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Yeah, vehicular homicide is basically legal in the US, so long as you don’t flee the scene.
Did Kamala’s crowd sizes really put the fear in Trump or what? His only rally this week is in fucking Montana tomorrow, with none scheduled for the rest of the month. He’s just doing unhinged press conferences.
Imagine if the Democrats had brought this kind of competence and energy to 2016 by running LITERALLY ANY OTHER CANDIDATE!
How the fuck can they read accounts of SS Galicia killing tens of thousands of civilians, and burning men, women and children alive and then be like “Thank you for your service”.
The Israeli security state has a reputation for competence. I wonder, were they also hollowed out be decades of neoliberal policies’?
Probably doesn’t help that the political leadership consists of a bunch of guys who had to pull every dirty trick to keep themselves and their friends in office, because otherwise they’d be in prison for corruption.
The weirdest part of all this is watching those daily casualty updates by the OSINT guys.
Every day they claim that another 500+ Russians were killed and one Ukrainian stubbed his toe, and they’ve kept on claiming that all summer, even as Ukraine was doing WW1 style assaults into minefields and trench lines, without air support, and with a severe disadvantage in artillery. Those guys must be getting fucking slaughtered.
Yeah , I’m not surprised. If you’re constantly online the way an 18-24 year old is, then for the past few months you’ve been exposed to thousands of images and videos of very relatable kids, teens and twenty somethings being put through unimaginable horror.
There’s probably going to be some kind of crackdown on the internet soon. The US can’t support a genocidal colonial project if the victims can livestream their suffering to the world.
The plan for the war makes less sense every year.
The US navy doesn’t have the capacity to close the Taiwan straight anymore, so the idea now is to blockade the Singapore straight, 3000 kilometers to the south, and cut off Chinese shipping from the world markets… that is to say, the nation that doesn’t produce anything but excel spreadsheets thinks it can win a war by blocking the source of all the cheap goods that keep their consumer economies running.
This feels like a serious fuck up for the western media. They handwave the existence of their billionaire owners by saying that they don’t determine what gets printed , even though that’s an obvious lie , but now they’re on record with the billionaire owner putting his foot down for Trump.
Well, violence was already normalized in every other sphere of American life, I guess it was only a matter of time. Look at the Trump shooter, by American standards, the only weird thing about him is that he went after someone important instead of just shooting up his local school or walmart.
2003 : support the invasion and occupation of Iraq, destabilizing the middle east and creating millions of refugees.
2011 : support the annihilation of Libya, destabilizing North Africa and creating millions of refugees.
2013: support the intervention in Syria , funding and training extremists and creating millions more refugees.
2014 - 2022: support coups, bombing campaigns and military actions throughout North Africa, creating millions more refugees.
2023: “Wow, where are all these refugees coming from? We need to put them in camps!”