What’s important is to examine how they’re preparing their military. Are they building their own weapons and hardware, or are they just buying US-made? Sovereignty isn’t something that can be bought, they need the industrial capacity to actually build a war.

There’s some of that, but a lot of their plans seem to just involve increased purchases.

The fascists will figure this out. They’ve already been claiming to want to improve the economy (bring jobs back to Amerikkka, etc.).

Not yet. They’ll only change what they’re doing if they think their current trajectory wouldn’t let them retain power, but they don’t think that. We’re in a situation where the ruling class is feeding on their own slop and becoming increasingly out of touch with reality, they think we’re starting a 1000 year Reich because all of their bots on Twitter tell them they’re doing a great job.

Only once they run into the brick wall of material reality, (a landslide for Democrats or and economic crash or something) will they reevaluate their priors. Until then, “affordability” is a DemonCRAP hoax and that the economy is A++++

It’s indecisive. Make a decision and stick with it, don’t force it onto the reader.

Because they think we’re yucky and don’t want us anywhere near them.

I’m looking forward to the podcasts that’ll make fun of it.

You will sleep in the pod and eat bugs, and we love it!

Actually, calling anything “burger” or “sausage” is too complicated and confusing.

Make them call it cow flesh and pig meat.

So, what about latine?

We have a Dunning-Kruger economy, the c-suite thinks that the slop they’re shitting out is good because they don’t actually have any expertise in the commodities their companies produce. Every dipshit with a business degree thinks his vibe-coded app works great, and it took less than an hour, so his underlings should be able to churn out product as quickly as he can shit out slop.

Pretty sure men are more concerned about being harassed and called slurs by other men.

I keep saying that Israel isn’t a proxy. It should be thought of more like the 51st state. Is Texas a US proxy? Obviously not!

Just because the US and Israel are two heads of the same entity doesn’t mean that there aren’t internal contradictions that manifest as differences in strategy and tactics. There’s an ongoing intrafactional dispute over how the imperialist project should be carried out going forward as the empire transitions to a new phase - sort of like how we see Trump eroding US prominence by ending USAID, chaotically slapping tariffs on its own allies, completely throwing away the figleaf of international law, etc etc.

Playing nice with Russia isn’t proof of much. There are bourgeois factions within the US that also want to bring Russia on-board for the encirclement of China, so the fact that Israel might also want to do the same thing shouldn’t be surprising. Israel playing friendly with Russia isn’t a betrayal of the US, but rather, a strategic ambiguity that leaves the door open for Russia to jump ship.

As for attacking Qatar, the US imposed a “peace plan” less than 3 weeks later which Israel immediately accepted. That doesn’t look like Israel calling the shots, nor does it look like Israel is a proxy. They look like co-equal partners that sometimes disagree, but ultimately can unify when they need to for the sake of their overall agenda.

Killing and hurting animals is bad for humans.

Okay, but that necessarily means that other people are now paying for their Social Security. This person, specifically, did not fully pay for their own Social Security. They’re living off of public money, not money they contributed themselves.

The OP specifically depicts someone that’s 90 years old.

Doesn’t that mean the amount they paid in to Social Security might have actually run out years ago?

I just don’t want to bother anyone.

That’s because Qatar and other Gulf states are actually proxies, they are dependent on the US.

Israel isn’t like that because it’s an extension of the US. The US doesn’t control Israel, it is Israel. Israel doesn’t control the US, it is the US. They’re two heads on the same hydra. If the tides shifted so far that Israel was looking towards Russia or China, that probably means the US is in full collapse and we’d also see Texas join BRICS or some shit.

The US obviously doesn’t just obey the demands of every nuclear armed country, so something else must be happening.

Israel is an extension of the US, it’s part of the US rather than a puppet of the US. Israel is no more a proxy than Texas is.

I think they’re gonked.

Why wouldn’t the unsinkable aircraft carrier have nukes?

The DNA damage comes from the formaldehyde that the body produces when metabolizing aspartame, but guess what? The body makes formaldehyde anyway, just from its natural metabolic processes. As long as you don’t consume too much it’s fine.

The problem is over-consumption, which is the basis of having a consumer economy. If everyone ate less the food industry would collapse. They need us to overeat and if we ever stopped they’d have to reconcile with the fact that they can’t just keep growing their profits infinitely. Plus, when we overeat, they can make even more money by treating the sicknesses it causes. Win/Win!