Anyway, the NYPD paid out $58 million in overtime just to fly helicopters alone last year

Link to the tweet

https://www.tiktok.com/@meidastouch/video/7381927896409165102

Hope TikTok links are fine here.

Just saw this video while mindlessly scrolling and couldn’t believe there exists a person unironically the same as the liberal caricature Hexbear makes fun of.

Observation: a random Twitter account revealed it was a Russian bot by “accidentally” posting its directive in Russian which instructed it to spread pro-Trump propaganda.

I mean, lol

All this person did was post a basic criticism of Oliver and now everyone is undeservedly dunking on them for it.

🥰

CW Forbes is a PNAC neocon shit weasel but it's the clip of the moment if you find it outside of Forbes, I'll gladly switch the link.

$30+ million a year on a company that makes "zero profits"

You wouldn't believe it, this guy's a piece of shit

https://x.com/babadookspinoza/status/1802442068125516148

I still don't know if this satire or not

linky to tweet

after all, for some reasons billionaires donate to new york crimes, so why not for everyone

linky

the chapo has fallen, hundreds will change podcasts

One of the fake elector plotters They aren't even sending their best and they still winning.

Ansar Allah: Has a fucked up antisemitic flag that says "A Curse Upon the Jews" on it but is also acting to help stop the genocide of Palestinians

Redditors: "you cannot critically support these people despite their flaws while condemning their antistemitism and homophobia or you're an Islamist red fascist"

Ukrainian banderites: "Death to the Orcs, a curse upon the Jews, death to the Muslims, glory to Fascism. Russians are savage untermensch with a fundamentally violent culture", commits awful war crimes

redditors: if you do not give these people unlimited supplies of weapons and support them utterly then you are a Putinist. Also if you complain about them saying racial slurs constantly you're also a Putinist.

linky

https://x.com/ademrudin/status/1801790441618346147

Per the comments: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQI4yhiXcAAfYXY?format=jpg&name=medium

It takes me 5 minutes to set up my $100 popup tent which seems to be made of more sturdy material.

One thing that has been lacking with AI generated video up to now has been emotional performance from our Gen AI characters.

I think we are starting to cross that boundary.

https://slavoj.substack.com/p/a-leftist-plea-for-new-imperialist

He's earnestly advocating for imperialism.

I'm just going to post the last paragraphs and bold of the most eyebrow raising sentences.

So how are we to act in this depressive situation? We should above all avoid the false “public use of reason” which advises neutrality and the search for peace through negotiations. The most disgusting thing to do at this moment is to repeat with triumph the old motif “we were telling you for years that Ukraine cannot win…” – obviously true, but whatever the final outcome will be, Ukraine achieved an unexpected miracle in resisting Russia for such a long time. Another stupidity is the idea that the Ukrainian war is just a moment of the conflict between Russia and NATO, with thousands of Ukrainians sacrificed to the NATO interests to weaken Russia. Are Ukrainians really so stupid to play this role while they could have enjoyed peace? What peace? Russian occupation which would annihilate them as a nation… This is why the alternative “peace through negotiations or war” is a false one: Ukraine will be in a position to negotiate only if it will remain strong enough to present a real obstacle to Russian invasion.

In such a predicament, the only serious option is to finally accept that we are entering a global emergency state: we are at war and only a full Western commitment can give Ukraine a chance. The same holds for Gaza - here again only the US military intervention can save things. Not long ago a picture circulated from inside Gaza showing smoke billowing from the explosion of a US-supplied bomb, and discernible in the background was the outline of eight black parachutes dropping US aid in precisely the same neighborhood.[2] This photo renders perfectly the opportunism of the US politics: supplying the arms to bomb Gaza and then helping the people whose lives were ruined by these same bombs – this is what humanitarian help means today.

The US has been humiliated again and again. As crazy as this may sound, the fact that the US are no longer able to act as a global superpower also has its bad aspects - history repeats itself, just recall the US army’s withdrawal from north Syria to protect the Kurds, as well as the premature withdrawal from Afghanistan. **As I already suggested in a recent text of mine, ideally the US (with some allies) should simply invade Gaza from the sea, establish its own power zone there where millions of civilian refugees will be safe, providing for their elementary welfare and in this way constrain Israeli power - it is a safe bet that Israel would not risk an open conflict with the US. In crazy times, crazy acts are needed. **Before you dismiss this idea as madness, think realistically what would happen! It would be a great relief for millions of starved and bombed civilians. Similarly, one should take the risk to raise the Ukrainian war to a higher level, setting clear red lines that Russia should not overrun. One should, of course, proceed very carefully not to provoke a global war – but, again, the only way to prevent a new global war is to take calculated risks now.

