Greenleaf

Ok I bought one. But what do I do about wet butthole? I still end up using TP to dry it off.

Any app that the US government can’t control will be treated this way. That means any app developed outside of the US or its vassals that gets popular enough among Americans. It’s how the US implements its own soft “Great Firewall”.

The pearl-clutching going on in American media over the Columbia student protests is sickening. Death to America.

Homeschooling should be illegal, too.

There’s a WSJ article right now about Israel, Egypt, the UAE, and the US working on a plan to ethnically cleanse Rafah and presumably push Gazans into the Sinai. I can’t get the article to work with archiving and it’s behind a paywall, but maybe someone else can pull it. Sounds like absolutely heinous, final solution shit.

There’s Mint Press and The Red Stream on Telegram. Not a ton of updates but it’s something.

There’s also Means Morning News and Means TV might have other coverage. You have to pay for Means TV (but if you have the $, it’s worth it - run by comrades and they operate as a co-op IIRC) but the Means Morning News podcast is free and it’s just the audio from the news program.

I disagree. I happen to find “death to America” very satisfying because I know how your typical white American would react to hearing it. Probably call the cops on you just for saying it.

“Cannibalism” is a topic that has been well-studied in anthropology. And what anthropologists will tell you is - that while it’s not like cannibalism has never existed anywhere - that it’s largely been a vehicle/excuse for white supremacy for colonialism and wiping out entire people groups.

I pretty much only use a browser for Hexbear, so this does actually feel like early internet some.

Gaetz is correct, the US could have all those troops back in the US tomorrow if they wanted to. The truth is, they don’t want to. The US military is best in the world at one and only one area: if they don’t want to do something (like evacuate a base), they are great at dragging things out indefinitely. I saw in story about Burkina Faso, a US military official said something like “we are coordinating now to find a way we can meet together and start on a plan for eventual evacuation”, which is obviously their way of saying they don’t plan on leaving.

The CIA probably told the military they need a few more months to complete their plans on a coup against the current junta.

I can’t find an article that explicits says so, but it looks like by my math every House democrat voted in favor of sending tens of billions of $ to Ukraine and Taiwan. So that includes AOC but also Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.

It could be as simple as these “progressives” don’t want to upset the apple cart with DNC leadership; or have to explain why they broke from the party. Possible - but unlikely - that these social fascists recognize how important US and NATO hegemony is the preserve imperial spoils.

Honestly though, I feel like the answer is as simple as:

USA good

Russia bad

China bad

I was watching the super lib “Handmaids Tale” last night (not really by choice). Gilead - the former USA turned into an evil religious conservative state - shoots down some planes from the old, “good” US government. One of the Gilead leaders says “we’ve already been congratulated by the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans for sticking it to the Americans”. The episode finished with a schmaltzy scene of Americans reciting the pledge of allegiance. And made me think… libs really just see Russia and China as “bad”, and are utterly incapable of seeing the USA as anything other the good guys who occasionally get it wrong but it’s nobody’s fault, really. Russia and China bad because “authoritarianism” and any reason they have for hating us isn’t based on material reality but because they hate the goodness we represent.

I have met a few House reps in my life, and know people who know some of them even better. I can tell you with a high level of confidence that these people as group don’t have a level of geopolitical understanding that’s any higher than your typical college-educated American. This news megathread alone operates on a level these people will never think at. They cannot (and refuse to) see American imperialism. The US is good and these “authoritarian” countries are bad. NATO keeps the world safe. Taiwan should be free. These cliches are the terms in which libs - including those who make policy decisions - think at and it never goes beyond that.