I live in San Francisco. Here, we have a large homeless population that comprises a number of subcategories. One of the major subgroups could be reasonably described as recreationally or perhaps volitionally homeless; they prefer life on the streets and the possibility of moments of fleeting drugged joy, to a grinding, dull, depersonalized life in state-provided shelter. All of them, however, the result of neoliberal and reactionary political, economic, educational, and carceral policies that allowed people to become disconnected and disaffected to the point where they rocked up on SF’s streets for its mild environs, lax legal system, and plentiful meth and fenty.
You do understand you’re gonna give this kid a complex based on a single anecdote?
Turgenev enters the chat . . .
Bet on different horses, to start. The propping up of dogshit puppets and the recapitulation of the vertically-integrated corruption of Russia’s political & economic model was badly executed in Ukraine. The FSB spread its money in the wrong places, and there was little effort to sway hearts and minds at the retail level. Russia fucked this part up all by themselves.
Second, fight the war like professionals and honor modern conventions on rape and torture. Once Russia got so far behind the eight-ball that Putin felt a full invasion was necessary, Russia chose to fight and subjugate like it was the 16th century, with an army seemingly unbound by morality or professionalism. On this basis alone, I’ll continue to support any efforts to eject Russia.
Something other than civilian kill lists, systematized rape, torture, pillage, and cultural extirpation. The way Russia conducts warfare is intolerable.
Yeah, no doubt that Nuland and Obama needled the shit out of Russia and picked Ukraine’s president.
It’s possible to believe NATO egged Russia on, but that what Russia did it response to it is/was appalling.
Not to mention, any army that allows NCOs to buttfuck their own troops as a form of discipline should be stuffed back inside its borders just on GP.
Unless you are wealthy and can get into a top-ten law school, don’t go anywhere near becoming a lawyer.
Half of the profession will be gone by the end of the decade, due to AI tools.
Bold claim.
EDIT: It’s a joke about claiming to have extra brain cycles.
ChrisLicht
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The team has given us a series of neolibs since 1976.
I’ll probably pull the lever for Biden, but I don’t begrudge anyone who goes for a third option or doesn’t vote.