It’s not remotely racialized enough for that comparison

What if, now hear me out nerds, what if…it’s aliens and they’re genuinely scrambling like headless chickens trying to blame drones or Iran or whatever the fuck

Cause if this is a psyop, then it’s a very poorly thought out one, it’s all over the place

There really are Demons in this world

I wish they’d hurry up and take over this planet, this nudging shit is obnoxious

I’ve always said we needed to reach out off-lemmy to grow in non-toxic healthy ways, and it’s finally happening

Don’t have to fully reveal themselves if all they want to do is send a message to the government, and basically owning and playing around the skies of military bases sends that message plain

As always as long as the objects behave within the currently understood laws of physics then the government theory is most valid

But if they start pulling magical stunts or acting in ways that defy our understanding of reality and thermodynamics, than frankly the theory that any government on this earth has access to post-singularity tech and is just hiding it for some reason is less believable then if it was just aliens

Frankly, participation is its own punishment, especially if you’re non-white

When talking to people who don’t care about the victims of militarism or the consequences of their actions, the only course of action is to appeal to their self-interest and trust me it doesn’t take much to get service members to recognize they’re literally being destroyed physically and mentally, again especially if they’re non-white

Brookings and Pew Research are known data fabricators, 80% of Vietnamese people do not hold pro-US foreign policy/pro US neoliberal world order opinions

26% of Americans have a “positive” approval rating of the Health Insurance Industry???

Americans are straight up nihilistic zombies

1 million+ Palestinian genocide is guaranteed as a result of recent developments, that’s where I’m at

It’s amazing how in two short sentences he cut thru 50 years of bullshit pseudo-left debates that still rage on all over the internet and in academia

The difference in clarity and focus that defines a true people’s intellectual as opposed to what passes for political acuity on the left today

Isn’t it interesting, 10 years ago bugs like Brett Stephens never would have used words like “working class” or even acknowledge the concept of class as something that exists, now everyone is playing on our rhetorical field and using our terms like it’s second nature

If there’s been one small victory for the socialist left, it’s the fact we’ve clawed back so much conceptual room and created a kind of nascent half-realized socialist realism in the heart of capitalist realism

Twenty years ago they would’ve just spammed the terrorist and criminal activist card and left it at that, maybe even used words like “illiberal” or “Soviet remnant”

And you’re standing in the way of it old man, sit down and shut up

Let me just say this: it goes without saying that killing anybody — this guy happened to be a father of two kids. You don’t kill people. It’s abhorrent. I condemn it wholeheartedly. It was a terrible act.

Yeah that’s what I thought you media trained dog, keep playing teacher’s pet

The American priority are the Russian ports, the pipe dream is just that, a Gulf-Turkish dream, and one that could compete with American LNG dominance

The Americans support Israeli land grabs, tho it doesn’t pay to say that out loud, at least not yet, isolating Hezbollah and kicking the Russian military out of the Middle East trumps any other consideration

Erdoğan is actually in dangerous waters, the US and Israelis may feel it’s time for a Turkish “correction” if Turkey starts feeling it’s oats a little too much over this victory, the US doesn’t have the rabid anti-Kurdish brain worms that animates Turkish intelligence, and the continuing deterioration of the SDF is a soft US red line meeting a hard Turkish red line

But if the SDF falls and the Turkish and Qatari jihadists get out of hand and start believing they’re something more than a client state for the US and Israel, then the US is gonna destabilize the destabilizers

If the SDF’s position keeps deteriorating, that only gives the US more incentive to either bring HTS in line or rip the SNA out of Turkey’s hands, otherwise they’ll have to start building another faction from scratch out of Al-Tanf

That’s all true, but remember when it comes to Russia, the US is in full maximalist mode and I can see them pressuring Turkey and Qatar to replace HTS with the SNA

That would invite the wrath of the US upon HTS and the Americans would begin pressuring the Qatari paymasters and Turkish Intelligence to either discipline HTS or break ties and it would make the Americans more accepting (than they already are) of Israeli land grabs

Putin selling weapons to HTS is the equivalent of him selling weapons to foreign mercs in Ukraine in the hopes of destabilizing Zelensky

Bad move on the part of HTS, their supporters and allies despise the Russians almost as much as Assad, the Russian jet was the bane of these beheaders for nine years, this guarantees infighting and splintering