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>>2328258 >>2335023Democrat messaging/punditry or whatever is that you call Yggelisas and Klein have taken this somewhat strange, and I think obviously indefensible point of view, that top down political messaging doesn't influence popular positions.
If I were to guess, the democratic party is actually opposed to these progressive issues and wants to sabotage them. They feel captured by thier constituencies, and want to develop new constituencies that are less progressive. Additionally, they see other constituencies, in particular tech, which is captured by its own bizarre form of fringe, right-wing ideology, as being more important. They perceive them as a source of national power and thus won't challenge them or disempower the most far-right elements within it, which have captured the industry.
They realize that the Republican Party is extremely violent and actually dangerous. But they really will just accept this rather than be more progressive.
But I think we understand this here, already.
>>2335014She's right in that trans rights do not matter compared to workers rights. When the workers have sufficient rights, the minorities will have rights, because the minorities are demonized to split the working class. Socialism is more important than dying on a hill for one minority group.
Patriarchy isn't even a useful term to describe the modern economic elite who are quite diverse in their exploitation. Dems pushed this shit to split the working class because they don't act in good faith, or they're actually retarded. Doesn't really matter which.
>>2335264There are many minorities I dislike but I'm pro worker first, to be clear.
I am willing to look past my personal beliefs if it actually gained a significant voter base. It didn't. So if I were a democrat who wanted to win, I'd advocate for modifying that rhetoric.
>It's not 2009 anymoreOccupy stalled when it got injected with identity politics that alienated the white working class. It's my belief this was an intentional move to sabotage it. Terms like patriarchy don't even describe the modern economic elite, as I said. It serves only to alienate disenfranchised male workers who feel attacked by the term & an insufficient definition. There are certainly aesthetic considerations. I myself know very few young men who do not feel humiliated to call themselves a leftist or democrat today.
Dems and affiliated individuals spread quite a bit of factually incorrect pseudo-science when debating the republicans. Hormone blockers being reversible, the actual effects of HRT, so on. I also saw homosexual men suffer attempted grooming at the hands of terminally online transgender individuals. Get this rhetoric and those people off the platform. I am partial to allowing sexual minorities to express themselves, however disinformation is not acceptable.
>>2335369>>2335394Yes, the fact is biology has a very hard time saying anything categorically true at all. We are always imposing some kind of structure on nature for which exceptions always exist.
Biological sex is also constructed. I think it's kind of clear if we look also at how far this definition is stretched in Biology. Sex is used to describe everything from plants to primordial animals. Some animals switch sex, some animals can self-fertilize.
You aren't deluding yourself by recognizing that gender is both "real" and also a social construct, and also a social performance. It's only delusional to really NOT recognize these things. I've met a lot of these alt-right nazi-adjacent cons who are smart enough to recognize that gender is constructed. They just don't like this conclusion because they don't like its necessary logical implications, and the fact that it makes certain axioms which they take for granted, untenable. This is actually true, accepting the correctness of social constructivism has actually very deep-reaching implications. So they just assert that it must not be true, because it's simpler.
>>2335456They tend to fall back on asserting the omnipresence of a "normal" or "average" type as if it matters.
For example: The "olga" archetype certainly exists, right? The square-jawed, tall, ugly, broad-shouldered woman with thick calloused fingers and a deep, resonant voice. Certainly more manly than so many fay twink pretty boys. They defy both biological sex and gender. But these are always exceptions. "They don't count." And why don't they count? It's just easier to ignore them.
So we could really say for example "men are the stronger, taller sex. They're the more rational sex. They are the braver sex."
That's fine. But then let every strong, tall, rational and brave person be a man. Problem solved, right? So why can't we do that?>)
>The delusion comes from a person thinking that they can change their sex and not just be a monstrosity>>2335492Often they only change thier gender. They take HRT to make thier fine features and then change thier performance to match the social performance of the other gender.
>>2335515Human culture can be influenced by other things beyond sex. I mean are we not entering an era of technological wonders? Of AI, genetic engineering, IVF and all kinds of magical things?
How many years from now do you think it will take to reproduce humans inside of artificial wombs? To perform parthenogenesis on humauyghs and require no sperm to fertilize them at all?
At this point, biological sex has very slim influence on culture. We can customize and control our bodies in a way never, ever possible before in human history, with trivial and cheap drugs and technologies.
