The whole DOGE thing reminds me of when the U.S. government fired the entire Iraqi government and army after we took over. 20 years ago about. Time is truly a flat circle.
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i guess they just disappeared an iranian engineering doctoral student who was *checks notes* critical of iran?
may as well say what you want on social media. they'll get you anyway.
may as well say what you want on social media. they'll get you anyway.
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it feels very strange, from the outside, to be part of that bloc of nations which dutifully joined in on america's foreign misadventures of the last 25 years, and in the process underwent a process of mass class dealignment, popular disillusionment, etc. with politics (and left-centre politics in particular; new labour's foreign policy was the nail in its coffin) ... only to see america turn around and basically declare trade war on us.
our countries have all been dragged in the wake of the USA in its imperial phase (we had little other realistic choice), and even that has been for nothing. the decoupling, if it goes ahead, will do lasting and inter-generational damage. insulting british, french, canadian, etc. troops and things like that will be remembered by the average punter.
our countries have all been dragged in the wake of the USA in its imperial phase (we had little other realistic choice), and even that has been for nothing. the decoupling, if it goes ahead, will do lasting and inter-generational damage. insulting british, french, canadian, etc. troops and things like that will be remembered by the average punter.
Britain offered its expertise on Vietnam (having dealt with Malaya) which was rejected.
Australia tried to help but realised everything the Americans were doing was counter-productive.
The US gave the UK minimal help during the Falklands, France gave immense help.
Iraq I, Afghanistan, Iraq 2 - so much stupid but Britain and Australia pitched in.
General Bonespur has really done a number.
It seems everything is transactional, yet none of the people involved are exactly business, financial etc experts.
Australia tried to help but realised everything the Americans were doing was counter-productive.
The US gave the UK minimal help during the Falklands, France gave immense help.
Iraq I, Afghanistan, Iraq 2 - so much stupid but Britain and Australia pitched in.
General Bonespur has really done a number.
It seems everything is transactional, yet none of the people involved are exactly business, financial etc experts.
Fuck Israel
you mean by making sure the argies were well-stocked with exocet missiles?Dilbert_X wrote:
The US gave the UK minimal help during the Falklands, France gave immense help.
Well its a bit mixed, they didn't supply any more during the war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17256975
From what I remember it came out recently that they helped the Navy train for an Exocet attack, running dummy attacks on the fleet as they headed south.
I think they also helped the British locate and buy up any available Exocets around the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17256975
From what I remember it came out recently that they helped the Navy train for an Exocet attack, running dummy attacks on the fleet as they headed south.
I think they also helped the British locate and buy up any available Exocets around the world.
Fuck Israel
crafty, those french. always playing both sides. de gaulle wasn’t much different.
https://x.com/goodvibepolitik/status/19 … 7OKnIcMVqg
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https://x.com/goodvibepolitik/status/19 … 7OKnIcMVqg
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06 … n-the-west
a very good piece by perry anderson, one of the most sagacious mf'ers on the planet today.
a very good piece by perry anderson, one of the most sagacious mf'ers on the planet today.
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if planes had oars, i guarantee the people being deported would be chained to them and whipped across the wrists until they put their backs into it.
lots more: https://www.propublica.org/article/insi … on-flightsThe deportation flight was in the air over Mexico when chaos erupted in the back of the plane, the flight attendant recalled. A little girl had collapsed. She had a high fever and was taking ragged, frantic breaths.
The flight attendant, a young woman who went by the nickname Lala, said she grabbed the plane’s emergency oxygen bottle and rushed past rows of migrants chained at the wrists and ankles to reach the girl and her parents.
By then, Lala was accustomed to the hard realities of working charter flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She’d learned to obey instructions not to look the passengers in the eyes, not to greet them or ask about their well-being. But until the girl collapsed, Lala had managed to escape an emergency.
if planes had oars, i guarantee the people being deported would be chained to them and whipped across the wrists until they put their backs into it.
My wife works in public health, she does research on child drowning. Not direct research mind you, but she handles data (spends her entire day in spreadsheets and databases) and teaches others on what to look out for (specific weather in specific States at times of year and whether or not there was a fence, etc etc. a million permutations of water and children dying but I digress).
She doesnt make much money but she likes what she does. Shes safe today because she works for a state agency, but shes nervous.
