Doubledee [comrade/them]

Yeah my assumption is that they’re trying to tag him, it’s the dang Post.

Between this and Teslas (lotta overlap on the Venn diagram there tho) it’s really great to have these handy signals that you’re dealing with a person you will want absolutely nothing more to do with.

Was this just their negotiating team? Assassinating diplomats? Or were real leadership figures in Doha?

I just don’t see how you get to negotiation until someone is genuinely beaten. There’s no compromise diplomatic end to this that actually deals with the reasons the conflict started.

Ukraine can’t be allowed to have an army and function as an ally to NATO and hostile countries to Russia’s west, if the conflict ends with that as an open possibility we are only delaying the resumption of the war.

But unilateral disarmament is also not something Ukraine can be expected to accept unless it’s truly over, that’s complete capitulation. And any security guarantee that might try to bridge the gap is not tenable because that’s what the Minsk framework tried and it clearly didn’t work.

I think people are just burning out and giving up, honestly, and having it brought to their attention just triggers a defensive response, whichever comes to mind that seems the most reasonable and least hurtful at the time. Since there isn’t any end point on the horizon or any expectation that it will ever end it’s demoralizing; people are, without consciously realizing it, deciding it’s just not worth it if it has to go forever.

Then you have to comment on it if you’re in leadership in DSA, since ostensibly you want electoral success which is obviously not going to be something you get by promoting masking and isolation. Especially if you aren’t gonna break with the democratic party, which it’s obvious they aren’t going to do. I think they’ve calculated it’s a bad play for getting “results.”

I won’t lie I’ve really missed him. I think they might need to slow down a little bit to make room for him to contribute, he sounds like he’s a lot more articulate than he was a few months ago but I think they can easily bowl over him or outpace him in their usual tempo.

My partner just went to visit their parents, two highly educated wealthy professionals in technically complex fields. They apparently spent most of the time they were all together generating jokes and quips with AI and sharing them, this is apparently their way of spending time with family now.

Yeah it’s frankly baffling that everyone is willingly falling into negotiating one on one with the US, they can’t be so stupid that they don’t realize it’s a weaker position than banding together.

I work with guys who talk to each other about their sports betting while the machines run, they believe they’re making money doing it. It’s pretty depressing to hear.

To be fair to Trump, these obsequious leaders keep kissing his feet, you’d be stupid to not continue to extort them if they’re demonstrating a total unwillingness to fight back.

I mean if you’re Israel you bomb whatever the fuck for any reason. I’m not sure I take them lashing out as a sign of a weak position. They get off on lashing out

For sure, there’s an unhealthy internet thing of just hating stuff, I hope it’s obvious I’m not doing that. I actually think the books for younger kids are overall better and a lot of the worst stuff could have been avoided if she just stuck to writing fun mysteries for children. She was pretty good at snarky irreverent kid stuff.

The biggest fans in my life hate the epilogue too, so you’re in good company there.

It’s literally in the book. Harry becomes a wizard CIA agent. They still have slaves at the end. The book ends with Harry wondering if his chattel slave will bring him food. They don’t help the muggles, they don’t rectify the injustice of their tiered society.

I think the anti fascist angle is a nice thing to get from it but it’s not really supported by the text. Riddle is ontologically evil for no reason, he’s bad Dumbledore. Dumbledore controls the entire society and can act with impunity. I don’t even think all this stuff is intentional. It’s just not that deep.

No her issue is with those people because they aren’t competent. None of the issues that make the ministry an evil neo liberal monstrosity are fixed by the heroes who enter the government and maintain it. The books suck as political texts.

I think you’re supposed to think he’s an asshole for stealing something he doesn’t need from a child.

It’s like Iran’s nuclear program: the amount of time before our inevitable confrontation keeps moving.

Warmbo started off as a silly over the top joke and libs have gradually met him at his level which has been wild to witness.

Hey I know you’re getting a bunch of responses so I don’t want to be unhelpful and pile on, but I am curious if you actually dispute either of the claims this meme makes (Churchill blaming the famine on India, Mao personally taking steps to cut his consumption during a famine and being critical of his own policy). Because if you don’t think it’s wrong I’m not sure why you are posting this response. The Chinese don’t care if you vote for Churchill or Mao, neither are even candidates for election in the United States. This could not be less about what you’ve posted.

One of the things I hate most about capitalism is how it makes you a psychopath. Whenever I read stuff like this, I find myself literally hoping the market crashes so all this money we’ve spent years saving up will let us get out of renting forever. It makes you wish everyone will suffer, including yourself, so that you can time the market and scrape out something.

We’re doing the China Ghost Cities thing but real and somehow even more wasteful and horrific than the fantasy projection.