>>2335456all of this is correct. the transphobe calls their delusional cope "objective biological facts", the tr*nny's self-overcoming of social roles and biology "gender ideology"
also worth noting, because this is something that is literally never brought up in with trans stuff: it's not just that gender is a social construct, or that even biological sex is pseudoscientific, but transitioning within this conditions is a process of changing one's sex in a real material way. in these debates it's always framed specifically as a *gender* thing, because the convenience of adding gender as an abstraction on top of a made up category like biological sex is that you can then not only say that this arbitrarily lumping together of different biological characteristics is supposed to meaningfully describe the lived experiences of people, but then you can also say that they have to also behave in certain ways (i.e. by being either active (masculine/male) or submissive (feminine/female)). and so transitioning is always talked about around Butlerian "gender performance", as if transitioning is basically a kind of permanent drag performance (which is literally how liberals view it). but endocrine systems are a major component of what constitutes "biological sense" and even within that bullshit framework taking HRT involves changing one's sex in very significant ways, but it's not talked about as much because for most of the history of trans healthcare, surgeries were the first medical intervention that was done.
hell, even fucking *cis doctors* who supposedly specialize in trans healthcare are so insanely uninformed about HRT that many trans ppl (myself included) literally have to become amateur endocrinologists and compounding pharmacists just to get adequate HRT and not be hondosed forever by apathetic overpaid credentialed middlemen.
>>2335444you sound like a more a faggot than anyone I met at pride last weekend, that's for sure.
The ACP is recruiting, a circle jerk of loserdom sounds like your style.
>>2335554>Human culture can be influenced by other things beyond sex.yeah, i agree. but it doesn't detract from biological sex being a hard reality that has largely shaped human culture. This is not set in stone and modern industrial society has liberated us from the realities of these sex differences, for the better (e.g. birth control), but we are at the moment far away from some technological transhumanist bullshit.
>How many years from now do you think it will take to reproduce humans inside of artificial wombs? To perform parthenogenesis on humauyghs and require no sperm to fertilize them at all?We may get there we may not. This is hard to predict and there can easily be hard limits to what the technology can achieve that technooptimists may not forsee, like nuclear fusion or flying cars. I'm not saying it's impossible just that the implication of it being on the horizon can be used as a rhetorical tool to argue (and distort) the reality of the actually existing present, where biological sex is still massively impactful.
>biological sex has very slim influence on cultureIt absolutely does. Whether it comes to female or male specific diseases, the reality of reproductive rates and how its increase or decrease affects on economics, societal trends, culture etc. to the impact of child bearing and child rearing on women's' economic prospects. The topic of women in the workforce, and how it differs from men, is a subject of massive sociological study since the mid 20th century. So now is the difference between male and female educational attainment, and male and female political affiliation. This shit matters, even if the male / women divide is also fostered by different cultures of socialization when they grow up.
>>2335554Biological sex impacts nearly every aspect of someone's life because we cannot divorce mental state from physical state. TRT or HRT have profound effects on people's behavior, even birth control. So does psychiatric medication. Physical existence is not aesthetic.
I don't care if people take HRT and crossdress, but disinformation regarding the effects of hormone blockers or hrt is unacceptable in any scenario.
>>2335643But everyone has a completely individual hormone profile.
Nobody considers TRT to be gender therapy, though under this rubric, it obviously is male reassignment. (of a patient who is not biologically male)
>>2335669>completely individual hormone profilewithin limits
>Nobody considers TRT to be gender therapyTRT is a modern day snake oil and is much overprescribed because patients pay for it out of pocket and doctors make money, not because it has any basis in actual clinical medicine, except for the few males suffering from hypogonadism
>>2335521Bottom surgery still doesn't change their sex, it's just more dramatic aesthetic changes and I also know that's not the first line unlike conservatives think. The only true sex change would be some sci-fi technology that lets them implant the working organs of the opposite sex, which doesn't exist yet. I always preferred "gender nonconformity" or whatever you want to call it over gender identity, since I think the idealistic future of gender is to stop giving a fuck about it, stop letting it terrorize you and let people express who they truly are instead of selecting from more gender identities than just the binary. That's just gender neoliberalism.
I see on lgbt forums sometimes where people are asking for advice on what identity they should choose, like they're buying a new car.
