Brett Stephans was masturbating in the NYT opinion pages about this today, apparently the new western dream is for an “Arab-led” security force to take over Gaza in order to “de-radicalize” it with the help of “European economic power”. It seems they have finally admitted that direct Isntraeli occupation of Gaza will only cause Palestinians to hate them more and strengthen the resistance. Though they still think annexations of the Egyptian border and cutting Gaza in half are necessary. Then I guess eventually a “deradicialized Gaza” will be handed over to Isntrael or the PA.

It’s an absolute fantasy, he literally made up a fictional Gazan man named “Mohammad” in the article to fabricate Palestinian support for this insane idea. No Arab state, even the collaborators, wants to get directly involved in this genocidal shitshow. I doubt NATO even wants to show up in person, except the US of course.

It reminds me of what the US is trying to do in Haiti with the Kenyan police. That has been a complete failure and it would be even worse in Gaza.

for me personally, walking into door frames and accidentally breaking ceramic and glass objects

Nah they are doing like A Modest Proposal satire thing, that’s funny. Guilty liberals just don’t want to hear it and assuage that guilt by making the UN not joke about it at brunch. That’s basically as good as actually feeding people.

don’t insult your kidneys or your liver they got your back when no one else does

Don’t try to half cope, everyone will smell the desperation. Gotta embrace it and stay all the way bald. Other men seem to notice and care more about it than women honestly.

it’s fun to play with. my ADHD brain likes the texture

how does any of that make them “bourgeoisie” or the “privileged elite”? Nations have different political systems, you shouldn’t expect them all to be organized like the corrupt American system unless you are an imperialist. And it’s particularly offensive to want to impose American political values on Cuba, a former American colony who righteously broke free of those chains.

wrong. a cast vote for candidate 3 is not a lost vote for candidate B. Furthermore variable b decreasing doesn’t increase the total of variable t so no you can’t “rewrite” it like that with magic math. This is how it works, it’s actually very simple:

candidate T gets t votes

candidate B gets b votes

candidate X gets x votes

Notable silence from the defenders of the “international rules based order”

unless this is movie about the pool ladder serial killer I fail to see what interesting plot hooks the Sims provides since it’s uh, you know, just a simulation of normal western life?

artists aren’t excused from technological proletarianization. Yes it hurts, you are going to get the value of your labor stolen by Disney and you will have to work in AI prompt generator mines. Billions of artisans, peasants and petty bourgeois in history have suffered the same indignity of being forced into wage labor. The bourgeoisie strips of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the writer, the scientist, into its paid wage labourers. Now it is the artist’s turn. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and humans are compelled to face with sober senses their real conditions of life, and their relations with their kind. So do not expect the bourgeoisie or their governments to provide you or or your occupation with special protections, they don’t care, they exist to make profit and they will crush you into dust as soon it’s profitable to do so.

The solution is and has always been class consciousness followed by proletarian revolution. If there is any upside to proletarianization it is that more people are introduced into the only revolutionary class. Put your artistic talents to use and create some agitprop, but don’t expect to be paid for it. Every reward we get has to be fought for.

Don’t take it so personally. sure EVs have a role to play but if we’re to be serious about tackling climate change and environmental sustainability it’s going to require massive infrastructure redevelopment projects, not asking everyone to please swap to rechargeable batteries. It’s not about being “right enough” it’s about recognizing a non-solution and also on a policy level a blatant scam. All these EV subsides the liberal Biden administration is throwing out are an obvious hand out to the failing American auto industry to try to keep them competitive and desperate ploy to their quickly dwindling supporters for them to look like they’re doing anything worthwhile on climate change at all.

Having every American buy a new electric car is just going to make a few auto executives rich as hell and not even reduce overall global emissions because those cheaper ICE cars that can’t be sold in America are just going to go to other parts of the world that don’t have EV infrastructure but have plenty of already existing gas stations. And there’s all the emissions of actually building the damn things. No, they need to put their money where their mouth is and build some fucking trains.

Demetrious Polychron

holy shit what an incredible name, don’t even care what’s this about, I’m with him. President Polychron 2024.

you are so sure that you are right and already “know it all”, why bother and even read this? There is no comment section to argue.

he made a mistake posting this to a comment section, now he must pay the price

try it bitch

will probably take that long just to add back in all the things they had to cut from from the consoles

I’m actually pretty shocked that Congress is so dysfunctional right now. Usually when there is imperialism to be done they can’t move fast enough to deliver another 50 billion dollars to the latest war criminal we’re aligned with and save all the gridlock bullshit for when the proles get uppity and ask for something.

“well if those kids are so smart surely they can do more with less right?”

-average conversation at an budgetary meeting for education, probably

all nuclear weapons were famously disarmed and destroyed once the Cold War ended right?

…right?