Not in the least bit surprised, but my only real knowledge of Ro Khanna comes from reading and writing about the evil that is Silicon Valley.

Bernie Sanders shills for Israel and if Ro Khanna had an issue with fascism he probably wouldn’t be so chummy with the actual successful engine of global fascism Silicon Valley.

Probably because it’s almost 4am here, but I can’t for the life of me remember which General (or former turned merc) not so subtly threatened to have Scahill killed to his face.

If you’re concerned and you can I’d try to make sure that anything you discuss with her remotely regarding the job is in writing, in an email; requests of her, confirming details of tasks etc. If it comes to nothing, it’s just a bit awkward. If she or the company try and fuck you over then you at least have a written record of interactions.to avoid a they said / I said heresay situation.

“You think you have the stamina for this Tulipman? Try doing the long march in clogs and get back to me”

God bless you and rightfully holding onto that grudge comrade.

You made a mistake Elon. A big mistake. It’s very disrespectful. You asked for a favor, even after all those contracts I give your companies by the way, they wouldn’t be much without me sorry to say, I let you book an event for my beautiful new ballroom. So many people would want that Elon. Everybody wants a chance to use it. We have inquiries like you wouldn’t believe. Letters begging to use it. And I give a spot to you Elon. And what was my only request? I only had one Elon. I’m a reasonable guy, the most reasonable. What was it? Huh? That’s right… ‘so long as Trump is the guest of honour and it makes me look good’. You blew it Elon, big time. I thought you booked a rally or a fancy dinner with my donors, but now people are saying, and I couldn’t believe it, I tell you I couldn’t believe it, that CitizenCon is some fan club for nerds. It’s very sad Elon. Very pathetic. Little boys playing with their toy spaceships on computer. The ballroom is a place for Superbowl winners Elon. Five star generals. The Tony Awards. Not some kind of a Star War! I think you’ve done too many drugs Elon, I really do. I’m sorry, but I do. You’ve got your brain all messed up. It’s very sad, very embarrassing. You need help Elon. You need help and you need to fix this.

What if the dinosaurs didn’t go extinct and they were all Soviet?

To be fair you could argue that historically it’s the other way around. The CIA managed to exist because it had Vatican links.

I’m just imagining some runner straight out of college being made to unpack a Stinger from a wooden crate.

Not only was that law a rancid bit of obvious strike breaking designed to give make picket lines illegal, but I’m also pretty sure you’d have to have an almost metaphysical reading of it to actually apply here.

From what I remember at the time, the activists repeatedly disrupted the film shoots around London by chanting and making noise, until the sound people would call time on a location or the production beancounters would pull the plug on a location because it was costing too much money to have the whole crew sit around all day waiting for protestors to stop making noise and leave.

Now add in the fact that these shooting locations (the “workplace” that was apparently “restricted”) were public spaces in the heart of a capital city that they activists lived in. Being gifted a shooting permit for public space in London doesn’t entitle you to demand that no noise is made nearby by the people and the city that exist around it.

I’ve worked on shoots in major London train stations and if you’d asked anyone (management, the council, coppers, the public) for everyone to stop making announcements or talking on their phone or doing any one of a thousand other noisy things they would have (rightly) treated you like a crackpot. The production company didn’t abandon these shoots because they couldn’t continue, they did so because it was easier and cheaper to do so and just fucking green screen it like the rest.

This is lawsuit harassment almost certainly directed by the like of UK Lawyers for Israel being used in conjunction with extra-legal policing to criminalise peaceful activists, straight up.

‘Progressive’ liberals:

How often is the Majority Report on?

Zing!

I had a go at it…

Started with nine-eleven, yeah

This little career of mine

You got no time for the livin’

Workin’ for a merc’s next dime

It seems to me

I could live my life

A lot better than I think I am

I guess I could be a better me

But I’m mercenary, man

They call me mercenary

I guess that’s what I am

Kickin’ doors & punchin’ clocks

For almost twenty long hard years

Say I’m doing it for my fellow man

But summit else is goin’ on here

It seems to me

I could live my life

A lot better than I think I am

Seat that’s not in some humvee

And a senate healthcare plan

Totenkopf is just customary

For a mercenary man

And they call me mercenary

So I guess that’s what I am

(I forgot how to format so just used Kirby’s)

AlaskaMan™ now comes with authentic accessories including liquid breakfast and disputing neighbour’s hands + heads! (chest freezer & crashed snowmobile sold separately)

There’s definitely some weird astroturfing of this going on too. I don’t post about American politics on Twitter, but this stuff crept into my timeline despite never posting or searching for info about it. And almost every post was some variation of…

‘I’m a totally legit communist person of colour & if you care about this guy’s nazi tattoo then you’re doing Peter Thiel’s work for him’

…or…

‘This is definitely a hit job by Palantir & the NSA as how could they have possibly found social media posts by him. If you don’t embrace the Nazi Merc the real fascists win!’

I don’t doubt that somewhere in this shitflinging that creepy data analysis tools were used and that posting online is basically opting into a panopticon that will be used against you in the future if it needs to be, but acting like this is the unearthing of some teenager’s porn views decades later, instead of a guy who still has Nazi tattoos and is running partly on the fact he was a volunteer for WarCrimes Inc until recently, is unhinged.

Oh, sorry. I saw the emoji and thought you didn’t know what the other poster was referring to.

Nadella is a legit AI zealot who has tied every aspect of Microsoft (mandating AI use, forcing it into every aspect of their business, closing or cutting any section of the company that isn’t making fistfuls of cash he can immediately use to pour into inflating the AI bubble) to just dumping cash into the AI bubble in an attempt to either completely capture a future market or (more likely) get the world’s largest bailout when the bubble pops. The man brags about how he basically only interacts with his colleagues and even family via dozens of AI chatbots.

Microsoft are providing support and security updates for enterprise customers for another ten years (because loads of shit that makes companies, institutions, government networks etc run on outdated OS’s) but don’t give a shit about individual users so are forcing them to upgrade to their AI-infected Windows 11.

If you pirate the enterprise version it should keep getting security updates etc.

Well, Napoleon’s jewels would be low hanging fruit.