>sometimes I feel like this bust mostly like that. I'm interesting but I don't really vibe with that.>oh this is a good fit for you!>>2335456>Some animals switch sex, some animals can self-fertilize. Yeah, but we can't. When we talk about sex, we're talking about reproduction and really, it's just you trying to obfuscate it. Sometimes intersex is brought up but that's also a false argument because it is impossible for humans to produce both sperm and eggs. Intersex is always about something like your chromosomes not matching, which is also rare. That or they'll have non-functioning sex organs like some women having internal, undeveloped gonads. It's a dishonest argument. When you sex an animal, you look at the sex organs you don't do some test for their chromosomes.
And then you go back to gender on the last paragraph, which yeah is a social construct. I wouldn't go into idealism and say it's entirely "fake" because it does contribute to your socialization. That's why I don't care if someone is trans but I don't delude myself into thinking it's this liberating transcendentalism. It's by definition, conformity.
And no, I'm not a neonazi zionist or whatever dumb insult somebody is going to shit out. I just think it's a distraction and it quickly becomes a product of ideology.
>>2335669What the fuck are you talking about? TRT doesn't change your biological sex. Women abuse test all the time in sports.
>>2335673>never read engelsIn the other thread you were saying sex workers are exploited by their customers when Marx and Engels said in the exact opposite. It doesn't mean sex workers are evil, but the exchange is in their benefit. Engels says so in Origin of the Family.
>>2335558>and so transitioning is always talked about around Butlerian "gender performance", as if transitioning is basically a kind of permanent drag performance it is, to an extent, but also injecting hormones is going to change your behavior… no shit.
>but endocrine systems are a major component of what constitutes "biological sense" and even within that bullshit framework taking HRT And what you are doing is attempting to simulate what it is like to be female by crudely reproducing the dance of hormones that is produced by the particular biology of human females. which or more or less can be done. It's just that it's entirely reliant on exogenous sources which unlike the human body is much more liable to human error and comes with many atrocious side effects by virtue of it being a foreign substance not under the direct control of your own biological system. Until you can transplant ovaries and other functional organs that actually can simulate a woman in a 1:1 fashion (probably impossible lol, the human body is far, far more complex than you can even imagine), you are just a crudely imitating female biology.
>>2335697>>2335823A lot of bodybuilders have body dysmorphia and untreated mental illness. They're harming themselves as well.
>>2335802Regardless of your personal opinion if someone is not clearly mentally ill we probably shouldn't get in their way of using a substance.
I had the same opinion about some psychiatric meds when I was younger but they're very effective and safe, and far preferable to the alternative which is unmedicated mental disorders.
The difference is I don't see people lying about the effects of ssris, adhd meds, or trt. There's a lot of available information showing the normal range of TRT. A lot of the more reputable guys in bodybuilding will say do not get on gear such as vigorous steve or dorian yates.
(((they))) are fabricating issues such as black liberation to distract from the eternal class strvggle. vvake up sheeple
>>2335707>The only true sex change would be some sci-fi technology that lets them implant the working organs of the opposite sex,if a cis woman gets a hysterectomy and oophorectomy, does she become biologically "sexless"? is such a person's biological sex (or lack thereof) meaningfully different from that of a post-op trans woman? in what respects if so?
>>2335772>atrocious side effectswhat are the atrocious side effects of transfeminine hrt?
>>2335780The only real similarity is that both use hormones, but the purpose are completely different.
Trans people use hormones like estrogen or testosterone as part of gender transition to treat gender dysphoria. Its medically supervised and aims to bring hormone levels in line with the target sex.
Bodybuilders use testosterone and other anabolic steroids to push muscle mass and strength beyond natural limits. They're not treating anything besides maybe insecurity unless its for a bodybuilding competition, it's for enhancement. They also run aromatase inhibitors to keep estrogen down, which is the opposite of what a trans woman does.
So no, it's not the same at all. Different goals and different biology.
>>2335849 (me)
also that insecurity is shaped by shifting standards and warped ideas of masculinity. Hollywood pushes an image of the ideal man that's only achievable with roids. Superhero actors show up on screen with roided physiques and young guys internalize that as the baseline for being a "man"
It's more similar to women getting breast implants or lip injections because hollywood defines what's attractive than transgenders taking it. Both are chasing ideals made by the media, but filtered through gender.
