Very unserious to pretend Judaism is the only “religion of violent conquest” in the world. How did Spain become Islamic? And what about the whole Crusades? Both Christianity and Islam have a lot of blood on their hands, historically. Just because Judaism is the religion being used the most prominently to rhetorically defend today’s atrocities does not mean you have to “hand it to” the Crusaders.

Also, Netanyahu isn’t even fucking religious. Israel isn’t doing what it’s doing because its leaders are true believers in a fundamentalist interpretation of the Torah. The people running Israel are secular, their material base is imperialist capitalism, and their internal justification for dehumanizing Palestinians is based on racism just as much as it is based on religious secrarianism. BE is often both factually incorrect and strategically self-sabotaging.

Just like Charles de Gaulle and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

https://time.com/archive/6599336/foreign-news-two-friends/

In November, Business Insider estimated the average Walmart worker’s yearly salary at a paltry $29,469. The outlet observed that McMillon’s compensation as Walmart CEO was more than triple the 295-to-1 ratio in 2014.

“CEO Doug McMillon was the second-highest-paid CEO in this list with a compensation package worth $27.4 million — a pay ratio of 930:1,” Business Insider said. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich (@RBReich) has frequently highlighted the problem on social media.

So let’s say the average Walmart worker works 2,000 hours and earns 2,000 hours. Let’s say the CEO worked 6,000 hours (working every waking hour of every day of the year, minus 7 hours for sleep). By this ratio, the CEO earned 1,860,000 hours. To put that in perspective, the average worker “earned” 83 days, while the CEO “earned” 212 years.

Can you explain what exactly the CEO did that made his work hours THAT MUCH more valuable than the average worker? Link to source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/walmart-ceo-sparks-backlash-report-024000016.html

“And what is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent southern meal? This… is democracy manifest.”

“Who must go?” - The Dialectic of History

These were leaked private messages, not meant to be seen by the public.

Counterpoint:

Donald Trump is an 80 year old man trying to entertain other Boomers. He knows Boomer love AI slop, so he gives them AI slop (he loves it too because he is also a Boomer). Simple as.

Hasan Horseshoe Theory:

The right hates Hasan because he supports the Democrats. The centrists hate Hasan because he does not support the Democrats enough. The Left hates Hasan because he supports the Democrats.

One of George Washington’s slaves ran away from him, while he was President. The slave, named Oney Judge, ran away because after a lifetime of faithful service to the Washington family, she was informed that she was going to be given away as a wedding present to one of Martha Washington’s nieces. After Oney escaped, George Washington sent a bounty hunter to hunt her, but she was able to evade him, living as a free woman in New Hampshire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ona_Judge

Abolition actually started with legislation which caused a violent uprising from the fucking Confederacy

Wrong. You are not just wrong, but you are violently racist.

Abolition started with slaves freeing themselves. Nat Turner. Harriet Tubman. Without people like that, the Civil War would have never happened, slavery would have never ended.

John Brown was inspired by Nat Turner, and he literally worked hand-in-hand with Harriet Tubman, who seriously considered joining him in his violent raid on Harper’s Ferry. John Brown went on illegal (and violent) raids into the south to free slaves and then illegally transport them to Canada. John Brown murdered pro-slavery men in retaliation for their murders of abolitionists in Kansas. Do you think what John Brown did was wrong? Do you think arresting and executing John Brown was a good thing? Do you think Sherman’s march to the sea and the violence he committed against southerners is a bad thing?

I don’t expect you to have the correct response, because you are a violently racist, anti-black person. You honestly believe that rich white dudes sitting in a room writing some words on a piece of paper had a bigger effect on ending slavery than black people who actually put their lives and bodies on the line to free themselves (displaying your internalized white supremacy).

Please educate yourself. Start by reading The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by the fantastic author Gerald Horne. Or maybe you’re too afraid to read this book, because it’s not written by a “safe” old dead liberal white man.

From Wikipedia:

Commodus was assassinated by the wrestler Narcissus in 192, ending the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was succeeded by Pertinax, the first claimant in the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors.

So that means that, if history repeats itself, President Newsom will challenge Jake Paul to a fight and die in the ring, followed by a rapid succession of short-lived administrations. Sounds entertaining

And https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/28/gavin-newsom-gaza-protests-universities-00181548

Counterpoint: Kamala Harris only won like 2% of her vote in her HOME STATE in 2020 and the Dems made her their superstar in 2024.

That’s a funny joke. No way they would let anyone even tangentially associated with the DSA into a cabinet position any higher than Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Personally, I believe that Newsom can push Steve Bannon to the left. All it takes is a few more “The West Wing” esque speeches where the Democrats keep the moral high ground. Looking forward to the new regime imposing “Abundance with Cracker Characteristics” in Project 2029.

Governor Newsome proposed gerrymandering all of California to make it so that every single district has a democratic majority. That means that after the 2026 mid-terms, the Democrats would take the House of Representatives back from the Republicans. This comes as a response to Texas doing a similar gerrymandering.

Who knows what the Republicans would do in response? Maybe every red-state does racist gerrymandering to counter California’s blue wave. I don’t think the Republicans have any intention of allowing themselves to lose power ever again, and they would definitely prefer rigging future elections, declaring martial law, or just arresting Democratic politicians to losing control of any branch of government.

Newsome and Trump both have egos so enormous that they might actually move towards Balkanization not on any ideological ground but because they hate each other so much and desire to be the most beloved and powerful people in America (which is to say, in the world). If we really are backsliding from capitalism into neo-feudalism or techno-feudalism, then this might be a Warring States Period for the USA…

Yeah I’ve been working on boosting my Sleep Elo lately, I started out at just 500 but I’m up to around 1600 now. I think in a few more months I might try to become a pro sleeper. I just ordered some RGB Alienware pillows, once I get those set up I can really become a Slumber-Chad.

Voting solves nothing. If the Republicans are pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse and the Democrats are also pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse, voting is not the solution to our problem. You might as well criticize me for which type of shoes I wear, it has the same influence on Politics, which is zero.