comparative decline of Western powers amid China and Israel rise
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Key claims
- Reported claim that Iran promises a global internet blackout if America restarts the war.
- Europe's hate-speech laws and immigration should be ended even via Russian nuclear attack.
- Asserts Americans allow a slur-designated group to destroy historic buildings and artifacts from America's respected era.
- OP celebrates a claimed US victory over Iran.
- Declares the American Empire is over.
- The thread asks who is to blame for declining nightlife and shrinking friend groups in America.
Volume over time
Peak 4 mentions/hour · 140 hourly buckets
Source threads (50)
Every thread this story was extracted from, with live and archive links so the evidence is verifiable.
- /pol/544766961 ↗ live · archive concerned evergreen 23 replies The thread asks who is to blame for declining nightlife and shrinking friend groups in America.
- /pol/544756195 ↗ live · archive gleeful evergreen 70 replies OP celebrates a claimed US victory over Iran.
- /pol/544758573 ↗ live · archive gleeful evergreen 13 replies Declares the American Empire is over.
- /pol/544745671 ↗ live · archive extremist evergreen 3 replies Europe's hate-speech laws and immigration should be ended even via Russian nuclear attack.
- /pol/544746271 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen Asserts Americans allow a slur-designated group to destroy historic buildings and artifacts from America's respected era.
- /pol/544741538 ↗ live · archive critical developing 15 replies Brazil's anti-establishment candidate is a corrupt, hypocritical US- and Israel-backed politician who would sell Brazilian resources.
- /pol/544744030 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 1 replies Reported claim that Iran promises a global internet blackout if America restarts the war.
- /pol/544737694 ↗ live · archive sarcastic evergreen 4 replies Sarcastic claim that aid to Israel and Ukraine is impoverishing Americans and presages a draft.
- /pol/544735321 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 6 replies Asks why right-wing users have turned against Israel.
- /pol/544725866 ↗ live · archive approving evergreen 37 replies One European country's nationalism correctly targets Israel instead of Muslims or Russia.
- /pol/544720152 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 47 replies Rhetorical one-liner asking whether China has solved 'chimpouts' (racist framing of riots/looting).
- /pol/544719809 ↗ live · archive alarmed breaking 65 replies Claims Iran activated its Dead Hand doctrine authorizing low-level officers to strike Israel and the US, implying imminent war.
- /pol/544724169 ↗ live · archive pessimistic evergreen 11 replies Asks whether there is any hope for the West, linking to a post about Western decline.
- /pol/544720658 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 24 replies Racially framed mocking question comparing Russia's conditions to Africa.
- /pol/544717805 ↗ live · archive pessimistic evergreen 32 replies One-liner asserting that a depicted (unseen) event shows how the West is collapsing.
- /pol/544716144 ↗ live · archive triumphalist evergreen 10 replies Asserts the West is winning across Iran, Yemen, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia while Russia is defeated.
- /pol/544712376 ↗ live · archive nostalgic evergreen 18 replies Asks what happened to Western excellence, framing the West as in decline.
- /pol/544713581 ↗ live · archive hateful breaking Thread celebrating a report that Iran threatens undersea infrastructure, framed as 'solving the Indian problem'.
- /pol/544658866 ↗ live · archive questioning evergreen 9 replies The user questions why the USA could not keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
- /pol/544635368 ↗ live · archive resentful evergreen 137 replies Europeans accept US defense subsidies and bases while resenting Americans, so the US should stop financing Ukraine's defense.
- /pol/544650801 ↗ live · archive sarcastic evergreen 5 replies Speculates that the US, Argentina and Israel will form a new World War 3 axis, with the EU excluded after Trump ruined transatlantic relations.
- /pol/544625461 ↗ live · archive surprised breaking 230 replies Claims Iran announced it will cut off India's internet access and asks whether Iran is 'the good guys'.
- /pol/544643636 ↗ live · archive triumphant developing 2 replies Poster claiming to be a Saudi Sunni celebrates US/Israeli action against Iran and rejects /pol/ sympathy for Iran.
- /pol/544644511 ↗ live · archive assertive evergreen 1 replies Israel's brown population are all immigrants because ancient Jews were never brown.
- /pol/544642289 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 1 replies Depraved slur-laden post attributing the Israel-India alliance to degrading sexual stereotypes.
- /pol/544630066 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 8 replies Claims Westerners irrationally supported Russia in WW2 and are supporting it again against Europe today.
- /pol/544620974 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 17 replies Oblique ethnic-grievance comparison of a European country to Gujarat and Israel.
- /pol/544615116 ↗ live · archive alarmed developing 10 replies Claims Ukraine has about 18 months of funding left as Western support and Starlink access fade and China supplies Russia.
- /pol/544597534 ↗ live · archive speculative evergreen 142 replies Predicts a pragmatic US-China strategic partnership will dominate the next century while Europe and Russia are marginalized.
- /pol/544606329 ↗ live · archive sarcastic breaking US trade and export figures are cited sarcastically to claim American decline versus Chinese manufacturing dominance.
- /pol/544602363 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 3 replies Claims Jews are orchestrating an unwanted transformation of Europe.
- /pol/544599788 ↗ live · archive bitter evergreen Nine years of Indonesian progress was undone by Muslims voting for the president on free lunches and religiosity, and only Bible-based ideology saves nations.
- /pol/544597602 ↗ live · archive hopeful evergreen 12 replies Urges readers to support Iran as America declines.
- /pol/544585166 ↗ live · archive conspiratorial evergreen 39 replies Claims European protests are intentionally allowed to justify EU-wide lockdowns, and that Canadian troops were secretly killed in Ukraine by Russia.
- /pol/544595831 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 8 replies Claims Muslims are destroying Europe and questions why /pol/ focuses hatred on Indians instead.
- /pol/544589645 ↗ live · archive skeptical evergreen 52 replies Argues Western far-right posters fetishize Russia while Russians openly view the West as enemies.
- /pol/544590588 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 12 replies Asks how much longer a 'mentally ill' Europe has left, framing EU decline as dementia.
- /pol/544561420 ↗ live · archive concerned evergreen 109 replies Asserts both political wings now openly blame Jews and spread antisemitic conspiracy theories.
- /pol/544584291 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 1 replies Claims America and China are godless nations that should be nuked for destroying the world.
- /pol/544581732 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 13 replies Poster mocks /pol/ users for wanting Muslims killed but refusing to support fighting for Israel.
- /pol/544572801 ↗ live · archive extremist evergreen 35 replies Proposes white men migrate to China and accelerationist tactics to 'save the west'.
- /pol/544564550 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 10 replies Thread asks whether China is really a communist state.
- /pol/544568429 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 3 replies Claims an alliance of American technology, Jewish strategy and Indian manpower could defeat any country within a year.
- /pol/544562872 ↗ live · archive furious evergreen 11 replies Rants against the argument that the US must import 9 million Indians to compete with China.
- /pol/544557917 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 33 replies Asks whether Russians are derogatorily 'the Indians of Europe'.
- /pol/544561677 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 7 replies Asks why Western Europeans don't send immigrants to forced labor to break them.
- /pol/544556282 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 9 replies Notes US GDP overtook Europe's combined economy and asks what went wrong for Europe.
- /pol/544544250 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 175 replies OP asks whether all parties to the Ukraine conflict implicitly understand the same underlying reality.
- /pol/544546420 ↗ live · archive angry evergreen 22 replies God's non-intervention in starvation, drone deaths and earthquakes shows religion is cope for the poor.
- /pol/544547708 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 4 replies Europe is collapsing while America innovates, and European anons are envious.
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