Varofaukis on Why, Since the End of the Cold War, Global Neoliberal Economics Needs Forever Wars to Sustain US Military Industrial Complex (MIC) Policy. Terrorism Replaces the Soviet Communist Threat as Raison d'Etre. The Neoliberal Post-WWII International Order Continued... w/Trump as the New Kayfabe Face of it.
from Google AI:
Ye (Kanye West) has integrated professional wrestling into his creative endeavors—specifically for his "Bully" album listening party in March 2026—as a form of artistic spectacle, incorporating lucha libre masks, live wrestling matches, and performance art, following his previous fascination with the sport at a Japanese wrestling event in 2024.Why Ye is Engaging with Wrestling:
- Artistic Spectacle: Ye turned his "Bully" album listening party into a wrestling spectacle, utilizing the ring to create a theatrical atmosphere.
- Performance Fusion: He has merged his music with the wrestling world, performing at a Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling event in 2024 and featuring live matches at his recent events.
- Visual Aesthetic (Lucha Libre): The use of Mexican lucha libre masks, including classic masks like El Santo, suggests an interest in the iconic,masked persona of wrestling.
- Fan Fascination: Reports suggest Ye is a "huge fan" of the sport, bringing together the worlds of hip-hop and pro wrestling.
This integration appears to be a deliberate effort to create an avant-garde experience that blends music, performance, and the theatrics of wrestling.
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The No Kings Movement is it a Massive Propaganda Machine Masquerading As “Grassroots”, or is it just Plain Bull-Shit?
Let’s stop pretending this is some spontaneous uprising of everyday Americans. The so-called “No Kings” rallies didn’t just magically appear out of thin air like dandelions after a spring rain. What we’re witnessing looks a lot more like a carefully orchestrated, well-funded political spectacle—one that’s being marketed as “grassroots” while leaning heavily on an enormous network of organizations, resources, and messaging discipline.
Now don’t get me wrong here, I DO realize that this movement is real, But there is a great Big BUT here as well. The reports point to hundreds of I realize these people are mentally ill and such, their real problem is perhaps that they woren’t able to get laid right for some reason, and Im not even going to gess what that reason may be. But damn, could it be that these people were so damn homely looking, and so damn Stupid looking walking , and Parading around in those Dumb coustoms, and outfits? ... Where are the No Kings protests around Northern California? Where are the No Kings protests around New York? Where were those groups, collectively controlling billions in annual revenue, all pushing in the same direction. That’s not a coincidence. That’s coordination. When thousands of rallies pop up simultaneously, complete with ALL of them holding the very SAME pre-printed signs, with unified slogans, and synchronized messaging, it raises a simple question, that is not so “Simple” afterall So who is really pulling the strings?
It makes no differance if you are a Fan or not of of this theatrical act! To me it looked like a Alice Cooper consert, but even more so! At least he really is brilliant. And he writes his own lyrics and stories, usually based on a concept album that reads like a Stephen King novel it has chapters or acts then he has different voices to at leasy meke it look, and sound real!
It's no surprise that George Soros would be providing millions for funding today's "No Kings" protests but there is another group based in San Francisco called The Tides Foundation, with a Donor who is even more of an Ass-Hole thab George Soros is! If tht’s even possible! And I might even guess that the next "NO KINGS" protest Turns out being held at some AARP Meeting, being help at some Burger King in Atlanta!.
But to be really FAIR “No King”, or even “The King”, Donald Trump could be elected King, without fraud and harvesting millions of Democratic votes,...
And the bottom line is that Protesting Does Not Work Anymore. Because We Know that these Protester are Bought, and Paid for So who really Cares? I don’t!. Protesters are A Manufactured Movement Dressed Up As “People With Chaos Power”.
And if all that dosn’t work, then the bring in the celebrities, mostly the Older-Has-Been celebrities, like Willie Nelson, Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand, and if that don’t work,Beyoncé, is next carefully staged, heavily protected, and ready to deliver emotionally charged soundbites. Their presence isn’t organic; it’s tactical, and theatrical
. Lets not forget that Fame draws cameras. Cameras shape narratives. Narratives influence public perception.
These appearances add a layer of entertainment that swells crowd size and media coverage, but they also simplify complex issues into digestible slogans. It’s activism as theater
Even if you believe those claims that the ideological messaging is hard to ignore, those chants and signage calling not just for reform, but for systemic upheaval, and Chaos, and sometimes even Violence.
Nope steve, you're wrong. Again.
It is a grassroots anti war and anti trump movement. And, it will continue to grow in size and momentum. Until it crushes trump's authoritarian pro unjustified war position and his decimation of our democratic republic and its norms.
trump is the greatest threat to world peace and stability (along with netanyahu) since Adilf Hitler and the cold War that followed.
We the People WILL eliminate the threat to our freedoms and liberty that are under attack bt trump, Project 2025, and the trumpublican party.
^^Trump gives him the war he wanted, then blames Trump for it^^
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NOPE! Lester, YOU are Wrong Again:
How do you like these Apples?
MASSIVE DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR ERUPTS: JOHN FETTERMAN JUST THREATENED TO BLOW UP THE ENTIRE SENATE AND DITCH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR GOOD — HE’S CONSIDERING GOING FULL INDEPENDENT AND JOINING WHICHEVER SIDE DESERVES THE MAJORITY!
Chuck Schumer is sweating bullets after failing to lock in a backroom deal to keep this bald-headed beast in the caucus — Fetterman is DONE playing their pathetic games and ready to flip the script on the whole rotten swamp!
This is the future of American politics exploding right now: a real man who puts America first and tells the radical left to go screw themselves!
