Greenleaf

Michael Roberts also talks about corporate debt being to the point where a large number of corporations can barely make their interest payments as things are now. It’s interesting but I haven’t heard anyone else talk about it so I haven’t researched it much myself.

Absolute chads, those Yemenis

At this point, the only way Ukraine can “win” is if NATO fully and openly joins in on the war, likely starting WW3 in the process (which means no one really “wins”). Anything less - another $100 billion, some old ass F-16s, etc - is only prolonging the inevitable. Prolonging the conflict won’t change the outcome but will kill a lot more people. Thus, the only humanitarian and just response to western countries wanting to give Ukraine more money is to fully oppose it. Like, giving Ukraine more money is actually an immoral decision and we should explain to folks as such.

But in the end, we are doing this so that Americans can be secure at home and abroad.

I would love to ask her how, exactly, American lives are threatened by Ukraine losing or China taking back Taiwan (implied in her China comment). Probably just domino theory bs about how if we don’t stop them then the Russians will be invading the US Red Dawn style before the end of the decade.

I push back on stuff like this IRL when people talk about how the troops are “keeping Americans safe” or “preserving our freedoms”. Really puts people on tilt when you ask them to explain how we are in danger or who is going take away our freedoms. Answers are either people get flustered and don’t have any answer, or string together some word salad about terrorism.

This inspired me to create a TV series that follows along with some friends playing “Campaign for North Africa”. It will be known as the only show with more episodes than One Piece.

I keep going back and forth on this.

It’s possible the attack on the embassy was just opportunistic: “israel” saw the chance to take out a high level Iranian commander and took it, and figured they’d just deal with the blowback, maybe even deal with Iran behind the scenes like the US did when they murdered Soleimani.

Or, Israel attacked because they wanted to provoke a response. Maybe it’s to justify invading Rafah. Maybe it’s to try and escalate this to a broader regional war and drag the US into it.

Gut feeling is the most likely answer is the first one. But then again, Netanyahu really does need to keep “israel” in a state of war to avoid jail. I don’t know how much power the executive has to wage war, but if it’s anything like the US then the answer is “nearly unlimited”.

I didn’t listen to that pod specifically but I did listen to Pod Save America and was following Seth Abramson on twitter. The Mueller report is actually kind of a turning point in my life. Not because of the report, it was just that coincidentally at that exact time the report came out, I found the cth podcast and the old sub. Binged some episodes, spent hours every day on the sub, and in less than a week I renounced my lib ways and considered myself a socialist (before then I probably would have called myself a socdem, I thought Bernie and Warren were equally good choices. Yeesh.)

Iran needs the bomb like, yesterday. I genuinely worry that if we get into a tit-for-tat, “israel” will massively escalate with a nuke dropped on Tehran. The only thing that will stop “israel” will be if Iran has an ability to respond in kind (because it sure as hell won’t be the nonexistent Zionist concern for the lives of anyone who isn’t a Zionist).

p sure Jonathan Chait is a Zionist or at least is really big on “Israel has a right to defend itself”.

It’s honestly work to try and make sure my kids aren’t subject to any copaganda in their TV shows for literal toddlers.

Jerry Jones

Do you mean Jerry Jones the Dallas Cowboys owner, or is this a mix of Jenny Jones and Jerry Springer?