I’m just envisioning Trump coming over to Biden’s makeup/prep room, whatever they get, before the debate to say good luck in private and just let him know it’s nothing personal between them. While they’re chatting Biden is getting layers upon layers of makeup caked on and Trump is just nervously inching closer and closer to Joe’s water bottle with a tiny bottle of visine eye drops. Just enough to fuck him up and counteract the speedball.

Jesus Christ

This was a full dose of lib-virus

Glad I got my anti-lib vaccine, although I did feel a tinge of something before the burnt toast smell became overwhelming, my vision went red, and I just heard “red sun in the sky” in my head

So manning got sentenced to 35 years under Obama (pardoned after 7 served also by Obama… thanks Obama…)

Assange was effectively imprisoned all this time and his official sentence is apparently going to be 5 years counting time served already so the feds get a “W” and now he can leave London finally

I wonder how much time the people on video murdering Reuters reporters got… oh, zero. The only real response from Obama’s DoD was “🤷 looks legal, bub 🤷 what can we do? 🤷” The same shit they’ve always said. Same shit they run now to cover for Israeli war crimes. They literally justified the killing of the reporters by saying they were embedded with militants… simply because the “militants” had AKs. People in a non-US country had weapons, reporters were there for whatever reason, US kills all of them, and post-death just calls them all terrorists. Reuters took it too. They ate shit and never openly called out the DoD.

Guess it’s just important to remember with all the recent insanity from Israel and US protecting the IOF, this is really just the same shit they always do

Dogshit country where no good deed ever goes unpunished

Seems like shit!

I like what the ublock origin creators/devs have to say about ads/adblocking

It is important to note that using a blocker is NOT theft. Do not fall for this creepy idea. The ultimate logical consequence of blocking = theft is the criminalization of the inalienable right to privacy.

Ads, “unintrusive” or not, are just the visible portion of the privacy-invading means entering your browser when you visit most sites. uBO’s primary goal is to help users neutralize these privacy-invading methodsin a way that welcomes those users who do not wish to use more technical means.

From their Github

I’d rather see these people who leave stay and actively undermine things. Leak shit, purposely fuck up communications, etc.

Or at least I would like to see that in a new screenplay I’m writing where I ponder the legality of stating I’d like to see this done

Alternatively,

Material conditions are still too good in the US for the type of extremism you write about to manifest (yet). People who are getting fucked over but not starving won’t be murdering anyone anytime soon.

However, the trend is clear, your observation is correct about where capitalists would like to take things. This will worsen conditions and push more and more people towards extremism… which is where it is up to “us” to push people leftward and point their anger where it belongs, towards capitalists/capitalism.

As I find myself repeating a lot, things just simply aren’t bad enough yet across the board in the US to see the unrest which is required for actual change. It’s going to get worse, worse probably than any of us can imagine right now, before it starts to get any better. If you can see the inevitable future coming then you can see things like this court case being another domino in a line of them that is still fuzzy. It won’t change anything on its own, but all these small events will eventually add up to something big. We just aren’t there yet, and that’s probably good in some ways because there is effectively no leftist movement of any sort in the US. Like the fact that these cases get decided in the obviously far right way, and that we expect it, shows that the left is totally annihilated in the US. Absolutely no power currently. Just gotta work on changing that however we can. It’s very bleak.

People who parrot the “right to exist” line are usually either so far gone down the propaganda pipeline that you alone will not be moving them on the issue or, worse, they’re a full blown ideologically driven Zionist cynically trying to equate their fascist pet project with the existence of humans inside and outside of Israel.

And honestly before Oct last year I think a lot of westerners, especially Americans, could plausibly fall under the former. Maybe they saw pictures or heard a news story from Israel’s various criminal murder campaigns, looked into it just a tiny bit, and immediately got smacked with the “wow! Seems like you don’t think Israel has a right to defend itself or exist!” And a lot of well meaning liberals will throw their hands up and go “no no no I’m sorry! I didn’t know!” and never talk about it again due to the way Zionism has fairly successfully tied Israel to Jews as a people (which is antisemitic as fuck) and so Israel is regarded as “not your business” if you aren’t Jewish. Your acceptable choices are ignoring/avoiding it or being pro-Israel… nothing else.

