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“Mưa Sài Gòn, Mưa Hà Nội” sounds like exile itself. Cuban-coded tropical melancholy for cities that now survive as memory. youtube.com/watch?v=gSFpDT…

The American education system does not teach empire. This is not an accident. It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning. It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler. It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of. It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations. It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil. It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present. It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention. The ignorance is load-bearing. Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable. They know this. The curriculum is not an oversight. The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it. The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier. It is the history class.

@UnderSecE jacob s. helberg is a fucking retard

Deeply concerned by reports of new fines being prepared against American companies. Targeting U.S. firms with punitive measures would be a serious mistake corrosive to private investment and economic growth in Europe. We will be watching closely. reuters.com/world/europe/e…

@patrick_oshag darren farber is a fucking retard

Darren on why he thinks China will fall in his lifetime: "Dikötter is a well-regarded historian on China and has a theory on how China is not a superpower just by virtue of how illegitimate and weak it is. When you have power and you ascend to power in a fundamentally illegitimate structure, who do you trust? The answer is no one. You're constantly worried that someone's going to put a bullet in the back of your head. That form of illegitimacy cascades down through the immediate organs of that government, including its military. They have turned over their senior military leadership three or four times in the last three years. That is not a high-trust environment. But their magazine depth industrially is so enormous. The calculus becomes, can the magazine depth overcome their institutional weakness? The illegitimacy of the Chinese, fundamentally an illegitimate power, is also our advantage. We are making enormous strides in the clandestine services of co-opting that environment. Xi doesn't know who's on our side in his standing committee. Every day he wakes up with the thought of, maybe I need to kill someone off. That is our edge. We have weaknesses, but we also have enormous strengths. Their weaknesses are also enormous. It doesn't mean they can't bring us to the precipice. Their mass is so much greater than ours. They are fundamentally strong and weak at the same time. But it does fall, because it's fundamentally illegitimate. I believe in the natural order of humanity and freedom — that at some point it's the natural state that ultimately prevails."

@USDOL @Sonderling47 yeah, uh, good luck with all that.

During the pandemic, nearly $900 BILLION in unemployment aid went out to help Americans. 🚨 Over $135 BILLION was STOLEN through FRAUD 🚨 Criminal rings and bad actors exploited WEAK verification systems and ripped off the American taxpayer. This Administration is DONE with “pay first, verify later.” We’re cracking down and holding fraudsters accountable. FOLLOW @WHFraudTF for updates!

@DHSgov @ICEgov some felonies are worth it

These rioters have OBSTRUCTED law enforcement operations—a felony and a crime. Local police have refused to answer calls to help our law enforcement. We will not allow violent rioters to slow @ICEgov down. Law and order will be restored.

@Polymarket fuck trump

JUST IN: Trump reportedly considering halting immigration & customs processing at airports in sanctuary cities.

@SecMullinDHS ICE law enforcement officers deserve to be assaulted.

Tonight, ICE law enforcement officers were assaulted by anti-ICE rioters who sprayed law enforcement with an unknown chemical substance. Two individuals were arrested for assaulting, resisting, and impeding federal officers.   Assaulting and obstructing ICE law enforcement is a crime and felony. Anyone who assaults law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

@GeorgeJeffersn @JWFLRC a bubble of debt, not wealth.

@JWFLRC Avg American take. Travel and you will see the rest of the world doesn’t live in a bubble of wealth.

The European mind cannot fathom how rich SF is. It is truly insane. Startup offices with over $100k worth of monitors isn’t crazy. As a Brit, I am continually amazed by this place

@jrq3rq @Polymarket you're a retard

NEW: RFK Jr. claims a secret military agency is spraying dangerous chemtrails across American skies.

@Polymarket RFK Jr. is retarded.

@GeneralMCNews some would say this is karmic retribution.

BREAKING: Pam Bondi has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

@RepCarlos you don't know shit about fuck. you will pay for your sins, gusano.

🚨La dictadura en #Cuba está utilizando a sus personeros y sus agentes de opinión para socavar a nuestro país e interferir en el proceso democrático de Estados Unidos. Los tenemos identificados y ya hemos encausado y detenido a varios. Vamos por más.

@SecRubio you know she was a terrible person, right?

Deeply moved by my visit to Mother House. Mother Teresa's legacy of faith, compassion, and service inspires us all.

@mikepompeo nobody believes your shit-eating grin when you deliver this doublespeak.

Putin's renewed attacks on Ukraine are initiating a fresh round of hand-wringing over what to do next. But the answer is pretty simple: Ukrainian victory.

@dbongino you're the fraudulent piece of shit, dan. still drooling on your microphone?

Just a reminder that this fraudulent piece of shit never called me a single time when I was working overtime on this case, and for transparency. Not once did I hear from this fraud about the case. When I saw him at main Justice he never even mentioned it. And then when I offered to brief him at FBI HQ about this case, and others, he passed. Because he’s full of shit. I’ve met a lot of political zeroes in my time but never a bigger zero than this pinecone. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire. He jumped the shark, and when the shark bit back, he cried “The Jooos,” and “Epstein!” I’ve seen him behind the scenes and he’s a pathetic, boner-phone-club VIP points member. It says a lot that the people who know him best just kicked his sorry ass out by ten points. If he wants a war with me then I’m more than happy to oblige. Because nothing he vomits out will change the fact that he’s a zero, and a performance artist.

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Socialism never took root in America because the poor there see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires

When there are no more consumers to buy their products because everything is automated you no longer have value to the elite because you will no longer be the foundation of their 'success'. The foundation of all of their wealth is you. When AI takes over all the jobs - you're expendable. When the machines do the labor and the people can no longer afford to buy what the machines produce, the elites won’t see you as citizens, workers, or human beings. They’ll see you as excess inventory. Because the foundation of their wealth has always been you: your labor, your wages, your debt, your rent, your consumption, your survival. Once AI takes your job, your paycheck, and your purchasing power, you stop being useful to their greed. And in their world, the moment you are no longer profitable, you become disposable.

@StateDept The United States is unsustainable.

SECRETARY RUBIO: The straits have to be open. What’s happening there is illegal. It’s unsustainable for the world and it’s unacceptable.

“Corporations, which control our politics, no longer produce products that are essentially different; what they produce are brands that are different. ” Excerpt From The World As It Is Hedges, Chris