Maybe, No Kings nothing but a gathering of the biggest IDIOTS, CLOWNS, and FOOLS in the country!
Trump, like Charlie Kirk, has taken the reigns. President Trump has the hearts of the American People on his side so he can steer the ship where he wants it to go. He knows the odds; and he is making a judgement call with Iran.
Today No Kings is uniting with No Dinosaurs and No Unicorns for a combined No Brains March weekend.
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Idiots Sal, are plentiful in the USA. Most of them belong to the trumpublican party and to the misnomer acronym MAGA.
Nope, you and the rest of the clowns in the MAGA clowns car of illusion and delusion are the real IDIOTS of America.
The reigns of trump's satanic engine to hell.
Ayup, again a PERFECT defining of the trump train to destruction and perpetual chaos anon.
Woke New Leftists + NeoCons = a completely imaginary alliance.
Democrats are not supporting this war. They're opposed to it.
A republican president went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Another republican president has now gone to war in Iran.
Also, despite what you say, it was Democrats who oppose the war in Ukraine and republicans who support it. Though some republicans stood with Democrats in their efforts to assist Ukraine. But donald trump is 100 percent on Putin's side, like you.
Minus: Trump gives him the war he wanted, then blames Trump for it.
"Him" being Les? I say you are full of sh!t and that Les never wanted this war. I know I didn't want it. This was one area where I was very disappointed with the Biden administration (Gaza). But neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris would have gone to war with Iran. You say they would have because you can't fully admit how wrong you were... and continue to be.
When it comes to Iran trump is 1000% on the side of the Butcher Netanyahu and the unholy Zionist government of Isreal.
^^Rooting for Iran^^
^^Ayatollah Hugger^^
All you can come up with is stupidity due to knowing what I wrote is correct.
I admit, I held onto to the hope that ALL politics wasn't kayfabe. I no longer do. But you do.
You're still cheering for kayfabe Democrats. Professional wrestling is WAY more honest today than professional politics.
"Stop rooting for the faces and start rooting for the heels, dammit!"
Grow up, Les.
Nope, just playing by your rules. :)
Rooting to stop the destruction and killing began by Netanyahu and his orange puppy dog trump. That's it asshole.
If Trump's only Putin's puppet, how come you aren't cursing Putin? Is NuttyYahoo Putin's Puppetmaster, too?
I know it isn't.
I have no rule that says absurd accusations are great.
That doesn't stop you from making them.
Putin's not the present issue of concern. Butcher man Netanyahu and his puppy dog trump are.
Minus: That doesn't stop you from making them.
You call yourself "you" instead of "me"? Because that's who makes the absurd accusations. I'm talking about "white guilt pride", "neo-racist", "neo-sexist", that I hate white people, etc. All completely absurd.
Minus: If Trump's only Putin's puppet, how come you aren't cursing Putin? Is NuttyYahoo Putin's Puppetmaster, too?
The moron king donald trump is easy to puppet. As long as you're terrible, have power, and can give donald complements with a straight face, then he will generally do what you want. Of course he thinks of himself first, so he doesn't always do what his puppeteer wants. You think that means he isn't being puppeted at all. Excepting Netanyahu. It seems you can see that Netanyahu talked donald into doing what he wanted.
FYI, I'm rooting against Iran's terrible leaders and for the Iranian people. But I'm doubting very much that things will improve for them. Instead of getting worse. donald trump wants to hit their power and desalination plants (war crimes).
Can't get enough of their lucha libre, can you? *tsk-tsk*
Keep on fighting, Nacho!
You don't hate "racist" white people, and you're not "proud" not to be one of THEM??? BWAH!
The why must you constantly virtue signal the fact??? What makes you compulsively REPEAT your virtue signals? The return of the repressed, of course!
Google AI:
The "return of the repressed" is a foundational Freudian psychoanalytic concept where thoughts, memories, or impulses, previously pushed into the unconscious, re-emerge into conscious life. This re-emergence often disrupts a person's life, causing anxiety, symptoms, or acting out as the mind fails to keep the painful or undesirable material contained.
Key Aspects of the Return of the Repressed:
Mechanism: Repression is a mental defense against unacceptable or painful feelings (like trauma), which are pushed out of consciousness.
Re-emergence: The repressed content, which is never truly erased, resurfaces through dreams, slips of the tongue, or psychological symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression).
Freudian Context: Sigmund Freud suggested these repressed memories or instinctual demands can erupt suddenly, affecting behavior and imposing themselves on the subject.
Psychological Impact: These suppressed memories can cause significant distress or psychiatric disorders, often requiring therapeutic intervention (catharsis) to bring the implicit into the conscious explicit.
Cultural Criticism: The term is also used in film studies, notably by Robin Wood, to describe how horror films show forbidden societal desires returning in monstrous forms.
Key Differences in Interpretation:
Clinical Therapy: The focus is on integrating memories to relieve psychological distress.
Debate: While many believe repressed traumas cause symptoms, it is widely debated how accurately these memories are recovered in therapy, with risks of creating false memories.
Theoretical: Slavoj Žižek interprets it as a sign that the very act of repression creates a new, distorted form of the original desire.
yes... Neo-Racism...
Isn't Iran part of the BRICS alliance with Putin?
Iran officially became a member of the BRICS group on January 1, 2024. Along with other nations like Egypt, Ethiopia, and the UAE, Iran joined the bloc to increase its geopolitical and economic influence, particularly as a mechanism to counter Western sanctions and reduce its international isolation
Why would Putin allow his puppet to disobey him?
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