They can surveil all the elderly people, people with disability, and people living below the poverty line as they make their way from their frigid, unheated houses so they can temporarily shelter in heated public spaces as they desperately try to stave off the effects of hypothermia for one more day.

Another day, another dizzying amount of money spent doing anything but improving the lives of the average person, all courtesy of the Kid Starver regime.

https://youtu.be/Gu8YiTeU9XU

The messaging is so bizarre.

It’s signalling to the base but it’s also trying to be edgy and hip but it’s also (badly) targeting a demographic too young to vote and it’s not targeting the actual younger voting demographic in a way that’s gonna resonate with them. Most of it requires a lot of intertextual political knowledge and insider baseball to make sense of the messaging in the attempts at memes.

It feels like all of it is a 40 year old political consultant’s idea of what an undecided 20 year old needs to hear about Kamala through a shoddy attempt at meme formats:

“Who do you trust on abortion?”

“Vance and Trump.”

“Women.”

omg le epic ownage 😏

The messaging is so muddy.

Kamala wasn’t ever strong on her campaign with regards to abortion rights since she was chasing the GOP as they ran further to the right so it’s not like she’s known for being the staunch pro-choice candidate. So who “women” refers to feels so vague and, unless you’re immediately thinking of Kamala Harris at every moment (i.e. avid K-holers who are gonna vote for her no matter what), then undecided people who are political disengaged and swing voters aren’t gonna stare at that “meme” and connect the notion of trusting women to the notion of trusting Kamala to the notion that it’s promising that Kamala will defend women’s right to healthcare.

It’s also really weak willed since it’s Walz, a man, saying to trust women. So within the “diegetic” of the so-called meme, there’s one woman and she’s a journalist asking the question so it feels like she doesn’t really know? It’s just not a good tweet at all.

Even the bio is smug and posturing - “Elon wouldn’t let us have @headquarters”. That comes off as really entitled. It’s not like headquarters is something that feels like KamalaHQ has a justifiable right to. It’s just a vague term. Undecided people aren’t gonna look at that and think “Gee, Elon is mean and Kamala is the victim here” they’re gonna think “Why would you have a right to that Twitter handle just because you decided that your campaign name was going to be called Headquarters and why would anyone be okay with you getting to steal @Headquarters from someone else?” Idk maybe I’m too clouded by my own perspective but I just don’t see a focus group really connecting with the idea that Elon Musk has snubbed the campaign or that there’s injustice at play here, it just feels like entitlement.

The prime minister of which country was a close associate of Epstein?

Worth highlighting a point here:

Chomsky is adopting the polar opposite of a prison abolitionist position here. I make this same point about figures like Beau of the Fifth Column.

Yes, they may have served time.

Was is enough time?
What rehabilitation did they undertake during this time served?
What degree of restorative justice was undertaken during the serving of this sentence and what has occurred since?
Have they shown remorse for their crimes or did they seek to minimize and conceal their crimes?
But most importantly - do you agree with the notion that the current bourgeois judicial-carceral system dispenses justice and rehabilitation?

If you believe that the judicial-carceral system dispenses justice and rehabilitation then go burn your leftist credentials because you have absolutely no credibility. I’m 100% sure that Chomsky has written about the injustice of the judicial system and how the carceral system does not provide rehabilitation nor restoration to victims but I’m not gonna go digging to find quotes. Strange how he sings an entirely different tune when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Almost like he considers him as part of an in-group who gets special treatment? Hm.

Yunk Fink sounds tough

God, he’s gonna be having a hell of a time right now isn’t he?

I mean, compare this to Finkelstein’s appearance in the emails where he said that Dersh and Jeffy both deserve to be strangled.

Finkelstein strikes me as the sort of intellectual that will engage in an exchange with almost anyone and yet even he didn’t feel it necessary to offer counsel and consolation to Epstein so where does that leave us with regards to our position on Chomsky?

(Also check out recent posts on R*ddit’s r/Chomsky to see people running defense for him in realtime)

Chomsky is like:

Sally Hemings was 14. Jefferson was in his 40s.

I’ve been calling this for a while now. I really don’t want to be right about this and I especially do not want to be right about where I think it’s heading.

Hellworld

Well it’s definitely working on me! (I’m an absolute sucker for these things.)

Shout out to @Edie@hexbear.net for explaining how the whole thing works to me very recently.

Wait, the effort I put into the alt-text for this got recognition? 🥹

I leave without saying I’m bi too. Seems kinda awkward to drop it into conversation like that.

That’s a good observation and if you look at the table, it’s really wobbly every time it gets bumped. Typical Elon - “I want something to look fancy but I want every expense spared!!”

If it’s that flimsy, I feel like the table would have done something more dramatic than wobble around if the bottle was burst open.

The completely over the top jiggle physics always ruins my immersion with games and it’s legitimely annoying. Maybe I’m aspec or something but it doesn’t do anything for me except throw me out of the game.

I mean uhhhhhh…

Are these melters approved for use on all forms of ice?

He can’t even make cars anymore. You can’t make this shit up!

I think it’s a bad take. Exposure to fascism doesn’t magically turn you fascist, it’s material conditions and propaganda and being a garbage human being that turns you into a fascist.

Not having a judicial process during stable, peacetime conditions permits martyrdom and conspiracy narratives to spring up. I’d rather have Mengele on the stand saying that he’d do it all again because he believed that some groups of people are subhuman trash whose only use is to be subjects for medical experimentation rather than giving him the aura of mystique and government coverup “because they don’t want you to know!!”

No. We should know exactly how awful it was, how horrific these people were. Let’s hear all about it. Let’s hear them say that they felt unmoved as one of their victims begged for mercy and lets hear them say that they’d do the same for anyone’s parent, child, or loved one if they happened to be one in a group that was deemed “subhuman”.

You just know that’s gonna get under the skin of the world’s thinnest-skinned streamer too.

I can’t watch Ethan at all

Mental health matters. It’s actually an interesting part of Chris’ stream because he goes on to explain why he hates liberals(!!)

He’s always been a bit coy about his politics but hearing him stand on business really increased my estimation of him. I thought maybe he’d be a good West Asia guy but that might be the limit of it. Which is fine and all, but I was a little bit hesitant to put too much hope in him. (That probably sounds a bit cynical of me but I’m a big fan of minding your idols, as it were.)