L, Bolsonaro. His nickname is "The Giant of Herradura." Here is an article from the newspaper of the Central Committe of Cuba's communist party interviewing Lopez: https://en.granma.cu/deportes/2024-08-06/history-repeats-itself-when-the-great-ones-write-it > "My five medals are not mine, they belong to my people, my parents, my family, my friends, my coaches." Damn, it almost seems like the best wrestler in the history of the world understands that he did not just fall out of a coconut tree, but rather he exists in the context of all in which he lives and what came before him.
My favorite part of the song is when they insult Peter Theil for... being an immigrant. Yeah, apparently he was born in Germany and moved to Ohio when he was 1 year old. 
www.telegraph.co.uk
Full article: **Kamala Harris, the giggling fool, will doom America** *In chasing Joe Biden out, the Democratic party has foisted an even worse candidate on voters.* Ever since that grim and surreal night in November 2016 when Trump beat Hillary Clinton, a tough and experienced political battleaxe who lost out to her loutish, unprofessional opponent largely on the grounds of being a competent woman, American politics have been unremittingly bleak. In the face of the chilling spectre of Trumpite election denial and the violent, undemocratic Capitol riots, four years of Biden was supposed to have set a new tone. But the once-formidable politician made gaffe after gaffe from the start, gaffes so severe that his mental fortitude and cognitive health were always in question. When he withdrew from Afghanistan by essentially handing over the keys to the Taliban, with a little nod and wink, it became clear that his approach to foreign policy was almost just as bad as his muddled speech. This has only become more troubling with his weaselly, Iran-enabling attitude to Israel in its hour of need. With Biden dropping out of the race to beat a second Trump term, things could have finally begun to look up. A new contender might be a game-changer – Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, and the plucky Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. But no. It seems the Dems are entirely committed to their death spiral: in chasing the disastrous Biden out, they are now throwing their weight behind someone even worse: Kamala Harris. In Harris, Biden’s choice of vice president was about as bad as they come. She ought to have been a good pick for running mate given the insanity of the race politics roiling America at the time. Harris is Jamaican-Asian, and the first woman to enter the Oval Office complex not as a spouse. She’s also a former attorney general of California. Yet she has proved to be bewilderingly awful: rudderless, inchoate, and incredibly unlikeable. She was polling at 3 per cent before dropping out of the presidential race in 2020, before Biden took her as his running mate. “Fake”, “awkward”, “embarrassing”, even “downright evil” are some of the key terms that recur in opinion across the political spectrum about her. Take this recent monstrosity, bad enough for a failing undergraduate zonked out on drugs, but unbelievable for an American VP. “Equality suggests often everybody should get the same thing well that often assumes everybody started out in the same place as opposed to equity which is everyone should end up in the same place,” she said in May. Come again? Then there was Kamala on Covid, to the Today Show: “It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.” Why, when put in charge of the borders in March 2021, did she fail to visit it for months? “I haven’t been to Europe.” And so on. Yet the awful Democrat establishment can’t see its way past this person as its saving grace and light to the future. Which is why, of course, if opposed by Kamala, Trump will surely win and America will fall further into darkness and chaos. [Perfect, no notes.]
Getting harder and harder to tell who is real and who is AI. Not because the AI are getting smarter. The bar for the Turing Test just gets lower every day like the world's saddest limbo competition...
Stephen King is 76 years old. Mueller, She Wrote died many moons ago. Nearly dead liberals are fighting to the death over whether to support nearly dead liberals. The Democratic Party is less of a political party and more of a collection of the leftover "non political" flotsam and jetsam left over after the hurricane of neoliberalism wrecked American politics in the 1980s and 1990s. Posting on the internet should have a maximum age, beyond which you enter a quarantine zone.
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>"The secret to a good debate performance? Staying hydrated." Guess I'll never drink water again.