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I think Russel is more mouth than anything. Piers got the weight advantage. The only way I can see brand holding onto consciousness/resistance longer is through sheer inhuman levels of insufferable annoyance, like he is infected with an alien gish-gallop virus.
Aliens plz make your move whenever you're ready, I shan't stop you and will put a good word in to the others too. The door will be unlocked when you arrive.
Interview with sir onion about the onion's gentrification of infowars led by the infamous bloodthirsty war criminal general Heidecker
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These might not work in official UK territory, it occasionally reminds me through the temperamental built-in VPNs functionality bearing no relation to the on/off toggle in the browser menu
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These might not work in official UK territory, it occasionally reminds me through the temperamental built-in VPNs functionality bearing no relation to the on/off toggle in the browser menu
Longer version
Palantir's CEO says that it'd be great for business if we just stopped making war crimes illegal.
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Next up: Optional human rights will lead to higher profits.
Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.
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Next up: Optional human rights will lead to higher profits.
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No, but I did listen to it in the background while I was cooking.
Basically what we can surmise is that the autopsy made the DNC look so stupid and inept that if they actually released it no one would donate to them because no one would trust them with their money, and that's why they need to bury it.
He keeps saying "we're letting everyone know the correct lessons to take from the data" as if anyone trusts him to understand what the correct lessons are. The lesson should be that no one trusts the leadership of the democratic party and this dickbag isn't helping change that entirely fair perception.
I've posted about this group called "Mothership Strategies" before but it merits mentioning again: some dodgy organisation that appears to hoover up loads of Democratic donations to pay Democratic insiders a ton of money for delivering not necessarily very much at all.
It feels very much like the Democratic Party is a self-absorbed collection of wonks and activitists who have realised that they can keep their gravy train running without having to do the job they are ostensibly paid for of representing their voters. Basically, it's a monopoly for the US left, and without competition feels no real pressure to do its job well.
Republicans appear split on idea of clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell
House panel divided on whether Trump should pardon Maxwell so she can cooperate with Epstein investigation
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Dudes, seriously: No clemency.
You might offer Maxwell some form of clemency if she were to offer vital information to secure the prosecution of a bigger fish. But the bigger fish is dead, he's not going to be prosecuted, and all granting her clemency will achieve is to let his key ieutenant in underage sex trafficking off lightly. Some of the Epstein island visitors almost certainly fucked children and will get away with it. But even with her testimony they are probably still impossible to convict.
And clemency risks a terrible peril of corruption: that she lies in favour of the people who would grant her it.
Surely such a morally-upstanding individual would never do such a thing!
...ha ha, no, she would in a heartbeat, and every last Republican politician and voter would be happy to set her free so long as she made up shit to make Democrats look bad. Every last one.
I find it curious that both the far right and the establishment seems to have become completely irrational in achieving their goals. Both seem to flail around blindly and being very confused even on how to achieve their core priority.
The far right's main priority is to dismantle democracy and install a corrupt ruling clique that can loot the country blind while throwing culture war stuff at the public to distract them from the looting. But in quick succession we have seen the far right derailing their own scheme. In Hungary the corrupt ruling clique overreached and became so corrupt that it became unsustainable. At no point did they consider toning down the thieving as to avoid angering the public into kicking them out.
And there is the US of course. The Republicans own the Senate, the house, presidency court and media. They have all the power they need to cripple democracy. All they had to do was patiently enact their creepy program and remodel American democracy into Putin's Russia. But for some reason they insisted in making the public extremely restless by starting a pointless war and making prices go up. This risk losing their window of opportunity to quietly and efficiently kill off democracy.
The establishment has the opposite goal. They want to save the status quo. Perhaps not for benevolent reasons but to safeguard their gravy train but still, the fall of democracy is something they seem to want to prevent for the time being. Yet each time the right or far right loses power the other side seems to do everything to turn the public back to the right.
