having baphomet on the patch would have gone so hard and would have been 10x cooler though

You are already mistaken that you have any agency in the trolly problem. You also don’t even seem to understand what the choice was.

“ding don purity tests” like… not committing genocide… got it

edit: also wanted to point out that you served up two more thought-terminating cliches in your response… the democrats aren’t good, they are actually also doing bad things. They murdered something like half a million Palestinians— we all watched it happen— and then they told us, “who are you going to believe? me or your lying eyes?” … All of this was after they dramatically and intentionally created more childhood poverty in their own country. They aren’t “good” at all, they don’t want to be good. They want to serve their own faction of billionaires donors who have a vested interest in things not changing for the better at all.

Is this a bit? Nobody here is happy with Trump winning, but you are exemplifying the very reason the Democrats lost so badly. This sort of intellectual dishonesty and over reliance on thought terminating cliches makes everyone who gives a shit about the real world annoyed and off-put. This is the sort of bullshit that makes people happy to see the Democrats lose, regardless of who wins.

The truth is that Harris didn’t give a shit about winning. They would rather lose than do the right thing. The DNC doesn’t care about you or me, they actually have a tremendous amount of contempt for their voters. They would rather “win over” Republicans than do anything remotely helpful to working class people. They don’t want to bother lying that they are for universal healthcare. They don’t want to be in a position where they might have to expand access to abortion. They want to demand your vote in exchange for nothing. They probably won’t reverse anything Trump does in the next 4 years, because we saw for ourselves that they didn’t reverse most of his policies 4 years ago. Except for maybe the child tax credit, which increased childhood poverty by like 50%. The Democrats suck just as bad as Republicans because they are just representing another clique within the same class of billionaires, any “progressive” talk from them is and has always just been performative

At almost any point in the past year, the Biden admin could have ended this conflict overnight by withholding weapons. Kamala stating outright that an arms embargo was off the table, and also saying the worst tragedy in the past year was Oct 7th among other things, those all signal very much that she may as well have invaded Gaza herself.

there is no way that this doesn’t end up targeting pro-palestine activists with the now federally expanded definition of antisemitism that “includes” antizionism

Ukraine is the first real near-peer war being fought with advanced weaponry and opposing industrialized state actors. Probably not too disimilar to what a conflict could look like between north and south. Having limited numbers of soldiers get experience in the field will probably ensure that those experiences are quickly absorbed by their own doctrine, considering the DPRK has been at war for 75ish years but has also been living in an armistice-limbo for nearly as long.

There are multiple levels to US support for Israel which can give the appearance of Israel “pulling the strings” when in reality it is a beneficial arrangement that is propped up by the US regime.

From a geopolitical standpoint, Israel is an essential component to the US unipolar order. Israel’s six-day war victory was a huge boon to the US, allowing the US to vicariously dominate western asia while it was overextended in Vietnam. This turned the tide against a socialist-oriented pan-arab movement. Israel saw a jr partnership to the US as a beneficial long-term arrangement, but for many years played both sides of the cold war up to that point. Israel’s importance to the US became dire after the Iranian revolution, which between the Shah’s Iran and Israel had encircled western asia more or less by US proxies. All of this control is essential for the US petro-dollar system, the system that forces the world to trade in dollar and therefore allows the US to essentially print a near-infinite amount of its fiat money without much concern for the integrity of its currency.

On the other hand, the US political system is a bourgeois republic that uses political elites, beholden to factions of the capitalist class and their monetary support, in order to legitimate its power. So each politician appears to be working under this or that party/principle/idea, but in reality it is a system that leverages individual (politicians) interest in order to align with ruling-class interests. The reason AIPAC and the Israel lobby appears to control politicians is because they have been given loopholes and exception to the point where it has been a defacto unspoken rule to support israel. the power AIPAC has over politicians is a representation of the power of the ruling class with its full weight behind this particular policy. Just like the interests of banking/finance or the MIC are unassailable to a large degree, they just call those things “bipartisan”.

