To them communism is something the asiatic hordes do, and liberal democracy is what white people do. Their view of the world hasn't changed since 1930

Syria all over again.

I'm re-listening to Blowback S1, and the parallels are crazy. Saddam played by the international community's rules, too; he tried tirelessly to reassure everyone that he had no weapons of mass destruction. There's even an account of him meeting his generals and telling them that he really didn't have any WMD, and the generals didn't believe him because they assumed he just would have hidden the WMD from them, and because not having any would've been a terrible strategy.

Iran did the same thing and look at the result.

Except for the communist newspaper I subscribe to, all other European news I've seen have been ambivalent to what Musk did. Idk what European news the person tweeting is reading.

Didn't this dude try to have someone assassinated because they were bad for business or some other petty shit?

I try really hard not to develop para social relationships, but at least I can chalk up my relief that Matt is doing better to some empathy for someone after seeing them go through something horrible.

Im really glad he's doing better though.

Critical support to anti-war weapons manufacturer CEOs, for gutting the global North's war capacity in exchange for short term gains

Critical support, and so on. Cox is like a union guy who has good ideas about labor but has no clue about feminism or intersectionality

It's an unfair comparison. The killdozer could actually withstand the elements, plus police's small arms fire.

Because it's so undeniably horrible and in the open , that most well-meaning turbolibs cannot brunch over the sound of the atrocities being committed, unlike every other issue they claim to care about, but have the worst takes on.

obvious moral hypocrisy of those far-left Americans who bandy about terms like “war criminal” while turning a blind eye to what amounts to an unconscionable war crime on the part of Hamas.

I think this bit is uncalled for, and sounds like them trying to say it without actually saying it. Saying that what Hamas did is a war crime while not acknowledging the war crimes by the state of Israel seems ideologically charged.

Parmigiano Reggiano doesn't have packaging per se. It travels very well because of the crust, and because it's a fuck-you heavy wheel of aged cheese, as long as the temperature doesn't get too high. The Parmigiano Reggiano consortium is living proof of a good idea ruined by the profit motive, and becoming the standard/goal for any other smaller, consortia. So yeah, very likely they just put the microchip somewhere in the crust (which nobody eats and is only good to put in sauce/stock)