In Britain everyone was sick to death of the conservatives and the damage they inflicted. But rather than fix anything Labour insists on ruling as Tories in red and lose the public to Farage. The same thing is happening in the Netherlands. We were fortunate to be rid of Wilder's government but the centrist government that replaced him decided to go on a mass austerity spree and make the public grumpy enough to return to Wilders. Similar in Germany where CDU starts making unpopular austerity decisions in a time its vital for German security to keep the AFD out of power
Even if in their heart of hearts those establishment politicians genuinely believe that neoliberal austerity is the best course to take, then simple self preservation should have made them consider compromising on this ages ago. Because even if they think this is ''sensible economic policy'' then losing the public to the far right means no sensible economic policy will be pursued at all anymore. And if they do this to protect their own gravy train they should have still realized it was time to tone it down or risk losing that gravy train entirely.
Its no wonder supporters of both sides are perpetually grumpy and anxious.
The far right's main priority is to dismantle democracy and install a corrupt ruling clique that can loot the country blind while throwing culture war stuff at the public to distract them from the looting. But in quick succession we have seen the far right derailing their own scheme. In Hungary the corrupt ruling clique overreached and became so corrupt that it became unsustainable. At no point did they consider toning down the thieving as to avoid angering the public into kicking them out.
And there is the US of course. The Republicans own the Senate, the house, presidency court and media. They have all the power they need to cripple democracy. All they had to do was patiently enact their creepy program and remodel American democracy into Putin's Russia. But for some reason they insisted in making the public extremely restless by starting a pointless war and making prices go up. This risk losing their window of opportunity to quietly and efficiently kill off democracy.
The establishment has the opposite goal. They want to save the status quo. Perhaps not for benevolent reasons but to safeguard their gravy train but still, the fall of democracy is something they seem to want to prevent for the time being. Yet each time the right or far right loses power the other side seems to do everything to turn the public back to the right.
In Britain everyone was sick to death of the conservatives and the damage they inflicted. But rather than fix anything Labour insists on ruling as Tories in red and lose the public to Farage. The same thing is happening in the Netherlands. We were fortunate to be rid of Wilder's government but the centrist government that replaced him decided to go on a mass austerity spree and make the public grumpy enough to return to Wilders. Similar in Germany where CDU starts making unpopular austerity decisions in a time its vital for German security to keep the AFD out of power
Even if in their heart of hearts those establishment politicians genuinely believe that neoliberal austerity is the best course to take, then simple self preservation should have made them consider compromising on this ages ago. Because even if they think this is ''sensible economic policy'' then losing the public to the far right means no sensible economic policy will be pursued at all anymore. And if they do this to protect their own gravy train they should have still realized it was time to tone it down or risk losing that gravy train entirely.
Its no wonder supporters of both sides are perpetually grumpy and anxious.
So the tories did not get decimated last election and labour hasn't insisted on remaining neoliberal?
The more you know
The conservatives weren't able to really do anything and reverse anything Labour did like a decade or so ago. Britain is doing poorly because of Labour policies not Tory policies.
I'm sorry but that is sounding rather silly. The Tories can craft themselves a decade+ dominance and do something as revolutionary as forcing the UK out of the EU but recovering from an utterly mundane Social Democratic predecessor was too much for them? A predessor that had taken over the neoliberal policies from the conservatives to boot.
That also not how the campaign went. I admit that as an outsider I did not follow the campaign closely but never had I have heard Starmer or a voter say ''The Tories failed to protect us from Labour so lets vote Labour!''
I mean, she likely already did in exchange for an upgrade in circumstances.
Labour have made plenty of mistakes, let's not excuse them that. But to understand some of their timidity, we cannot underestimate what happened to Liz Truss. She proposed a severely misconceived plan to rework public finances, the finance industry punished her, and forced her to rapidly retract. Every politician in Britain took note: we cannot dare offend the bond markets. Maybe we could take more risks if national debt were <50% GDP, but those days are far off. But it's not just the UK, it's any country, even the USA. Trump ended much of his tariff assault because of fear of what the financial markets would do.
I wonder if many of our countries will end up having to make a very fateful decision who they want to answer to, the bond markets or their people.
Or we pay off our national debts, but doing so is extraordinarily hard whilst growth is so anaemic. It's hard when the fertility rate is so low and the public hate immigration, because when the population shrinks who's even going to work to pay taxes and care for the elderly? In a sense, I think some of the far right are correct that our societies are on a path to critical failure, it's just that they are a major part of that path to failure. Not that they care, of course, because as you note, the far right are actually people trying to loot their own nations, not save them.