did... they really call the operation "Prosperity Guardian"? As in "Prosperity Doctrine", or the idea that wealth signifies God's approval?
I feel like we're speedruning the Bush presidency here -- all the same figures popping up to try and justify imperial violence, tripping over themselevs when pressed on the details.
Only, where you would have weeks, months, sometimes years between initial 'Justification' and inevitable 'tripping', now it's happening practically in the same day
"I'm not going to be blackmailed into saying that I'm enabling Trump to win. The Democrats did that to themselves." -- Bassem Youssef
i suggested a presidential write in campaign for 'nobody' partially as a joke
...maybe we could actually put nobody in office 
Bassem Youssef Quote -- "I'm not going to be blackmailed into saying that I'm enabling Trump to win. The Democrats did that to themselves."
from now on this is how I'm gonna respond to these things. I'm making this the :parenti-hands: Parenti Quote for 2024 Yankee-election year
The funniest thing to me is that Keynesian policies are exactly the sort of thing that would keep the wheels on the bus of US hegemony for an extra couple of decades. A hypothetical Sanders presidency where he got to fulfill his campaign promises would have been beneficial to Yankee capital and empire -- but they're so ideologically committed to whatever it is they think they're doing, they couldn't recognize that. It's nearly poetic.
Accordingly, speculation arises that the Houthis could have purchased MANPADS on the global arms market on their own, and the sellers could have been either directly from the Ukrainian military, or from countries or structures that purchased Stinger MANPADS from the Ukrainian military and decided to resell them
Uncle Sam when there are unintended, yet easily foreseeable, consequences: :shocked-pikachu:
The company said it is working to ensure its upcoming trips to the Canary Islands go on without a hitch.
they're gonna shoot the orcas
The latter.
really, how dare we post about things on a website made for posting. Shameful, really.
i like that the toilets are disabled by flushing. that's some Doofenshmirtz enemy design right there
yeah, don't really understand the shock here
the whole policy really seems... stupid. Like, we've kinda hit a plateau with microchips and CPUs. Any smaller and you start getting quantum interference and the board becomes useless. So why is the stated strategy to prevent innovation on this front? What difference does it make? Either US leaders are fighting last century's battle and assuming this is perfectly analogous to the Soviet computer industry, or it's a distraction for something more covert.
But... I don't really know what the latter could be. I'm half convinced we're just not capable of that kind of thing anymore, that all the old heads have retired and all our clandestine institutions are staffed by their starry-eyed children. People with the right connections and none of the skills.
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Yeah, I've seen people try to say this was because the US is just to racist and misogynist to elect a black woman... and maybe we are, but I don't think we got the chance to actually learn that. If there was a campaign, most people never saw it. I'm a dirty pathetic politics watcher, and all I saw was "We're not gonna do anything different from what we're already doing" A lot of people I talked to in real life weren't aware this was an election year, and they definitely weren't aware Biden wasn't running again.