The Blackwater shit was a big chunk of the entire lodestone of bullshit that was the 2003 invasion of Iraq that fully commie pilled me.
Seeing the results and the price tag per mercenary made me want to go full people's war on anyone or anything responsible.
Thank God they saved something out of the collapse. Strong, principled unions with open communist ideals? Hell yeah.
The Israelis were happy to stoke the "it's an ancient conflict - so complicated" narrative that people used as an excuse to ignore it
It's the correct analytical framework for understanding the modern imperial capitalism that ignores national borders
Yeah its really hard to justify the benign aspects of consumer products like ring cameras against it invariably being used by an increasingly militant surveillance state.
Somewhere out there a middle aged chud is sweating over a sewing machine making a green M&M costume. If asked why they answer, sincerely, "politics." Fox did that.
There's my Hexbear lathe energy
You can't be a nationalist in the Imperial core without being pro empire
Probing the quicksand with a rod made of quicksand
Sounds safe to me
You got a lot of good answers so here's a joke answer that nonetheless is true: we hold an uncomfortable mirror up for the liberals. They do not like what they see.
It costs zero fucking dollars just to shut your mouth and not pipe up, a lesson Owen hasn't learned
And what are these chuds going to do about it besides fantasize about a revenge on their racialized other? Build a better world so women and children of all cultures can be free of patriarchal violence? No? Gonna make this moribund world slightly more racist and reactionary with each subsequent neoliberal vote is more likely.