Thank god theyre coming for the fraud though amirite? Im excited for them to hand themselves any savings and for our taxes to go up next year.
I also find it ironic that the budget for doge is 40 million dollars
She doesnt make much money but she likes what she does. Shes safe today because she works for a state agency, but shes nervous.
Thank god theyre coming for the fraud though amirite? Im excited for them to hand themselves any savings and for our taxes to go up next year.
I also find it ironic that the budget for doge is 40 million dollars
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preventing avoidable child death is woke nonsense.
have you considered working at a cybertruck dealership? with those skills, we think you have a bright future in selling meme vehicles.
have you considered working at a cybertruck dealership? with those skills, we think you have a bright future in selling meme vehicles.
Anything which benefits someone who isn't you is woke nonsense.
Fuck Israel
the social contract is woke.
this mortal coil? woke!
this mortal coil? woke!
This is why we must burn it down.
All of it.
All of it.
Fuck Israel
start with your house and oil stock portfolio, then.
the nuclear-atomic family is the source of much suffering, didn't you know?
the nuclear-atomic family is the source of much suffering, didn't you know?
The source of suffering is people wanting to tax my money.
Currently working on how to profit from the End-of-Times.
What are you doing exactly?
Currently working on how to profit from the End-of-Times.
What are you doing exactly?
Fuck Israel
not profiteering from the oil companies that are straddling the global economy, choking the atmosphere and displacing or killing tens of millions annually is a pretty good start. i feel pretty accomplished in that, really. the air is pure and clear from this moral elevation. you could definitely start there, actually.
weird how there's entire political movements built around encouraging institutions/people to divest from fossil fuels companies, and with very good rationale for doing so, and yet here you are getting mad at people for having the temerity to live interesting lives in cities and take a journey home once every 2.5 years.
weird how there's entire political movements built around encouraging institutions/people to divest from fossil fuels companies, and with very good rationale for doing so, and yet here you are getting mad at people for having the temerity to live interesting lives in cities and take a journey home once every 2.5 years.
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Money is money. The oil companies are going to pay it out to someone, it might as well be me.
Its the people who burn the oil who are choking the planet.
Like I said your 'little trip' every 2.5 years completely blows away the rest of the time you spend walking everywhere (which I bet you don't) in your concrete metropolis.
Its the people who burn the oil who are choking the planet.
Like I said your 'little trip' every 2.5 years completely blows away the rest of the time you spend walking everywhere (which I bet you don't) in your concrete metropolis.
Fuck Israel
totally fallacious logic. many countries are pledging to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and you're still stuck in the cynical-piggery of your average aussie with their 20x average per capita emissions, chewing on a blade of grass and saying "well, m8, someone's buying so someone's gorra sell". that's not an argument, sorry.
and why would you 'bet' i don't walk everywhere? have you ever been to a south-east asian metropolis? there's about 30 coffee shops within a 15 minute distance of me. i don't need to 'commute' or travel at any distance anywhere to live, work, get groceries, see friends, etc. that's the WHOLE appeal of this lifestyle . bet on! i like the sound of that!
and why would you 'bet' i don't walk everywhere? have you ever been to a south-east asian metropolis? there's about 30 coffee shops within a 15 minute distance of me. i don't need to 'commute' or travel at any distance anywhere to live, work, get groceries, see friends, etc. that's the WHOLE appeal of this lifestyle . bet on! i like the sound of that!
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I like walkable communities. I could get a one bedroom in a development instead of living above the dentist office in a studio. But I don't want to have a long work commute or have to drive someplace to get food/drugs. I have actually had the whole "see a person you know while out walking and then hook up" thing happen that you only see in movies.
The walkable communities thing is always going to be unpopular among a large part of society. You have a lot of people who rather commute an hour or two into a city for work rather than live among the people they work for and with. For example, a teacher driving two hours from Pennsylvania because they don't want to live near the blaaaaaacks that they teach.
