it's been kind of amazing to see the democratic party establishment in particular priming the public for power plays against The Russia, and how carefully crafted electoral rhetoric is used to give policy planners the political space needed to draft what they were already going to do anyway with some veneer of legitimacy once the product ships and the news people start selling it
aerdil posted:yeah all that stuff is originally marxist but neoliberalism is great at coopting all the Good shit to make it Bad and Profitable didnt anyone read my dang lego movie thinkpiece
Damn, Legos were originally Marxist?
gay_swimmer posted:can you imagine historians in the far future trying to explain who Twitter User at-WhiteGenocideTM was
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:Every murder in America was committed either by the Clintons or on their orders since the summer of 1991
This but also the murders outside of America.
ilmdge posted:le_nelson_mandela_face posted:Every murder in America was committed either by the Clintons or on their orders since the summer of 1991
This but also the murders outside of America.
too close to the truth to be funny
Brianna Wu, a game developer who was targeted during Gamergate, writes why Hillary taking on the alt-right matters. https://t.co/L5UhzeQyfG
— Hillary for America (@HFA) September 4, 2016
HRC reneges on $15 min wage pledge in the most weasel way possible: "'Fight for $15' where economically feasible" pic.twitter.com/PGaqGG29K3
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 6, 2016
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:how legal would it be to set up a gofundme to hire someone to surgically remove matt yglesis's anus
but then how would he write?
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:HRC reneges on $15 min wage pledge in the most weasel way possible: "'Fight for $15' where economically feasible" pic.twitter.com/PGaqGG29K3
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 6, 2016
*where economically feasibly
peeps are laughing at human testicle "matt yglesias" getting owned here but i think they're missing the point. yglesias' claim is government emails should be private because the content of phone calls is de facto private (although call logs are not) so when government sources want to go Off The Record they have to call instead of sending an email. his point is that we should have less transparency in government because he doesn't like having to go through the ordeal of talking on the phone to help appartchiks avoid accountability
Matthew "Lil' Pinochet" Yglesias pic.twitter.com/8Iez6pwJws
— Wokest Sea Creature (@flagrantdolphin) September 6, 2016
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ilmdge posted:Matthew "Lil' Pinochet" Yglesias pic.twitter.com/8Iez6pwJws
— Wokest Sea Creature (@flagrantdolphin) September 6, 2016
Keven posted:You'd probably be fairly limited in practice re: a lot of big stuff but like... Nobody's making Obama drone strike every hour on the hour. That's because he wants to.
after all these years i'm still trying to wrap my head around how someone goes from being a community organizer to a war criminal responsible for the deaths/suffering of millions of people
how does someone like that wake up everyday and decide it's cool and good to bomb a bunch defenseless people, especially children
Synergy posted:Keven posted:You'd probably be fairly limited in practice re: a lot of big stuff but like... Nobody's making Obama drone strike every hour on the hour. That's because he wants to.
after all these years i'm still trying to wrap my head around how someone goes from being a community organizer to a war criminal responsible for the deaths/suffering of millions of people
how does someone like that wake up everyday and decide it's cool and good to bomb a bunch defenseless people, especially children
liberal moralism is a house built on sand
Additionally, the american invention of posthumous terrorism association munitions has greatly relieved the consciences of millions of americans. Regardless of what they were before the bombing, any corpse which appears to have held an age between 13 and 60 is that of a suspected militant if american weapons were used in the conversion from living to dead. It is almost impossible by legal definition for america to kill civilians.
If you use powerful enough bombs, there may not even be enough evidence of dead kids left to even worry about the lower end of that bracket.
The biggest thing though is probably the liberal mentality which grew out of that isolation, that they deserve it and we're helping them. America didn't drone a bunch of families, the 'terrorists' MADE us drone them. The terrorists were hiding there and we had to stop the terror. Look at what the terrorists made us do? The terrorists were in that market so we had to bomb the market. We have to stop the terrorists because they make us do things like that. Once we kill the terrorists, then we won't have to kill people, but first we have to get them ALL and the only way to kill the terror is to blow up that school because what if there's a terror in there? All those people were probably the bad people.
All of american military leadership at this point is about the thinning and dispersal of responsibility. The empire is run by passive voice. During the "collateral murder" and other atrocities of the eternal war, the questions and answers were never should we shoot people, should we shoot those people, should we even fucking be here. The questions were, and the "leadership" decisions were that IF those people became shot, would that fall within the legal bounds of the structure which defines when a shooting is OK to do. The gunner asked the pilot, the pilot asked the guy on the radio, the guy on the radio asked the commander, the commander asked the lawyer, the lawyer described the doors and windows and holes in the rules of engagement crafted by the generals. The word was passed back that shooting was OK, the victims became murdered, and no one bore responsibility for actively issuing an order for one human to murder another. That's how Obama sleeps. He's never picked up the phone and called the CIA and said I want you to murder the fuck out of this guy. The CIA just sends a memo saying hey we found a terrorist can we do the thing?
Synergy posted:after all these years i'm still trying to wrap my head around how someone goes from being a community organizer to a war criminal responsible for the deaths/suffering of millions of people
how does someone like that wake up everyday and decide it's cool and good to bomb a bunch defenseless people, especially children
Very carefully