This is basically the rationale behind Prussia’s first laws on child labour. Some general whined about the lack of “valid” recruits to the king, as most young men were physically and/or mentally broken from having worked for a decade or so by the time they reached military age. Glad to see a return to the early to mid 19th century from the progressive half of the US.

name a single contemporary American painter other than fucking Banksy

Banksy is British, so… it’s still 0?

The Epstein letter on the table is

If my (fairly shit) Russian translates well, the graffitto on the left reads “death to nato fascism”, which is nice.

That’s the fun part, who is that guy to claim to have the final authority over how history judges a group of people, be they genocidal settlers or literally anyone else. History is a dynamic process under constant revision and reinterpretation and for Pete Hegseth, dumbass alcoholic TV host turned secretary of war, to claim final authority in this process is just bewildering to me. But I guess this is simply the core of conservative thinking laid bare: the world is obligated to conform to my preconceived understanding of it and all deviations from that are to be, euphemistically put, corrected. Pair that with an extremely moralistic outlook on life and you have the very core of conservatism.

The Hamburglar has pulled off his biggest heist yet.

Honestly, his thumbnail for the follow up video is genuinely hilarious.

I mean, he is stable.

No, we fucking don’t. Would it be better for “us” and the rest of the planet if we got our shit together and finally reduced our dependency on the US, maybe even established ties with the rest of the world that don’t aim for domination? Sure! Did we do anything to deserve a better fate than a painful decline into irrelevance after ruining the planet for 500 years? Fuck no.

Or better yet, make it red, white, and gold.

I have my (late) grandmother’s 35 years old Bosch MUM, which still works decently well. It struggles a little bit with larger quantities (>1 kg of flour) of firm doughs these days but does everything else well. My mum recently upgraded her MUM to an optiMUM and couldn’t be happier.

Slick Willy, Dubya, and JDPON Don are all the same age, born in 1946.

Blackstone and Blackrock are separate entities. Both are investments firms, but they probably commit different crimes against humanity.

So we’re at the Babyn Yar part of the Holocaust.

نشط: يدخل Jax في Evasion ، وهو موقف دفاعي ، لمدة ثانيتين ، مما يتسبب في تفادي جميع الهجمات الأساسية غير البرجية ضده طوال المدة. يحصل Jax أيضًا على تقليل الضرر بنسبة 25٪ ، مما يقلل الضرر من جميع قدرات منطقة التأثير التي يتم الحصول عليها من أبطال البطل. يمكن إعادة صياغة Counter Strike بعد ثانية واحدة ، ويتم ذلك تلقائيًا بعد انتهاء المدة.

RECAST: يلحق Jax ضررًا جسديًا لجميع الأعداء القريبين ، ويزيد بنسبة 20٪ لكل هجوم يتم تفاديه ، وزيادة تصل إلى 100٪ ، ويصعقهم الصاعقة لمدة ثانية واحدة

The biggest indictment against us communists is that we have not yet established communism as the predominant/only system of social organisation with enemies this stupid. If we can’t win against idiots like this, what does that say about us?

I don’t think this particular scenario would have unfolded under a Harris presidency, but for a bit of a contradictory reason: Israel began striking Iran to throw a wrench into the renegotiation of the nuclear deal with the US (and the US government let it happen, these fucking rubes). Kamala, however, was far more hawkish on Iran and would never in her life entered these negotiations in the first place, thus not prompting this particular escalation to occur to begin with. Would Kamala have willingly and happily supported any strikes on Iran by Israel under any pretext, however flimsy? Absolutely. Whould this particular scenario have arisen? I don’t think so.

They expected a rapid increase in short term profits. And to their credit, they were correct to expect them. They just didn’t think that China would actually do what it stated it would do in no uncertain terms.

I mean, they are, but scalpers literally just perform a correction of prices of scarce goods to market value. This is literally just markets working as intended and not even remotely unique to, say, concert tickets. Scalpers, as is expected with the high degree of proliferation and Landnahme after multiple centuries of capitalism, are simply a symptom of capitalism, just a particularly noticeable one. A much bigger example of this type of rent seeking is… rent. Yet, landlords do not receive even a fracture of the ire directed at scalpers (I know, on Hexbear they do).

Tl;dr: I don’t know what the fuss is about, this is literally how all markets work and we are completely immersed in this shit.

Wait, what? I thought they’d at least take a few weeks before publicly rehabilitating him.