The walkable communities thing is always going to be unpopular among a large part of society. You have a lot of people who rather commute an hour or two into a city for work rather than live among the people they work for and with. For example, a teacher driving two hours from Pennsylvania because they don't want to live near the blaaaaaacks that they teach.
you have to be completely insane to be virulently 'anti' walkable cities. perhaps it doesn't suit your particular needs, perhaps you have a large family, perhaps you need lots of space, perhaps you have outdoorsy hobbies, etc. - that's all fine. but turning opposition to walkable cities into a political movement is one of the most bizarro fringes of the new alt-right. no, living in high-density neighbourhoods and forgoing cars is not a conspiracy by soros and the globalists to build 'high-surveillance containment zones'. you fucking anti-social suburban weirdos.
i feel pretty good about this bet that i walk everywhere. what're the stakes?
this is my local neighbourhood with a bunch of random places pinned to my maps, which i go to often.
https://www.gotokyo.org/en/destinations … index.html
every single one of those red dots is a coffee shop, more than half of which are 'kissatens' which function as third spaces, with room to sit and read/work for hours to my heart's content.
if i ever need to go 'downtown', or for a big night out, this is my public transport journey.
think of the carbon footprint of that!
you betcha i walk everywhere. this is one of the most beautiful, engrossing cities in the world to get around on foot. each area is like a new zone on an RPG game.
walking one of my korean paramours' stuff to the station (no taxis, see!)
sorry but my lifestyle > yours, and it's much less injurious to the planet too. feels great.jpeg
i feel pretty good about this bet that i walk everywhere. what're the stakes?
this is my local neighbourhood with a bunch of random places pinned to my maps, which i go to often.
https://www.gotokyo.org/en/destinations … index.html
every single one of those red dots is a coffee shop, more than half of which are 'kissatens' which function as third spaces, with room to sit and read/work for hours to my heart's content.
if i ever need to go 'downtown', or for a big night out, this is my public transport journey.
think of the carbon footprint of that!
you betcha i walk everywhere. this is one of the most beautiful, engrossing cities in the world to get around on foot. each area is like a new zone on an RPG game.
walking one of my korean paramours' stuff to the station (no taxis, see!)
sorry but my lifestyle > yours, and it's much less injurious to the planet too. feels great.jpeg
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finally solved the mystery of why dilbert is rooting for a fake STEM charlatan who is dependent on ketamine.
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It all comes down to homosexuality. Not owning a big car = homo. Walking places = homo. Sitting down with a girl at a Panera bread = extremely homo.uziq wrote:
but turning opposition to walkable cities into a political movement is one of the most bizarro fringes of the new alt-right.
To not be labeled a homo and to keep the respect of your not homo "boys" (???) you must drive places. Also women can't drive. You must be the driver. For some reason.
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In all seriousness I hate driving and I hate cars more. Cars remind me of when I spent my early 20s working on them for a living. Reminds me of a bad time in my life.
I probably have more mechanical skills than anyone here but refuse to actually do any sort of technical, or mechanical stuff.
I want to have the softest most metro sexual lifestyle I can now.
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Also can we talk about Panera Bread for a moment?
Unlike Starbucks food, Panera Bread food is great.
Nerdy girls love a trip to Panera. I swear you white people did good when you invented the urbanite millennial lifestyle. When I think of privilege and success it is sitting in a coffee shop with a nerdy girl in a walkable city. You can keep the Cyber Truck.
dilbert genuinely can’t conceive of how the lifestyles have changed generationally. what counts as desirable and aspirational vs. not. of my cohort from university i would say that >50% even today do not drive or live in suburbs necessitating a car. the millennials and zoomers have migrated en masse back into the cities (and to a lesser extent the boho and college towns).
cars are expensive and not cool among educated young people. it’s not a status symbol or a hobby anymore. walking everywhere or biking to events, living in cities and getting coffee or brunch at local spots, etc., is the default mode of existence. all of which has a much lower carbon footprint than a giant spread in the burbs.
the guy with the oil stocks portfolio instead thinks he’s got a moral high-ground because he spends his time profitably (???) doing a ‘gotcha!’ routine and pointing at the melbourne hipsters and their imported coffee beans. ok???
cars are expensive and not cool among educated young people. it’s not a status symbol or a hobby anymore. walking everywhere or biking to events, living in cities and getting coffee or brunch at local spots, etc., is the default mode of existence. all of which has a much lower carbon footprint than a giant spread in the burbs.
the guy with the oil stocks portfolio instead thinks he’s got a moral high-ground because he spends his time profitably (???) doing a ‘gotcha!’ routine and pointing at the melbourne hipsters and their imported coffee beans. ok???
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