But since October, where there was very little excuse before, there is NO excuse now to claim ignorance. As much as I try to attribute people’s actions to ignorance rather than bad intent, I can’t do so anymore on this issue. I simply refuse to accept anyone who can parrot the right to exist BS doesn’t know exactly what Israel has been doing for 75 years and especially the last 20 or so and especially especially the last 9 months. We all see the videos/pics, everyone who didn’t know before knows now at least a general REAL history of how Israel came to be, so if they’re falling back on right to exist it’s for a specific reason. They’re trying to do what the intent of that phrase is which is to sort of humanize the state of Israel, to make it a person basically, and that “person” represents all Jews in the world. If you wish to see that state dismantled then you’re explicitly saying you want Jews to not exist. Obviously this is all antisemitic (the biggest irony in all this) as fuck and basically just early 1900s nationalistic insanity that, yes, you’d be hearing from Nazis or perhaps the fucking KKK.

So, no matter what you say or do, you aren’t pushing those people who are fully committed to equating a nation state with a group of people. To them you might as well just be saying “Jews don’t have a right to exist.” They’re so far down in their racist dark places that many of them probably do believe this to a large extent, or they’re just totally cynical right wing pieces of shit who revel in being able to murder people AND being able to silence you with false claims of antisemitism. Either way, like I said, you won’t be moving them.

The only thing that can probably move them is making it fully untenable to be a Zionist. It needs to have the same stigma as openly calling yourself a Nazi or openly supporting Rhodesia. It used to be very popular to support Rhodesia amongst far right wing types. Ask people under 30 or maybe even 35 what Rhodesia was now days and you’ll get a lot of “huh? Never heard of it” responses. Just gotta keep pushing to cut off aid to Israel, keep pressuring private industry/unis to divest, and finally to enact sanctions and remove all political protections at the UN. Once Zionists are totally isolated from the world it’ll all crumble and you’ll never hear another dumbass say that right to exist line.

That’s where I’m at with that stupid phrase. Don’t debate them, just force them to stfu. It will take a lot more time and effort, but they’re losing, they know they’re losing, and I dunno. Fuck their dumb little racist slogans in the end.

I was in the Rockies on Jul 4 like over 10 years ago. It was snowing at the higher elevations. Definitely a weird experience to go from snow and then like an hour later (driving back down to Denver/surrounding areas elevation) it’s 90F and you’re at a lake.

But anyway, let me crank up my AC running on fossil fuel-generated electricity and maybe later water my extra dry lawn…

Interesting story!

Line of “legally a different discussion” 👆

Threatening the world with nuclear annihilation because your shitty failed economic system is falling apart is threatening billions of people. No one person or government has this right.

Unrelated quote: “Shinzo Abe WAS a Japanese politician and statesman…”

Emphasis mine

If the UAW does this, I wonder what the insane overreaction will be from DC

Beyond forcing capitalists to share a few more crumbs of their stolen profits, unions and student led organizations have been the sort of the tip of the spear in past socialist revolutions. Surely this is not a secret to those in Washington and elsewhere. This has to be scaring the shit out of the more historically literate ones.

A lot of westerners, Americans especially, always ask “yeah but can I do?!” This is what you can do. Unionize your workplace or help unionize others. Push for (or be!) radical leadership that seeks to squeeze the owners for every cent they can get. Push the union to take up issues like divestment from Israel. This is how political change that actually matters happened in the past and it can happen again. Workers hold the power, ultimately. Capitalists and their subservient politicians want you to forget that or give up.

President Xi, America yearns for freedom

Very weird to celebrate

I’m no fan of current Iranian governance, or even Hamas. I understand why they exist, but I wouldn’t choose to live under their governments. That doesn’t mean I want their leaders dying since I can see their importance to resisting US imperialism.

