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Things are not happening because we lack a ron Paul happening emote.
ICE is (relatively silently) turning the dial on brown people during the world cup, probably using it as cover to get things done since the backlash in a lot of cities. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html
It's true. There's been a lot more abductions recently and I haven't seen anyone talk about it.
the democrat in office RoE
I've had a hunch that the deep state ghouls are actually confused for the first time. They finally got their conflict with Iran and it sputtered out. It looked like for a moment they were attempting regime change in Cuba but that seems to have failed as well. The trickle of news I've read about the Iran conflict have suggested it was far more embarrassing and costly than we've heard, and that put a damper on a bunch of deep state plans.
They don't know what they're doing or why, so the whole world seems to have slowed down
I've said this before but Elon DOGE'd all the ghouls who actually knew how to do the legwork of reproducing empire. The motherfuckers who were 45 years deep into their State Department or FBI run and either got axed because woke or just read the writing on the wall and peace'd out.
Things like "how to properly redact documents" and "who to flip and when to flip them when you're trying to coup a smaller nation" or "how to thread the needle between placating Israel's bloodlust and maintaining the status quo of the petrodollar" were things that those people knew how to do but never actually wrote down, so their successors are working with basically half of a manual for running the empire. They know how to send in some troops, they know how to shock and awe, but nobody knows how to keep the scheme going anymore. The American Empire is coasting along on pure structural inertia at this point and the cracks in the foundation are no longer being painted over.
I theorized that Hegseth ending hiring pipelines between the Ivy Leagues and the State Department would have some significant knock-on effects 10 years from now but it looks like DOGE did way more damage than people even thought in the short term.
were things that those people knew how to do but never actually wrote down
I think it's far more likely that they those things are extensively documented, it's just there's no reason to read fake documentation written by deep Biden woke liberal nerds 
We’re obviously at a point of capitalist crisis not in the “economy shat the bed again” category that happens every decade but more like the Keynesian and Neoliberal turns. Fundamentally this model of capitalist organization is becoming less viable. Major challenges precipitating this are China’s rise, climate crisis, and the decline of neocolonial institutions/frameworks like Israel as USA’s MENA FOB and the petrodollar/Saudi system, with cracks also forming in Africa spearheaded by Burkina Faso/Sahel phasing out CFA franc, more Chinese capital flowing in.
What comes next in capitalism needs to contend with another power/bloc in the world, one which liberal internationalist institutionalist actions (think color revolutions or NGO warfare) can’t overthrow. It needs to be willing and able to respond to changes caused by climate. Since the US is head of the bourgeois system, it’s going to go harder into oil. They will be putting together the methods for genocide against the third world, essentially, as poor people down the southern way seek to flee the warming disease created by global capitalism’s need for more and more and more.
All and all, I predict this new form of capitalist organization will be techno-fascism. Not an appropriate term, but it’s the best I’ve got. Fundamentally the organization of this system in our times must mirror the death drive FULLY and in ALL OF ITS TERROR.
Unlimted DOGE on the empire, then. Tear it all down in the name of anti-woke, lmao
Hegseth ending hiring pipelines between the Ivy Leagues and the State Department
Do you have any more info on this that I can read about? First I've heard of it but it's very funny to think about the failsons not having anyone competent around to run shit
Personally I don't think they're done with Cuba. I suspect they'll go back to threatening and attacking them after the World Cup and when they're done with Iran.
I don't think the Trump admin will be done with Iran until his term is over because the only possibility of settling terms would be an admission that the US lost. There's no way to flip it into making it look like Trump won.
I also can't imagine Cuba going well either. They have air defense, albeit extremely old Soviet-era missiles and MANPADS. I believe Cuba also operates zero jet fighters or drones.
I know Venezuela also has air defense, but I currently believe the Venezuelan government cut a deal to give up Maduro in exchange for removing sanctions. I can't imagine any other deal happening with Cuba. Is the US state really going to abduct 95 year old Raúl Castro? Or Díaz-Canel? The last op to attack Cuba was the whole Havana syndrome thing and that flopped. I don't know what the angle would be now.
Lenin failed to mention the weeks where nothing happens.
Trump is busy celebrating himself and himself and himself, so we're temporarily back to "things are happening, but they're bad and fashy and quiet" stage of "things happening." Trump will get bored eventually and the quiet part of bad things happening will become loud again don't you worry
It is an interesting overlapping period of time. The WC is sacred in much of the world, 4th of July is sacred in the 
, and the funeral in Iran is sacred to most of the MENA region and a few other places. So I think there's been a sort of mutual pull back with all these special events occurring that no one wants to mess up too much for themselves. Now that the 4th has passed, I have a vibe that things will start happening again in more significantly historical ways. There is definitely a sense in the zeitgeist that the ruling class of the "west" has eroded its ability to really achieve anything worthwhile. So I'm hesitantly expecting some kind of flailing spectacle that attempts to reassert capital hegemony soon. Whether it works out seems quite dubious, but it seems quite likely for these events to unfold in the next 2 months.
Temporary pause on structural deep events
I just got flashbanged by the memory of big structural bailey
All the world's worst people were busy planning/celebrating the 250th
Maybe the world cup has something to do
The "World Cup effect" refers to the profound sociopolitical, cultural, and economic phenomenon where a single football tournament unifies fractured societies, shapes national identities, and drives massive consumer behavior across Latin America. Football serves as a significant cultural identifier in Latin America, temporarily unifying populations characterized by socioeconomic and political divisions.
it was the heatwave. everything slows down in the heat.
I'm honestly surprised there wasn't another psyop foiled trump assassin plot. We normally get them on the weekends. Unless the fbi is out of money.
all the chud-woke lone gunmen they had lined up spent all their case officer’s money on kratom at some gas station on the way to DC and it was a big fuckup
The intern in charge of triggering that piece of stage ceiling sat on the button a day early and foiled the last attempt
Maybe it accidentally succeeded and they're keeping it quiet
I think they're trying to figure out what to do between not wanting to rein in Israel but needing to rein in Israel if they want the strait open.
They're kinda fucked both ways.
The Great Satan (USA) literally ran out of munitions
After being banned from reddit I also kind of feel like this. I'm sure plenty is happening.
Also ive been on newpipe for a year now so my feed is literally only the things I subscribe to, and ive been blind to a lot more recently.
I made a seperate profile with news channels and stuff just so I can get some headlines going and know if I should be looking something up.
Other than that I have to go out of my way to see what's going on in the world. Which I now do when I poop instead of reddit.
Its weird it really fucks with your brain at first, the endless scroll was kind of this never ending game of there could be something better to watch or read. Even with lemme its kind of weird because I'll hit all the new content in 10 minutes so it feels empty. Thats pretty much dopamine withdrawal and feels normal when you get used to it.
I look at telegram channels, I look at hexbear, I look at Twitter, I look at corporate media, nothing is going on.
I mean theres the save the kids act, the EU is fighting their chat control right now.
I guess I don't know what you want to define as being big enough to be considered "happening"
Also maybe we should consider nothing going on as a good thing. What if we did this everyday for a while.
It's a hydration break
Well, really, who has the energy to focus on resolving the global petrochemical supply crisis and ongoing genocide being caused by our ally when there's a dang algae! in the Reflecting Pool!!
it's just the mid-season break
Regression to the mean.
Dawg ive been home from work all summer with terrible mattress induced neck pain, no sleep and a distinct lack of amphetamines, nothing is all i see happening
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