>>2334954>>2334954oh shit fucken gottem lmao 🤣
that's remarkably fair and balanced coverage
>>2335593>The ACP is recruiting, a circle jerk of loserdom sounds like your style.ACP in three words: gormless weak-willed cowards
>>2336023>How some of yall sound about trans issues<TAILISM (Tailing the Masses)>“Tailism in any type of work is also wrong, because in falling below the level of political consciousness of the masses and violating the principle of leading the masses forward it reflects the disease of dilatoriness. Our comrades must not assume that the masses have no understanding of what they themselves do not yet understand. It often happens that the masses outstrip us and are eager to advance a step when our comrades are still tailing behind certain backward elements, for instead of acting as leaders of the masses such comrades reflect the views of these backward elements and, moreover, mistake them for those of the broad masses.” —Mao, “On Coalition Government” (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, vol. 3, p. 316.Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/TA.htm >>2336129To be fair there's a lot of balls juggling at once right now: Protests, Iran War, Ukraine War, Taiwan maybe, Climate Change, Genocide in Gaza, Potential civil war, tariffs, reindustrialization, rapid proletarianization of the petty bourgeois millieu, infighting in both bourgeois parties.
https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=779833&title=the-forced-birth-regime-has-succeeded-in-necro-incubationIt is truly impossible to articulate the levels of horrific evil exhibited by the regime. What kind of "pro-life" ideology justifies necrotic gestation? It’s hard to put words to the evil, to the body horror, to something more despicable than anything depicted in a Cronenberg film—whether The Fly, Scanners, or anything else. What the state has done to this woman is in the same league as Josef Mengel's experiments.
These people operate under the belief that they are morally correct—that the horrors they inflict upon women are just, justified by their religion, their financial interests, their innate sadism, or whatever else. This woman was left on life support after brain death. She has been dead for nearly three months. She was not allowed to die. The state deemed her death incompatible with their sadism, their policies, their morals, their profit margins.
Adriana Smith was left to rot in a bed, her skin sloughing off as bedsores grew. Modern medical devices were attached—catheters, feeding tubes, blood-cleansing machines. The visuals of this send shivers down your spine. It is so utterly grotesque that I struggle to describe it, and I’ve written splatterpunk horror many times. I’ve written about death extensively, but this is something beyond. This is not normal death. This is necropolitical control.
The state mandated that she could not die because she was pregnant.
The baby was delivered today.
One pound and thirteen ounces.
1. Pound. 13. Ounces.
The baby has no mother. Born to elder, retired grandparents who are now drowning in medical debt. His entire existence is predicated on cruelty—on the sadism of the state, of the regime, of those who seek to dehumanize women and relegate them to a separate caste.
We must take a moment to consider what happens when a body is kept on life support for months. This was a dead person. This woman was dead, yet she was not allowed to properly die. Her body was used as an incubator against her will, against her family’s will, against her last testament—because the state demanded it.
>“I think it is completely appropriate that the hospital do what they can to save the life of the child,” he said. “I think this is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of innocent human life. I think the hospital is acting appropriately.” — Republican State Sen. Ed SetzlerHer body was left to rot. Her funeral will almost certainly not be open-casket. Can you imagine it? Can you imagine the funeral after this necrobirth? Can you imagine her condition after months of being a necro-incubator?
For those who support this: Do you have any idea what a body looks like after being forced to stay "alive" on a ventilator? Would you subject your loved one to this same nightmare just so a fetus might live—even without any quality of life?
By the time her family is granted the right to bury her, she will be unrecognizable.
To keep her heart beating, she was likely pumped full of medications. A ventilator forced air into her lungs. Liquid nutrition was fed through a tube. The fluids caused swelling, which made her skin leak and slough off. It became so fragile it practically melted away, hastening the spread of bedsores. Those sores festered, grew, and each carrying potential to infected. Multiple nurses, doctors and medical experts were required to keep her body in this state of incubation.
She required constant care—yet she was already a corpse. She was denied the right to rest. To decay. To return to the earth. To die as all of us will.
Can you imagine her parents burying their daughter after she was forced to rot in a bed for months? Can you imagine the debt they now bear because of the state’s sadism?
We wonder why Luigi Mangione allegedly did what he did.
No—we don’t wonder. We know. We understand. We empathize.
This incident goes beyond the routine cruelty of the system. It enters the territory of deep-seated, intentionally sadistic necropolitical control. This regime is not pro-life. It is anti-human. It worships control. It worships profit. it worships death. It demands necro-incubators. It demands children with no future born into suffering, into debt, into lifelong defects. It demands corpses be turned into factories.
