Me: “Just FYI, you’ve got undiagnosed ADHD.”
Friend 1: “Wow, what can I do about this?”
Me: “You’re too poor to access mental health care, and most professionals haven’t accepted this as a diagnosis for your racial/gender cohort. So, unfortunately, there’s nothing to be done.”
Friend 2: “What about me?”
Me: “You’re transgender.”
Friend 2: “What the fuck did you just call me?!”
Maybe aim better next time, Mr. Crooks
Do not be dumb and try to start an argument, don’t accuse, don’t talk about identity or race or gender or any other issue they’re already distracted with.
:-|
“Whatever you do, don’t mention the G word. You’ll just hand Trump more supporters.”
~ Average American Liberal
Btw… all of the names released to date? We doing anything about any of them?
Is Brett Ratner going to jail? No? He’s making Rush Hour 4 now?
How about Larry Summer? Woody Allen? Bill Clinton? Anybody??
They do what they’re told or they get fired and replaced with those who will.
Incidentally, last year the U.S. Army Made Four Tech Executives Lieutenant Colonels
Let that sink in
it’s exactly those actions that are creating ‘terrorists’
Even this hasn’t born out. We’re not seeing waves of terrorism on US soil by foreigners or radicalized domestics.
We’re seeing police brutality by state officials aimed anyone who “looks like a terrorist”, with some spycops bullshit to entrap a few useful idiots along the way.
Perhaps I’d have a different opinion if America/Israel struck military targets;
They’re dismantling the ability of the Iranian state to defend it’s sovereignty so they can bomb and assassinate locals with impunity.
They’re also randomly killing civilians, because these military strikes aren’t as precise or informed as the leadership wants you to believe
Killing a bunch of kids, makes sure the other side won’t surrender.
It’s a genocide. We don’t intend to let them surrender. We’re going to keep killing long after Iran has been fully defanged
Stop. Posting. On. Reddit.
Another 30+ years of “terrorists”
We were never going to hear the end of “Muslim Terrorist” rhetoric, because it was instrumental in justifying our dominion over the region.
There isn’t going to be another 9/11. We’re well past the point of needing a causa belli for this kind of war. It’ll just be ICE goons murdering parents in front of crying children and CNN talking heads explaining how we’re safer because of it.
Gotta wonder how many Chuds will post “Iranians can wear bikinis again” before the bodies are even cold
Flip to what, though?
Reza Pahlavi appears to be the current useful idiot of the West
Given the viciousness and the firepower both US and Israel can bring to bare, it’s very possible they killed him.
Also possible they’re just announcing this to further domestic unrest. If Khamenei doesn’t stick his head out to announce he’s alive, it will be that much easier to flip generals or city leaders who think they’ll need to surrender in order to survive.
Videos in Farsi published on social media show some people cheering in Tehran
“We’ll be greeted as liberators”
No shortage of people in Iran who hate the Ayatollah. But it’s unlikely you’ll find folks under active bombardment feeling in the mood to cheer at any news.
the vast majority of people are just carrying on
They’re surviving because that’s all they believe they have the power to do.
the entire last year should have been spent networking, organizing, planning
All of this has been happening. We’ve had multiple protest marches, fund raisers, and relief efforts for vulnerable people in hostile states and counties.
If you’re not seeing it, you’re not looking for it. But then this is part of the problem.
There is no single national organization to rally around. At best you have some short lived movements - No Kings, BLM, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street - that dissolve (or are dismantled) as soon as they emerge.
Otherwise, you’re organizing with a regional group - your local union chapter, an LGBTQ org, a political outfit like Palestine Action or the DSA or PSL - that’s at best a few dozen, largely disconnected from one another.
The closest thing to a general strike we’ve seen was the Minneapolis January 23 action, which lasted a day or two and never stretched beyond the city limits.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr labeled TikTok a “clear and present danger” to US national security, urging its removal from app stores due to concerns over data access by China. Citing reports of ByteDance personnel in Beijing accessing sensitive American user data, Carr argued the app acts as a surveillance tool
Back when radio/TV were just getting started, the FCC created a set of rules to make sure that the public would be well informed.
This is revisionist.
The FCC created a set of rules to manage a broadcasting cartel. Changes in technology shifted the domain of ownership from the production companies to the telecommunication companies and eventually the data center companies.
But we started as a cartel. We’re still a cartel. The FCC has done nothing to change that (and made many moves to entrench it - the forced sale of TikTok being only the latest).
As soon as Reagan took office he started ‘deregulating’ the media. By 1996, the Fairness Doctrine was dead.
The Fairness Doctrine was an enrichment of the two party system. Reagan simply took the next logical step and made it a one party system.
It’s not a matter of realization but action. “The guy with the enormous constellation of public and private allies plans to do The Big Illegal Thing” doesn’t tell us how we’re supposed to respond.
There’s a certain “well, people should just do something!!!” attitude that is divorced from reality. Everyone wants everyone else to “do something!!!” for them. Vanishingly few people know what is to be done.
Are you arguing about the use of “resurfaced”
It’s a popular media gimmick. Turn old news into a new headline because you’ve got nothing better to talk about.
The NYPost and WaTi play this game all the time
I mean, I don’t think that’s the reason why.
But that also won’t happen, for obvious reasons. Nobody is going to prosecute Jamie fucking Dimon for anything, even though he’s closer to the center of this web than even Epstein himself.