they did not have the right to violate international law and wage an all-out war of enormous destruction against the entire Palestinian people – in what experts have correctly concluded is a genocide.

This should have been the opening. Bernie shouldn’t have to spend 3 paragraphs proving his bona fides; preemptively defend vacuous accusations of bigotry; and acknowledge that Hamas are assholes, just to begin to list Israel’s crimes.

After that opening, Bernie really cooks. I just feel like preemptive apologetics cedes too much ground to bad-faith actors.

For so many of us, Steam made switching to Linux frictionless and they’d have to do something pretty fucked up to loose my appreciation.

Social media companies will target teenagers with ads for impulse products if they calculate that the user is stressed or tired.

You should let your community college people know that graduates from prestigious universities are being paid seven figures to influence not only how they spend and save, but also what they earn. Let them know that it’s their personal responsibility to overcome the efforts of trillion dollar industries that have captured the media and government.

I was getting angry reading this.

Something like this may be handy when MAGA’s start taking off their hats and peeling off the bumper-stickers.

Ya’ll realize that hating on this dude is tantamount to contributing to his Patroon, right? He’s a rage-baiter and judging by the comments, a quite good one.

Poverty rates are extremely difficult to measure. I’m sure this data is good-faith, but there are lot’s of statistics like this that are dishonest and spread by people like Stephen Pinker in order to shill for neo-liberalism.

For example the cash/day measure can be tweaked until you get the trend you want. We all know that cost of living varies between the States, so imagine how much it varies between different countries and continents. Saying a person only makes X/day would mean completely different things in a poor vs. wealthy country. Accounting for this difference is more opportunity to dial in the answer your looking for.

I’ve heard conservatives argue that “assets” like refrigerators and ovens be counted as wealth; owing to their belief that poverty is a choice and the privations are exaggerated. Meanwhile those of us on the left are automatically skeptical of figures that don’t show that poverty is bad and getting worse.

My point is that numbers like this should never be accepted credulously. Microtrends, the source of this data lives in the “market analysis” data space and I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the numbers align with the priors of conservative business types.

Oh yea, so does your zip code.

PC players are always going to lead the trend because we have the most options. Microsoft and Sony are in a race to enshitify their ecosystems, while Nintendo is actively hostile towards it’s customers and fans.

Meanwhile I’m playing through what was originally a Playstation exclusive title that I got on sale on Steam, and run on Linux.

Committing suicide in jail is common. Not as common as guards who neglect the welfare of their prisoners, but still pretty common.

The Epstein conspiracy theory has people out here arguing that incompetent prison staff doing medical neglect is suspicious.

You think this is funny, but CBS is looking at it hard.

IDK if this is true or not. But if you’ve got the reputation where raccoon castration is plausible or even likely, that’s on you.

There is no reason to study Marx other than you find it interesting or because it relates to something your interested in. There is very little utility in knowing the theory.

Marx was a genius similar to Freud. They changed the way we think and gave us new tools to examine the world. Beyond that, their particular ideals are often as wrong as two left shoes.

There is plenty of room on the left for people who reject, or are ignorant of Marx.

Pretty much from the dawn of societies. Generational wealth and progeny is extremely important, and women must be controlled so that provenance of her children may be assured.

In the Bible you constantly see themes that don’t make sense until you understand how important that stuff was. Abraham was asked to sacrifice the thing most precious to him: his son. God killed the first-born of Egypt. Lot’s daughters had sex with their dad because that was the only way to ensure that their ‘pure’ line continued. Calling back to Abraham, God himself sacrificed what? His son.

Pre-agriculture societies were probably pretty egalitarian. And the idea that hunting and gathering was segregated by sex doesn’t have much evidence besides “common sense” and vibes.

Southern fried chicken comes from Scotland and WAfrica. And the EAsians have done heroic work in fried poultry tech. But the idea of shredding an animal with industrial machines and recombining it all with meat glue and fillers into appetizing dinosaur shapes, rolling it in breadcrumbs and frying it golden brown and crispy is 10,000% American and you can’t deny it.

Just more blatant anti-Americanism from our so called allies.

Thinking that the wrong dude is the Pope is the most Catholic thing ever.