Also green.

A lot of old writing refers to the sky and the sea as green.

This is textbook defamation. Hasan’s chat is constantly telling him he should sue whenever he watches mainstream media making shit up about him on stream but he has always declined, but recently they’ve escalated the defamation and are making increasingly serious allegations against him, so IMO he’s shown remarkable restraint thus far and he absolutely has the right to sue over this.

All they’ve done is state plainly what has always been every law enforcement agency’s unofficial policy regarding body-cam footage and made it official. ICE is what the police want to be but can’t be seen openly as, a fascist paramilitary occupying force. The only reason police keep up the appearance of transparency and accountability is because mass movements and the threat of them has forced them to. ICE is as yet unburdened by that baggage, though they got a taste of it after the surge in Minneapolis and they briefly had to pretend to change by firing Kristi Noem.

Kurzgesagt has a contract with Open Philanthropy (a reputation laundering vehicle for billionaires) to promote concepts related to Effective Altruism in their videos, essentially making them a propaganda outlet for billionaire egomaniacs who fancy themselves philosopher-kings. Effective Altruism is a philosophical movement that caught on in elite circles because it enables them to justify their selfishness by reframing it as focusing their philanthropy on specific causes they believe will have the greatest impact, which in recent years is mostly AI research. It gives them a rhetorical framework to pass off their passion projects as philanthropy and an excuse for not dedicating resources to things like stopping climate change, ending world hunger, or - god forbid - wealth inequality.

Only lemmings would use comparison operators to explain political topics and then have the replies evaluate the expression lol.

It’s not a good idea at all. The problems it creates are greater in both number and difficulty than the problems it solves.

He’s only saying this because he’s seen the polls on support for Israel and the Iran war and he wants to be a viable presidential candidate in 2028.

It’s not either/or, it’s a self-reinforcing cycle, though it isn’t usually the drugs themselves that start it.

Thomas Paine is the only one I could tolerate hanging out with. The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.

The Vietnam war began with majority support and slowly became unpopular over time. The Iran war started with the majority opposing it, and is the first war where that’s happened in US history. It’s a very different political climate from the Vietnam war era.

If Patriot Front was a state asset then no one would have gone to jail for Jan 6th.

Saying this after they all got presidential pardons is just insulting.

Granted now as an enemy of the State hiding their faces is a necessity because mere associating w/ antifa is a crime.

Antifa is an enemy of the state because the state is an enemy of the people. Also, it truly exposes the hypocrisy of right-wingers like yourself when you celebrate guilt by association with an ideological stance (antifa is not even an organized group) after years of proudly proclaiming yourselves as free speech absolutists. You’re libertarians when Democrats are in power, but fascists when Republicans are in power. Pretty convenient for you guys, huh?

Antifa hides their faces from authorities because they would otherwise be persecuted by the state. Patriot Front has the backing of the state (many of them are police themselves), they’re hiding their faces from the people. Antifa are protecting their lives, Patriot Front are protecting their reputation. One is pragmatism, the other cowardice.

I think you’re underestimating how gen Z would respond to a draft. There has been no generation in US history less supportive of war. I think a significant number of gen Z would gladly turn their weapons on the general that asks them to commit war crimes without hesitation, and that’s if they even manage to drag us kicking and screaming to the front.

I fucking dare you to try it bitch. The backlash would be legendary.

It sucks that the smokescreen of conservatives hating new trek for being too woke exists because part of the problem with new trek is that it’s fake woke. It wears the face of progressivism like a skin mask while being a bland representation of an ideal future as imagined by a past era of liberalism that no longer exists.

If you contribute to making it happen you won’t need anyone to clue you in when it does.

How the fuck do people don’t get radical or depressed?

Leaning into the former and channeling it into real world action with a community helps with the latter.

You have friends that have made a therapeutic ritual out of using essential oils which helps them only because the placebo effect can be very powerful for pain. Literally anything could stand in for the essential oils. Swap their oil vials out with convincing fakes and they’ll never know the difference because it’s the ritual of smelling and/or applying the oils that’s helping them, not any real physical mechanism of the compounds in the oils interacting with their biology.