Soft power in politics (particularly international politics) is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power). It involves shaping the preferences of others through appeal and attraction. Soft power is non-coercive, using culture, political values, and foreign policies to enact change. In 2012, Joseph Nye of Harvard University explained that with soft power, "the best propaganda is not propaganda," further explaining that during the Information Age, "credibility is the scarcest resource"[1]. More
(TYT) Host Ana Kasparian versus reckless right-wing Republican warmonger Ann Coulter, battler over US war crimes and hegemony in puppet regime/Banana Republic* Venezuela. It has not been clear why people hate Coulter given that she turned on him before getting behind Trump again. She was roasted alive, and it was hard not to feel sorry for her as she shined and whimpered on stage. But unlike MTG, she hasn't really had a change of heart. She's more right-wing and more reactionary than ever by the sound of it. It hard to rise above the rabble on TV and get attention by being a rouser, so maybe she's just trying to be the loudest and most crass person in the room? The Young Turks' Ana Kasparian isn't having it.
(Comedy Central) The harshest (wrong speech) BURNS from the Roast of Rob Lowe, which kept returning to the universal hatred of Ann Coulter
(Mediaite) Conservative author Ann Coulter – one of the earliest supporters of President D. Bag Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign – has seemingly jumped back aboard the Trump train following years of criticism.
Coulter reacted to a news headline that read, “Trump would deport American citizens to El Salvador ‘if it’s legal'” [by stating how “awesome” he was for saying it in a tweet on X].
In another post, Coulter also praised Trump’s recent tariffs, writing, “Some might argue that Trump shouldn’t waver on tariffs until the number of hedge fund managers who have hurled themselves out of windows is mid-triple figures. Naturally I would never suggest such a thing.”
While Coulter was an early supporter of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign – authoring a book titled, In Trump We Trust – she quickly became one of his most vocal critics after Trump failed to deliver on many of his campaign promises, specifically those regarding immigration and the proposed border wall. [He wasn't Trump enough, but now he's sufficiently racist for her to back him.] More
A puppet régime (puppet state, puppet government, dummy government [1]) is one that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent on an outside power and subject to its orders [2].
Puppet regimes have nominal sovereignty, except that a foreign power effectively exercises complete control through economic or military support [3].
By leaving a local government in existence the outside power evades all responsibility, while at the same time successfully paralyzing the local government it tolerates [1]. More
I have a new favorite song, well, more of a spontaneous chant whenever my government does something powerful and in line with being the inheritor of the Roman Empire. We are what Rage Against the Machine tried to call The Evil Empire. And that song/chant is, "USA, USA, USA!" I just keep yelling it around guys as we dry hump each other, cry, and raise fists for the military, God, country, patriotism, and Zionist Christian Nationalism. Oh, and apple pie and our moms. Therefore, if Trump attacked Venezuela, killed many to abduct their leader, and is preparing to make a Banana Republic of it and steal its oil, already having forgotten all that drug trafficking pretext, we can only patriotically conclude...they must have had it coming. Why? USA, USA, USA!
(Nippon Television News Japan) Nov. 5, 2025 #佐々木朗希 #大谷翔平 #山本由伸
Fans across Japan -- home of three of the best Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki -- celebrate the contribution of these pivotal Japanese players following the Dodgers’ victory in the 2025 World Series. Latest news and full transcript: ntv.co.jp/englishnews
Kazakhstan is a massive country in Central Asia made infamous by Borat (Sascha Baron Cohen). It was once a Silk Route Buddhist country along Silk Road transmission of Buddhism. Islam conquered it, and Western hegemony followed. Now it has metal and modern music festivals, hiring self-proclaimed "drug addict" Marilyn Manson, one the smartest man in alt rock before being destroyed by drugs or bad judgment in general. He has faced criminal sexual allegations and still doesn't seem to reign it in.
Chicano English in Context by linguist Carmen Fought is the first modern, comprehensive study of Chicano English, a variety of English (mingling with Spanish) spoken by millions of Latinos/Latinas/Hispanics in the U.S. It is also one of the first studies of ongoing sound change within an ethnic minority community. It briefly describes the phonology, syntax, and semantics of this variety and explores its crucial role in the construction of ethnic identity among young Latinas/Latinx. It also corrects misconceptions in how the general public views Chicano English. Chicano English in Context
Linguistics helps us understand ancient Egyptian
Pero like, is Spanglish the language of the future? | NBCLX
(LX News) As prevalent as Spanglish is already, there are many who believe we’ll only see that influence expand as generations of Latinx [Latino/Latina] youth grow up, start families, and enter the workforce. As the share of U.S. Latinos who speak Spanish at home drops and those who speak English grows, could Spanglish one day overtake Spanish as the second-most spoken language in the U.S.? #NBCLX
WAIT. WHAT IS TIKTOK? THESE ADDICTIVE SHORT VIDEOS? OOH. 😊
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This week I wanted to share my thoughts on the TikTok ban that went into effect and was, within a day, rescinded.
