barrbaric [he/him]

Since corporations are treated as people, why not simply charge them with tens of thousands of counts of petty theft and lock away the entire leadership structure for the rest of human existence?

It is only reasonable and fair that every landlord who tries this be executed.

They could afford it, they’d just rather spend that money on cops and surveillance to crush unrest rather than social programs that would avoid it in the first place.

Epic Game Store has really bad market share (estimates I’m seeing are around 15% of PC game sales, a large percentage of which is going to be fortnite) so nobody really cares.

You promise?

I think it’s more just pandering to right-wing chuds because Karp is trying to win them over.

He may also be lost in the sauce of misogyny.

Voyeurism.

I think it’s about 50/50. I’m still pretty surprised Venezuela ended up working as well as it did, so that’s a point in its favor, but that doesn’t mean it’ll work every time. Obviously public sentiment is against a ground invasion but when has that stopped anything Trump has done in the past? If his supporters can pardon him being a pedophile they certainly won’t care about another invasion of some distant country.

If I had to guess I think most likely is they try to do another kidnapping campaign that then fails and turns into a prolonged invasion.

The invasion of Afghanistan began with a wave of bombings/air strikes that killed thousands of civilians and destroyed infrastructure because the Taliban/Al Qaeda were located in areas in which other people lived. Especially the Taliban, as they were the ruling government. A decent analogy is actually 9/11: sure, they targeted the white house and pentagon, but also the WTC which were civilians. Given what we know of US intel, I would actually wager that 2/3 of the hijackerss targets being military installations makes them more precise than the US forces. There are then second-order deaths, such as from starvation and disease, due to disruption of infrastructure, power being cut, factories shutting down, etc.

Likewise, the “Shock and Awe” phase of the invasion of Iraq was a terror bombing campaign that aimed (and failed) to cause Saddam’s government to be overthrown by popular uprising due to mass civilian death and destruction of infrastructure. IIRC Iraq’s power grid still hasn’t been repaired to pre-war levels over 20 years later.

We can get semantic about what the phrase “bombing to pieces” means, but come on. The invasions kill over a million people, primarily due to second-order deaths from the initial and ongoing bombing campaigns. Seriously, look at the history of how the US wages war. It always relies on having air superiority and bombing the shit out of the countries it invades and then following up with special forces. Nowadays, that’d be JSOC because that branch of the special forces are directly controlled by the president.

As far as ground invasion, that depends on what their goals are. If they want to use the playbook from Venezuela and kidnap (or assassinate) all leadership then “no” because while they’ll have special forces on the ground they won’t be staying long-term. If they want to use the playbook from Iraq and Afghanistan, then yes, they will have to do a ground invasion as strategic terror bombings never actually succeed at causing the popular uprisings (see: Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc). The only place it allegedly ever worked was Japan in WWII, but that seems to have been largely incorrect and their surrender was much more due to the soviets declaring war on them.

I can remember what happened to Iraq and Afghanistan?

It was Mitt Romney who said they had to ban tiktok because it was too pro-palestinian.

Thank you comrade bee

It’s suspicious that a Presidential Daily Briefing was postponed to make way for ICA ordered at Obama’s request, fishier yet that the evidence that Putin intended to help Trump came from a classified annex containing Steele dossier material, but the smoking gun is that these eventual conclusions leaked instantly — not one or two weeks after Obama ordered the ICA, but the same day, before any group work could possibly have been done.

If your “smoking gun” can be written off entirely as coincidence, it doesn’t seem like you have much of a case. Not to mention, what damage did this even cause? The article claims that Trump people “went to jail, fell ill, went through family crises, and dealt with other serious problems”. Frankly, who cares? I’d applaud the dems if they could do as good a job of ratfucking republicans as they already do the left.

I once had windows quarantine the download files, claiming they were viruses. Had to manually add an exception and then it worked fine.

Sure, there’s a two-way relationship, but the US is the global hegemon (or at least was until very recently), while Israel is a regional power. They may both influence each other, but the US has more say in the relationship.

Most honest US politician says unlimited force to protect his elevated position is fine, but the tiniest amount of force protesting that position is illegal terrorism.

Reading the wikipedia article on Pakistan’s nuclear doctrine and thinking it looks good until I get to this:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

You can just replace “anti-Semites” in the quote with “right-wingers”. They don’t care, they’re just trying to waste your time.

Perhaps if he wore a bomb vest to the next senate meeting I would consider forgiving him.

In your mind, what are acceptable ways to pressure a political party that is actively carrying out genocide?