A number also took private flights. Unless you happen to live where its taking place you have to possess the means to afford travel, a place to stay, and potentially legal fees to attend a protest. You also, as you said, need to be able to afford the time off work. This restricts most protests to college students and PMCs with a few locals thrown in.

Fuck, the wanted to hang Mike Pence.

The president and commander-on-chief of the United States had just heavily implied it would be a good idea. Those of them not just caught up in the enthusiasm probably thought they would have military support. Trump always appealed to people that can’t really separate reality from movies and they thought they were living the climax. Reality is, however, much more pragmatic than that and they were lucky they were of the privileged class so they were merely arrested rather than gunned down the way anyone else storming a federal building would be.

Yep, and once you platform enough nutcases no one else wants to be associated with or listen to you.

Infowars had some reputable people in its earlier days too. Rogan seems to be following the same unhinged path.

Rob : You’re a total paranoid.

Alvy Singer : Well, how am I a para-? I pick up on those kind of things. You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, uh, “Did you eat yet or what?” and Tom Christie said, “No, didjew?” Not, “did you”, “didjew eat?” Jew? No, not “did you eat”, but “Jew eat”? Jew. You get it? Jew eat?

How the hell was Johnson a communist?!

It started out a term teenagers on twitter used for when one of them discovered racism exists and corporations want to make money. Then conservative adults discovered it and started saying it instead of “the gay agenda.”

Hearing actual senators use it is so embarrassing. I’m waiting for when they form the no cap caucus.

When I grew up we bullied gay children until they killed themselves. I’ll take cancel culture going too far over that any day.

Billionaires aren’t really citizens of any country. They’re kind of small nations unto themselves.

Two jewish men are sitting on a bench in Israel reading newspapers. One of the men, reading a newspaper in Hebrew, notices the other man is reading a newspaper in Arabic.

“My friend,” he exclaims. “How can you read that trash! Don’t you know its all lies?”

The other man puts down his paper and replies, “I used to read your newspaper and I’d get depressed. Its all bad news. Now I read this paper and it makes me happy. We run all the banks, we run Hollywood, soon we will take over the world!”

Old joke

I can’t help but wonder who he was sending videos of himself smoking crack to? Why would a grown man even take a video of themself doing something illegal? I don’t care, he’s not any part of the Biden administration, its just bafflingly stupid.

Tankie is a term British communists used against other British communists who didn’t oppose the USSR invading Hungary in 1956. These days its pretty much any Marxist-Leninist.

They played around with making an AI generated episode of black mirror but it wasn’t good enough to be compelling.

Well, nazbols exist but I can’t say that there’s enough of them to really qualify. Maybe in eastern Europe? I’ve heard its a more common ideology there. I wouldn’t really call them leftists though

They said the Soviet Union was the biggest threat to the western world. Now they’re supporting the ghouls who devoured its corpse.

What’s the difference between Conor Clapton and a bag of cocaine?

Eric Clapton would never let a bag of cocaine fall out a window.

sorry

Dictatorship at the time didn’t mean necessarily authoritarian, it just meant government. Someone always dictates however they may be elected. He felt the people dictating should be the working class.

You got down voted but you’re right. Tankie is the new form of commie after that fell out of favor. Western “champaign socialists” (another term I hate but it kinda applies here) use it to criticize people from countries that actually have had socialist experiments. Most of the leftists globally are not western and would fit under the standard western definition of tankie. But if you’ve never come close to overthrowing your own government, are you positioned all that well to criticize someone elses revolution while you sit comfortably in the imperial core?

Poor countries face challenges that rich countries can’t imagine often from western interference and revolutions are an ugly business. No Castro was not Santa Claus but he was a marked improvement over Batista.

Just because something is a social construct doesn’t mean it isn’t real or important.