same with Orban vs EU

I am happy for you tho or sorry that happenned

pretty weak bit tbh

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It's like the words "negotiation" and "diplomacy" were lathed out of the dictionary.

Just because you talk to your (supposed) adversary it doesn't mean you have to agree with everything they say.

Like what? Putin will mind control you if you ask him what he wants?

Or: "wE dOn'T nEgOtIaTe wItH tErRorists"? Like y'all dont sell weapons to the saudis and other shitty regimes.

The EU is a joke. They don't negotiate with Putin because the satraps are not allowed to have their own independent foreign policy. This is like the whip in the UK parliament. They want to whip Orban to toe the EU party line.

We always joke about how the liberal mind is just a bunch of pop culture references, but I think they have truly internalized shit like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. You wouldn't negotiate with Sauron, right?

wtf lolmao - I say as I cringe to death

ackshually, you vote for the administration!

It's genius isn't it? Some bright mind at the CIA in the 70s/80s had the great idea to use non-governmental (hah!) organizations for soft power, psyops, propaganda, and veiled funding of overseas CIA assets.

I hate it, but I admire the genius behind it because it clearly worked well enough that not many people see through it.

I think most people truly believe that NGOs are well meaning civilians who just love freedom and democracy and western values, and only evil authoritarian dictators hate them.

Yes! But the weird thing is not even compared to socdems, but among soulless neoliberals these are just shit candidates... Biden, Starmer, Sunak... wtf

It's so weird that the very same topic is also the biggest issue according to the European far right. A different continent an ocean away.

It's almost like the rampant imperialism of the global north causes inhumane conditions in the global south and people are desparate to escape.

Or maybe it's something else. Who knows?

I was told Biden is Palestinian!

dude looked like he could die any week now

I think the perfect liberal candidate is a relatively good-looking dude in his 40s or 50s who seems like he knows his way around corporate leadership.

I'm not even kidding.

Liberal worldview:

• They want presentability and decorum.
• They don't want anything to fundamentally change.
• They love things like Apple and the neoliberal corporate aesthetic.

Liberal voters want a handsome corpo.

That's why they love Obama, Trudeau, et al.

It is absolutely ridiculous how out of touch they are with their own voter base.