TikTok has been banned in plenty of countries, but this ban comes with not only a lot of controversy but the fact that the U.S. government waited until it was frequently used by 170 million Americans and to even start weighing the threat of it as a tool of the Chinese government.
Of course, the fallout has been completely political with some blaming Biden and others blaming Trump for even starting the conversation even though he is the one now negotiating and putting the ban on hold.
Democrat or Republican the millions of TikTok American users were sighing in relief when the ban was lifted the next morning.
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Perhaps the algorithm did not like the use of the word Mxn or gngstrs or maybe it's the combination of the two terms too close together. They don't tell you; they just cloak it behind a censorship warning.
But this is an amazing phenomenon showing American hegemony and its unintended consequences.
Imagine traveling to Asia and seeing all these homeboys and homegirls straight outta Los Angeles standing around, all tatted up, with lowriders, the de rigueur fashions, and gesturing to each other as they smoke, drink, and presumably g*ngbang. lol. You'd never imagine you were in Japan, but you would be.
It would be a sight, the Chicano Movement spread to Asian Buddhists with a fashion sense. How did it go from LA to Tokyo to Bangkok? Much of it has also spread to strange midwestern states in the USA, but that's due to drugs and dealers.
It is all supposed to be Nuestra Cosa, y'know, an L.A. thang. Y'all wouldn't understand, just as so much of what goes on in the South is a [Confederate] thang.
(Coconuts TV) Coconuts TV Exclusive [is nuts and has] weird, wonderful, and real stories from Asia. Subscribe: bit.ly/CoconutsTV. There's a curious new trend that has emerged in Bangkok, Thailand [LA's parallel city in Asia, both sharing a very long name and both being about the same size, two megalopolises.] Young Thai men [and females, too] are dressing up like Latino gangsters. Most of these guys say they are motivated by their passion for the "gangster" lifestyle and clothes [but the more recent ones have gotten into the world-fanmous lowrider car culture, probably due to rap videos glorifying it]. Coconuts TV met up with three [faux Theravada Buddhist] "gangs" -- Balcony Pain, Fratez, and D Sixty -- for a photoshoot and to learn more about the quizzical phenomenon. #cholos #bangkok #thailand Music: Down AKA Kilo - "Lean like a Cholo"
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European/Spanish Conquistador describes meeting the Aztecs
(Nutty Productions) Nov. 30, 2024: What was life like for the Conquistadors ("Conquerors") meeting, enslaving, raping, and spreading diseases to the Aztecs?
Today on Nutty Productions let's dive into the adventurous and profitable life of the Europeans conquering new land for the Vatican, raping children and adults around the world, and plundering riches in the name of our All-Forgiving lord who looks on sin as "missing the mark" so long as we pay our tithe and deed everything over to the pope, His representative in this man's world where women don't count for anything except virgin birth givers and baby raisers. Raise me some sons, Woman! And make me a sandwich while you're at it.
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According to Judaism, today is the birthday of Adam and Eve, who were created 6,000 or so years ago by Gods (Elohim or the Gnostic's Demiurge) when this world was created. Adam's first wife was actually Lilith, say Jewish texts, and Eve is Adam's younger replacement wife. Happy birthday, Adam and Eve.
A "JuBu" or "Jew-Bu") is a Jewish-Buddhist. There are many, Asher, Noah, Michael, Sarah, Shauna, Sheldon, and it's time to celebrate the cultural inheritance. One can be two things. Judaism isn't much of a "religion" to most American Jews. It's an identity, a connection to family, a sense of a tie to humanity, plus a business network of helping each other to make mitvah$.
We must always remember that Zionism is not Judaism. Judaism is a relatively young religion drawing on much more ancient local traditions (Sumerian, Akkadian, Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Bedouin, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Byzantine, Ancient Greek paganism, and Roman Mithraism).
Who Rewrote the Bible? (Dr. Day)
We are told the popular myth that Jews existed from the beginning of the world, 6,000 years ago in mythical Eden (somewhere in Mandatory Palestine), and Christians came later with the arising of the semi-historical Nazarene Yeshua, who as Issa traveled to Buddhist Tibet and India with a Jewish merchant caravan, who became "Caesar's Messiah" by the Flavian rulers of Rome dipping into the ancient Greek writings of the Bible telling a tale of this tribe from Israel.
