For those who were curious, “home” means South Korea, not their homes they made in the US.
Also there’s this:
Lee’s government even promised at least $50bn of investments during his recent meeting with Trump, a gesture that resulted only in a “crackdown” against South Korean citizens.
CBS, are you paying attention? Probably not.
Seriously. I am having trouble finding the Reddit AMA from before the election (which is its own little brand of worrying), where one of the New York Times editors was asked why they were so hyper-critical of Biden on a few different valid bases, but willing to give a broad free pass to Trump on many objectively horrifying things he was doing or planning. And they basically said, well Trump’s popular and Biden is not, so we’re reflecting that reality, it’s okay if you don’t understand news you’re not a professional like me 😎.
I’m glad if they found their voice now that it’s more or less too late, but I still admit to a little bit of guilty desire to see Trump’s goons smash up their offices or something, so that maybe they’ll take the lesson a little more thoroughly to heart, and fucking remember next time what their fucking job is.
Yeah. If you look at what the directives have been from above, it’s very very obvious in retrospect that ICE would be just wandering around arresting people completely at random, because they will literally get in trouble if they do literally anything else.
For now. Graduating to siccing these extralegal structures and punishments against peer enemies is usually in the game plan at some point.
Yeah. I’m pretty sure the edition I read did not include all the strikeouts and misspellings, but for some reason the machine text I could find did, and I like this version of it better.
Tell me I’m crazy, are not Safra Catz and Satya Nadella naturalized citizens? Subject to arbitrarily getting fucked up any time any of them steps on the wrong tail? Neither was born in the US. Catz is presumably safe, because she’s white Israeli, but…
What the Jesus Christ man
I was intentionally being a little bit cryptic, but it’s from “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72,” from the November chapter. It is one of the absolutely crucial books to read if you want to know about the American political process, at least the 20th century form of it.
every single company and institution, especially the ones that the people rely on, will literally do whatever the government wants without even second guessing it all in an effort to save their own ass
In some authoritarian structures, this is true. At least in the short run. In Russia, if you play ball with the government, you’ll be largely protected against hostile forces in the crooked and dangerous melee of existing day-to-day in business or media, because you’re on the side of the boss.
In Trump’s structure, there is absolutely no safety in any direction. And there is doubly none for establishment media. CBS is not going to get a goddamned thing in exchange for their obedience. They’ll still be the enemy, and they’re still going to get all fucked up (maybe physically in a real sense) any time it suits the mad king’s urges. I think they’re just doing it because (ironically enough) they don’t really have a grasp of what is going on, or maybe are just petrified and don’t know what to do and so they’re just clinging to the hope that obeying will keep them safe. But it won’t. It doesn’t change the equation in the slightest. Actually, if you have big money and institutional backing, fighting back like Harvard or Chicago is probably safer, honestly.
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I think the purpose is to place anyone who’s connected to him or his minions above the law when they travel internationally. The proles, he still won’t give a fuck about.
He watches that stuff on TV, he’s just not used to applying it against people who aren’t thrown all off kilter by it. It’s more or less all he’s got.
My favorite part is Elizabeth Warren simply continuing to talk when he tries to interrupt her and talk over her.
Yeah, too right. It’s a little surprising to hear someone in his position talking about it, it means they’re waking up, which I guess is a good thing?
Oh, to the United States in the 1930s? Fuckin’ what lol. The tariffs are hardly the most important things going on right now. Well, hopefully McConnell lives long enough to get "night of the long knives"ed.
Yeah. Broadly speaking, the idea of not funding Ukraine’s defense might just be some anti-war populism brainrot, but stuff like “Nazis in Ukraine” and talking about Zelensky as a dictator but being super gung-ho about Assad, things like that, start to cast it in a little bit of a different light.
Full disclosure, I got randomly curious and looked up what she thinks about Maduro, and she’s 100% opposed to the Russia point of view: https://www.usasocialite.com/marjorie-taylor-controversial-comments/ … so who knows, maybe I am wrong.
I had a conversation with a particular Lemmy-instance admin after getting banned for having the wrong opinions, and you could feel through the screen how frustrated he was that he couldn’t just mechanically prevent me from saying certain things, because of being accustomed to being in an environment where he could dictate what conversations were allowed, and everyone had to be nice to him. To the point that it was this wild out-of-pocket thing if someone could speak to him without having to “talk up” to him. It was kind of fun honestly lol.
I absolutely think that’s part of the strength of Lemmy.
I have no idea why the Lemmy devs copied the reddit “lords and peasants” model of moderated interactions, and I don’t know if Lemmy will survive long term against the tide of corruption that Reddit is in the late stages of right now. But at least it’s pretty easy to move to a different fiefdom if you want to. If, for example, your home server lemmy.world gets all enshittified and filled with obnoxious interactions, you can just up and leave and still keep nearly all of your engagement if other people are in agreement.
You can take a look at lemmy.ml or blahaj and see what Lemmy could look like if that wasn’t possible. To me, moving servers when stuff gets weird is a healthy thing.
She’s performatively anti-war, but if you look a little more closely you can see that her “anti-war” always lines up with Russia’s “anti-war.” She was very upset that Trump wanted to put new sanctions on Russia if a peace deal wasn’t reached, for example. An anti-war person would be in favor of going to bat for peace, right?
She also was pretty much the only person who voted against mourning the victims of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Why? Because (in my opinion) the resolution also had bad things to say about Russia’s guy in Syria.
She’s willing to break with Trump, when she gets time amid her busy schedule of various nutty things that her trailer-park schizophrenia has convinced her need to be talked about. When has she ever broken with Russia? (By taking a stand against their aggression in Ukraine for example, the same way she takes a stand against Israel or the US or one particular side in the Syrian civil war or these other geopolitical things she occasionally talks about.)
They’re eating a hell of a lot more than the people in Gaza