>“Weapons are deployed in the interest of maximum destruction of persons and the creation of death-worlds, new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjugated to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of living-dead.” — Achille Mbembe, NecropoliticsThis is the kind of atrocity that convinces me the only path forward is revolution. There is no reforming this system. There is no reforming the people who enabled this. There is no fixing the sadism inherent in our institutions without destroying them entirely.
>“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?” — Isaiah 10:1-3 (NIV) The inhuman treatment of this woman—the use of her corpse as an incubator, the absence of ethics from those who claim divine justification—should disillusion everyone with the regime, with the powers that be, with anyone who allowed this Clive Barker-esque horror to unfold.
Because the fact is: This woman is the first.
She will not be the last.
There will be dozens like her—forced to rot, forced into necro-incubation, their children born with lifelong defects, born to suffer, born to drown in medical debt. Debt that ultimately serves to enrich the richest. Make no mistake, one cannot ignore the class element here. One cannot ignore that her child, should he live, will almost certainly be destined to work a low wage job, destined for prison, destined for hyper exploitation. The medical costs of the state's necro cruelity will be bared by those who are the poorest. Make no mistake, the race of the woman in this cannot be ignored either. Black women have always faced worse outcomes from our medical instition. One can imagine that, if this was a white woman, the political outrage would be much more intense, one can imagine that, if Adriana was a white woman, she wouldn't have been misdiagnosed in the first place. Did you know black women are twice as likely to die during child birth in comparison to white women? This is medical apartheid. This is the intersection of class and race, and black women have always faced the harshest of this intersection.
Think about that. How can these people, in one breath, preach the sanctity of life while, in the next, create literal necro-incubators from human corpses?
This is unprecedented.
But it is now our new normal. This is the death world the capitalist seeks to create.
If you don’t want this to be our future, then we must organize. We must get angry. We must abandon the delusion that this horror can be reformed.
It cannot be reformed.
It must be destroyed.
>I have another objection; and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case), had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
WTF nobody told me John Brown was class pilled?
I think you bring up a good point—I mostly just like to take potshots at those people because I don't like them very much. I can see the argument that getting the mandate—like how do you quantify that?—you can't really. It's a vibe. I get what you're saying.
I think that's why you can't be online—when push comes to shove, political power can't grow directly from the internet. You can get resources from the internet, but you've got to be tapped into the local—and that's why we're really starting to push local politics heavy.
The problem is local shit is a different terrain than online shit. Sometimes on the internet, it can behoove you to say the most extreme thing possible—because that's going to get you attention, and attention on the internet is a resource. In real life, it's the opposite. You sometimes need to tone your opinions down in order to maintain power within the sphere of polite company. So, in my mind, the mandate needs to come from local people—in-person, IRL—and then if we have that internet aspect, we have that global reach too—that is another way we can get the mandate, but it's much less meaningful if it's not local. That's one of the reasons why I recently uprooted my life and moved to Florida. I really think that this city could have a socialist for a city council member—and I'm not saying that's the end-all be-all of what we're trying to do—but if we could make that happen, it would take a lot of political power building to make that happen, and all that infrastructure would be useful for other things later down the line. Or who knows—the way things are going now, it seems like we could have things pop off at any moment. But what would be the point of speaking about a political party if you have no local presence?
If we have a member of the city council who's a comrade, think about how much easier that's going to make the life of people who are trying to start the Food Not Bombs chapter. And think about what level of political power comes from knowing both the person who's on the city council and the people who are running the Food Not Bombs.
>>2337125Lincoln did not know how to write hypocrisy
Lincoln was ESL confirmed
Stand proud, /latam/
>>2337416Honestly this is his rubber bullets were always meant to be used otherwise they would make them slower.
Think about the fucking absurdity of the statement "they are supposed to bounce them off the road" and how that would be immensely harder to meaningfully aim them.
>>2337454>Damn I never thought of FMA as being a ZOG parody. Ishval = Palestine
Amestris = Israel/America
Scar = Hamas
>>2337449ETs dont exist, but astral parasites do
also, did you ever watch the russian homunculus videos (channel still up, but totally shadowbanned)? he is confirmed dead. must have been onto something.
>>2337493chuds don't like tucker anymore
I say we colonise the neocon
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) >>2337506well thats part of the tongue-in-cheek
but as we are seeing, there is a steady divorce between MAGA and trump, as he reveals himself to be part of the problem that he is supposed to fight.
