The more you tighten your grip, the more ~~star systems~~ countries will slip through your fingers. Every year, more and more middle income countries that were unaligned are buddying up with China and the ones that were buddying up with the US are playing the field. China is keenly attentive to this global battle over hearts and minds while Americans are too preoccupied to even notice, and don't care when they do.
The American brain drain is gonna suck for people living here but is also very justified and deserved at this point.
The Americans have gotten so complacent about being on top of the world that lots of people don't think there are any real consequences to anything and just wanna fuck around. We used to be at the forefront of research but now nobody with half a brain would want to come here. We're heading full speed into a century of humiliation and people are just gonna keep doubling down on ignorance and bigotry as things get worse
ACAB includes the troops. Going to foreign countries to shoot brown kids doesn't make you any less of a bastard than doing it at home.
Most of the documents we have were already partially declassified but with redacted parts. We now know more about JFK's rift with the CIA and how the CIA was wiretapping the area Oswald was working and actively recruiting double agents from there.
Skeptics will continue to treat it as equally insane as saying the moon is made of cheese unless they see an official, released document saying, "Please kill the president for me, sincerely, Alan Dulles," but there's about as much evidence as a reasonable person would expect to find in a universe where it happened.
There's a term for people who want to support the working class against the ruling class and it's "the left."
Corporate "allyship" at its finest.
Residential streets aren't generally intended for through traffic. They're meant to provide access to the people who live there. These are areas where kids play and people go on walks and stuff, having a bunch of cars run through trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible is not ideal. That's why you get cul-de-sacs, intentionally designed with one way in or out, to prevent drivers from cutting through.
They're straight up obsessed with it too. Like the post I was commenting on had nothing to do with it and my comments had nothing to do with it, and then someone brought it up and attacked me with it, and when I defended myself I got banned.
They really, really need the Uyghur genocide narrative to be true because it's the only way for them to excuse their support for the Palestinian genocide, and because screeching "Genocide denier!" is literally their only defense against us "tankies." It doesn't even make sense when they're all openly genocide supporters regarding a genocide that's actually real, but it is what it is.
I've seen too many examples throughout history of people trying to use nonviolence and do things the right way and just getting slaughtered because the other side simply does not care to be a pacifist. The world is clearly a better place because people employed violence in WWII to stop the Nazis. And street fighting in the 30's was one of the ways that the Nazis secured their power in the first place.
Nonviolent methods are tools that are useful to have in your toolbox, and in many situations, they are more practical in achieving your ends. But there are cases were violence is more practical, even necessary, and one shouldn't shy away from it when it's needed. You gotta have your head in the game, the stakes are too high. A diversity of tactics is best.
The logic that violence is oppressive so it should be renounced in all cases in order to reduce oppression is idealist. You have to look at the actual evidence and material situation to evaluate what effects violence will have in a given situation.
Punching Nazis is cool and good. Just try not to get arrested for it because it'll take you out of the action longer than it will them.
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Speaking of self-inserts, remember when she wrote that detective story with long segments that are just people on Twitter accusing the main character of transphobia?
Her brain's just fully melted at this point.