KPD Max von Sydnow 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦🇬🇱

Elected officials can't look at the cameras and tell voters that they're stupid bastards but I'm under no such compulsion

If anything it proves Marx right about the progressive nature of capitalism as a system, in that the threat of it disempowering individual capitalists has led them to try to roll back capitalism to a more primitive stage via tariffs and monopolies.

Idk I just think it sucks that this one blessed miracle of a human life means you're basically held at gunpoint in one little place your whole life on this big beautiful blessed miracle of a planet cuz that's the place where you were born, or not, depending on the government of where u are now

I do not like Joe Biden, but the military and the press completely stabbed him in the back in Afghanistan.

It's a bad movie but also an honest one, even if that honesty is unintentional.

The male media figure has some severe masculinity issues and gets aroused by the killing of brown folks far, far away. That's why they all loved McCain so much, he made them feel like they were a part of the club.

John Wayne's "The Green Berets" is a foundational text in understanding the modern war correspondent.

David Janssen's character goes from liberal Doubting Thomas to gung-ho fatigue-wearing true believer because he got to do cool stuff with guys in cool tigerstripe camo.

I promise you that a lot of the mainstream press are venal enough that this is the case.

Like Lincoln's view on slavery, I'd like to see anyone who advocates for hazing have it tried on them personally.

David Sacks, born in Cape Town, 1972

Elon Musk

Gen X immigrants from SA to North America definitely have some... baggage.

"The comeback kid!" is the storyline the media runs on scandal plagued fuck ups that they like and want to help

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

It’s not an accident that the people in our coalition who say we must welcome Platner are the same people who want to ditch anti-racism entirely. Same group.

I truly think that part of why the press was so angry at Biden over Afghanistan is that they no longer got to look cool by riding a helicopter in a war zone.

You could handle Tapper by letting him do a make-believe joint US-IDF combat jump and giving him a red beret and jump boots as a souvenir. Like every white collar Gen Xer the guy wants to feel badass and important even thohgh he works a desk job.

Look, sometimes you just want to read a pulp paperback about how Luke Skywalker and his buddies stopped Jujube Indax from rigging the Blorphite market in the Sasafrass system.

Cannot go wrong with HP5 and a fast prime.

RZ67 with the prisim, motor drive, and 100-200 zoom lens is totally reasonable, right?

I'm not Jewish, so forgive me if this is out of line, but I never understood why living in Israel, which is within rocket range of Syria and Iraq (and now Iran), is supposed to be safer than any random suburb in the US.

"God damn America for thinking she is greater than God and she is supreme" 💯

Not as bad as the Swiss supposedly having a few of their secondment guys participate in SAS operations in northern Ireland.

It was probably Totenkopf, giant "U", SS bolts, other runes, "Za Dom, Spremni!", and a back piece of Ante Pavelić.

Exactly, it's the classic petit bourgeois social base of fascism.

The "once we hurt them they'll make a deal with us to not get hurt again" hand doesn't seem to know what the "we'll break every deal we make because lol they can't stop us" hand is doing

I guess I should reread this instead of doomclicking on NUKEMAP

quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 239: "We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood."

re: Talarico getting attacked for "God is nonbinary"; wait till they hear about the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

it goes underdiscussed that leavitt is genuinely a terrible spokesperson; her whole, entire job is to sell the president's message to the public and she is comically awful at it. i'll give her that the president's message is usually incoherent and insane, but, still

I think a pretty good comparison is the interplay between the Republican Party, the ROC/China lobby, and South Vietnam when Nixon was VP and president.

Chiang, Diem, and Thieu didn't manipulate the US into sending troops into Vietnam or Cambodia, but they were all ideological allies.

It's US Imperialism...full stop. There are plenty of influential people within the US that have long wanted this, Trump simply pushed (stupidly and incompetently) the button.