That's status quo, so it doesn't need to be examined at all. Also, status quo violence isn't actually violence.
They're looking for immediate profit. Anyone trying to do something else is immediately out of the game.
You really gotta hand it to Trump
As always, completely mystifying class and class conflict makes it impossible for a liberal to tell what the fuck is going on.
I have had the same conversations for decades, and we're back to ground zero as soon as she watches tv.
Clinton's NATO bombed the Chinese embassy 5 years before and not one peep
I've posted about that several times. It happened while I was in high school. It blew my mind to see the media let the DOD say that they didn't do it on purpose but they also hadn't done anything wrong in planning or executing the mission. It was an early radicalizing moment to see how I apparently didn't deserve a coherent explanation for why this happened.
I heard from my mom last night that Putin directed Iran to tell Hamas to do the 10/7 attack. It was calculated to divide the US so we would be less effective in supporting Ukraine. This led to me yelling for two hours, which I don't feel good about, but I'm tired of explaining that when examining the world you have to strive to find plausible explanations for why things are happening, not something as fucking stupid as saying the people of Gaza were perfectly satisfied until a bunch of outside agitators got them stirred up.
Edit: She actually doesn't watch MSNBC. This is NYT brain. She used to be fine with criticizing media that promoted the war in Iraq, but doing that now means you're just like Trump.
I'm not gonna do any work to figure out if this is real. I think it's funny and I want it to be real.
Not according to recent statements from the South Korean government. If they are there, it's obviously not in a quantity that matters.
I'm slowly starting to realize that liberals must be voting in more consequential elections than the ones I'm voting in. The ones I vote in aren't actually doing anything.