>>2337511>ww3 is good, actually >>2337511I will support tucker when he admits thinktanks were paying to create an artificial witch hunt over trans people and that socialism is the light. he would
unironically be the left's most powerful warrior if he read capital and marx
but he's based for being anti-maga, no matter how much of a disgusting anti-commie he is
>>2337522to understand where marx and lenin failed and what to do differently, obviously
but I agree it's an excessive read
>>2337519because it still isn't a political force
when the CPUSA and the IWW was big, the red scare absolutely destroyed them as federals did their upmost to silence their leadership and probe their memberships, same with the later Black Panthers and their associates.
The PSL and the DSA is going down the same path
>>2337486I've never been a fan of calling this "Marx's letter to Lincoln"
Marx co-signed the letter along with several other people in the 1st international. I do not know how much of it he wrote. He obviously agreed with it and co-signed it for a reason but it kind of ignores that this is an organization addressing Lincoln, not Marx by hismelf.
Lincoln, for what it's worth, may have actually read some of Marx's frequent op-ed articles published in the Utopian Socialist "Uncle" Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, which Lincoln was fond of, and read frequently. Marx made money as a freelance journalist on the side when not publishing political theory, researching, or debating in the 1st international.
>>2337519it's illegal but not enforced as the Alunya flag anon said (
>>2337527 ). However they won't let you immigrate
even legally to the USA if you were a member of a Communist Party in your home country, so that should tell you something. Also the existing parties have serious right and left deviations from Marxism-Leninism, and some of them like CPUSA have been neutered and tail the Democratic party in exchange for nothing.
A big part of America's PR is political freedom, so even if Communism is still illegal under certain laws dating to the era between the Palmer Raids and McCarthyism, there has to be an illusion that it's legal to be a Communist, so that they don't get any of that juicy persecuted-underdog clout.
There's a balance of hard power and soft power going on. They'll assassinate you like Fred Hampton if they think you're gaining real momentum in your movement. Or maybe they'll cause an accident that kills you. Or maybe they'll blackmail you with something in your past, real or fabricated.
>US Colonel Nathan McCormack, the head of the Levant and Egypt branch at the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J5 planning directorate, was removed from his position this week after he criticized Washington's unwavering support for Israel on social media.
>“Our worst ‘ally.’ We get literally nothing out of the ‘partnership’ other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia," McCormack said in one of several posts discovered by the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) on a semi-anonymous X account allegedly linked to him.
>“The US has not been an honest broker. We have overwhelmingly enabled Israel’s bad behavior,” he adds.
>In another post, the senior military official calls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition government “Judeo-supremacist cronies” who are "determined to prolong the conflict for their own goals: either to remain in power or to annex the land.”
>“Israel’s actions over decades have prompted the accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide,” another post reads.
>He also charged western states of going “to great lengths to avoid criticism of Israel, much out of Holocaust guilt,” and, since June 2024, referred to Israel as a ”death cult.”
>In response to the JNS report, an unnamed Pentagon official confirmed McCormack “will no longer be on the joint staff while the matter is being investigated,” adding that the Defense Department is assigning an investigating officer to examine the content and its implications.
>“The individual is being returned to his service while the matter is being investigated,” the US official added.
>The JNS revelations coincided with a new poll conducted by YouGov and The Economist, which shows that 60 percent of US adults oppose Washington's involvement in Israel's war against Iran.
>Among those who voted for Trump in the 2024 election, 53 percent say the US should stay out of the war, 19 percent support involvement, and 28 percent remain unsure.https://thecradle.co/articles/our-worst-ally-top-pentagon-official-sacked-for-criticizing-us-support-to-israelMIGA FOREVAH >>2337453>Think about the fucking absurdity of the statement "they are supposed to bounce them off the road" and how that would be immensely harder to meaningfully aim them.Well that's because they're not made to incapacitate anyone. They're made to scare people off so even actually hitting the target is not integral to their function.
>>2337416Reminder that these shells can be "hot loaded" and the cops do that.
>"Hot loads" are typically loads that are loaded to the high end of what's recommended for a particular cartridge-bullet. Since "hot loads" tend to burn out a barrel faster, you will then probably want to stick to load that are in the middle of the recommended range for a particular powder and bullet.https://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/hot-load.4124676/So the rubber bullets are loaded by the manufacturer to only go a certain velocity, but through "hot loading" you can make it go faster than that like the guy in this video.
