Israel is not committing genocide because they are Jewish, they are doing it because they are an arm of the western capitalist oligarchy and maintaining imperialist power in the Middle East is essential for controlling the global trade in oil.

So now the fascist GOP knows how 600k Californians voted? I guess we better hope that the guy in charge isn’t vindictive about people not supporting him.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of those are normal travelers who didn’t realize that they weren’t following the rules.

But TSA fails at 90-95% of the tests against them. They do nothing to increase safety.

TSA are just cops, and all cops are bastards.

But even if we ignore systemic issues with policing under capitalism, the fact remains that no, the job doesn’t have to be done, as evidenced by the fact that TSA fails penetration tests 90-95% of the time. They literally do not do the thing they were put in place to do, and nothing happens because of it. Terrorist attacks on planes are incredibly rare, and TSA does nothing to prevent them anyways. It’s all just theater to normalize law enforcement overreach.

The US murdered over a million civilians in Iraq.

A population that is broken by disease and grief is a population that isn’t demanding a better world. The propaganda that is making people anti-science is originates from the ruling class and it’s a deliberate act of class warfare.

Fascism is a social disease that is injected by the bourgeoisie into the petit-bourgeoisie during times when capitalism is in crisis. They do this through propaganda and economic warfare like austerity coupled with tax cuts for the rich. This results in an economic downturn that hits the “middle class” the hardest (relatively - poor people are also fucked, but they had less to lose in the first place). Economic woes coupled with divisive and authoritarian propaganda and — boom — fascism.

So how do you stop it? Well, ultimately by dismantling capitalism and removing the power of the bourgeoisie. Otherwise fascist crises will just keep being manufactured.

There almost definitely was voter fraud in 2020, but a different party was doing it than MAGA thinks. They got better at it in 2024.

I think it’s more likely that the ruling class owns both the USA and Israel, and use them together to accomplish their goals. AIPAC is just the mechanism of control and Zionists are just the useful idiots.

You’re right that there is no evidence that the “Holodomor” was a genocide, while there is plenty of evidence that the guy who coined the term had Nazi affiliations and was specifically looking to smear communism.

It’s still possible to blame Moscow for the famine. After all, they were in charge. But you also have to acknowledge that it was the last famine Ukraine experienced, in a long long history of cyclical famine. Meanwhile, under capitalism we still have famine in places in Africa because it’s not profitable to feed poor people.

The history of communism is a history full of mistakes with the occasional bad actor. However, compare that to the history of capitalism, which is a history full of bad actors occasionally making mistakes that let the good guys get a win.

Yeah unfortunately some people who were ostensibly on the side of the working class were also caught up with Epstein. There are evil people on every side. I’m not surprised by connections between Epstein and USSR/China/DKP. Epstein was primarily an asset of Mossad and the CIA, who used him to generate kompromat. Would you not expect that entities that are aligned against the western hegemony of the Epstein Class to try to gain access to the blackmail factory? Or it could also just be that they were all pedophiles, too. I don’t know.

None of this changes the fact that the reason no one truly powerful ever faces consequences for things like Epstein or the Panama Papers is that the political-economic system is designed by the ruling class to benefit those few people lucky enough to own capital. Wealth = Power.

I call them the Epstein Class. It’s not just this administration, or even one party, or even just politicians in general. It is the global elite and their unjust system of exploitation called capitalism that has allowed Trump to do what he does with no consequences. As long as the Epstein Class exists, there will be more Epsteins.

Oh yeah, you’re right. I misunderstood that one.

How much longer before appeals don’t work because the Epstein class has stacked those courts, too?

Most of the time, terrorists exist because the Epstein class bombed their family members.

Edit: Which is not relevant here because I misunderstood that OP was saying that the American military are terrorists.

In this day and age, if you sign up for the military you know there is a high chance you will be sent to a foreign country that did nothing to us to kill brown children to distract from the fact that our leaders are raping other children.

Or you would know it if the USA wasn’t the most propagandized place on the face of the earth.

I just bought a FP6 with /e/os installed by Murena in the US and it’s been great so far except that RCS isn’t supported by /e/os so group texts don’t work. Which is honestly a huge issue that is causing enough social friction that I’ll probably revert to an iPhone soon.

What are the benefits of installing a new launcher? Is it just aesthetics?

Thanks for your answer! I feel like that makes sense on a global scale, but mightn’t local and regional scales be more impacted? We already know that the transpiration from forests affects rain patterns, and the forests don’t need to be huge either.

Also, some ecosystems might be particularly vulnerable. For example, redwood trees actually absorb most of their water through their leaves from fog and mist. Could a local humidity harvesting plant potentially pull enough water from the air that the osmotic pressure is reduced below what redwoods need to absorb water? I suspect the answer is actually no for this particular examole, but my point is that powerful technologies like these must be thought through, especially if someone is claiming zero side effects. The time is long past for humanity to learn a little caution with potential climate changing technologies.