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Cats like pulling things down off of other things. It entertains them.

This is essentially every project funded through a “defense” agency.

It was Big Pencil all along

The last point is the important one. If you’re regularly seeing these in your house that means they’ve found a food source: your house is infested with another insect they’re keeping at bay.

More honest headline: Dell created intolerable working conditions so that they could engage in constructive dismissal and avoid paying for unemployment for their massive layoffs.

It’s good because most of the American audience is too politically miseducated to recognize it otherwise.

The Reddit version is just body shaming since as you mention nobody knows anything about them except for a picture.

I think roasts can be pretty funny when they’re punching up.

An invasion of Lebanon risks direct Iranian involvement. Not sure if they’re trying to call a bluff or if they actually want that.

All of the City Sims have hilarious workarounds for the fact that their capitalism simulations always lead to crisis.

That’s right, kiddo. It’s time to gamble with unregistered securities and call it money.

apt is good for most things.

Flatpak is good for applications where you want the people who write the software to be creating the releases and for closed source apps that you want to isolate a bit from your system.

For example, on a new system you might install everything using apt except for Zoom. Zoom isn’t in the Debian repos, it’s closed source and proprietary. But you can get the official Zoom application using flathub. Zoom will also be fairly isolated from the rest of your system so it has less access to your files and can be removed more cleanly later on if needed.

Monopoly capitalists did the most monopoly capitalist thing ever, journalists are surprised.

tyranny.gov is just a proxy for tyranny.com

Zionists that confront pro-Palestinian protesters are often trying to draw reactions to disrupt or invalidate the protest:

• They try to draw in police by lying about their own safety. For example, walking into the middle of a crowd and then yelling about how they now feel unsafe because of some pro-Palestine chants.

• They try to get a semi-violent reaction for the same reason. A Zionist getting upset and grabbing at someone else’s phone will not elicit a police or fash intervention but a response that pushes the Zionisy away or tries the same on them will more often get that police or fash intervention.

• They bring their friends and take videos of the reactions they’re trying to elicit in order to try and delegitimize the pro-Palestinian protesters. If they can’t get anything they’ll do things like ham it up with a monolog everyone’s ignoring or try to tell a story for the camera. Selective editing is their favorite tool.

She is probably a combination of frothing Zionist fash and trying to get a reaction. The two are compatible and the former is who does the latter most often in my experience.

Finally. Wrong answers to questions using my phone.

Liberals are just as low-information as MAGAs, they just use media sources with a cleaner sheen of faux respectability. They believe in a large number of myths foundational to their political beliefs, part of their nationalist, pro-bourgeouis democratic ideology. When you tell them the US stands for international law and human rights they nod along and say, “yeah that’s right and we’re good unlike those [designated enemies]”. The fact that both the US and Israel constantly flout intentional law, their own treaties, commit war crimes, etc etc doesn’t register as a real challenge to their beliefs at first. They still have v the designated enemies to compare to and can quickly stop thinking about the inconsistency by plunging themselves back into the capitalist media rationalization machine (pervasive ready-made narratives).

It’s possible to break through the pattern but a lot of people get stuck in it.

Yes that’s correct. The empire is not consistent. Its stated principles are empty propaganda intended to build national myths for their populations to believe in support of the actual material goals of that empire. They want you to hate Russia so that when they create policies that marginalize Russia you think, “yeah, serves them right” not, “is that fair? Don’t we do the same things or worse and get away with it?” Same for attempts to marginalize China. They’re coming up with words the public has never even heard of (productive overcapacity) to justify their new tariffs and if the public were told “this just makes your stuff more expensive in an attempt to hurt China” they’d throw a fit if the propaganda apparatus hadn’t already taught the public that China is the enemy always doing evil things.

The real driving force is always a deepee material interest. Who can fund the propaganda narrative, what is the intended national or corporate interest.

Your city is more likely just responding to the wishes of the chamber of commerce and regurgitating the pat justifications that were handed to them by the chamber of commerce’s PR firm.

This is just propagandized people believing an empty bourgeois threat. They can’t help it, they haven’t been provided with the tools with which to reject such utter nonsense. That’s our job!

lmao look at the AI-generated journal cover.