I would say this is like disagreeing with how China has developed since their revolution. Am I a huge fan of all of it? Of course not. That doesn’t mean I would celebrate Xi dying or China dissolving it’s communist party. Not to compare them to Iran too much, obviously very different things, but western “leftists” (they’re liberals really most of the time) see them as “bad guys” with zero nuance or perspective. Important perspective such as no matter how authoritarian Iran is or brutal to its citizens (and i have no doubt that many stories have core truths to them. The stories we read about life there) will ever compare to the brutality the US empire has unleashed on places like Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Iran (hmm), entirety of South America, Mexico, etc. basically the entire globe. So, are they bad in some ways? Undoubtedly. But the bigger bad, that they resist, is the US military and empire. And this can’t be forgotten. You don’t have to praise Iran’s government in order to see that it is the lesser evil compared to the US and also it only exists because of the US and now Israeli interference in the region.

Jackson Hinkledink is not on “the left.” He’s the only dipshit along with just open white nationalists, fascists, Nazis etc. like Tucker who “support” Putin

Supporting immediate ceasefire and peace, even if it means redrawing lines on a map, is not “supporting” Putin no matter how many times the warmonger neolibs at MSNBC and CNN scream about it.

If your interests align with the military industrial complex, Fox News, CNN, and the status quo politicians who are all center right wing, you should either accept what you are (the fact you seem hostile to leftists/communists is a GIANT red flag on that front. Anti-communism is just Nazism) or, I dunno, analyze your thoughts and figure out why you think endless death and destruction is necessary to prevent lines from changing. Who told you those lines were important and why do they/you believe that?

If you want to use this tired and boring trope then at least set it up properly

One track is full of millions of people and the other is full of the same.

One track is painted with happy colors and rainbows and one track is painted with skulls and imperial eagles

You’re getting the exact same death and destruction no matter what, but one track is less openly an asshole about it.

If you saw what Biden and his cronies just did to college students for opposing 7 months of ongoing US-funded genocide in the last month or so and still somehow think he’s a lesser evil… I don’t think you understand words. Or you just don’t care. If you don’t value the lives of Palestinians, Yemenis, Iranians, Russians, Ukrainians, whoever, just say it, let everyone know you’re a POS, and move on. Stop coping. Accept what you support and stop hiding behind false thought experiments and shit

Stop yelling at those seeking to better things and yell at the people who told you to hate those who seek better things.

To your last point, I don’t think Biden believes in shit

But assuming he or other Zionists, specifically ones with power right now, do I have mentally wondered about the Pope excommunicating Biden and whatever else a Pope can do to a catholic to punish them for egregious sins and whatnot. Unfortunately the, uh, history between Catholics and Jews although mostly irrelevant within the context of a possible excommunication… would nevertheless be weaponized to unlimited ends by the biggest pieces of shit ever shat on this planet. People like Greenblat or Tom “yes, I am proud KKK member, fuck you” Cotton. You’d have dipshits like Cotton up in the senate reading details about the Spanish Inquisition and how the Pope is literally ripping Bibi’s intestines out through his ass by condemning Biden. I guess they’d have to walk a comical line of not defending Biden too much, but shitting on the Woke Pope using historic antisemitism would be too juicy of a grub to pass up for these demons.

Still kinda hope it happens on the slight off chance that an old man really does fear god and being told by the guy he syas he believes speaks for god that he’s done horrific sins… I dunno. It’s not like people like Cotton aren’t already trying to pass laws to basically just make it legal for anyone to roll up to a person with a sign and shoot them in the head. He’s gonna do the most evil shit possible until he’s stopped. That should release everyone else to do everything to stop him… except people like Biden kinda agree with him, just turn the dial down a little on the literally shooting protestors part. He just wants to imprison them/make them homeless.

Biden upcoming speech:

“I’m a Zionist! I believe in a Jewish State, and I believe it must be Israel! Some Jews disagree with that. I say to them: If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t Jewish!”

If he did actually say that verbatim people like Greenblat at the apartheid defense league would applaud him.

