"In the event of rocket fire on the Israeli population by one or more of the Palestinian organizations in Gaza, should heavy fire be carried out on Palestinian population centers in order to burn into their minds the cost of the provocation?"

55%+ of Israelis surveyed say yes to war crimes.

Graeber's Debt, Chapter 11

You can post "this is the America they took from you" with a picture of a blonde in a bikini and get a thousand likes.

theres no lefty take that won't have at least one person and their followers calling you a liberal, a fascist, a revisionist or a fed. It's just not an easy way to grift at scale.

"You think there's no role for ideas and human agency" WRONG, try again

Quality of the source aside (marxists dot org has been known to take editorial liberties), you'd think some of these purportedly educated people would be able to engage with sources that are on page 1 of google results whenever you stick a few key terms in the search bar, but no, they never will.

This on top of his announcement that he's working on robots to follow criminals around so they don't commit crime, which he is quite literally lifting from a sci-fi book.

I recommend Tarkovsky, obviously, but Viy is an incredibly fun folk horror tale about a seminarian who get's his shit messed up by a witch. White Sun of the Desert also a cracking watch. Not on Mosfilm but similarly subject to demonisation; run, don't walk and watch Pulgasari.

Amazing how easily people who putatively don't believe in states have been recruited as partisans in an intra-capitalist war for influence, all because it makes them feel the warm fuzzy belonging feelings to line up with everyone else for once and denounce those evil ruskies.

"Opposition Party's bureaucracy deliberately loses multiple elections and coordinates with media figures to deligitimise their leader" is the kind of lurid fantasy most centrist melts imagine about Russian or Turkish opposition parties, but as always the call is coming from inside the house.

Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.

I am very aware of our cultures' shared history of appreciating beautiful thick women and freeing slaves. it's why so many irish defected during the war to the mexican side. on account of our surplus of beautiful thick women and our dearth of slaves.