He was better for emancipation and reparations of freed slaves than Lincoln

In fairness to Lincoln, he wasn’t given much of an opportunity to govern post-war.

He committed the unforgivable sin of actually trying to do Reconstruction, and no modern American historical revisionist can tolerate that shit.

This is a fundamental problem with any kind of civil conflict. You’re inevitably going to have inteliigensia at the highest levels of each side of the dispute. You’re going to have mountains of propaganda to justify the need for the conflict and the existential nature of the threat of the opposition. You’re going to dehumanize your opposition in order to de-legitimize any kind of dispute. And you’re going to tap a rich vein of low-income, low-education civilians to fill out the rank and file of your military.

Plenty of liberals lined up to march into the deserts of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan and jungles of Vietnam. Plenty of conservatives are still part of the Soy, Woke, and Gay modern military, NSA, FBI, and CIA. Even if you’re looking dead center, you’re only going to see the view that your lens of observation affords. Its not like Bezos owned WaPo or Bill Gates’s MSNBC is above filling your eyes with Murdoch-tier bullshit. Just look at how the clusterfuck in Gaza has been covered.

What we have, at the end of the day, are all the same tools of dividing and conquering our own nation that we have historically inflicted on our colonial territories. Fascism is just imperialism returning to the core. And when your wild-eyed gun totting next-door neighbor breaks in to your house, convinced that you’ve got an adrenachrome factory in a non-existent basement, it’ll be under the same conditions that turned Rwandan Hutus and Tutsis against one another or Serbs and Bosnians or Koreans and other Koreans or Texans and Mexicans time and time again before.

New Operation Gladio

The level of rigour you would see in e.g. particle physics versus in economics is baffling.

There’s no economic equivalent of a LHC, though. For a while, the high end physics really was confined to a blackboard and predicated on people’s faith in mathematics. And you can build convincing economic models rooted in a reliable mathematical formula. You can even back your way into a convincing mathematical model by compiling economic data and building a model around that.

Whereas economics feels pseudoscience with a maths clothing.

The economist Richard Wolff often comments on the curious distinction between Economics and Business as fields of study.

Isn’t it literally illegal to be a Nazi in Germany?

As always, it’s not illegal when you’re in the police while you’re doing this shit

The German justice system has reported the discovery of Nazi symbols and child pornography in messages exchanged by police officers in a private group chat.

Five police officers, aged 22 to 25 and from three different districts, were involved in sharing the illegal content, according to the public prosecutor in charge of the investigation.

Yeah, but they weren’t Germans from the 1930s, so the war crimes are fine

Listen, Russians are literally Orks, tho. They’re not humans. You can kill as many as you want and it’s fine.

If you think this take is hot, wait till you hear what we think about Palestinians, Mexicans, and anyone from Detroit.

If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying

Cars are, themselves, the problem. We’ve created a two ton rolling death machine and now we’re stuck adding more and more features to address the original sin of unleashing them across the country to begin with.

The very idea of a “smart” car taking control of my brake, throttle or steering makes me wanna barf.

Its that, or people will be forced to endure the unlimited nightmare indignity of taking the train/bus.