I always think that why-angel emoji looks like Biden lol

It’d also just so mind-blowing to me that they are legit gonna fuck up another country out in imperial-fall-lashing out.

Part of me genuinely wonders if this isn’t a diversion though, and they are about to bomb Mexico or something. It seems too obvious right now to go for Venezuela. They’re not geniuses but there are at least some majors that would tell Trump to be more tactful. Or maybe they’re gonna do some pager-like bullshit and then the diversion is less necessary. How many gusano venezuelans could they deploy?

You mean the horror film?? Oh damn I’m not big into those but if it’s good I’ll come back to it

What recent films are good? I got some time this week to chill and maybe watch one

Good thoughts, it reminds me of Losurdo’s concept of a representative of a class that doesn’t do what the class broadly wants, but instead what it needs to protect it from itself. Tucker does seem aware of protecting the bourgeoisie from their own incompetences and inability to strategically break with their fake ideals when needed.

got it, I actually kinda enjoyed watching it because Sam Altman doesn’t know how to be tactical about it, but I don’t blame you. Then I agree entirely, he is clearly very conscious of his class position

Generally fully agreed, he’s a scary and horrible person, but is this video a showcase of that? Seemed to me very bourgeois infighting? He’s just trying to make clout by talking about obvious shit that Media won’t, and he will definitely want to use that clout to build up power to do the fascist shit he wants. But how was that class conscious?

Not my nation, but where I live: every year crash the government, blame it on the asylum seekers, and then increase the votes and make the same coalition with more in fascist party. Then repeat it 1 year later. Most ridiculous version of the Ratchet effect in existence.

Thank you, I hadn’t seen anyone yet say how deeply unserious, useless, dangerous, and horribly ignorant shit like this is and how, along with being privacy conscious, nobody should be doing anything close to it.

I’ll laugh because a fascist died unceremoniously, but we shouldn’t even really need to discuss how to hypothetically get away with it or how to improve on such unserious bullshit.

Wait the Helldivers thing was on the “hey fascist catch”? Isn’t Helldivers intended to be ironic like starship troopers? Absolutely nonsensical shit

Adventurist libs still lib lol

I would guess the kid was worried that, even if he didn’t give himself up, that cop would’ve informed and other cops might’ve just come and shot him anyways. Idk what I’d do in the situation that a cop thought I was the killer in such a case. It’s really a rock and a hard place.

Lol the Guardian is reporting trump as saying that a cop (or cop-related position) knew the suspect and the suspect’s dad convinced him to go to the police. Sounds like a look-alike trying to clear his name is about to get thrown in the den of lions. Poor guy.

Edit: seems to just be another person completely incapable of running away lol. Went home to his dad and then turned himself in? What brainworms have infected this kid?

Is caving to this shit not indicative of a tendency which will likely continue to include the policies you want? “Of course the grocery store owners aren’t leaching off of the people of New York, I was just talking to the daughter of a store owner yesterday about how fearful she it for their livelihoods. Of course we won’t replace them with state-run grocery stores. We will just incentivize them to lower grocery costs”

I’m not saying that’s going to happen, but I’m in no way convinced by his recent moves that he has any strategy for pulling through. The pressure he will get for those is immensely, astonishingly stronger than for “NYPD is racist”. There’s an entire economic system he’ll be directly up against.

If the claim is that this is strategic to reach that end, then either I am useless at understanding the argument or it makes no damn sense because I sure can’t figure out how this helps the other.

EU falls apart because of Charlie Kirk

Glad to hear! Might be something about the particular field or just brain worms in the person I know. Glad to know that hexbear users have direct experience behind the opinion though!

Agree entirely, but I definitely thought those were just adult women drawn as if sad to see him marrying another. It seems they’re wearing heels. But maybe I’m just too nice and it’s even more fucked up than I can accept.

Thanks, I don’t havea grasp for the filters that could be part of this, but I definitely think that mechanism makes a lot of sense. With their specialty field, one which is sometimes useful for weapons and such, it could also be a much less natural filter. Might also have an impact, and maybe Chinese institutions don’t encourage publishing in the ‘best’ western journals in that field.

Sort of related: An academic with whom I’m close is a physics/mechanics-adjacent professor and has previously said that, in his experience, there are tons of Chinese articles/publications which are sort of absolutely useless. Like a “they make quantity, but quality lacks” sort of thing. Anyone have strong opinions and/or fact-based responses to this? I am no academic, and rarely use any sort of works that aren’t already entirely institutionalized in my work, so can’t really judge that for myself. Seems like it could be based in the classic racism, but this person generally isn’t the type to say such without some grounding.

All that said, of course USians can’t read anymore, reading is for wimps or something

Love in this chapter when he basically does the “privatize the profit, socialize the losses” meme but describes it for how imperialists applied it: “extract the profits, decrease African wages equal to every loss”

Great book, idk what else to say. I found 3 pages of my handwritten notes about this chapter, and it’s just really damn good, and if somebody has not caught up, I’d just start here and continue. It’s such a good book and chapter 5 starts a whole new sort of section