Damn everyone that voted for Trump.
Silicon Valley fascism was coming one way or another. It’s been building steam since the 90s.
Trump’s just one agent. It could have been under DeSantis or Cruz or Bloomberg or Hillary.
The notion that one party can just win forever, because the other is worse, only breeds shittier and shittier candidates.
Sometimes, rebellion. Other times, reactionary pogrom.
The Russian mass murder of Moscow Jews under the younger brother of the Czar came about due to a global energy crisis. Japan’s invasion and genocide within China and Korea, too.
Americans?
The only people in the world that matter.
Nevermind Cuba paying $20/gal for gas in the few places it’s still available. Or the Philippines seeing enormous street protests responding to surging energy prices. Or South African farms cutting their planting season thanks to fertilizer shortages. Or even the UK staring down the prospect of winter heating bills in excess of 2-3% of GDP.
Nope. Only America matters
But this one isn’t on the military in my book.
Not historically. But eventually you purge everyone who tells you “No” and the military you’re left with is Yes-Men.
Incidentally,
Why The U.S. Army Made Four Tech Executives Lieutenant Colonels
Really tells you where the military in this country is headed.
Hank! No! You can’t criticize capitalism! That’s WOKE Hank! Don’t do it! Hank!!!
Why don’t you start with that South African illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa illegally?
Because he’s one of their biggest donors, obviously
Ilhan has been targeted by the entire Washington establishment since she took office.
The US government cannot stomach a Somali community engaging in any form of self governance anywhere on earth
The government belongs to and serves the people
It clearly doesn’t. Any amount of time interacting with a police officer should tell you as much.
Shock Doctrine was a fantastic piece of work.
Idk if she’s moderated, per say. Might just feel that way as the rest of the public has been radicalized
Isn’t Velocity just the holodeck equivalent of Pong?
A traitor to whom? The billionaire class quite literally owns all the property.
By not supporting the reigning despots, it’s liberals and leftists who are definitionally the traitors.
The people ruling the county aren’t on your side. They are your enemies.
I’m just holding everyone who voted for trump in 24 responsible
What’s the sentence, your honor?
An allegation
Mormonism is the end result of Protestant theology mingling with Capitalist economics.
The same experiment has produced Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientology, and dozens of other systems of social exploitation draped in religious clothing. Anywhere people need to believe an end to our industrial age self-flagellation is nigh, but cannot conceive of a society organized outside of theocratic principles, falls back into the same ritual of spiritualized mass marketing.
“Only Rich People should be allowed to have kids” is peak American thought.
ICE literally wouldn’t have a foot in the door with airports right now if they weren’t filling in for empty TSA positions.
ICE agents keep getting a salary. TSA agents don’t.
Might be worth recalling that the original purpose of TSA was to rebuild social confidence in the airline industry for purely private interests. We’d made an enormous investment in airports, airplane manufacturers, and attendant infrastructure going back to the early 1970s, and were suddenly faced with the prospect of half the industry going bankrupt.
Airport security was, in effect, a bailout of a failing business model.
What we’re seeing now is a state level refusal to pay for anything that restores confidence in an economic institution. Terror is the only method they know how to employ. ICE agents are unleashed as a punishment, rather than a security blanket.
You’ll notice that nobody in the private sector seems interested in back filling the TSA jobs privately (a possibility that is legally permitted but more expensive than any public airport or airline wants to assume). Meanwhile, nobody in the legislative or executive level wants to admit this is security theater and dispense with it entirely.
All anyone knows how to do is terrorize you for flying, terrorize you for complying, and terrorize you for questioning these decisions.
what other option are we left with?
“Well, fascism is here, what do we do?”
“Just stop doing anything. Do absolutely nothing. Don’t do things anymore.”
“That sounds like a miserable idea.”
Airport Americans are the new African Americans, I guess.
Well… enjoy your TrumpBux
I don’t think anyone can suggest they solve the same problems. I might argue that the conflict is asymmetric. The Americans are trying to invade Iran, not the other way around.
The Western goal is to capture and control territory through terror bombing followed by an occupation.
To that end, they need the kind of surveillance, range, and precision that drones lack.
Iranians/Ukrainians aren’t trying to capture and control territory at a great distance. They’re trying to repel an invasion of territory they already own.
They’re fighting a fundamentally different war.