Will something like this happen? The one thing one can rely on is that the US regularly miss the opportunity to use (whatever remains of) its global imperialist power for a good cause.

What Hofreiter is suggesting is that Olaf Scholz is acting in Russia's interests.

It is a blatant, actually outrageous insinuation, it surpasses everything Hofreiter said about Scholz in the previous two days. Not even Friedrich Merz would accuse the Chancellor of that.

The moderator leaves it at that, he doesn't follow up, but Hofreiter reiterates the sentence: "That's what people who are involved in this say. That this is the real hidden agenda."

And no one in the room disagrees.

Stab in the back myth here we go! Even the Spiegel author thinks this guy is nuts.

At this point I am nearly convinced that most antisocialists seriously think that capitalism is just when good stuff happens. Even if we had the most obvious and unambiguous example linking capitalism to atrocities — the Kill Corp. employing somebody whose job is literally just to go around and massacre innocents for the sake of shareholders and mad $$$ — antisocialists would still be scratching their heads wondering what that has to do with capitalism. While so far I haven’t seen anybody unkiddingly say that orgasms are capitalism and stubbed toes are socialism, there isn’t much left stopping antisocialists from making that call either.

Nazis nationalized most of their war industry and still went to war.

This is very, very misleading. Just because a business falls under state‐ownership doesn’t mean that the businessman’s autonomy is gone. Quoting Clarence Y.H. Lo’s Business Collaboration within the Nazi War Machine: Corporations and the State in the Austrian Semiperiphery:

During the [Third Reich’s] military buildup Gustav Krupp was chosen Führer der Wirtschaft (leader of the economy) in the “alter kruppscher Tradition” (old Krupp tradition) and later pledged not to offend [Fascism] (Manchester 1968:354, 367). In response to [Berlin’s] demands, Krupp increased its military production from RM 50 to 150 million between 1937/1938 to 1940/1941 (Manchester 1968:369; Overy 1994:136–38).

Gustav Krupp personally lobbied Hitler between 1941 and 1943 for a special law that would change the Krupp Aktiengesellschaft corporation into a family enterprise that would pay no capital gains tax (which would have been RM 70 million) when Gustav Krupp passed ownership on to his heir (Overy 1994:140). In return for the family tax exemption, increased depreciation (raising profit, James 2012:202; 207), and interest‐free state loans, Krupp was willing to have his armaments production determined by [Axis] officials.

The [Fascists], dependent on Krupp, were glad to see collaborative arrangements reducing the uncertainties (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978) of military supply (Overy 1994:137,139, 140).

Furthermore, businesses that were beyond ‘state ownership’ still made substantial contributions to the Fascist war machine, and the presumption that the Fascist state micromanaged everything has a more serious consequence as it pardons capitalists involved in atrocities:

The point is that industrial behavior under [Fascism] cannot be reduced to simple structural explanations. Even within the context of a dictatorship that demanded high levels of production for war, industrialists made choices as individuals. They approached the SS for cheap labor; they decided whether to buy a Jewish company at a fraction of its value; they determined how forced and [neo]slave laborers would be treated in their factories.

(Source.)

I suppose that this is only quibbling, though. The fact of the matter is that the Fascist empires never reduced let alone abolished capital, the law of value, and generalized commodity production.

Palestine is only important because it represents another coalition of the oppressed for them to colonize [and, from a more sinister POV, Israel is THE epitome of Western imperialism, all legacies of which must be overturned]. […] It doesn't matter the agent, except that a radical imperialistic reactionary group like Hamas/IRGC/Hezbollah is actually the perfect anti-duhring for Western dominance, since you have to assume the guise & tactics of the enemy in order to repeal it. […] The co-opting of causes makes sense, since in order for Marxism to be coherent & defensible in its totalitarianism, you have to view all relation through the same aesthetic (class struggle); and there seems to be an at least latent awareness on behalf of Marxists that this aesthetic needs to be forced on others. ("You don't understand the way in which you're oppressed; therefore, it's up to us to liberate you in the way that you are truly meant to be liberated." Note as well that the aim of the movement itself is not liberty [bad; individualistic], but liberation [good; collectivist].)

I hope that I don’t have to explain how terrible this reply is.

The USSR, a Communist regime, spent 15-20% of GDP on military purposes; likely higher by some estimates. The US spent 5% during the same cold war period, and a bit less today. That includes military foreign aid. The facts paint the opposite conclusion.

The U.S.S.R. increased its military spending to forcibly neocolonize somebody else’s land…? Oh, whom am I kidding. Of course antisocialists believe that.

I could go on, but I’ll stop here so as to prevent further testing your patience.

They've been going warp speed to grab stormfront content. Couldn't even wait to grab this

https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/1cu92g3/but_both_sides_da_same/