The Blackwater shit was a big chunk of the entire lodestone of bullshit that was the 2003 invasion of Iraq that fully commie pilled me.
Seeing the results and the price tag per mercenary made me want to go full people’s war on anyone or anything responsible.
Thank God they saved something out of the collapse. Strong, principled unions with open communist ideals? Hell yeah.
The Israelis were happy to stoke the “it’s an ancient conflict - so complicated” narrative that people used as an excuse to ignore it
It’s the correct analytical framework for understanding the modern imperial capitalism that ignores national borders
Probing the quicksand with a rod made of quicksand
Sounds safe to me
Paul Robeson onion always gets me
Missed opportunity to call it Womanhattan
They’re retracting the fucking keloid waiver? Are you fucking me.
Being stupid may be a precondition of racism but fuck me if there isn’t another layer of dumb these racist empire mongers have slapped on top. This is like “refusing treatment from a black doctor and dying of the easiest preventable cause” levels of racist and stupid.
Knowledge of “corn pone” figures into the calculus but I’m not sure how much.
Pete is one of those white guys who is clearly a honky. He’s not a cracker. He’s a honky. Can I fully articulate where the line is drawn on the cracker/honky continuum? No I can not. All I know is what side of the line he falls on. It’s a vibe thing.
Trump either looks dried out or like he’s drenched. He’s not “putting on the rizz” or whatever the kids say these days.
Marx turned Hegel on his head. St Peter was crucified upside-down.
I’m not saying there’s a connection. But there is.
Lol like any of us were ashamed of it before TikTok
I swear to God it’s like they have never interacted with a peer in the workplace. Ever.
Superstructure impotently threatens base
“We wouldn’t want to waste our energies on something small and insincere like… hmm… like a war.”
Venting and getting a sympathetic word and seeing other people vent and agreeing with them is the closest thing we have to a consensus reality in the face of these know-nothing “health” advocates I swear to christ
Poor dumb kid got killed by his violent ideology before he had a chance to grow out of it. Regrettable. Edit: and entirely predictable.
The Hexbear Manifesto
The people that dream up these kinds of things deserve to get thrown into volcanoes
And what are these chuds going to do about it besides fantasize about a revenge on their racialized other? Build a better world so women and children of all cultures can be free of patriarchal violence? No? Gonna make this moribund world slightly more racist and reactionary with each subsequent neoliberal vote is more likely.