Perhaps diaspora communities should be given grace and also not granted the presumption of special knowledge or influence around shit happening in the old country, as a general matter.
Much like American Jews really need to understand why Palestinians in the Diaspora are often really hostile to Israel, including supporting pretty evil shit in the interests of Palestinian liberation, Persian Jews don't like the Iranian regime for pretty damn good reasons.
The latter makes everything in the world, I think, something between a little and a lot worse.
I can’t stop thinking about how Yoon tried to self-coup South Korea after cooking his brain with misinformation ABOUT HIS OWN GOVERNMENT on YouTube.
I think it’s an open argument which is the more immediate threat to human life: climate change or that people everywhere are becoming less and less familiar with object reality.
I think the problem is that people got psyoped by Big Illiteracy into thinking more rules = harder to learn, play, and run when that isn’t always true.
“A longsword does d8 plus your strength modifier in damage” is easier to learn, play, and run than “idk sis, u figure it out.”
For fascists, "Wealth, infrastructure, and technology are useful things to have for wiping out large sections of your own population, but if poverty is the cost of racial purity they’ll make that trade every time." www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
It's pretty dire to say that even with these wars going on, the DOGE cuts will probably still remain the most catastrophic and consequential actions of this admin on a global scale
“how about we send the kurds to ukraine” - the greatest thread in the history of the special activities center, locked by a branch chief after 12,239 pages of heated debate
Anyways, torpedoing an enemy warship isn't a war crime, but in this case it was an immoral action because the entire war is immoral, we should specifically not launch wars of choice for no reason specifically because any war will always entail atrocities, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
this thread is just straddling the line between "seriously overthinking a thing" and "wait this is weirdly plausible"
like, it *is* interesting that "kek" took off when "bur" did not despite the stereotype of the edgelord being more willing to play Horde
"A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”"
Trump is the first degrowth environmentalist president
once again asking democrats to get out ahead of an issue which will prove to be monumentally unpopular in a month or two instead of waffling while they wait for poll data
what’s even more extraordinary is that the economy was mostly doing okay despite his absolute best efforts - as damaging as his tariffs and immigration policies are, we hadn’t tipped over into a recession
and so, unsatisfied, he decided to kick the economy in the dick with a huge oil shock
"Conservatism is not merely dead, fascism has paraded the body around, peeled off its face, and is wearing it as a mask for its own amusement as it does a demented little dance." www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
The ppl who are like this are, by and large, like this because they never fell in love with books and learning properly.
They fell in love with hollow fantasies of success and self-importance.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
What if Platner had gotten a really disqualifying tattoo, like a picture of Hillary
it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
gotta say i'm struggling to understand the 4D chess behind cancelling and obstructing gigawatts of renewable energy projects around the country and then immediately spiking the price of oil with an illegal war
when does the energy dominance kick in?
because i don’t even know if it’s a solveable problem, because of how the dem coalition works internally and is structured. serious-personism is just endemic, in various manifestations, to many of the kinds of people who vote democrat, hence my thing about primaries
I am also fully in support of widespread free vaccines, especially DTaP, MMR, RSV, IPV, HepB, and HPV, and also just straight up banning children from school until they're administered. If there's issues about access, we can pay people to administer at the home even because it's worth it.
I think they're bad parents because doctors and nurses are telling them what they should do and instead they're listening to a 22 year old nick shirley fuck on tiktok or a man with literal brain worms.
we need to push back on the AI companies by demanding regulations, by rendering them liable for many of the harms done. and, of course if it works like they insist it does (unlikely), it makes Marxism true (by proletarianizing nearly the entire economy) and demands a revolution by everyone else.
i don’t believe we are in such a parallel! my interlocutor was the one who compared stopping ai to being able to prevent the adaptation of hydrocarbons for power. also, fighting for a better application of the tech will not be by insisting that it doesn’t work. the luddites lost, and deserved to.
i know, they’re adorable, but unfortunately not useful for reading over transcripts
