Horrifying. Is there any obvious solution being discussed in your circles?

He maybe on his way to being flushed down the toilet.

Unionize. Seek work in union workplaces. Vote for and lobby politicians to strengthen labour rights by passing laws that make it very easy to unionize and very hard to bust unions. Unions increase the share of wealth labour produces that ends up in the workers’ pockets. Unions decrease the political power of the elite by decreasing the money they have to spend on politicians and increasing the money labour spends on politicians. Which further limits how much wealth can accumulate at the top.

If they hadn’t destroyed some portion of Iran’s ballistic missiles, it could have been much worse and really deter future FA. Now I’m not sure if the FO would be enough to do that. When I say enough, I mean destroy enough of Israel’s air force infrastructure so that their bombing capabilities are severely diminished. Not flattening residential buildings.

Which on the whole I think is a good thing since we’ve seen that significant instability often affects most of us.

a near 50% increase in three months.

This makes sense. I recall thinking after Israel’s previous attack and dismantling Hezbollah that if I were the Ayatollah, I’d now be going full speed towards a nuclear weapon test, as that’s the only thing that can secure my regime’s survival and by extension the stability of the country (in whatever state it exists). After the last attack, that pressure is that much higher.

Bibi told the Iranian people to rise up against their government, and I…agreed with him?

Well, consider how similar regime changes have gone in recent history. Instability, failed states, mass terrorist organization. It’s not impossible to get a better outcome if Iran’s regime is overthrown, but odds aren’t on their side. And then you have the actions of Bibi when this sort of thing happened in Syria - taking territory, bombing them, despite their pleadings for peace. None of this is good for getting a stable democratic governance as societies under threat go authoritarian to be able to act more quickly and efficiently in order to protect themselves. So while on the surface you might agree with Bibi, if you think about what that actually means, Bibi might want something else than that. Another failed state they can bomb if they feel any threat without repercussions because “terrorism” could be a lesser threat than a democratic economic and inevitably military power with much larger population that can wipe Israel if attacked.

Are they going to find a dead whistleblower? 😄

Hm. What about people born in regions with pre-existing heat stress?

The law reform also allows police to fine a person operating any form of transport, including a bicycle, if they are found to be intoxicated and likely to present a danger to others.

Shit 😄

Influential commentator Tucker Carlson urges Trump to ‘drop’ Israel

Carlson has been a leading voice within right-wing circles calling for Trump to avoid being dragged to war with Iran by Israel.

After Israel attacked Iran, the talk-show host, who spoke at the Republican National Convention last year, said the US should not support Netanyahu’s “war-hungry government” in the conflict.

“If Israel wants to wage this war, it has every right to do so. It is a sovereign country, and it can do as it pleases. But not with America’s backing,” the Tucker Carlson Network morning newsletter read.

It added that a war with Iran could “fuel the next generation of terrorism” or lead to the killing of thousands of Americans in the name of a foreign agenda.

“It goes without saying that neither of those possibilities would be beneficial for the United States,” the newsletter said. “But there is another option: drop Israel. Let them fight their own wars.”

Interesting 🤔

This asshat needs to be gone yesterday.

Except he’s more popular than ever:

Well, if people in the government really don’t understand the data collection is warrantless, then there’s a chance they’d change that, given appropriate pushback of course.

For fucks sake. I thought this would turn out to be just a delay, or they’d release them in separate repos or something.

Wait isn’t this the fourth?

It makes sense for capital, until it destabilizes the system due to depressing wages, till aggregate demand falls to the point there’s not enough people buying the production and you end up in depression.

Probably not.

As a #FuckCars person, I absolutely support the need for cars and car infrastructure for many use cases, including yours. It’s why I want to get as many of us who don’t need to be in cars, out of them.

Yeah, capital is fundamentally opposed to democracy because democracy means people without capital can get more power in society than those that hold more capital. What could possibly be the result of a system that removes the brakes from capital exercising its power other than the erosion of the power people without significant capital have. Which then results in further capital accumulation, which results in further disempowerment of regular people, in a feedback loop. Hell we even shoveled important public property into private capital’s hands… And here we are at near historic level of income and wealth inequality.

And it isn’t just me saying this. If you examine some of neoliberalism icons’ musings, you’d discover they see democracy as a hindrance to the full realization of an absolute free market economy, for this exact reason. People tend to vote against the privatization of public services they depend on, and against stripping labour rights to name a couple of things that tend to rain on neoliberalism’s parade.