Bibi thinks he's the Messiah, but I am.
That's Judaism (with a remarkable parallel to the oldest religion in the world, Hinduism, which isn't but is by embracing the ancient Indus Valley Civilization and acting as a continuation of the super-ancient "Knowledge Books" called the Vedas. A religion can begin tomorrow then claim a lineage going back to Gobekli and Karahan Tepe -- and instantly, in a day, it suddenly becomes the "oldest religion in the world"?
No, of course not; yet, both Judaism by claiming all old stories from that region of the world and Hinduism claiming all ancient Sanskrit, Vedic, and Brahmanical texts as their own, they retroactively extend their lineage by thousands of years; Hinduism began with Sri Shankara centuries back systematizing many diverse and unrelated practices in India and around the Indus River Valley).
Zionism is a crazy movement regarded almost universally as crazy until recently, which seeks to seize a homeland through genocide or any means necessary as long as the USA provides diplomatic cover, illegal arms, and military protection on the world stage. To get a homeland in the geopolitical Middle East, it made a "deal with the Devil" and the devil is the West, namely the UK, US, and now EU. This position has become the norm because of Christian Zionists being convinced that we need to send the Jews away from the West back to the Old World locations of their joint Bible to bring about the Second Coming of nobody Jesus, the Jew Yeshua a failed messiah/Jesus the Christ the Creator of the Universe, depending on which lens one looks at him, a Christian or Jewish one).
Judaism may have its problems as a patriarchal, old-school, Sumerian and Mesopotamian appropriating Abrahamic religion, but many modern secular Jews from Europe and the West have little to do with the Old World religion and more to do with an ethnic identity and cultural history.
Scholars says Bible stories have their parallels or origins in similar Sumerian stories, but this researcher says that's not true. What to do? We must read the translations or texts ourselves to know. Of course, no one says they are exact. The stories differ but with so many striking details that match that they could not have arisen independently or by chance. That is the point. The stories handed down to us have been altered and inspired later writers with themes and their takes on those themes. Few scholars confirm Zecharia Sitchen's views, but that is not to say that he had no basis for what he was claiming about the Anunnaki and Nirbiru, gold mining and enslaved humans genetic engineered to work.
Jesus Live in India (Kersten)
Spirituality is so missing from the way they were raised in cosmopolitan liberalism, science, academia, and left leaning politics that Buddhism (particularly Tibetan lore, Zen ritual, and vipassana meditation) makes a lot of sense and has a lot of pull. Just as Issa, Isa, or Y'shua of Yudea (aka "Jesus of Nazareth") had spiritual longings and sought their fulfillment in the mysterious East, so many secular Jews today feel called to Tibet, Ladakh, Dharamsala, the Himalayas, India (the real "Holy Land"), and the Far East in search of spirituality and fulfillment.
Issa in India (Holger Kersten)
The Jews, tapping into anything that could be subsumed under the rubric of "Books of the Bible" (apocryphal texts, canonical texts, Old Testament, Septuagint, Torah, Talmud), most of which never made it to the KJV or canonical Christian scriptures. Judaism kept many writings, fortunately. Unfortunately, since the ancient past, it re-wrote them to be about themselves.
We find ancient Sumerian and Akkadian texts, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, speaking of a guy we now call Noah of Noah's Arc fame. The story is much older.
So few people doing so much harm in the world
Agganna Sutta as allegory
The Buddha spoke of this phenomenon of mythology, history, and racial or collective memory carrying on long after people remember the original story. In the Agganna Sutta ("A Buddhist Genesis") the Buddha speaks of modern people in his time using expressions and customary sayings not seeming to have any idea how the sayings originated.
Similarly, the stories told in our (hegemonic) American are rooted in stories we do not even understand. We think we do. We have heard of them and read versions of them poorly translated from "The Bible" -- whatever collection of books, linguistic translation, and interpretation of terms we have decided that means -- and we now repeat them while scratching our heads at how stupid and nonsensical they sometimes seem outside the context of their Sumerian and Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Persian, Zoroastrian and Kabbalistic roots.
How did life on this earth begin?
Noah's Ark is one story we misunderstand and argue about, but a much sillier misinterpretation we bandy about is the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the creation myth of the beginning of this world and our soured place in it.
Jews today, reading this archaic story reinterpreted from lifted sources by writers who that remade it about them, think today is Rosh Hashanah (New Year's Day, the "Head of the Year") and also Adam and Eve's birthday.
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It would be a sight, the Chicano Movement spread to Asian Buddhists with a fashion sense. How did it go from LA to Tokyo to Bangkok? Much of it has also spread to strange midwestern states in the USA, but that's due to drugs and dealers.
