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Liberalism started as a philosophy to oppose monarchies. While watching protests, I saw a sign with a John Locke quote on it and it clicked for me.

This whole campaign of No Kings is total philosophical cooptation of the burgeoning revolutionary energy and redirecting it to liberalism. At first I thought the slogan was catchy but stupid - we're not at risk of a king.

But seeing the quote made it click. No Kings is something both American liberals and American conservatives agree on, because they're all philosophical liberals. By focusing the energy of the moment against "kings", it at once directs the energy towards an already solved problem (there are no kings in the USA) and it directs the attention of the energized towards liberal concepts.

That level of sophistication, to me, is additional evidence that this is a dead end movement that we need to break out of or risk being herded into a cul-de-sac.

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[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 1 month ago

Early reports say shooters were impersonating police officers. Watch it be actual police officers.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 99 points 2 months ago

Wow. They could just print money to bail all of these banks out, but instead they're going to create revolutionary conditions

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 65 points 5 months ago

It's like the night of long knives but the commercial version

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 75 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I love that he and his movement have been so rabidly anti-China particularly on the economics and he applied 250% more pain on Canada than China.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Let's watch for the bluffs and double bluffs.

But honestly, if The Agency hasn't planned all this out in advance and given him the playbook, he might not survive their discipline.

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Because I am self-employed, I have to buy my health insurance from the NYS marketplace. It is bonkers. Literally unfathomable.

The cheapest plan, for young healthy individuals with no anticipated healthcare needs, is $1,500/month. That is literally the cost of an apartment in many places in this state.

But wait, what do you get for $1,500/month? A deductible of $5,500 and an out-of-pocket maximum of $7,500. So you get to literally pay the equivalent of a second rent for the privilege of NOT GETTING ANY BENEFIT unless you have a major health event. It's madness. What the fuck could you possibly justify paying $18,000 a year for if every single time you go to a medical provider you have to pay the full bill anyway?!

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I am looking for anyone writing about the various theories and "revelations" regarding extraterrestrial and cryptoterrestrial technologies and their implication in geopolitics.

Specifically, I am looking for analyses that seek to identify conditions that might be true if we assume one or more actors of various classes (states, militaries, intelligence communities, alliances, non-state actors, "aliens" themselves) has possession of non-contiguous technologies. Having identified some of these conditions, I would hope the analysis then goes on to compare historical and current conditions to see if there is evidence to support or contradict such possession.

An example might be an analysis that shows a state, like the USA, with possession of such non-contiguous technology, if they were able to make it battle ready, might under invest in traditional warfare production like what we see today.

Another example might be how a state like the USA might use limited conflicts to gather intelligence on capabilities from other states that could reveal those states' level of non-contiguous tech readiness, and then analyze how the Ukraine war might fit those conditions or predict how the prosecution of a hot conflict with China in Taiwan or Korea might look under these conditions.

Does anyone know of any writers doing this sort of work?

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 9 months ago

This narrative is so transparently disingenuous. The USA is fighting Iran on its own behalf and its been using Israel to prosecute it, escalate it, and create the pretext for direct involvement.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 11 months ago

China's going to have to sanction the USA at some point

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[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 1 year ago

Weapons for Ukraine, weapons for Israel, ban tiktok, but literally let everyone domestically die of poverty, don't talk about abortion, and yell about people killing trans people and black people while increasing transfer of military weapons to police and increasing drilling for oil.

And my lib friends still think there's a reason to hope that the Ds will make things better

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 2 years ago

You mean that time the USA told Japan to not vacate the peninsula until the USA military arrived, took over the imperial colony of Japan on the peninsula, created an artificial border in the middle of a sovereign nation, and then used a crossing of that fake border to justify bombing nearly every single structure in the North until the military had to acknowledge there were no more targets left to hit, so instead they amped up their napalm campaign and Koreans needed to live in caves to survive while the USA occupation of South Korea was a racial and sexual domination playground until eventually they found enough compradors in South Korea to build a government with an air of legitimacy to provide cover for essentially turning the entire Southern portion of the peninsula into a USA military base and industrial base? That Korean War? The one that killed millions of civilians?

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The UK arresting an average of 9 people a day. Meanwhile, arrests in Russia are below 500 each year, sometimes far below.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 107 points 2 years ago

I think everyone is worried. But we have to trust the resistance fighters that organized this. It's always been a possibility. They have to have planned for this eventuality. Hopefully Israel invading fully is exactly what is needed to move forward towards liberation.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It is the USA that has been the target of appeasement. Every expansion, every death squad, every war crime, every black site, every assassination, every war of aggression, every single time the world appeases the USA.

If you think the USA is appeasing China, your head is screwed on backwards. I know it's a common trope for abusers to feel offended and attacked when their victims standup for themselves, and I know you probably stand with the victims and see through the abusers' bullshit. You need to do that with the USA.

Abu Ghraib - appeased.
Nord Stream 2 - appeased.
Solemaini - appeased.
Iraq - appeased.
Iraq 2 - appeased.
Vietnam - appeased.
Laos - appeased.
Cambodia - appeased.
Korea - appeased.
Hiroshima - appeased.
Nagasaki - appeased.
Guantanamo - appeased.
Libya - appeased.
Syria - appeased.
StuxNet - appeased.
Pulling out of nuclear treaties - appeased.
Refusing to be accountable to ICC - appeased.
Refusing to sign landmine treaty - appeased.
Agent Orange - appeased.
Napalm - appeased.
White phosphorus - appeased.
Depleted Uranium - appeased.
Yugoslavia - appeased.
Afghanistan - appeased.
School of the Americas - appeased.
Wiretapping the entire US civilian population - appeased.
Wiretapping every embassy through Siemens supply chain attack - appeased.
NATO expansion - appeased.
Economic shock therapy kills millions - appeased.
Training terrorists - appeased.
Airlifting terrorists into other countries - appeased.
Environmental devastation - appeased.
Sending expired vaccines - appeased.
Refusing to send vaccines - appeased.
Refusing to follow the predefined protocol for sharing vaccine research - appeased.
Iranian regime change - appeased.
Color revolutions - appeased.
Extracting trillions from Africa - appeased.
Child separation - appeased.
Toddlers in solitary confinement - appeased.
Forced hysterectomies - appeased.
Collective punishment of civilians - appeased.
Support for Israeli apartheid - appeased.
Iran-Contra - appeased.
Fast and Furious - appeased.
CIA drug trafficking - appeased.
Haitian assassination - appeased.
Bolivia - appeased.
Nicaragua - appeased.
Pinochet - appeased.

I can keep going if you want.

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[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 95 points 2 years ago
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This feels like an op to me. The timing is uncanny. If this story develops, I predict some escalation of current conflicts with some advanced weaponry (chemical, biological, nuclear, energy, space-based, etc) and the alien story to be used as cover.

Alternatively, it's a continuation of reactionary mobilization propaganda. Thought?

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