Ukraine was famously corrupt before this war, before the Maidan coup, and before the Yanukovych administration.

And now that the war is failing, and the hunt is on for scapegoats, corruption allegations will fly.

Not trying to start an argument, just trying to make a point because I’ve been seeing “Genocide Joe & Kamala Cheney” around a lot lately.

That would be because Biden and Harris aided and abetted a genocide for the last 15 months.

Chinese people, for one https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/

Which makes sense as their quality of life has been improving over recent decades while ours has been deteriorating.

In case anyone cares, the full video: Clojure, Made Simple - Rich Hickey (2015)

It’s not a street, it’s a coffee. Common mistake.

Unless I missed something, none of the $500B seems to be from money printer go brrr. Instead it seems that Trump’s involvement will be in the form of executive orders, presumably to wave federal regulations & protections.

Somebody forgot literally every president of that settler-colonial, imperialist, slaver country.

Not the whole world, but definitely the neoliberalized imperial core and its neocolonized vassal states.

This isn’t a case of viral, grassroots bad mood/fascist vibes. It’s the predictable result of grinding, late-stage/finance/monopoly capitalism, of zombie neoliberalism. Even the incorrigibly liberal Chris Hedges saw this coming fifteen years ago in his book, The Death of the Liberal Class.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. — Antonio Gramsci

Well now I’m wondering who this could fool and how…

Tell me how that wasn’t frustrating & exhausting work 🎖️

This is some Josep Borell-level Western chauvinism, which is rich considering the support Europe has just given to an actual genocide.

Me, five months ago:

If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.

You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.

If Harris is the harm reduction candidate, who for?

FYI, we’re considering removing some/most/all Musk 💩, or perhaps creating a Musk containment community.

Someone should make a “stop doing math” snowclone meme out of the “glorified map” coding pattern.

👀 There’s a Hickey video I haven’t seen?

I see a lot of Burgerstani flags out there.

This guy gets it.

As the meme implies, stop and think about how to change tactics.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— (alcoholics) anonymous

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: not WORLD news

I suppose that’s mostly true, though not entirely. But a good reminder to be mindful not to post all & sundry of Trump’s malarkey onto c/worldnews.

Hamas’s war crimes

*Palestinians’ prison break

• Palestinians have the legal right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle
• Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism

Speaking of delusional: didn’t do enough to prevent genocide? Biden actively participated in genocide throughout.