I don’t know how to not fedpost on this topic, but it’s very clear what the fascistic politicians and those too cowardly to stop them are doing.

Pointing out hypocrisy is good rhetorically, but its downside is those with power simply ignore it. They’re not going to stop unless…[insert fedposting]…

Can’t even really type further. [federal sad noises] Greenblat [more federal noises]

Something which never sinks in with liberals (because it might bust their brains, I dunno) is “terrorist” just means “doesn’t align with state interests.” I would also add “and usually non-state actors” but Bibi has been calling Iran a “terror state” so I guess we’re scrapping the state actor part and just going with “they do things opposed to us dominating everything- that’s terrorism!” 2003 all over again.

I have noticed libs jumping over “unpatriotic” as was the claim in 2003ish towards anti war protesters and landing directly on calling them pro-Hamas and pro-terrorist which is just a zero-mask call for state violence on protestors (and they got their wish). I don’t think the more soft-hearted, mostly “well-meaning” liberals have let it sink in yet that if you call someone terrorist you aren’t only being hyperbolic and stupid, you are saying “this person is an enemy of the state and appropriate force must be used to eliminate them… immediately.” That’s just what it means, I’m sorry. They are quite literally saying “kill this guy!” Why? “For being an anti-genocide terrorist!”

DM me that shit

Well if you want real depression spiral shit, just look at how much Cuba has accomplished as a tiny island nation under constant embargo from the US basically since day 1 post-revolution. Now imagine if that attitude had been extended and embraced by, well, the US, Canada… the entire world. Imagine if instead of giving into squealing hogs for 80 years humanity had united after the war and every place on earth worked together towards common goals of uplifting humanity.

Something that legitimately makes me sad, and it’s really hard to talk about without feeling sentimental, is seeing and hearing dreams and visions that Soviets had maybe 50 years ago. Their propaganda wasn’t about, I dunno, a Coke in every hand to wash down a burger in every land. It was about getting to space, working together across all nations, doing the things that could have been achieved after 1945 had only the United States rejected imperialism and embraced the Soviets.

One of the saddest and simultaneously most angering things I can imagine is being a kid born in Russia or Cuba in like 1970. Born into this world of positive dreams of the future where the US finally got over itself and joined everyone else. And you’re a young 20 something year old in early 1990s. The USSR is dismantled, the US and capitalism declare final victory over communism, and all your dreams and all the dreams of your nation go poof into nothing. The next several years are just a spiral… I can see why so many Russians took their own lives after that. Just utter destruction of humanity all to get that Coke in more hands. So pointless.

The world has squandered 30 years now in pure stagnation and waste. Arguably longer, but at least when the west had to compete with Soviets they did innovate more. Couldn’t let those backwater commies make the “good whites” look bad or whatever.

I do find it remarkable too how many people see the time period after the war until 1991 and then from 1991-today and think “oh, the last 30 years were good for the west!” Living standards getting progressively shittier, innovation into meaningful life-improving tech is crawling (the internet and techs from it are largely from the 1970s/80s and then innovations upon that basic computer technology). We don’t make new shit that we need. We just found ways to distract ourselves better from the suffering of those who create commodities for us or harvest the raw resources. If I were designing a pure dystopian future that breeds nihilism and apathy and a desire to feel anything at any cost, I can’t imagine a better end result than the US in 2024.

It’s incredibly depressing that any thoughts I once had in my 20s of seeing a better world in my life have now turned to “well, the best I can do is push things a small amount for future generations.” Not that that’s bad, but on a personal level, well, who doesn’t want to live the gay space communism dream…? In other ways though, it does sort of strengthen the resolve when you know it’s not happening in your lifetime. There’s nothing to lose in that way. It’s not like radical actions will prevent good things, your life is already doomed to meaninglessness under capitalism, so all you have to lose is a better future for your kids or other kids around the world. And if that’s what you truly do want, and not purely for selfish desires, well, in a way you’re already unshackled.

Not sure how I got off on that, but, whatever. Clicking post anyway