i like how this overtook: “scotty, beam me up”. lol

i wish americans and other westerners weren’t so good spreading propaganda to each other without at least getting paid like the cia or fbi or homeoffice; things are tough out there and you should be paid for your work.

here are articles of americans doing the same thing with prison labor:

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/putting-legal-lens-forced-prison-labor-and-thirteenth-amendment

https://breakingac.com/news/2025/jun/17/unveiling-the-system-forced-labor-in-us-prisons-and-the-push-for-reform/

https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

downvotes are a good thing here; they prove that you’ve atleast acknowledged these facts and that the seed of doubt can now germinate in your mind.

The thing you just understand about American politics is that extremely few pay attention beyond the headlines and most who do are labeled as tankies

The Democrat/Republican one would be first on my list

The same Congress that’s giving him everything he wants and is about to pass a resolution stating “free Palestine” is anti-semitic?

til of waterfox and fennec; thanks for the reply.

and implying that the united states didn’t help is willful ignorance at best since its diplomats worked to convince the iranians that it wasn’t going to happen.

i wish this showed this on american primetime tv news.

the grenades are the clearest sign that they’re meant for this style of oppression since they’ve explicitly permitted to be used by the police, but not soldiers.

the use of grenades is legal for ice, but not for the military and intentionally so, so that they can’t be prescuted for using them against american civilians.

at the rate at which we’re embracing the enshitification; i expect to die on the streets well before the boots ever show up.

it’s hard to image given that the largest factions are the maga-conservatives who occupy a continuous geographical area of the country and the neo-liberals who occupy disjointed geographical pockets on the east & west costs along with relatively thin majorites in even smaller pockets the northern midwest around the great lakes and an even weaker majority and even smaller pockets in the western part of the southwest around new mexico & colorado.

if balkanazation were to occur, i would guess that the relative political unity & economic prowess of texas would dominate the territory of the united states since its political identity extends well beyond texas’ current borders already and it’s well positioned at the near center of the country to maintain its hegemony as opposed to it’s largest rivals in california and new york who are too poorly positioned the edges of the opposite coasts and whose economies are dependent on the interior. also, an overwhelming majority of the population outside the neo-liberal pockets within the current geography of both california and new york is dominated by a political identify that’s significantly closer to texas than it is to either california or new york; considerably more so in california.

the only way the united states wouldn’t simply turn into a super-sized-texas is if mexico was somehow in a position to intervene in southern california and canada or europe with the rest of the coasts. however, if the united states is balkanizing, it would likely mean that canada and mexico are likely in not great shape either; so a super-sized-texas is the most likely outcome in all scenarios.

it bet it’ll survive in the same way it survived before the welfare based improvement of the 20th century; by disposing of generations worth of americans for the sake of the richest and ensuring that their descendants will never be well educated about it enough to realize what happened.

they said covid was a dress rehearsal for the next pandemic, but i think it’s going to become standard operations as we keep vacillating between diet-facism w the democrats and full-fat-fascism w the republicans for the next several decades.

it’s everone giving them the weapons and diplomatic cover to do so; joe included.

this poor guy is going to wind up dead or missing to make the headache go away for trump’s benefit

that’s probably to be expected from youtube

… I personally like the idea of ppl exploring new ideas regardless if they’re helping our immediate problems.

i always wondered if people like william gilbert or otto guericke ever had to endure derision from people due to their experimentation w electricity well before its impact could be known.

some part of me wants to hear overconfident and dogmatic responses like: “electricity?!!! who tf would ever need such a useless thing?!”

Made better when you literally have no change from yesterday’s standup. Lol

their duplicty makes me want to punch ezra klein in the face every time i see it and it’s made me give up on npr.