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FYI, China although communist in name, actually functions mostly on capitalist economy, but party authority always comes first.

In a capitalist economy the market comes first, the market dominates politics. In China it is the exact opposite, and that’s why China can build entire cities in the time it takes a capitalist country to build a single bridge or highway. They don’t wait for private investors to provide funding or wait for private contractors to bid for the project. They just decide they’re building a city and then they do it.

In other words, politics are in command.

“They” aren’t on Lemmy dude. Our underwater basket weaving forum is safe.

They’re currently in the process of exterminating 2.2 million people by turning Gaza into a concentration death camp.

The only difference from the Nazis is the Nazis had a larger starting population to exterminate. Other than the gross total, the methods are similar and the goals are similar. People in Gaza are being starved and butchered on a scale eminently comparable to the Holocaust and I don’t know how you can deny this.

He could still pardon them all, it’s not like his hand would cramp from signing too many papers! Go through, one by one, and pardon them all.

And all the people on federal death row, that Trump is going to kill.

And all the people with federal marijuana charges.

And people like Leonard Peltier and Julian Assange while he’s at it.

What’s stopping him?

Infrared isn’t red, though. Seems like it’s worth making a distinction between different frequencies if the way it interacts with matter is different.

If everything else was legal, people would stop dying from drugs laced with fent.

I’m not saying it’s okay, but to give some historical context, literally every president of the past 80 years and the next 5 presidents would have and will do what Biden has done towards Israel.

Ronald fucking Reagan forced Israel into a ceasefire with Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. And it was a real ceasefire, unlike the current joke of a ceasefire Israel has with Lebanon that it keeps violating, and it held for a long-ass time.

I care that he’s not pardoning people in immigration detention. Instead he just pardons his crackhead son and leaves.

I figured something cool was happening to allow them to use radar from the air. So it’s not even radar, it’s like, ELFdar.

Really weird they went for the “lightspeed” angle tho

… isn’t that just how radar works? A radio emission is sent out, bounces off an object, and then detectors measure the difference?

The fact that this works from the sky is definitely new, but I think all radar is light speed by definition.

Just casually visiting the beach in Nazi Germany.

Oh I absolutely loved it, don’t get me wrong. I lived through that decade as my own political awakening, so every single event described was something I watched super closely and posted about and participated in as part of the online activist space (and sometimes in person!)

Your observation that the social media companies can leverage and benefit from these protest movements (and perhaps even create them) is important, I think. It’s probably why Musk bought Twitter, he wanted to wield that kind of power over the masses and their ability to organize. It seems to have worked, too. We don’t see anything like what we saw in the 2010s these days.

I read another book along similar lines called If We Burn, which was a broader look at the 2010s protest movements that sprung up from online activism. What I took away from it is that most of that activism was hollow and didn’t have a political vision or party program, it was just the masses shouting “No!” at their shitty governments. It was also easily put down once people in power got used to it.

The US empire is an ongoing environmental and humanitarian disaster.

Objectively speaking, the US nuking itself would solve a lot of the world’s problems.

Mostly I’m just being flippant as a way to cope with a very real fear that I am going to die.

It’s already in decay. A fascist turn would just destabilize society so much that the country breaks up into independent warring state-regions in a civil war. The US will probably nuke itself.

Those at the margins of the world will be saved from the long arm of the United States government.

It’ll be pretty bad for US Americans though.

Imagine not being excited for the collapse of the US government.

Okay, but in the US they don’t want to risk two cops messing up their witness testimony. Better to just have one, because a cop’s word is law anyway.