I protested, they said, nope
Protesting on a site that’s fully automated their administration just means getting told “fuck you” twice.
There’s no real bureaucracy under the hood. It’s just “friend computer says you’re guilty” followed by “friend computer says you’re still guilty plus you had the gall to doubt friend computer’s immaculate wisdom”.
Reddit vacillates between operating as a clearing house for the most ugly, racist, reactionary propaganda currently in circulation and doing pogroms against the six subreddits that got popular posting current events about a new kind of genocide we invented.
I’m glad I left, but it’s hard not to look over my shoulder and notice they’re doing the same fascist bucket carrying from 2020 and 2016 and 2012 and 2008 and…
He will take credit for the funds as they are distributed and then complain that Biden spent too much money on the “wrong people”.
He will also make some bullshit up about illegal Haitians using the FEMA money to kill your mom’s pet goose and use that as an excuse to vote against money the next time.
Nobody in the US ever intended to drive all the Iraqi people out
De-Ba’athification was intended to remove Iraqis from positions of power. And, to a certain extent, whole populations in the Sunni Triangle were being forced off the most valuable plots of oil producing territory.
Similarly, in Afghanistan, Americans built up these Green Zone territories where native Afghans were not welcome.
We never got to the point where we could just start homesteading enormous tracks of territory for European or American migrants. But that wasn’t for lack of trying. It was because civilians weren’t desperate enough to try and stake claims in the middle of an active insurgency.
That kind of ethnic cleansing is clearly Israel’s intent
Israel is much smaller than Iraq. And they have a large community of settlers ready to risk their lives for a piece of someone else’s land. Even then, it has taken them decades to reach this point.
You can find large American expat communities in Mexico, Japan, Germany, Korea, Honduras and El Salvador… Anywhere we’ve sent soldiers in the last century really.
The Israelis just happen to be more genocidal than our proxies in Okanawa or Taipei
How is tribal level homophobia and contract based marriage a new idea to Abrahamic religions?
Just for starters, bronze age shepherds weren’t literate. They certainly weren’t well versed in the ideological basis for fearing homosexuality.
Also, you could see the strong social trends in the region - Greece, Masadonia, Egypt, Persia - all has accommodating (if not outright misogynist) attitudes. The modern Abrahamiv faiths simply don’t like to acknowledge how gay the Leviant used to be.
It was pretty hard to be “industrial” at much of anything many hundreds of years ago
Institutional, then. But I think we get fixated on Victorian Era and onward, while forgetting we’ve had a lot of social development leading up to that moment.
It’s not a progressive or regressive country because of its age. Regressive waves happen, too, and can reform a host of customs and policies that were far more liberal (or simply alien enough to appear liberal by coincidence).
New Things are not inherently more progressive things. Just ask the Russians or the Ugandans or the ex-Scientologists.
We had an excuse to be over there bombing their cities and butchering their citizens
Didn’t you see the video at the UN? Aluminum tubes! That’s an existential threat to the United States. We had to invade.
Israel is an apartheid pseudo-democracy
Disappointingly true
who resembles her neighbors Syria and Jordan in governance
Depressingly accurate
more than the US and Europe.
glances at the current state of western politics
Less and less.
“modern” relates to social topics
Institutionalized homophobia and marriage as a legal contract are both relatively recent social innovations.
Demands on how high you were on your own ultra-nationalist supply. I remember hearing the news of the US invasion of Iraq and just thinking “It’s Vietnam all over again, fuck.”
Speed traps are just a tool to further monetize and rent seek car culture in the absence of public transit.
You can, in fact, hate both cars and infrastructure that exists solely to make using a car more expensive.
the most viable alternative to traffic stops
I have never heard of a town that reduced the size of its police force after installing a speed trap.
But the works and practice in mobilizing the workforce in the new deal played a big part in the US having industrial capability prior to WWII.
Hard to power the 1940s industrial economy without coal. And hard to generate coal without an electrification of the Tennessee Valley. Without a doubt.
Hell if there’s a miuntain range in your state you’re almost certainly getting some of your power from a hydro plant made in the 30’s.
Given his attitude towards public works, it’s very funny that Hoover has the nation’s largest dam named after him.
Would be a crazy coincidence. This is the first I’ve heard about Walt.
In fairness, if you get under the hood of the New Deal benefits, they relieved a lot of immediate suffering and mobilized a workforce that had been functionally abandoned by the private sector.
But they didn’t “grow the economy” in the same way as the enormous investment in the Military Industrial Complex achieved. The Citizens Conservation Corps and the Social Security Administration didn’t create the kind of high paying engineering and manufacturing jobs that state demand for thousands of new tanks and ships achieved.
WW2 full mobilization of the economy wasn’t just taking in the slack of a depressed market. It was a command economy in all but name, dictating every aspect of the industrial chain, from extraction to expenditure to recovery and recycling.
The tragedy of WW2 is that we could only permit this kind of logistical achievement for the purpose of joining a bloodbath in Europe, North Africa, and East Asia. As soon as Roosevelt passed, Truman began reprivatizing the economy as quickly as possible.
It’s not a Dem/Rep issue nearly so much as it is an Insider/Outsider issue.
“Cross us and your constituents will get a leak of your AI generated nudes” style intimidation. Great for getting rid of pesky populists and regulators and people who give a shit about climate change.
they stopped and asked themselves if people want and need a foldable?
Who wants a thin phone with a large screen? Nobody.
Neither Facebook nor Twitter claimed 6.5B unique users.
You don’t throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.
That’s very different from
His whole speech was literally about utilizing your status as a voter in key swing states to demand change from candidates by threatening your power as a voter to choose
He was arguing to abstain from voting without a quality candidates on the ballot. Not to court mediocre candidates by promising them your vote.
Empty Internet Theory is a clever joke, but it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.
Quite a few of the mods are severing alternative interests. The partisan subs are run by literal party staffers and think tanks. Lots of the big brand subs are run by marketing agencies. Reddit’s financial model is to sell these spaces. You don’t just have some random mega-fan running /r/Marvel. That’s a Disney staffer.
None of these guys are going anywhere.