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A brief rant on the issues I find central to today's political arena. How a politics centered purely on identity doesn't answer many questions and can actually be regressive in practice. The future of this podcast is going to be centered on a left critique of current mainstream woke culture and it's destructive cancel culture. All is on the table and no more limitations to my thoughts. Episodes will become more and more precise as ideas develop through reason and dialogue. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

I firmly believe that the U.S is the reason for the mayhem in the East. We need to approach this situation with a lot of context. Some of it is really easy to find too. For example, when the U.S was asking the question "how exactly are we going to relate with Russia, now that the Soviet Union has broken up?" We first approached it from the idea that we can work with them since things have gone our way and they clearly seem willing to work with us, at least have a partnership of some sort. Given that as part of a deal between the U.S.S.R and the U.S was that NATO would "not move one inch further east" once Germany has been reunited. This created a security guarantee for the Russians, that they haven't had in a long time. Think about it, they've been waiting for decades for NATO forces to zoom on into their country. They are a proud people, just like the U.S and they have their trusts and betrayals in their history. So much so, that sometimes I wonder why they even trust at all. Putin, I believe, is a realist; and as such would not invade a country to try to create some greater Russia or restart the former Soviet Union! Before the 2008 NATO announcement that it "welcomes Ukraine's move to join the alliance", did Putin did anything to piss off the U.S? He was so well liked by Dubya (George W. Bush) that he gave him nicknames and said he was able to see the goodness in the man's soul! These are a facts, please research anything I ever say and see for yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

It's a brief summary of the history regarding Taiwan and China. Why does the Chinese government not consider Taiwan a separate country? How did they split? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

Often when I read about realism, I eventually come across someone telling the world that "realism is a dead theory" that the "world doesn't work that way anymore". Then, the same liberals will go on news shows and talk about how the U.S bombing in other countries "create terrorist"; that our foreign policy is "responsible for the instability". Which means they like realism, but only when it suits them. See, realism can be a tool for peace in that it provided us with real reason to deescalate situations instead of bombing; a reason to show restraint when we can invade. Analyzing our actions impact on others, by sort of putting ourselves in their heads, how they might react, even think, as a result of our action-- by doing so we can reduce a lot of the current harm done in the world by the real "Deep State". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

The Clintons crime family has gotten away with many evil deeds, by tying Bill's sexual depravity to actual executive policy. War crimes to lessen the blow from the Monica Lewinsky impeachment trials; state murder to decrease the pain from going down during the primary in New Hampshire; setting the framework for Donald Trump to use the very same tactics and ploys whenever he's got even a hint of a scandal sensed... All can be credited and all thanks can be given to the Clintons! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

I took the train and decided to just go around to and see the city through the eyes the train had given me. Every route gave me more vision of the inner workings of the city. I decided not to go around and talk to people, but to just simply watch and learn. I kept seeing the same pattern I saw in Seattle, L.A., San Fran... Homeless folk in tent cities. I saw high class condos towering over methadone clinics, and Michelin starred restaurants surrounded by people sleeping, in what I could only describe as a mummy-like pose, trying to not freeze. I mean, they really were covered in layers of blankets all over, laying flat on the hard concrete ground. The people gathering up two-by-fours and other kinds of wooden material, or tinder, to make a big enough fire to weather through the cold temperatures. I see all this, and yet I can't even ponder and think through what I'm seeing and the observations made because some dumbass next to me decided to have a heated argument over the phone with his girlfriend about the ethics of masks wearing and the need to not "trigger" others on the train. He couldn't even use his headphone, it had to be on speaker for my pathetic ass to listen to. Even after finally leaving to a new train route, and freeing myself from the anemia the conversation was causing me, I couldn't help but keep thinking about what I overheard and laugh about it throughout. That experience, the mere bull surrounding everything that I heard, and the nonsense that makes up the foundations of their arguments (however clever they are) inspired me on a mission to correct the record. Who are the real cultural elites? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

I wanna begin asking questions surrounding issues I've either thought to myself, read, or have watch something on TV that had me spiraling into Freudian rabbit hole. I many times overthink some scenes in TV shows and find deeper meaning than the writers probably intended. It's like The Beatles fanatics and their lyrics. Sometimes I overreach but still I think the thinking itself is good enough to talk about. Why is it that people aren't surprised when someone has a "coming to Christ" moment after life has beaten them in the back of the head. They find God and become more religious as the situations around them become more and more dire and plenty more serious. Why is that? And what comfort do they gain from it? What is about that comfort that sometimes they have massive reawakenings and review their lives and past actions, they become full of remorse and guilt at times... Seeking repentance and redemption. What is it about religious thought that drives them to want to improve and grow? Is it a simple fear of hell? I think it's beyond that. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

We moved from southern Miami, Florida to Portland, Oregon. We moved in with my in laws last year in 2020 during the presidential election and the country suffering with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. My partner and I sold all of our belongings and took out all our savings so we can try to move on in life and not be evicted and on the streets in Miami. Instead we start building a life in Portland only to be betrayed by family and friends which resulted in what we wanted to avoid just happening with full force: homeless. We're homeless, still looking for work, and now trying to not build a life but survive. It's survival mode 24/7 now, and this all happened not because we made wrong choices in life, or messed things up. No, we didn't choose what happened, it simply happened. I'm scared, embarrassed, ashamed, sad, but also nostalgic for the "simple times" of being a child. This is a rant by a betrayal filled, personal dumpster fire. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

After a very burdensome, and just overall rough year for a lot of people— even being unnecessarily tragic for the lives of many. Unnecessary in the sense that much of what occurred in their lives, didn't have to happen, it simply did due to state in-action. Government willing to watch people suffer. That's what it boiled down to: COVID-19 was a piece of a bigger political plot, when it should have just been a pandemic that was contained after a couple of months. Instead, a lot of people got rich while we all got either sick, broke, widowed, and/or became homeless. Money talks, and money spoke loud and clear this time: even during a nation-wide crisis, you work for us... the People are secondary.  Oh yeah, and f**k Nancy Pelosi AKA Madam Master Legislator. Master of screwing us with terrible legislation, that is.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

I'm drunk in this episode. I've been without work for over 2 weeks at this point and my entire house is now either fired or laid off. We're all bummed out and worried about our future. Still out health's number one so we try to not stress during this time. This crisis, with our self imposed quarantine 2 weeks ago after losing our jobs, is giving me cabin fever. Had a few drinks and decided to read about the CARE Act and all the things the government is gonna do to protect us. Except it wasn't really their goal, was it? This is a hand out to big business... Drunk tirades at 2 am are sometimes the best forms of therapy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message

George Carlin to me was a great thinker who just happened to have the comedic gene. He was meant to make us laugh but keep us thinking. I draw on one of his best bits ever made, to raise the question about whether this COVID19 pandemic proves that the state structure, how we dedicate too much authority to others in order to have them "protect" us only for them to have them fail us over and over again. Government, the one thing the people MUST take over, and take political action before incompetence become political normalcy. As far as I am concerned, the U.S government has broken the social contract and must be held politically accountable, not just the President... No, the entire state structure of the U.S, all of them who are failing us now. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alisonstirade/message