The overlap between smart people and white supremacists is small, and the smart ones know how to keep their views hidden while getting important jobs in society.

I would like to once again congratulate “drugs” for winning the War on Drugs.

Seriously, this is like Prohibition-era cops smuggling booze.

It’s almost as if their “real” job is to harass and terrorize minority communities with a figleaf of deniability.

And that holding them to account with reasonable standards would break these systems and institutions that were founded with evil goals.

So it’s the modern equivalent of animal divination!

Might as well use Roman sacred chickens to convince the judge…

> But while the EPA can claim that the levels are “low” from a legal standpoint, the agency’s own science suggests they are not safe, and dioxin experts who spoke with the Guardian cast doubt on Shore’s and Holcomb’s assessments.

I’m picturing that crappy boss Mr. Incredible had at the insurance company.

“Legally I’m required to say that the soil is fine.”

Lot of progressive media have consistently pointed out that the lessons learned subjugating Palestinians are slowly being applied to Israelis.

Israel’s institutions and politicians have gotten good at authoritarianism against one group, and now that tool is just one more to be used domestically

Unfortunately no, bc they inevitably try to draw the rest of us into their fight.

Like how those fascists kept attacking power substations to spark a race war. They understand that they need to raise the temperature on the public to get random acts of violence flowing.

Reminder that no other US President or politician has ever whipped up a mob to storm Congress and disrupt the peaceful transition of power.

People that can’t see the dangerous precedents of Trump are… brainwashed.

Exactly, Trump just lived up to decades of conservative propaganda and said the quiet parts out loud.

> Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also has responsibilities over Jewish settlements in the West Bank, quickly said he would not abide by any such agreement.

> "I have no idea what they spoke about or not in Jordan," Smotrich wrote on Twitter. "But one thing I do know: there will not be a freeze on the building and development in settlements, not even for one day (it is under my authority)."

Well then this effort is doomed to fail. The far-right faction that desperately wants to complete the original settler colonial project is going to sabotage this peace deal at all costs.

Israel’s conservatives have allowed the far-right a lot of influence within their coalition in exchange for holding power. And now it’s playing out exactly like everyone else knew it would.

Yes that reincarnation cycle happens, but there are also multiple games that follow the same “Link” through different adventures.

• Link from “Orcarina of Time” goes on to be in “Majora’s Mask”
• Link from “Wind Waker” is the same guy in “Phantom Hourglass” and “Spirit Tracks”
• “Link to the Past”, “Oracles series”, and “Links Awakening” have the same Link.
• Link in BOTW is the same on in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

So the characters in BOTW are the same Link and Zelda we’ll see in Tears of the Kingdom.

Same tactics as Alex Jones or Nigerian princes. They know the small number of people willing to fall for their BS are out there, so they spam media to up the chanced of getting a random mark

Listened to the “Revolutions” podcast cover the fall of the Romanovs and rise of the Soviets, and you’re absolutely right.

Most people don’t learn about just how horrible and desperate life was in the Russian Empire, and have this warped view of history where communism just rose up like fascism to haunt Europe.

And when you understand how much effort went into stopping peaceful reforms by the imperial state, you understand how violent revolution became inevitable.

Bc conservatives think the upper castes are inherently good people who temporarily do a bad thing, while lower castes are inherently bad people the sometimes go against their nature and do a good thing.

It’s why judges feel compelled to give lighter sentences to pedo pastors and police. They always say it will “ruin a good life” as if there is a grander, God-sanctioned narrative that MUST play out.

But send a homeless person stealing a sandwich or a black guy caught with weed into their court! They will trip over their robes in the rush to throw the book at them and “make an example” for the community.

Bc large empires don’t like to directly declare war on each other, and want to be seen as the defender that is helping a smaller state resist their imperial rival.

And the Balkans are a mix of ethnic groups, religions, and cultures that many Western empires found common causes with. So an empire could turn a proxy war into a hot war if the alliances align just right.

Depends on the zip code.

That place is cursed, drowning in the blood of those enslaved there.

Can’t say I’m surprised that a state of the former Confederacyand Jim Crow apartheid is recreating the outcomes of those systems.

These problems will continue to rematerialize until the US fully reckons with its own history and stops the cycle of trauma that it’s addicted to

And a great start would be demolishing that cursed plantation prison at the center of this crisis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary

If the US knew what the US was doing to US citizens, the US would invade the US and hold Nuremberg Trials for crimes against humanity.

Easy!

You ask yourself, “what would the mayor from Jaws do?”, and you do exactly that.

They’ve calculated the risk to their own legitimacy, and have acted accordingly

The police absolutely know who fired that shot, but they will not give up one of their own for free.

Which is why the public always has to be willing to leverage their outrage and (worse) their labor to force compliance from the state.

Yeah, I took a screenshot of both stories appearing next to each other.

The realities is that there are constantly earthquakes happening around the world, and it’s only notable when their felt on the surface near large population centers.

And they’ve got the most powerful populations either invested in the system or too exhausted to challenge it.

That’s some Gilded Age BS, and requires Pullman Strike levels of union fury.

Happy Feet 2 was wasted as a typical Disney story, when it could have focused on global warming.