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I will mute everyone on this site. Slowly.

@DrKuba2 @ulrichspeck Told you so. US blocks the Hormuz. Now ask yourself why I keep getting things right and you are just stroking people off with good vibes? Here's an apple.

@ulrichspeck It’s a lie to cover the climb down from his threat.

Impossible to enforce:

@nxt888 It's a much older tradition than that. Ask the Natives.

Never trust a negotiation with America. This is not cynicism. This is the documented historical record. 1954: Geneva Accords. America refuses to sign. Then actively destroys the conditions the Accords created. 1968: Paris Peace Talks begin. Nixon, as a private citizen, secretly contacts the South Vietnamese government and tells them to stall, to refuse to negotiate, because he'll give them a better deal after he wins the election. He sabotaged peace talks to win a presidency. This is documented. This is not disputed. This is called the Logan Act violation that was never prosecuted. The war then continued for seven more years. Millions more died. For a Nixon election strategy. 1973: Peace Accords signed. Immediately violated. 1975: War ends not through negotiation but because the Vietnamese military simply drove to Saigon and took it. Conclusion: Every time Vietnam trusted American paper, Americans used the pause to regroup, rearm, or reposition. The only thing that ended the war was making it impossible to continue. Not signatures. Not summits. Not Nobel Prizes. Impossibility. That is the lesson. Not just for Vietnam. For everyone sitting across a table from Washington, wondering whether to believe what they're being told.

@mcsquared34 An American tradition.

@SanaImmTarek @normfinkelstein I hope he's right but I don't think that's how humiliating a narcissist works out.

Norman Finkelstein thinks Trump is too humiliated to attack Iran again @normfinkelstein youtu.be/4eg3yiYeQxc?is…

@bunkenator @DropSiteNews I'm sure that who's to blame would be... foggy... like that Nord Stream thing everyone likes to forget about.

@roesingape @DropSiteNews I doubt Israel is ready to take on Pakistan, but if they are, they will

🇵🇰 ✈️ BBC journalist says Iranian delegation likely en route to Pakistan for talks.

@tbpn @esaagar Populism is a red herring. Everything it was supposed to have changed in the past decade, has not changed. We are a captured population, and AI will come regardless of any public tide. The best you'll get is data centers in poor communities not middle class one.

Breaking Points' @esaagar says AI companies are "fighting against a very, very big force" in the US. "There's this rising populist tide against the data center movement. And against Abundance-style assurances from politicians and companies." "Something is happening. The tide has not only turned, but coming." "People just feel like this is out of their control. About AI especially. They're like, 'I want impact. I want a say.'" "There's an overwhelming animus, and people are angry. It's about a lack of control. 'You're coming to take my job, you're increasing my electricity prices, you're changing my nation. And I have to have a say as a citizen.'" "It's no longer just about electricity, it's about the whole picture."

@Adbusters Why? We know the answer, and no one will do it.

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No Kings didn’t do shit. 🫠 Let one of the architects of OWS tell you why. youtu.be/PuQWXhCwUfQ

@kvshlvk @TheAnnaGat It's simpler than that. I grew up catholic in the bible belt. It was being thoroughly protestanized/evangelized by the 1980s, probably since Vatican II in the 60s. Probably dove-tailed with the great shift over civil rights, when all southern dems turned GOP. The split is old.

@TheAnnaGat Well said.

My general take on the Pope / Vance thing is that American culture seems — for obvious historical reasons — to be antithetical to Catholicism, and in American hands Catholic praxis becomes Evangelical zealotry. Mature Roman Catholicism is a lazy, almost Eastern religion — give it to a proactive, hypomanic culture and this is what happens. As a European Catholic convert living in America, these differences are strikingly clear to me.

So what's everybody been up to since No Kings? Any strategic breakthroughs? Any big ideas? Any vision? Or did we all just go back to work while Trump threatened to wipe an entire civilization off the face of the earth?

@Adbusters First time?

Wild that everybody's just moved on from Trump saying he was going to kill a whole civilization yesterday.

@kvshlvk A state is defined as an entity with a monopoly on violence. Now including self-harm. This was inevitable.

A two-tier concept of suicide is developing. Why is state suicide increasingly facilitated, but private suicide is anathematised?

@mcsquared34 Then why was the literacy rate in Russia less than 20% at the time of the Soviet revolution? Che is an idiot, a murderer, and a honey pot for morons. Deceiving people through writing is way easier than talking them into shit. Evidence? Look around you. Look at the meme.

Something very odd happened over the last few decades where the common conception of a highly intelligent person became the socially inept autist. It kind of goes hand in hand with the “don’t judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree” mentality, that views humans more or less as an rpg character with a fixed amount of skill points. To be strong in one area is to have a deficit in the other. “Sure he’s really smart, but he doesn’t have any relationships in his life.”

@haugejostein The first chart measures the effectiveness of local state propaganda. The second graphic is local state propaganda.

Findings from an alternative democracy study, carried out by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (a Danish-based NGO), stand in stark contrast to The Economist's Democracy Index. The study finds that perceptions of democracy in China — a country labelled undemocratic by The Economist — are higher than in many Western countries. This should make you think twice about how reliably The Economist measures democracy.

@BenBurgis @jacobin Cope. This means Pakistan did nothing, local pressure and republican pressure did nothing, US polls did nothing, stock market plays did nothing. Insane take all about coddling the left's illusion that any hope remains without violence. Shit isn't even over.

My latest for @jacobin:

@Simplyt66442038 @admcollingwood I wish they would.

@admcollingwood @roesingape They could…stop

This is the salient point. Iran was revealed to have the capacity to put at risk the global economy, as well as ALL of America's allies in the region. This means, in effect, that Iran has sanctioning power hitherto available only to the United States, and perhaps the EU. It will not now give up this power unless forced to do so, and the US has shown that it does not have the military capacity to do so at a politically acceptable cost.

@BenBurgis Don't be too harsh Mr. Burgis, most of the world currently (and for the past 10,000 years) lives in an ethnostate. Forgetting this is a very imperial habit. China just passed the "Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" law that makes mandarin the state language. They don't forget.

Anyone who's a minority (even a very slight minority, as Israeli Jews would be if Palestinians were given equal rights from the river to the sea) is therefore "subjugated"? Was the end of apartheid in South Africa the "subjugation" of white people?

@1WhiteRabbitt Agriculture.

Capitalism