Hmm, do I pay for a service that has ads, or do I simply ? It is impossible to make this decision.

Sure, there’s a two-way relationship, but the US is the global hegemon (or at least was until very recently), while Israel is a regional power. They may both influence each other, but the US has more say in the relationship.

After years of disingenuous showy tributes and 100% accurate accusations of ‘rainbow-washing’, US companies are shrinking back for fear of Donald Trump because they think it’s more profitable, Io Dodds reports

Most honest US politician says unlimited force to protect his elevated position is fine, but the tiniest amount of force protesting that position is illegal terrorism.

We’ve seen it before with Reagan and Biden. They’ll Weekend at Bernie’s his ass, no problem.

Attempting to minimize flights due to climate concerns

Banning planes due to conspiracy cranks

Wouldn’t it be going to the fifth circuit and then the supreme court, both of which are controlled by outright christofascists? Why would they even bother?

For Interstellar, at least, I’d say it’s incredibly low-brow. The resolution is just “the power of wuv saves humanity!”, which is extremely simplistic and easily understood by the masses.

Whoa, hey, let’s not go too far here. I dispute classifying finance officers as “human”.

Reading the wikipedia article on Pakistan’s nuclear doctrine and thinking it looks good until I get to this:

Was going to say, those recent UK council elections where Reform won 30% of the vote kinda disprove this.

One could argue that anyone paying taxes to the US (or any US-allied states) are “part of the problem” in that they’re partly paying for a state that is dead set on exterminating all life on the planet by accelerating climate change and embracing fascism (or, at the bare minimum, doing nothing major to oppose it). But the people paying those taxes are only doing so under threat of violence, imprisonment, or death. I think anyone who opposes this state of affairs is not part of the problem. They might not be part of the solution, which imo would require engaging in activism to attempt to overthrow the current state of affairs, but they’re neutral at worst. I’d like to think I do enough to fall under the former umbrella, and so would not think of myself as “part of the problem”.

The people who are “part of the problem” in my mind are three groups:

1. Those who willingly go along with the fascist project but do not meaningfully contribute to it. In america, these are your typical Trump voters who happily go along with everything he says but aren’t doing anything beyond that. It also includes many liberals who still believe in american exceptionalism and, for example, don’t see anything wrong with committing genocide so long as the person doing it is polite and pretends to be trying to stop it.
2. Those who contribute to the fascist project but are following orders. These are the kind of people who will go to Jan 6th, or scream about woke teachers at a schoolboard meeting. They might even run for small-time local office.
3. Those who are orchestrating the fascist project. These are the billionaires, high-level politicians, media personalities, and right-wing think tanks who have been actively pushing and/or masterminding the fascist movement for decades.

Semi-off-topic, but a reminder that Disney (and Disney+ in particular) is on the Boycott, Divest, Sanction list.

Owned lol

Clearly it’s one point three-twenty em-bee.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

You can just replace “anti-Semites” in the quote with “right-wingers”. They don’t care, they’re just trying to waste your time.

Perhaps if he wore a bomb vest to the next senate meeting I would consider forgiving him.

Exact same thing here. Couldn’t get hired as a fucking grocery store shelf-stocker back in high school without my dad knowing the manager.

Excited to see what comes next, this one should be pretty hard to outdo.