“The Art of War,” likely not the work of a single author but many over a period of years, is often derided for being basic and not something that required a superior tactical mind to compose.
People forget it was a textbook assigned to the dumbest bumpkin soldiers.
And here is why.
The purpose of a city is what it funds.
even the private army terrorising neighbourhoods as a distraction from theft is part of the BE playbook. Here's hoping they don't have the same levelof creativity and also introduce periodic forced famines to keep the population physically weak
thing about the Trump administration's24/7 stream of funds from the public exchequer into private hands is that you no longer have to explain colonial wealth extraction or tell people to read Dadabhai Naorojiwhen they are doing a live demo of how the British operated in Asia and Africa but at home
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
This is maybe contrarian and also a little meta, but I believe a lot of activity that looks like conspiracy is actually individuals working towards the same goals without ever conferring with each other.
"The police conspired to cover it up": no, they just independently did what came naturally.
Oh come on now
People will just make up complete nonsense and expect you to believe it really happened
But at least *some* of what the WH didn't know was because they deliberately looked the other way, figuring an attack would benefit them
How much they could *possibly* have known vs how much was just unknown to the US intelligence community isn't something I have an opinion about though
It's barely CT, but 9/11 was passively allowed
The WH didn't know exactly what was planned, or how effective it would end up being, but they knew it would be significant, and approximately when it was meant to happen. Both Mossad and the Saudis probably knew a lot more, possibly even all of it
Sonic the Hedgehog and Hatsune Miku passing a joint
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Iggy Pop is proof that all health advice is fundamentally a best guess.
Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters."
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The main reason leadership always obeys donors instead of voters is that donors can punish (or reward) them much more quickly and effectively than you or your junior elected can
And that's mostly because "money is speech"
Fortunately there are several different ways that formula can be changed
A lot of centrists on twitter are watching videos full of middle-aged white people in Michigan being pissed at Stevens and pretending they show brown college students. It's all very transparent
Most common response I got to saying that the median Democratic Party voter/activist is significantly to the left of political leadership on Palestine, ICE, etc was that the median Democratic Party voter/activist is too far to the left and therefore unrepresentative. I guess people can't read?
Serious question: what exactly made you think any non-voters "assume that NOT voting is somehow going to get them what they want"?
Did someone tell you that's what non-voters are thinking? Did you read it in a poll somewhere? Did something in the news or on social media give you that impression?
If you have the time/energy you should probably volunteer at your local food bank
You'll meet lots of ordinary but interesting people, you'll have opportunities to ask some of them about their voting habits, and you'll at least be better informed. You might even become a more compassionate person
Hey that's just family values in action
Honestly the most respectable part of the whole project
I understand why people left Twitter. I left Twitter, no one should stay on Twitter. But I have become deeply worried about Bluesky becoming the new Mecca of American liberalism because the extent to which it has disconnected itself from the reality of both local and national politics is staggering.
Again, considering we are in our third decade of receiving catastrophic proof that guilt tripping people into voting Democrat simply doesn’t work, it’s very hard to read stuff like this and conclude it’s anything other than projection.
Centrists will tell you that the Civil Rights movement was a coalition of willing centrists, but no it wasn't. It required real fucking pain & was often obstructed by people who were more dedicated to order than justice. I think there's a name for those people.
I think an immediate Center-left alliance can rid us of Trump though. It's just that I don't think that alliance could rid us of fascism. In fact, I think if it were to happen on the terms of centrists, which is just 'No Trump', it could further entrench fascism.
Bc Trump is just fascism's Gritty.
meme of goose chasing a guy, saying "which people didn't agree with everything she said, Corey?"
Yay for Us! Yay for the Big Tent! Yay for diversity! Liberalism-R-Us! Am I right, am I right?
Fuck "Some People" though. "Some People" are so demanding! They're just dragging us down, acting up and causing problems. If it wasn't for "Some People" everything would be fine.
Which people, Corey?
Also love how any antisemitic dogwhistle from any internet rando on social media site can suddenly demand careful analysis or national denunciation, but elected Dems using equally dangerous anti-Arab and transphobic dogwhistles as applause lines in stump speeches is just meh, whatever, *shrug*
It's actually kind of funny how for years "fall in line or go under the bus" has consistently been the party's message to "lean-Dem" voters, and even now that everyone who isn't a donor feels like they're under the bus already, Dems like Booker can't help going through the same old motions
So what? The US doesn't intend to honor whatever deal it makes anyway, and neither does Israel
This is like worrying about how Russia invading Ukraine affects the status of the Budapest accords. If Ukraine does go nuclear it's not going to be because they got their old warheads back 🙄
And it's ALSO worth noting that
a) European Zionists knew this would happen, they wrote that this would happen, they either deemed it unfortunate-but-necessary collateral or actively beneficial to their cause
b) in almost all the places where Jews were not kicked out, Israel drove them out
