The people in charge of this shitshow have levels of ambition inversely proportioned to their level of ability.

Why do one thing properly when you can half-ass doing twenty things?

nah shit just is happening all the time now

Sometimes a lot of stuff happens at once.

Weeks, decades. Decades, weeks.

Slight tangent, I was having a convo along these lines with a friend yesterday who said the early 2010s were a simpler time.

I was like… were they? In the period from the turn of the century until say, second term Obama we had 9/11, GWOT, Iraq, GFC, Occupy, several waves of BLM, Euromaidan, Arab Spring, etc. etc.

But perhaps things have accelerated, contradictions collapsing upon each other more rapidly…. I’m not sure. I feel like shit just feels crazy as you’re living through it, not to mention I was not paying attention to politics in the way I have in the last 10 years or so during that time, despite living through it. I was either a kid or a young disengaged moron.

Are more things happening? I kinda think no…? Is what’s happening with ICE and immigrants worse than what was happening to arabs at Guantanamo in the first part of the century? Is the repression in LA worse than Standing Rock? Is Israel bombing Iran worse than what was done to Libya by NATO, or Russia annexing Crimea? It feels like we fall into this trap of thinking there was an “event” that got us into The Present Where Things Are Happening vs The Past Where Things Were Not Happening, that event usually being Trump or Covid I guess. Which is essentially a metaphysical way of thinking and un-dialectical.

Not to mention that westerners finally getting upset about the current development of their political systems and thinking “the world has gone to shit” clearly just weren’t paying attention to the world outside their walled garden for the last….. 500 years?

Watching a live-streamed genocide every day while the climate is in the process of collapsing is quite a mind fuck though, for sure. And feels pretty new.

We're in a season finale.

I can see how the ice raids and trumps military parade may be connected, but the attacks on Iran were because there was a vote about removing netanyahu on the same day of the attacks

Could be a conspiracy could just be the empire's decline and decay leading to a bunch of shit blowing up at once

Either way, I wouldn't put it past the fash to blame Iran if a tank accidentally shoots another or falls into a massive sinkhole or some shit due to troop incompetence

Highly sus, this would be the first time in US history that 3 things have happened at the same time.

not really its all the ridiculous fash shit they want just now that they are in power they are just speedrunning it

The night before last night I saw that video of the US army secretary going on fox news to say he just spoke with an american soldier stationed on the moon defending our freedoms, and then I saw the news that Iran got attacked a few hours later. It wasn't until yesterday evening that it hit me that we are basically watching the moon bears sketch play out in real time.

It's called shock and awe comes home

I sorta believe that both Ukraine attack on Russian strategic bombers and Israeli attack on Iranian bases using trucks filed with drones were planned by the same group.

No shits pretty well fucked right now.

Also the Pope's address on the jumbotron at White Sox Field.