Barabas [he/him]

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2020

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  • They parading around the apparently massive support that Trump has among Muslims as opposed to Jews when they are very similar numbers (both in the low 20% range), the difference being that Muslims have consistently been told to fuck off and that Arabs deserve to die so they didn’t vote Democrat either. The argument then being that of course the democrats are going to listen to Jews and Black voters as they voted for them to the highest degree.

    The argument that overwhelmingly voting for democrats would get their voices heard is contradicted by the clear evidence of supporting a genocide that is incredibly unpopular amongst the demographic after they voted 86% for Biden. This was a repudiation of Trump policies that Biden immediately ratified once he entered office. Even if you follow your wonk hat bullshit, what amount of muslims would have to vote for the dems in order to not have their extended families butchered for the glory of greater Israel? 150%?



  • I was pretty good at chess, but when you get to the point where the only people at your skill level are 60 year old men who take 5-10 minutes per move I got incredibly bored. This was before the age of online chess, so the pool of opponents in my bumfuck nowhere area was tiny. Maybe I should try again with the emergence of online speed chess.

    But yeah, patience is something I’m bad at I guess.




  • As much as we clown on obama-drone Trump was worse when it comes to drone strikes.

    There is an almost reflexive urge to downplay Trump around here, he is the one that set the course of heightened tensions with Iran, provided steadfast support for the Saudis war in Yemen and that moved the embassy to Jerusalem. He isn’t going to be good for the Middle East, hopefully the Ukrainian meat grinder will stop though.



  • The ‘economy’ is a big thing. That doesn’t mean GDP in this case, but that there is inflation and no rise in wages that follows. When the message from the incumbent side is that things are great actually and you’re wrong if you don’t think so the viability of the policies from the other side stops mattering as much. The big problem is that history didn’t end and neoliberal policy is failing right left and centre all over the world.

    Also that Kamala is a historically shit candidate, there is a reason she immediately ate shit in the 2020 primaries.


  • The true victim of all this is AOC who now has to pretend to care about things again.

    Dems were on a roll when Walz came in and they decided to call out republicans for being weirdos. But then they remembered that a strong Republican Party is more important than winning, so they spent most of the election season parading around the Cheneys and begging Bush for an endorsement. The lesson that the dems are going to take from this is to run Mitt Romney next time around.