AirBud. "There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't play basketball" has to be the total summation of liberal ideology.

If there were zero consequences for how you acted at work you'd be walking around saying unhinged shit too.

She is more than welcome to file a case with the ICJ if she's distressed about the Uyghurs. One of these reporters speaking with the state department reps needs to ask that question directly. “Why haven't we filed an ICJ case on behalf of the Uyghurs?”

Point of clarification, if you watch the video and listen closely with headphones, you can hear she is clearly saying “Go back to China where they are committing genocide… Go back to China where they are committing genocide”.

In some ways, even worse then what was reported.

Real loony bin behavior.

Edit: Point of clarification, if you watch the video and listen closely with headphones, you can hear she is clearly saying “Go back to China where they are committing genocide… Go back to China where they are committing genocide”.

In some ways, even worse than what was reported.

The cackling from the audience, the shock, and confusion by the sudden outburst, the sinking revelation washing over her face and her delayed reaction to utterly and completely letting the cat clear out of the bag. A classic self own. I'd give it an 8 out of 10, it's closer to a 9 then a 7.

Watch this Lisa, you can actually pinpoint the second when her brain catches up with her mouth:

Maybe I'll find it later but this reminds me of the reddit thread from last year where a GenZ kid made a post asking people how his desk phone worked, what all the buttons did, and so on.

No one told the poster how it worked at the time they were hired. They didn't want to admit to coworkers that they had no idea how it worked.

I think this extends way beyond just work though. People just don't know how anything works. They buy phones and have no idea how they work, cars, computers, everything is a black box to most people.

Most people living under socialism had little understanding of capitalism in practice. Workers interviewed in Poland believed that if their factory were to be closed down in the transition to the free market, "the state will find us some other work" (New Y orker, 1 1/13/89). In the Soviet Union, many who argued for privatization also expected the government to continue providing them with collective benefits and subsidies. One skeptical farmer got it right: "Some people want to be capitalists for themselves, but expect socialism to keep serving them" (Guardian, 10/23/91 ).

Reality sometimes hit home. In 1990, during the glasnost period, when the Soviet government announced that the price of newsprint would be raised 300 percent to make it commensurate with its actual cost, the new procapitalist publications complained bitterly. They were angry that state socialism would no longer subsidize their denunciations of state socialism. They were being subjected to the same free-market realities they so enthusiastically advocated for everyone else, and they did not like it.

—Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, pg 73 (Communism in Wonderland; Romanticizing Capitalism)

History repeats itself here in this moment. The strategy employed by the capitalist is both the same now as it was then. A people so unaware of what they have, so eager to have nothing at all.

Probably worth sharing the top comment from the lemmygrad thread:

The article was written by John Bechtel, who was chair of the CPUSA up until 2019.

This is their official take on the Oct 7 attack.

https://www.cpusa.org/article/stop-the-war-end-the-occupation-free-palestine/

cables are seen within the State Department as consequential statements of serious disagreement at key historical moments. The dissent channel was established amid deep internal conflict during the Vietnam War, and diplomats have since then used it to warn that the U.S. is making dangerous and self-defeating choices abroad.

More and more each day the echo's of the antiwar movement ring louder and louder. The bell tolls for you, Joe. You may have already been to late to answer its call. Your legacy will be apartheid.

And if you want to help the team reach that goal please check out https://join-lemmy.org/support.

They were naturally. Opium is historically a tool of colonial oppressers. Asian opium dens were only a thing after the British Empire brought it to their communities. Gary Web famously shot himself in the head twice after exposing the CIA as the one offloading crack into the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area kick-starting the crack epidemic. Drugs like crack, opium, and other highly addictive drugs help maintain control and division among the exploited population. Pain killers and fentanyl are the new Crack Cocaine of our time. Even if they were not making a direct profit off the opium trade at the time, it did them no good to stop it. It only supported their efforts of looting and plundering.