This style of writing predates streaming, though i’m sure it’s more prevelant now.

Plenty of pre-internet shows have characters ham-fistedly repeating or summarizing the situation after ad breaks, or telling rather than showing their feelings, or telling you what’s at stake.

Stupid characters who have to have the plot point explained to them in case the audience still hasn’t gotten it are everywhere too, it’s super common in sitcoms.

Alerting venezuela to the risk might have foiled the operation.

Galvanizing public opinion beforehand might have led them to rethink. Continuing against public opinion costs more political capital than selling it after it’s already done. Authoritarian regimes can ignore public opinion more than representative ones, but they still can’t ignore it entirely.

Maybe reporting the story wouldn’t change the outcome, but it’s a possibility.

to avoid endangering US troops

This is a straight up lie. They held off to avoid blowing the lid on the US regime’s undeniably illegal actions.

If they had reported on government malfesance as is their sacred duty, they might have stopped a crime before it happened.

Bono was briefly into these.

That’s right, U2 grew a shrew loo.

“Rules Based International Order” is just what the american empire calls itself in public. It’s sum total of the structures set up by and for US hegemony. Like how the Athenian Empire called itself the Delian League.

In a sense, there’s no purer expression of the rules based international order than illegally annexing territories for their oil.

Israel is an important and well-intergrated piece of the US empire so they get a say in how the empire is run. Working class new yorkers don’t matter in the same way.

To translate into the lies of empire: israel’s importance to foreign policy goals and deep cultural ties make it an interested commentator on domestic politics.

War has always been a racket, since long before the west was a thing.

Killing people so you can take their stuff dates back to at least our last common ancenstor with chimpanzees.

I love all the desperate apologetics over this passage. The lackeys of the rich always try to talk about how this means the rich need to unburden themselves before getting into heaven, like a laden camel passing through a narrow city gate.

But “camel through the eye of a needle” was a fairly common idiom at the time used to mean impossible - the equivilant of “when pigs fly”.

The intent of this passage is crystal clear: “the rich will never ever get into heaven”.

Wooo! IEC type I! Shoutout to the greatest!

He was in jail already, he knew he was about to die and he wrote to a fellow imprisoned pedophile to say trump’s one of us, but we’re the ones in jail, life’s not fair.

That’s the context.

Yeah it’s disapointing to see the guardian slowballing an explosive headline.

Epstein tells fellow child rapist trump is one of us but we’re in jail.

Wait so you would rather have shallot bread than garlic bread?

Shallot > onion is just common sense, but let’s not go dragging garlic into a fight it has no part in.

I feel like a lot of people are misinterpretting your comment because of the way republicans frequently use “clintonzes are evilzes!” as a distraction from their own much greater problems.

I’d think the order wouldn’t come from clinton himself - gotta keep plausible deniability.

But i definitely agree with you - it’s unsurprising that the FBI under clinton declined to investigate child pornography allegations against a child sex trafficker who has strong links to clinton.

How many times do you think his name was redacted from the epstein files?

Sounds ghastly.

30% of US adults voted for trump - that 30-35% mark is probably about the total support that fascists can muster.

And yet people keep insisting the problem is the american people and not the corrupt system that allows minority rule.

Yep! It’s called primary endosymbosis and it’s one of the coolest things around! (I think.) The endpoint of a process where two parts of symbiotic relationship morph into an organ in an organism.

The first case of primary endosymbosis resulted in the mitochondria and thus all multicellar life. That’s pretty cool.

Another time created the chloroplast and thus all plantlife. Again, yay for primary endosymbiosis!

A few years ago scientists discovered that it happened really recently, resulting in an organism with a “nitroplast” for in house nitrogen fixing. So in the far distant future there could be an entirely novel branch of life, potentially as different from what we know as redwoods are from cats.

Mitochondria are so much more than that!

They have the ability to kill the cell as well as provide power, they can communicate and transfer resources to other mitochondria, and they might be one of the reasons that organisms need sleep.

I heard a science communicator suggest that in some senses, we might just exist to serve the needs of our mitochondria.

It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn’t make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

Information already is knowledge, and that’s not what gpt does.

I don’t think it’s correct to say the people want trump. Only ~30% of US adults voted for him.