“Their own interests” whose interests, exactly? Who benefitted, and who paid the costs, for the wars in the Middle East? The only people who benefitted seem to be oil companies and war profiteers, while ordinary people (including my own family) paid for it in both money and blood.

The interests of your own country’s bourgeoisie might align sometimes with those of the American bourgeoisie, but neither align with your people or the American people.

Very normal and reasonable.

The sky is blue.

You: Oh no, a .ml said it so I can’t agree with it!

Random tangent but I rewatched Dr. Strangelove today and was struck by how much General Turgidson sounds exactly like liberals on here.

It is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two, admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable postwar environments: one, where you got 20 million people killed, and another, where you got 150 million people killed!

You’re talking about mass murder, General, not war… I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since Adolf Hitler.

Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people, than with your image in the history books!

It’s the exact same lesser-evilist logic combined with the exact same condescension towards anyone who’s not a psychopath.

Even if you want to go full on, “Actually, Turgidson was right,” you still can’t make it your platform and expect it to be popular.

Kamala brought on a lot of the exact same staffers who helped Hillary lose and ran a similar and bad campaign. Female democratic senators won in three of the swing states that Kamala lost.

But it isn’t really about the facts, at a certain point. It’s just a symbolic belief that allows people to absolve Kamala and the democrats of all fault. People love to punch down at voters instead of punching up and demanding better candidates, even though that’s a complete inversion of how democracy is meant to work. This inability to self-criticize and change things that don’t work is, ironically, another reason that the democrats perform poorly.

That’s actually a statistical error, Carbon Bezos is an outlier who should not have been counted.

To quote Carlin, “The earth doesn’t share our prejudice against plastic… The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

Bombs are not environmentally friendly.

Related, in Star Wars lore, Tarkin got promoted (in the late Republic) after landing a ship on top of a crowd of protesters where were blocking the spaceport on Ghorman.

The thing is that the rebels were (mostly) white, and removing the racial lens allowed Americans to see that a struggle like that of colonized people against their oppressors was obviously correct. But it also means they can’t connect the rebels to real world conflicts, because the oppressed people are generally not white, and so it’s understood through a racial lens.

Libs think Trump vs. Harris was like Leia vs Darth Vader when in reality it was more like Darth Vader vs Palpatine.

“This is just natural free market competition. The real problem is big government trying to impose restrictions on Hawk Inc.”

Dresden Codak

The military industrial complex.

Of course, material conditions have nothing to do with what beliefs people arrive at or what movements spring up, no, it’s entirely 1) AI, before it existed, or 2) magic.

I knew about MK ULTRA from that time but hadn’t heard about this one. I know about so much fucked up shit the US has done, but it seems like there’s always more out there.

Maybe the real problem was that there weren’t enough civilian jobs that could make use of the valuable skills they were taught, like, “how to get shoved into the line of fire while the rest of us run away.”

Finally, a grindset I can get behind.

Are we sure the Lenin one’s not real? Lenin’s plan for defeating the bourgeoisie was, famously, to work within the system to increase taxes through incremental reforms.

"Look, I don’t like this any more than you do, but as long as billionaire perverts exist, there’s going to be demand for secret pedophile islands, and somebody’s gonna have to traffic kids to them. I’m just trying to get that bag.

I feel like you’re being very childish about this."