The Cybertruck of face accessories.

Can we also be antagonistic against the Chinese genocide

It’s very popular to live in the United States, look across at Xinjiang, and say “a Christian Nationalist told me the Chinese Communists were butchering Tai Chi enthusiasts for their organs and now I think we need to build the God AI before they do.”

It’s comparatively unpopular to say “maybe what we did right across the border from Xinjiang, in Afghanistan, after 9/11 was wrong”.

Nevermind that the Chinese Genocide is defined as building schools in Xinjiang that teach Mandarin as the primary language. While using prepubescent boys as bribes for local warlords to get info to drone strike Muslims who objected to farming opium… that’s Operation Enduring Freedom.

Because reading your reply focuses again exclusively on one group

Yeah, why would I be more upset with my own country doing genocide on a global scale?

Why do I have a higher sensitivity to ICE agents doing a fucking drive by in my neighborhood less than a week ago, than I do to some right wing agitprop used to sell data centers?

We can only wonder.

Sequel to Casino

And if you couldn’t pay for the pizza, they’d have sex with you

Yeah, sure, okay.

But also this is all mythology from the Bronze Age. So talking about Goliath’s kit feels a bit like discussing the potency of hydra venom or the height of the World Tree.

Real David and Goliath moment.

show up to my old fishing hole two weeks later

dozens of EMT fishermen

Key Takeaway: The author concludes that a genuine fight against imperialism and capitalism requires “internationalism from below”—prioritizing mutual support among people rather than blind loyalty to geopolitical blocs or states.

That’s a good place to start. At the same time, I see blind antagonism towards geopolitical blocs and states as an equally large stumbling block. As a case in point, the liberal politicians, pundits, and their hangers-on who insist “Beating Hamas” justifies any amount of violence within Israel’s zone of interest. Or the BlueMAGA types who insist “Russian Disinformation” is behind every critique of their insider candidates. Or the endless appeal to “We have to beat CHINA!” by AI Hawks.

The “I don’t trust you because you don’t hate the people I hate” quickly becomes thought-terminating and internally destructive. The very use of the term “Tankie” as the article describes goes back to fracturing the British Left over an issue they had very little actual control over. And we see this pattern repeated with left-leaning Christians v Atheists, left-leaning environmental groups, and left-leaning civil rights groups.

At some point, you have to recognize that you are living in the here and now, with people in your immediate vicinity who have absolutely no influence over international conflict zones on the other side of the planet. And if your knee-jerk reaction to hearing someone say “Well, Ukraine is full of Nazis, so I don’t see what Russia did wrong” or “Actually, I hope Iran kicks America’s shit in” is “I can’t work with this person, because they’re friendly with state fascists (on the opposite side of the earth)”, you’re never going to manage local organizing much less international organizing.

Political opinions and views only get wilder once you step outside your own city, state, and country.

Benedict Arnold

I mean, the smell alone would be pretty horrible

I mean, set aside the slavery politics for just a minute, because that’s low hanging fruit.

Imagine showing Thomas Jefferson the Hoover Dam. Imagine introducing Thomas Paine to the internet. Imagine George Washington’s face illuminated by a mushroom cloud. How fucking dumb do you think Benedict Arnold would feel if you dropped him onto the deck of a US Aircraft Carrier. How flabbergasted would James Madison feel if you explained that we literally call it the “White House”, because we never changed the color after the British burned it down. What do you think Patrick Henry would have to say about Social Security?

FFS,

Short answer, “No”.

Long answer, “No, you still owe me for the last order. I’m not giving you any more freebies.”

Short Kings Rise Up

That sealion is receiving the best oral sex of her life.

It’s $5 for a dozen cubes to put into a glass that cost $20 full of booze that cost $200.

In America, it is illegal to leave the car.

You travel in the car. You sleep in the car. You shit in the car. You are born in the car. You die in the car. If you leave the car, they run you over

Filtered, whatever.

Hard water isn’t great for fancy ice cubes

The real question is why does anyone think this is what they need in life.

Sometimes you want to entertain and square ice cubes are a nice touch