Cops just doing their job, protecting capital. Same as it ever was.

To the extent that those nations participate in the hegemony that I’m referring to, you bet your deluded ass they’re militaristic and exploitative.

In the context I am discussing (economic servitude, human and natural exploitation, and outrageous militarism), they are one and the same.

The point I was trying to make originally was that bad is bad, and the badness of your opponent doesn’t make you less bad. I will add that claiming that everyone is bad doesn’t excuse badness.

NATO is trash.

What the German or French people believe is largely irrelevant to the force those nations wield. Most Americans distrust the US also. Doesn’t stop any of these partners from their shared project of hegemonic dominance and economic subjugation over vast parts of the world. I suspect that the shared cultural and historical root that you’re referring to is the belief that we somehow deserve to exploit, without consequence, people and resources everywhere.

I just love the team-sport moralizing that’s apparently the norm in this community. Y’all seem to think that being critical of ‘the west’ is somehow the same as cheerleading Russia. As if Russia’s awfulness has any bearing at all on the US’s awfulness.

I have ZERO confidence in NATO as an actual defensive force. It’s an organization run by a corrupt, collapsing paper tiger, and its assortment of cowardly European client states.

When you craft a party, without an ideological base other than preserving corporate sponsorship, whose leadership actively disdains its constituents, it will always have spoiler losers like Fetterman, Sinema, etc. It will always find a way to facilitate the fascist project while cultivating a veneer of deniability. Until the party’s financing is fundamentally reorganized and it’s sclerotic Republican leadership is thrown to the curb, Democrats are trash.

Tim Cook is adopting a very muppet-like appearance as he ages out.

So, is the ceasefire over, or are we just doing an Israel-style ceasefire?

I have a lot of confidence that Democrats will furiously vote in more feckless corporate sellouts who’s goal is to enable the same fascist project that trump represents, but do it with nicer manners and bigger words.

People need to start physically intervening in the operation of these things. I think I saw a report once about a group in the UK that would attack cameras. I think they called themselves Bladerunners.

Sounds like a Roy Rogers wagon wheel coffee table situation.

Just count Jeffries and congressional Democrats out of everything. They’re determined to do nothing substantive with whatever power we give them, again. They’re a corporate donor maintenance organization, not a political party, not leaders, and certainly not advocates for any civic ideology other than whatever positions reinforce their ability to perform the above maintenance project.

I hope that all those media people who were at the dinner realize that we don’t give a shit about their safety either. They’re all part of the same corrupt oligarchic project.

C’mon people. If you’re going to do it, actually do it.

I can’t wait until all the people outraged about this find out what Israeli soldiers have been doing to actual people.

“Look people, this incredibly bad, self-destructive, unpopular, and poorly planned operation was all my own creation. Don’t you dare hang any responsibility for this disaster on anyone else but me.”

Because nothing is more American than having the government regulate thought.

I’m no longer sure if the above sentiment should be interpreted sarcastically or not.

Just another reason to hate Apple. Maybe I should just plan to pirate the rest of Severance, Silo and Pluribus.