David Rovics

Song for the Houthi Army: https://youtu.be/GJugXEu-nQ0

St. Patrick Battalion: https://youtu.be/XQ9_y3tyeFI (lots of covers of this one out there)

Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro-Ruz: https://youtu.be/blIj9oeS-m0

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

I think we’re missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it’s a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there’s so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine’s economy. It’s only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they’ve been getting from Western public sectors.

If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it’ll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies’ investments from hungry Ukrainians.

Russia doesn’t need to do that. Burgerlanders already experience it through the magical way they render themselves blind to their government’s behaviour unless it’s projected onto China or Russia. Like how Trump is a Russian asset and China is turning Cuba into a staging ground for an invasion.

Especially when the user experience is constantly guiding users who don’t know better to do exactly that

Trump is just nervously inching closer and closer to Joe

And then they kiss

The Democrats knew this was going to happen. There’s no way they couldn’t. And I don’t mean Democrat supporters, many of whom were vehement that Biden was fine like so many anecdotes in this thread recount. I mean the Democrat leadership, who manage his campaign and more than likely manage his presidency. Unlike the public, they have access to him. They have his medical records, the reports of his doctors and caregivers, everything. There’s no way they didn’t know this would happen if he debated.

They might start seeding support for a different candidate into their supporter’s discourse after this, but they will have been planning for this outcome long ago. And when a left-leaning (left from a US Overton window) news platform hosts a debate that shows him up that badly and then publishes commentary like this, you have to wonder if that caused friction with the DNC or if they assented to it.

As the party starts singling out a replacement, the question I hope people start asking is why they didn’t replace Biden earlier? Did they need to wait until the urgency of imminent elections made their new candidate more palatable? And if they don’t replace Biden, why are they letting Trump win?

He gives lots of reasons, but if one of them isn’t “oil-producing countries are starting to escape US hegemony and your gas-guzzling motor industry is on borrowed time” then I don’t think he’s really appealing to the US government’s interests.

That’s not just research, molten salt heliostats are in active use already.

“We did it! We time travelled! But what year is it?”

“I’ll ask that guy over there. Hey stranger, are you aware that Palestine is being illegally occupied by a genocidal Zionist state?”

“Yes.”

“So we’re somewhere between 1948 and 2025…”

“I can narrow it down. Hey again stranger, are you a liberal?”

“Yes.”

“So we’re somewhere between 2023 and 2025.”

How’d that work out for Australia and Gough Whitlam trying to close Pine Gap?

It doesn’t matter what the people outside China think. The people inside China - on both sides of the Taiwan strait - think Taiwan is part of China. They all call themselves Chinese except the tiny minority that speak with American accents. There are indigenous ethnic minorities on Taiwan whose ancestors were not part of China, but they didn’t call themselves ‘Taiwan’ because that’s a Chinese word.

isn’t there a single candidate that thinks more about the humans than for the money.

Yes, plenty.

Any of them that will be allowed anywhere near power?

No, none.

Denys Yaroslavskyi is angry

Here’s hoping he understands who he should be angry with, and why.

Conscious and Conscience are different things (but understandably easy to conflate)

If you hold that graph up to your ear, you can actually hear the liberals going “yes but actually…”

That was better than I expected.

Some people who watch this are going to say “wtf is a Hegelian?” and some of those people are gonna look it up and learn.

Some people who watch this are going to find out about Ford’s long distance bromance with Hitler, and some of those people are gonna go down that rabbit hole and learn.

If you want to be a teacher in Hong Kong mow, you have to sit an exam on the constitution and on the Hong Kong National Security Law.

At least he didn’t make the statement in blackface.

Considering how litigious the US is: yeah, they do.

They could do it nice and discreetly, for instance at a Beetlejuice musical.