I think Michael Moore's strategy of pointing out how "great" European social democracies do prisons is backfiring: instead of the U.S. stepping down the carceral state, fascist politicians have taken notice and the Euro-"social"-fascists are ramping it up.

Wow. I'm incredibly surprised the pigs arrested him and not the people he went after who kicked his ass in self-defense.

Yeah, I've got some 401k bullshit. Burn it to $0 to stop the genocide, motherfuckers. I'll work on my own goddamed comfort; I don't need hundreds of thousands of murders to sustain it.

(Probably I should try to work out how to just withdraw everything from it and eat whatever tax penalties to donate the rest to Palestinian funds.)

Love the part where they steal "Israeli" passports and phones.

~Source:~ ~NPR~

IMX they're mostly/actually there to "deter/shoot looters" though, and limit access to areas where supposedly looting is a concern. Standing around with machine guns looking very intimidating, and all that.

The actual hard, manual labor is usually done by—surprise, surprise!—private contractors.

But admittedly this is in , so maybe things are slightly better there....

that much weight.

I hate to do a WeLL aCtuaLLy here—especially because it appears to be fake anyway—but just in case....

The "tonnage" of a bomb is not its actual weight, but the explosive power measured, supposedly, as a "TNT equivalent" (1 "ton" being 4.184 GJ). A more powerful explosive will have a higher "poundage" or "tonnage" despite not actually having more mass. It might well be that a 500 "ton" bomb using the most powerful contemporary, conventional explosive would be too heavy for any plane to deliver (and this could well have been what you meant), but a plane wouldn't literally have to deliver 500 tons of mass/weight in order to do so.

As someone with a physics background I absolutely fucking hate how they mix up units—and even types of unit—this way. There's no reason not to just report, and get people used to seeing, explosive energy in Joules. So just trying to make sure everyone is clear about how shitty our reporting on measures is, especially in the U.S./West/empire. (They could at least make this very clear by stating e.g. "500 tons-of-TNT" or "500 TNT-tons" or something, but nooooooooooooo!)

Another masterpiece, truly.

California voted to protect same-sex marriage, I guess. It's the only really meaningful proposition that actually went the right way (no rent control, no abolition of slavery—in fact, a step up in incarceration for drugs and petty theft—and no minimum wage increase). But it's...ah...something.

Yep. LOL. The longer that Holocaust Harris had had to make it clear that she was just Biden-without-dementia, the closer to Biden's projected landslide loss she would've gotten.

It's about the same percent that Jill (101k, 0.9%) and Claudia (43k, 0.4%) and write-ins (16, 0.0%) got combined in California. So probably about like that.

Nazbols. Quite literally, in Hinkle's case.