Always curious to hear how NK has no electricity, but they manage to hack the systems of a trillion dollar conglomerate on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.
The contradictions abound.
You can only do so much with forced labour.
There's a certain irony in this statement, coming from folks who consume it regularly.
Democrats stand up
They already caved on Obamacare subsidies. But surely this time will be different.
Lolz. How soon until Schumer-crats bring them back to caving.
You idiots voted for this!
It’s the steady support of Ukraine that would cause Russia to turn back one way or another.
Has it worked in the last twelve years? NATO has been fully in support of Ukraine since Maiden. Nothing has improved as a result.
If trump and the gop hadn’t been such idiots, and just held the line, Russians would see no possibly advantageous end game and putin would probably be in exile or hung by his balls in red square by now
Dems lost the general election in 2024 because they were more interested in bailing out Ukraine than covering domestic priorities.
These people have made their own bed.
A lot of the work is shoddy. The businesses doing the work have some kind of quid pro quo. Financing is involved, so the real bag holders will be lenders pitched a job they can never collect on.
There's a lot of different ways to pass the bill around in the modern economy, such that landing a $300M job on-paper can be leveraged to cheat and swindle people down the line.
Good luck getting hardware in this market
This organization will be bankrupt from embezzlement and donor collapse by the end of next year
Wage theft fully eclipses burglary and other petty crimes
Will Republicanism become the tip of the spear for the Israeli state? Or will it become a more traditional Protestant-aligned reactionary organ of corporate power?
Find out next election cycle on Who Grifts Best!
There are a million non-violent ways to oppose authoritarianism such as boycotts, labour strikes, voting blocs, etc. but since they involve at least some amount of effort and inconvenience no one (in the USA, at least) wants to do them.
These economic levers typically need a critical mass of participation. And one way to get that participation is via buy-in from the government (regulation) or capital (BSD). Random people refusing to shop at Starbucks doesn't mean much. But when a location is shut down for violating ordinances or because the landlord kicks them out, that's a material hit to their pocketbook the owners can't ignore.
Rallying that critical mass of support is difficult and frustrating. I've heard more than one organizer describe it as "herding cats". This isn't a trivial issue of inconvenience or effort. It requires an industrial scale of activism.
However, by wanking about a revolution that you know will never come you can claim to be on the right side of history while still taking the path of least resistance in every way that matters.
"The Revolution" is a critical mass of critical mass events. Its something you can only really talk about in hindsight, because it requires a bunch of constantly moving social parts to kinda line up at the right moment and move in the right direction together.
Revolutions aren't uncommon. Large institutional shifts in composition, function, and ideology happen regularly. But they're a lot easier when the people executing them already have a bunch of institutional controls to operate. "Wanking" often feels like the only thing you can do, because you're so cut out of the so-called democratic process.
They shed 12M votes between 2020 and 2024, in large part thanks to failing to deliver on promises to their constituents. While Biden was throwing up his hands and insisting he couldn't afford to relieve student debt, extend health care subsidies at the tail end of COVID, or defend the civil and labor rights of his constituents, he was shoveling money out the back door for Israel and Ukraine.
They work just fine on American business interests. But then American businesses are perfectly happy to bribe people directly. You had Elon promising to cut $1M checks to GOTV in swing states and TPUSA dropping much of its $85M war-chest across the critical swing state of Arizona in the run up to the election. Both groups pulled their fortunes from the post-COVID asset inflation of the American plutocracy. And they spent the money to buy up voters that Biden had allowed to languish.