It feels trite to even point out, but the Democrats could get a lot of mileage out of "Republicans say they're patriotic, but they hate freedom: [list of policies curtailing freedom]"

Like, even the Democrats who say trans issues turn off their constituents. Suspect claim, but Ok. Then message around that. Reframe it. Describe it in terms of "personal freedoms" rather than "living your truth". How are you all so bad at this.

It's almost like capitalism functions better when workers are payed enough to buy things! I mean fuck Henry Ford was a frothing-at-the-mouth raving prejudiced lunatic, but he had enough practical sense to at least recognize that. This "lost" $12 billion isn't gone, it's just sitting in hedgefunds generating more digits, which they've decided is somehow more real than facilitating the next generation to buy into the hegemonic status quo.

Fuck. Damn. I mean, perhaps the most low-key aggravating stuff about communist theory is understanding enough about how capitalism works that you get aggravated when the ding dang old capitalists themselves can't even do it right.

What the fuck

• is this formatting. This is barely readable

• who organizes thoughts like this?

the Casandra curse of Marxism evaporates upon the personal entanglement with any large financial body

The market looks predictable at a spectator's distance, like plotting the orbit of a celestial body. As soon as you actually go there, you realize there's all this weather hidden behind those clean gravitational calculations.

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

No! That was load bearing woke!

"I'm not going to be blackmailed into saying that I'm enabling Trump to win. The Democrats did that to themselves." -- Bassem Youssef

David Cameron will do anything if a group of people all say things to the effect of "Do it, David" and "You're a ninny if you don't"

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