Guess what I am saying is that despite whatever things they say in order to make whatever it is palatable, the US fully supports whatever the fuck Israel is doing. There is no secret or magic device making politicians bend to their will

There are other things that can contribute to the pain you feel during an injection, or lessen it: the distance of the needle insertion from a bundle of nerves, the gauge of the needle, the angle and speed of the insertion of the needle, the speed and depth of the administration. The temperature and ph of the vaccine also can change the experience, which can vary widely depending on the type of vaccine or the sort of preservatives/substrate the vaccine is in. Then there are differences between mrna vaccines, live attenuated, etc. The other things that affect the pain you are feeling: did you tense up or were you relaxed? What mindset were you in? Are you already in pain or was there something distracting you?

The truth is when someone gives you a shot or IV there are only a few things in their control that can actually affect how painful something is- most of it is up to chance or the vaccine itself.

Might as well “give a speech” when they will never answer the question anyway. The administration is literally playing with the lives of everyone on earth and this ghoul acts like that reporter is not taking things seriously. Matt Miller deserves a special place in hell.

the end of the end of history

There is probably truth to this, but it seems like “Israel” has also worked overtime to salvage the myth that they are an all-seeing, all-knowing super-advanced state. Having a bunch of people running around saying “actually they did know about xyz” helps spread that by appealing to contrarians.

The story also makes it seem like misogyny is the only culprit, and that there were smart “Israeli” women who knew what was up… but it is also just as likely that it was racism and a deep belief that the Palestinians were incapable of fighting back because they were “inferior caged animals” that led to Israel ignoring any warning signs. As this would suggest that there is a fatal flaw in the racial-supremacist ideology of Israel, you won’t hear them ever suggesting that they were too racist to see the threat, but they absolutely are too racist to properly analyze the world around them and understand the resistance. I guess that is good because it will be their undoing

Pray for Cuba and the Yucatan …

At this rate, the US might be thinking the Maduro government is looking more and more legitimate with each passing hour

That clip is so shameless. What a complete psycho. To say “We have never sought a diplomatic resolution with Hamas” and then to end by saying “The only way out is for a ceasefire with Hamas.” They think we are all idiots, but the corporate media will never reveal these questions imo. It sure seems like they are convinced they will never see any sort of accountability within their lives… then again Biden is on death’s door.

Has schrodinger’s cat finally been revealed? Has this become ww3 or will we find that “nothing ever happens???” Tune in next week as…

For real though, is something happening? Hezbollah and the entity have been trading blows for months… what are the chances that this would actually be a prelude to some sort of invasion?

they are arguing against the PSL: https://www.liberationschool.org/harry-haywoods-contributions-to-the-national-question-and-the-fight-for-class-unity/

how many HIMARS are left? I thought there were only a handful and it seems like they report one being destroyed regularly

a registered write in candidate just means that the state will record a write in for Claudia de la Cruz… if they weren’t registered the state will not report it at all

although I largely agree, what I have found is that a large number of people just aren’t seeing the images coming out of Palestine and they act as though it is impossible that the media they consume wouldn’t have shown them. People experience media differently from each other in this day, and it leads to vastly different ideas about reality. Particularly if they believe that the media is anti-israel on some level, they think that “CNN and MSNBC would love to be showing that every night” They literally live inside of a fantasy football game where whatever they see is reality and there is no space outside of it. Essentially that whoever will see the images coming out of gaza have, but it simply wasn’t enough because the corporate controlled media either never showed it or used the algorithm to contain it. I think this is why the demonstrations and actual political work over this still has importance.

This of course is different from the young staffers and petty-bourgeois types at the DNC (and their supporters) who absolutely saw at least some of the violence, but either didn’t care at all or those who avoided it intentionally but continued to follow “the news.” Those types are objectively the worst and there are so many more than i would have imagined