The guy that gave a Hitler salute? That guy?

GAFAM are very, very American.

C’mon Jews, speak up!

Have you been around the last couple of years? From Naomi Klein and Mahsa Gessen to Omer Bartov and Gabor Maté, Jewish intellectuals have been major voices against the genocide. And organizations like JVP and IJV in different countries, have been doing immense legwork and organizing. Not to mention the Refuseniks in Israel, and organizations like Standing Together.

If you haven’t heard Jews speaking up, you haven’t been paying attention.

In my experience that’s not the case. But your mileage may vary. And make sure you have your adjectives right. Jew and Israeli are not the same thing. In any case crushing antisemitism outside of Israel is a huge step to defeating Zionism.

This is how we defeat the Jewish Agency for Israel. Make it antizionist praxis to genuinely welcome migrating Israelis and to encourage diaspora Jews to not do Aliyah (Why move to an apartheid hellhole? Here in [insert your country] is a lovely and safe place to flourish as a Jew!). It’s a double win: you get a good friend and neighbour, and the palestinians get one less colonizer to worry about!

EDIT: Added benefit: you piss the fuck out of far right asshats in your country.

How deep are you willing to go? The biggest obstacle you yanks have is your religious adherence to the Constitution and your enslaver Founding Daddies. You got to kill of the American Civil Religion, man, it’s a cancer.

Beyond that, if I could wave a magic wand here are the reforms I would force on the US political system:

• Massively curtail presidential power, and to do that, actually weaken the federal government, massively. Sorry to sound like a Repubilcan, but it is true that your federalism is too coupled and states are too weak financially because the federal government takes most of the tax money. Canadian federalism is better in this respect: 50%-50%. Let states actually experiment with different economic models.
• Abolish the electoral college and create election standards and procedures, automatic voter registration. Actually create independent election agencies, like Elections Canada. If you need to have each state manage its own affairs, have them all have their own agency, but with each one strictly adhere to the same standard. Voting should be simple and straightforward. No more shennanigans with gerrymandering and arcane laws.
• Massively expand the size of legislatures, ideally also get rid of FPTP for proportional representation. Abolish idiotic things like supermajorities and filibusters. Your legislatures need to be able to function. It cannot be that a few senators can hold 350 million people hostage.
• Massively expand and depoliticize your Supreme Court. 9 justices for life? WTF. There should be term limits, and a pool of justices that rotates. It can’t be that everybody hangs from the whims of a couple of geezers.
• Lobbying and PACs and shit, all that is just corruption. Go after it.

Basically, its just Selectorate Theory: the fewer the decision makers and the fewer the people they are answerable to, the more “cosmic” each election becomes and the higher the chance for corruption and therefore dysfunction. Democracy, democracy, democracy. Kill the ghost of Madison and Hamilton. Bury those fuckers forever.

The video is notable from a “fuck AI” perspective not because of the blathering about its “magical” qualities (eye roll), but because it posits AI enshittification in particular as a credible global geopolitical risk.

I’m just saying it the laziest, easiest way to create a “fait accompli” without technically attacking a NATO ally. From the point of view of NATO, it then becomes a territorial dispute similar to those between Greece and Turkey, or the Whisky war between Canada and Denmark. It’s the easiest way for Rubio to keep him happy without blowing up NATO.

He won’t invade. He will just declare Thule base and an arbitrary amount of land “around it” sovereign territory.

Fuera yanqui de mierda.

It is distressing to read about someone planning to self-harm. Seek some professional help asap please.

You seem to bring this up every time someone asks about this. It doesn’t have to be an endless cycle of whining. It is not difficult to establish some kind of community-curated list of legitimate journalistic substacks that have bona fide journalistic teams and mastheads. It might actually be less work for you to do that instead of having to copy paste the same canned infantilizing response every other week.

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That was the first interaction I had with you, so i don’t know what you mean by me not seeming to get it.

By the way, copying what I wrote further down the thread:

Resistance is a continuum: It can be as simple as shrugging and saying “sorry officer, I didn’t see anything”. Or it can be causing delays, playing dumb, being frustratingly incompetent, being clumsy and unlucky, working by the book, insisting on following every bit of procedure, checking in for directions every five minutes, firing competent personnel, hiring incompetent personnel, forgetting to mention that valuable equipment needs to be maintained etc etc. If you feel more brave, it can be things like passing on information, or active sabotage. Then you can get to things like running propaganda, sheltering people, all the way up to armed resistance. You don’t need to do all of it at once, in fact, for the armed resistance to be effective, it depends on all the lower intensity acts of resistance as well.

You do you.

Of course not. But resistance is not about becoming a guerilla. It is much much more than that.

Resistance is a continuum: It can be as simple as shrugging and saying “sorry officer, I didn’t see anything”. Or it can be causing delays, playing dumb, being frustratingly incompetent, being clumsy and unlucky, working by the book, insisting on following every bit of procedure, checking in for directions every five minutes, firing competent personnel, hiring incompetent personnel, forgetting to mention that valuable equipment needs to be maintained etc etc. If you feel more brave, it can be things like passing on information, or active sabotage. Then you can get to things like running propaganda, sheltering people, all the way up to armed resistance. You don’t need to do all of it at once, in fact, for the armed resistance to be effective, it depends on all the lower intensity acts of resistance as well.

We don’t need to. We would need to resist. This means make occupation costly, politically, materially, economically, in human lives. Canada is not faraway Iraq or Afghanistan. We’re family, neighbours, and allies whose grandparents died on the same beaches in Normandy. An unprovoked war would instantly fracture US domestic politics, especially across an already polarised political landscape. The US doesn’t lose battles, but its record since WWII shows repeated failure at sustaining wars that lack legitimacy, clear end states, or public buy-in. That’s where we push.

So then what you need to do is build …what… ? Take your thought to it’s logical conclusion.

Look, dear American people, there is no cavalry coming to save you. You have to do this. It’s your country. Build the infrastructure, build the organization.

Start small, build up: https://youtu.be/vvaquOcNEKI

That’s exactly the problem of having to report what a crazy but ridiculously powerful person is saying. If you don’t take him seriously and just report that he’s just rambling incoherently then you’re going to be surprised when he actually uses his immense power. If you present his ramblings as a coherent declaration then you’re going to be discredited when he doesn’t follow through.

There is no easy answer here. I’m leaning towards the side that takes his sayings at face value because he’s too powerful not to.

By the way, it’s way less productive to direct your anger towards the journalists trying to make sense of what the madman is saying.

General strike.

I mean, you Americans love to compare yourselves with Rome, learn something from the Secessio Plebis.

Or better, take a hint from your own previous social movements.

It is not a clickbait title. It is an attempt at explaining to normal people what the crazy boomer with nukes is rambling about.