Greenleaf

Good lord I know several liberals IRL who would say this exact thing unironically.

At the very least, I don’t think Biden cares. I’ve never met anyone his age who actually cared about anything other than seeing their grandkids and getting to go on racist tirades at the drop of a hat.

Zionists need outside funding and to bring in lots of people from the outside to even try and come close to the power of the pro-Palestine protests.

Yeah, Kelley is actually kinda problematic.

WHOOSH

Oh no, the same political body that enthusiastically supported the genocide of an entire continent, allowed wholesale theft of indigenous lands, legalized ownership and enslavement of human beings, persecuted people of my same political persuasion, and authorized and pursued wars that killed millions for no reason other than profits…. dares to label my criticism of a racist, genocidal apartheid state antisemitic?! Oh no, whatever will I do.

I guess on the plus side, I don’t know anyone under 45 - regardless of ideology - who thinks speaking out against Israel is anything close to antisemitism, so all this does is further delegitimize the US government in the eyes of young people, so that’s good.

I’ve been a fan of their music for a long time but I’d look a little closer into Yauch’s views on Tibet and China. Whatever, they’re all decent radlibs for the most part I guess.

I am sorry we reached this point

“Look at what you made me do”

Reminder that Israel prefers to try and damage buildings beyond repair rather than completely flatten them, because it actually involves more time and effort to remove a damaged building that can't be used than to clear out a flattened one.

This article highlights a number of blind spots that the American ruling class and the MIC have.

1. The MIC exists to funnel money to the capitalist class, not to provide optimum national defense. So it's no surprise they are used to thinking "just throw money at the problem" will make things magically work.

2. The ruling class looks back to the massive industrial output that occurred in WW2 and thinks that can be replicated. They are ignoring the fact that in WW2, that was mostly due to underutilized capacity made idle by the Great Depression being maxed out. Industrial capacity in the US has been destroyed by neoliberalism and outsourcing, and that can't just be utilized on short notice.

3. Combining #1 and #2 into this, the ruling class I'm sure views factory work as "monkey work" that anyone can learn in a day; because I have been around too many c-suite executives, capitalists, and politicians and they have uniformly expressed this very view. But that's really not the case at all, especially when you're talking about relatively high-tech military equipment. It takes a while for people to get trained and get properly skilled. And that assumes there's even slack in the workforce that can do this work. And if you try and go the route of automation, that only increases the amount of time to get up to speed (and btw, who's even building all the robots to do the manufacturing?). All in all, by the time the US could even build industrial capacity from scratch and get the work force trained up, years have passed and a conflict is already over (because no one seems to be suggesting that this capacity be built in advance of a conflict. Whenever I read about replacing used missiles and the like, it's always about how many years it will take given current capacity instead of looking to expand production capacity).

If doing the right thing (fighting for the liberation of Palestine) makes you unpopular with American voters, then America deserves whatever hell is wrought upon it in the aftermath.

lol I’m old enough to vaguely remember these cards, they’re definitely real.