Is this so that the conscripts will be able to read the US weapons’ user manuals?

Ya, just saw the headline about anti-tax protesters shot dead. Interesting context to say the least.

JesuSoda has the everlasting refreshing taste of the blood of the Son of God that washes away the aftertaste of sin. Enjoy the blessing of Christ from our can to your lips!

The article glosses over the real reason for this, which is that Argentina is on an inflation rocket ride due to the new libertarian leadership. Getting paid in currency that is being continually devalued on a daily basis is worse than just getting the beef. China is the world’s largest market for beef.

Time + gravity + chemistry + physics = hot stirring clumpy rock stew

As the stew goes from hot to warm over millions of years things settle into some interesting patterns. The highest concentrations of known gold geological formations happen to be on the oldest pieces of the earth’s crust btw.

A learned individual has defected from the evil regime’s empire to the land of liberation to help build a brighter future.

Behold my newest invention!

After explaining how “Israel” deliberately and systematically committed war crimes against Palestinians, Khan emphasized, “As I also repeatedly underlined in my public statements, those who do not comply with the law should not complain later when my Office takes action. That day has come.”

Karim Khan telling genociders ‘you’ve fucked around, now is the time of your finding out’

There’s some good positions like pro-choice, ending qualified immunity, letting people feed the homeless, but there’s also many of the standard in there too.

Don’t anthropomorphize computers, they hate that.

A new map to use to update my evergreen meme

Shredding the last shred of plausibility of not being a genocidal state

The USA has by far the largest prison population in absolute terms and per capita. You have no idea what you are saying.

The demolition orders against the Abu Assa neighbourhood in Wadi al-Khalil were issued by Israeli planning authorities in 2019 to make way for the extension of the route of Highway 6 southwards.

“The scenes of hyper-militarized police units, including the notorious Yoav and border police units, storming Wadi al-Khalil to bulldoze homes and confiscate residents’ belongings are yet another chilling demonstration of the cruelty and ongoing injustices and human rights violations meted by Israeli authorities upon Palestinian citizens of Israel, especially those living in the Negev/Naqab,” said Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/israel-opt-over-300-palestinian-bedouin-face-forced-evictions-following-mass-home-demolitions-in-negev-naqab/

This has started at my workplace as well. Big Tech has invested a lot in big office real estate, and I feel like there’s some tax accounting write-off behind the push for this kind of stuff.

Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a really good series on the cultural values of aesthetics under capitalism. It’s from the 70s, so a bit dated, but it really shows the collision of art and capitalism shaping culture and ideology.

Plastic Pills and Second Thought have a lot of high quality videos exploring theory concepts when you think that is warranted.

Another thing to consider is what interests they might have that could overlap with theory concepts. This will help find topics that are engaging and the materialism can grapple with that to inform perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang

aka Foucault’s boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.

I don’t like talking about campus safety when there are no universities left in Gaza.

This seems like a relevant event related to your question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin

Due to the ultimate failure of further progress on the Oslo Accords, there is a popular view that the assassination was highly successful, with some calling it the most successful political assassination in modern history due to it achieving the goals of its perpetrator.