Zombie-Mantis

Evil hitlerite country, should be occupied and liberated.

Oh don’t worry, I wasn’t considering you in the first place, Michelle.

Holy shit they’re actually doing the hebophile bit

She needs to be so much more aggressive we right now, be out for blood.

Shocking news: people like good things that help them.

As in, an improvement on the original (fewer famines) model? Or an upgraded, more effective (bigger famines) model?

Maybe this time they won’t dismantle the worker’s councils after the revolution, that’d be nice.

Crazy to announce that immediately after your party got obliterated in the elections. Maybe give it a minute before saying anything?

Don’t stop at the studs, ABOLISH ICE

They’re total cowards, that’s why. Hegseth is convinced he’s the next target to get shot at, and is redirecting enormous resources to have a personal guard at all times.

I think I’ve got an even better idea, then. Make the carving the main attraction. Cut the shoots down after everyone’s done, let it grow until it’s tall again, and repeat the process.

You could make it play into some historical traditions of impermanence and cycles of death & rebirth

Call me crazy, but who cares? It’s bamboo. Those names will disappear in about a week. Reinstate the entry fee, have a guy water-bottle-spray teens carving up the grass too much, and call it a day. It’s not that complicated, nor a huge deal, it’s bamboo.

Well, Trump has had some harsh words against Putin recently. The issue for him is that he’s too fucking impatient. He wants to be the man who solved the war in a day, but neither side is willing to give up like that. First he supported Russia, but the Ukrainians wouldn’t give in, then he supported the Ukrainians, but the Russians wouldn’t give-in. Then he pivoted to the middle East, hence the “12-day war” that he “ended.”

This business with Venezuela is no different, in my eyes. He wants a big win under his belt, and an external threat to bring a rally-aroud-the-flag. It’s like Mussolini desperately invading Ethiopia, in hopes of strengthen his position at home, only to isolate Italy from the world. It’s all just very, very stupid and evil and shortsighted.

Reopening Venezuela to the global markets is certainly a part of it, but “stealing their oil” isn’t. It’s more about the fact that they’re a thorn in America’s side, by not being part of the established political order, and calling themselves Socialist. It’s just all politics, and balancing coalition interests with public image.

Though, they wouldn’t really be “reinstating capitalism” either, just reopening them to markets and (hopefully, from their perspective) privatizing parts of the economy. Or, more specifically, bringing them into the global investment capital system. Venezuela only ever really nationalized a few key industries, there aren’t giant worker-enterprizes to disassemble, like in the Russian Civil War. It’s a much easier transition, and still, in pursuit of domestic political capital, not resource rights.

We’re not trying to steal their oil. The reasons are much stupider than that: fascists need an external enemy to justify their militarism. They’re desperate for a rally around the flag. Same as with Iraq.

Clearly, that’s Robin.

Over before it began?

You could say… It was…Aborted.

Sorry, I’ll see myself out…

That name does get a good little snicker out of me, it’s just silly. Too bad it’s proponents are serious.

I’m desperately trying to parse what this means. Do you want someone to attach a fire hose to him? Paint him red? I must be missing something obvious.

Why is this a code block?