Journalism has always been this way under capitalism. Journalists lied about Iraq. They lied about the Black Panther Party. They lied about Vietnam. The term “Yellow Journalism” came about in the 1890s to describe the inflammatory newspapers of the era.
The Edward R. Murrows and Walter Cronkites are the exception, not the rule, under capitalist news reporting because the entire industry relies on selling what sells, instead of broadcasting what informs.
You’re describing monarchies lmaooo
Time gets shorter. I’ve already experienced this going from my teens to my twenties and into my thirties. I can remember entire weeks of my childhood. By the time I was in my mid twenties, days and weeks blurred together. Now it’s like months go by and I don’t even notice.
People talk about it more as they get older. Eventually when you enter your 80s and 90s, it’s like entire decades can come and go. So imagine when you’re immortal. If you’ve been alive for 100,000 years, that’s longer than writing has been around. Entire civilizations will have come and went.
But from your perspective, it’s all a blur. Entire genealogies were experienced, yet those people barely registered in your mind. If you had a favorite food, maybe the recipe disappears when you went four centuries without eating it. Jokes and fashions you’re familiar with are completely alien to everyone else. Are you even capable of noticing when things change at that point?
There’s also the question of how human are you? Everything and everyone would seem inconsequential. Would you even be able to socialize with others, or would you be completely sociopathic? That’s if you don’t hurt anyone and get tossed in a jail cell. What happens if you spend a few centuries in prison? Fight in multiple wars? Would you even feel the slightest discomfort when you kill someone?
Here’s a hint: which tank stayed in service after the war? Oh right…the IS-2 was in use until 1970. The Tiger 2 was immediately scrapped at the end of WWII in 1945. If the Tiger was actually a good tank, the Allies would have copied it once they got their hands on them after the war.
And guess what? Richard Spencer doesn’t go out in public anymore because he kept getting punched. Turns out deplatforming works and no, you do no have to debate nazis in the marketplace of ideas.
Okay but if we use “Late stage capitalism and the quest for profit above all else is causing the quality of goods and commodities to drop while their value stays the same or goes up,” it’s going to result in 20 minutes trying to explain things correctly followed by 20 hours of anti-communist arguments.
Can they use bows or crossbows? What about pikes? Just crazy how they respect rules like that when the eventual conclusion is guns.
Not only do I support Hamas, I support any violence they commit in order to drive the zionists back to Europe where they belong. Palestinians have tried peaceful protests and civil disobedience. It only got them killed. If Israelis didn’t want to get kidnapped or murked, they shouldn’t have ran over kids with bulldozers.
It doesn’t even make sense if it was to get Trump elected. I’m assuming they think Putin is trying to destroy America via Trump. And Putin does it by…destroying America to get Trump elected? I could understand their copium if it was solely to destabilize the US. But it seems like they’re implying Putin’s plan is to create an ouroboros.
There are easier ways to get Trump elected that don’t involve starting multiple wars lol
Yeah he looks like Busey having an allergic reaction to a bee sting yet has the nerve to call other people ugly.
Probably a straight-up neo-nazi trying to hide their real thoughts around people who aren’t nazis. This is common rhetoric used to try and rope people into fascism by terminally online chuds.
Israel isn’t even friendly to its own LGBTQ+ population, let alone Palestinians. NATO isn’t, either.
That would be good, actually. Hitler and his generals were incompetent dipshits. Critical support to Trump and his accelerationism to the end of Amerikkka.
Even in the first half of Biden’s term, she didn’t have much public interaction. There was that bizarre video of people asking her questions and she responded with “Your opinion, your voice,” or some stupid focus group shit like that. Then she starts laughing and giggling. It was like she was high on prescription medications.
In a perfect world, democrats would lose to an explicitly Marxist organization who takes all 50 states’ electoral votes, every seat in the house and senate, then get thrown in prison for their crimes. The seething from libs would be glorious when they realize the rest of their life will be behind bars all because they supported Isreal instead of voters’ demands.
Even funnier if some Qanon adventure seeker got it into his head Vance is part of the Deep State and had Trump eliminated. So then we have a fifth president after Vance.
One of the worst chuds I know has PTSD from his time in the army and I often find myself thinking he deserves worse lmao
He wasn’t even drafted and came from a well-to-do family. He’s just a narcissistic dumbass who didn’t pay attention in school so he joined the military. He tried going to college via the GI Bill, but flunked out. He’s the exact kind of person who would argue with a tenured and published professor over basic information to prove he’s the smartest person in the room.
Leftwing and progressive ideas are co-opted by liberals as the new version of the White Man’s Burden. I think I first saw someone make that observation here on Hexbear and it’s the perfect description. In the 1890s the US justified its behavior in Asia and Central and South America by “taking up the White Man’s Burden” to “spread democracy and culture to the savages.” It was the same attitude of “kill the Indian and you save the Christian.”
Since 9/11 (and before…well, most of the States’ existence), Americans have regurgitated this shit into a new form where they call Arabs “homophobic and sexist,” while the US does the same bullshit at home. Is there really a difference between some chud shooting up a gay bar while police watch and police arresting a couple before executing them for being gay? What about the hundreds (or thousands, I haven’t checked lately) of untested sexual assault kits needed to prosecute predators? Sexual assault in the US is legal by de facto because there’s so much fuckery in the way of getting survivors justice.
Make no mistake, the SC will overturn gay marriage if they think they can. They will outlaw trans people’s entire existence, too. The only thing preventing these from happening are lower courts not kicking things up to the SC.
They’d do the same with slavery and Jim Crow if they weren’t terrified of open rebellion led by a black vanguard.
Oh weird. Here I thought allowing Ukraine into NATO was completely apolitical. 🤔🤔🤔🤔