https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-inventing-reality-the-politics-of-the-mass-media-1986-st.-martins-press_202012/mode/1up

Why do we have to sacrifice our future ability to retire and own a house because they bought all the houses and retired first?

Adrian Zenz saw it in a dream. Is that not proof enough for you?!

So I take it you are anti “AI art”?

How do you feel about pirating? I see AI art as pretty much the same.

They must summarize Marxism-Leninism and how it’s application effects the country and some potential tweaks necessary for it to be properly enacted to the best capacity.

“Not the father” MFs when the test comes back

EU isn’t “searching for a spine” they condone it as well.

If you reward rightward shifts with your vote just as well as you reward leftward shifts. Why would they ever move left, instead of banking your vote and trying to secure more and more rightist votes by moving right? How do you beat fascism by marching along a fascist line?

That fight looks like placing your line in the sand, and once it is crossed those on the other side are your enemies, lest you end up following and drawing new meaningless lines.

That fight looks like working within your communities to spread education and recognition about who those enemies are, and building structure in your community so that when the enemy is identified you can work together to ensure the enemy feels your resistance.

After which, they may just cross that line back over, recognizing that you now see them as an enemy and not an ally, and that they need you if they wish to have success.

If they don’t, then that just further reveals their intention was always to march rightward regardless, the only difference is you are no longer marching alongside them and have instead set the groundwork for opposing fascist enemies.

“Pay attention in school, kids, lest you miss learning what a king is”

~ defender of kings prior to their overthrow.

“Pay attention in school kids, lest you miss learning what an autocratic dictatorship is”

~ Cuban Batista defenders prior to the revolution.

“Pay attention in school slaves, lest you miss learning what a slave master is”

~ Southern slaveholder prior to the abolition of slavery.

Yes, when you confine your thinking to only exist within the current system, thats all you can comprehend.

Here’s the thing though, when the choice is between two slides towards fascism, A steep one, and a slightly less but still increasingly steep as you descend one, the only way to escape fascism is not to choose which slide you take, but to build an off ramp.

You will not defeat the system from working within, you need to build external power structures.

No, settling for “less bad” instead of fighting for good is what makes the “less bad” continue their march towards fascism.

Very telling you see the only option as voting for “less bad” or “waiting” for them to magically change leftward…

They will never change leftward unless you force them to change.

It’s true that “both sides are bad” is what led us to being closer to fascism than ever.

But you’ve got it backwards.

The “less bad” party being able to count on securing votes simply by being “less bad” allows for the “more bad” party to lead the march, and the “less bad” party to follow while still being “less bad”. This creates a slow march towards fascism while maintaining the illusion of choice in the population instilling passivity as they can always just “vote for less bad”.

1. How does it provide any further perspective? “They actually don’t deserve their land because they were colonized by the British”?

2. Why would you expect the Palestinians to accept a plan to give half of their land away to a violent colonial expansionist ideology. Should Poland have peacefully given half their land to Germany to avoid the invasion? Do you really think that would work anyway, or is it just an excuse to blame the victims for their own genocide?

Edit: Also, since then Palestine has called for the partition borders to be enforced, and Israel/their allies were the ones to deny it. Israel only ever supported the plan as a means to an end, further colonial expansion.

"U.S. President George Bush today signed into law the American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, which is intended to intimidate countries that ratify the treaty for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen of a U.S.-allied country being held by the court, which is located in The Hague. This provision, dubbed the “Hague invasion clause,” has caused a strong reaction from U.S. allies around the world, particularly in the Netherlands.

In addition, the law provides for the withdrawal of U.S. military assistance from countries ratifying the ICC treaty, and restricts U.S. participation in United Nations peacekeeping unless the United States obtains immunity from prosecution. At the same time, these provisions can be waived by the president on “national interest” grounds. "

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

If they’ve already shot down F-35s with inferior/older equipment doesn’t that show that they already have the systems capable of effectively defeating F-35s?

The only thing I see in that article is that it wouldn’t be as effective as it could be due to their lack of their own fighters and an AEW&C, not that it wouldn’t be effective.

Pretends?

Comrade, abandon the alcohol, down cigs like a true based revolutionary.

I took it as: The OP is about honking instantly.

The top of the thread is trying to justify impatiently honking immediately. “I’m impatient and idk why you aren’t moving immediately!”

Hence my response that they could just have a slower reaction time to the light turning.

So when you say “if the lights been green long enough”

I reply about how “green long enough” is subjective and the thread is biased towards the an Immediate honk.

The original discussion is specifically about people who honk instantly.

Obviously at a certain point it’s not only acceptable but necessary as parking at a green light is a road hazard itself.

You’re just accepting the altered framing from the original example to the counter example while I’m trying to keep it grounded on the original example.

Yeah, I get it Chet, you gotta get to the frat party and you’re all jacked up on stimulants so a second seems like forever .

For you specifically, maybe. Your experience is not universal and the original discussion was about people who honk instantly.