Important to remember that there is already a vaccine for h5n1. It would need to be updated if it mutates to a point where human to human infections are consistent. It should be faster to get something out than it took for covid.

I obviously have no idea what it would look like if it does mutate to human to human transmission but I'm not an omega doomer about it. We cant predict when or even if a process like evolution will produce a certain result. The US and other countries will obviously let it rip so stay safe if it does.

The retaliation will be on October 7th. Buckle up because we have another month and a half of waiting. Iran will keep edging closer and closer for a while but it ultimately will be an anniversary gift to khamas.

I don't know what right wing grifter thought of selling this but they were right that the hogs would buy iterally anything. Even this shit.

If these people are willing to buy this, then what happens after Trump dies? Do they go back to their sad and alienated American lives? What do they attempt to fill the gaping hole in their soul with?

She can't even pretend to give a shit. The whole core of what democrats are supposed to do at the national level is pretend to give a shit, say something is troubling, and then do nothing to fix the issue. How can she not even do that?

Cold hard facts tankies aren't ready to accept.

It was morally wrong for the Native Americans to defend their territory and kill settlers.

It was morally wrong for the North to fight the Southern states and they should have been allowed to secede and continue their barbaric Dixie pseudo-aristocracy.

It was morally wrong for the Red Army to defend the Soviet Union from the Nazis and liberate Europe from fascism.

It is morally wrong for the Palestinians to fight for their national liberation.

We're still in the process of contextualizing the attempted assassination but I saw something on reddit about the possible challengers to Biden stopping their movements to oust him. Someone speculated that the dnc is going to just give up on 2024. I can believe that. Who is really going to do that to Biden just to face a stronger Trump? No one can be that stupid, self centered, and arrogant right?

Or is it her turn? (She's probably the only person who could successfully lose every state to Trump)

Anyway, I think the dnc is considering their options and they'll probably have an understanding to let Biden fail but not tell him the plan. I can't think of anything they can do that isn't outside of their character that could win against Trump. Like they'd have to go hard on something like the Epstein connections and accusations and even then.

It's wild that Iran seems like it has entirely stopped caring about what The Great Satan thinks and will directly strike military bases if the US helps Israel. I kept thinking that after Oct 7th and Israel's response to it, that there would be no going back and the nature of the occupation of Palestine would change going forward. Now I know that the fascists really will suicidally destroy their own project and are willing to burn the entire middle east to ashes around them. We can't predict what will happen at this point. There truly is no way out but through.

To everyone in the middle east, stay safe.

We almost have a shutdown every half a year at this point. No matter what, they exempt or extend military funding before preventing or allowing a shutdown. The war machine always gets to continue.

It's almost comical that the government is close to shutting down and I'm learning about it a few hours before the deadline. We in the US truly live in a failed state if a government shutdown is, in a way, barely news anymore.

Yeah I get those dumb fantasies too. I view it the same way I view American politics getting better in any way, the delusions of an idle mind wanting a better world.

In other words, I miss him so much it hurts sometimes.

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I've been thinking about all of the articles about NATO troops possibly deploying in Ukraine and the whole will they won't they of it all. I think that this piece by Bhadrakumar got me to finally understand what NATO is planning. There will be bilateral troop deployments from some willing NATO countries and because they won't be in NATO territory they will not be able to trigger article five. I'm convinced that the Brandon regime will push for this in an absurd attempt to win reelection. Try to go full wartime president with it with non-US NATO troops fighting Russia. They will try flying close to the sun on this one.

I don't know what that looks like in practice exactly but I can see a rough shape. said that France will move after certain red lines are crossed. I could also see staggered announcements and entrance into the plan.

First, after Russia goes on the offensive, announce some ghoulish framework for helping Ukraine and how it will be conducted. Next, announce noncombat troop deployments as "advisors" and such from France and a few other countries. Then, after NATO troops die in combat (like they're supposed to), they can announce limited combat forces and work their way up the escalation ladder. This would be a slow buildup with countries entering the new "coalition of the willing" over a few months, but I can see it happening this way.

This could also all be bullshit to try to scare the Russians though. I think that I'm around 50-50 between the two options.

I don't know how someone of Indian descent can say that with a straight face.

He's literally the right wing boogeyman Stalinist college professor in the actual existing flesh. He's written books defending Stalin from the perspective that Stalin could basically do no wrong.