Rubber Rockets! Rubber Shotgun Slugs loaded HOT! >>2337707And there is different types of rubber bullets. There are the big ball type that look look like grenade launchers, then there is the type that are shot out of a shotgun like in the video. The smaller the bullet, the more concentrated the force will be on a small area and the easier it will be able to penetrate. You can imagine easily how that would work with an eye.
>~200–300 fpsPainful but generally survivable>~400–600 fpsCan cause penetration, fractures, or organ damage>700+ fpsPotentially lethal, especially if striking the head, chest, or neckIn the video you he says he was getting over 900 fps
>>2337793<Kinetic impact projectiles, including rubber bullets, are used to deliver a level of force intended to incapacitate or deter individuals through pain compliance.Obviously they're not made to incapacitate someone, because to incapacitate someone would cause serious injury. Like people talk about 9mms not having enough "stopping power" obviously something that is not made to seriously injure you would not have a lot of "stopping power."
<deter individuals through pain compliance.Yeah and the threat of pain. Even with real bullets the threat of injury is made to gain compliance "stop or I'll shoot!"
>>2337511>it would come close to civil war where we could see a true maga split where the anti war right secedes and literally mobilizes to probably actually militarily take the White HouseI really doubt this because the anti-war right doesn't do anything. They don't demonstrate. They sit around listening to Tucker Carlson and their whole thing is that Trump is being misled by his advisors or whatever. They are really afraid of directly challenging him.
>Of course Democrats would sit this one out like cowards while I could see real communists joining up. I can’t see radlibs joining with MTG to arrest Trump.The radlibs wouldn't but the anti-war movement has a really hard time dealing with polarized politics. It doesn't function well in this kind of political environment. It's incredibly weak actually, even though it should be very strong if you're going by sentiment. The anti-war movement did pick up steam in the 2000s in opposition to the war in Iraq, but it was very polarized because Bush and the Republicans were locked into the war, and the left was against the war, and the liberals kind of waffled in the middle until many of them moved to the anti-war position when Obama was elected, and the left and the liberals got in bed together and elected Obama. Then the anti-war movement demobilized outside of the Workers World Party having tiny demonstrations in New York. Obama did the drones, and then Hillary ran and she loves war, so that allowed Trump to position as an anti-war candidate, but that's not actually the case in reality.
Now you've had public anti-war figures for a decade trying to coddle Republicans and positioning as an anti-Democrat, while pushing away left-leaning people for being woke or whatever. It was stupid and un-strategic, and now they're at a total loss because Trump is telling Bibi to destroy Iran and might join in directly.
>>2337519>non burger here, if communism is so hated there then why isn't it illegal? The the First Amendment does provide some protections. It's not nothing. But in some conservative states like Texas, state constitutions prohibit communists from appearing on the ballot. I don't see how that's constitutional (I mean the federal constitution) but that's how it is in some states.
Right now, the Trump administration has been putting a lot of pressure on universities to squash Palestinian student organizations. But there's also lot of pressure from private organizations like the ADL. Like, Mamdani who is running in New York is facing millions of dollars in ad spending calling him a Muslim terrorist. They really want to destroy him. And that's to help get another Democrat elected. But there are a few pro-Palestinian members of Congress like Rashida Tlaib, so it's not like they've succeeded in outlawing it.
>I always imagined people getting constantly raided by police and thrown into prison forever for being even the tiniest bit of communist.In the 1950s during McCarthyism (the "Red Scare") that was basically going on. Actual prison tended to happen to communist leaders more than rank-and-file, who I think were mostly blacklisted from finding employment. In some cases, like deeply conservative rural areas, I believe some people were killed by vigilante / police death squads but this is murkier. I've met someone who was targeted for assassination by local cops in the 1980s for being a left-wing activist and he survived multiple attempts on his life. Overall though I think social conformity is the biggest form of pressure, but attempts to form organizations are quickly identified and infiltrated as well.
>>2337552>However they won't let you immigrate even legally to the USA if you were a member of a Communist Party in your home countryThat's also true. You have to sign a declaration that you have never been a member of a communist party. If you have, they can deny your citizenship application.
>>2337586>If you identify as a communist you are still legally required to register yourself at the American government.I don't think that's true? Or if it's a law, it's not enforced.
>>2337912Wrong. Dumbass. Communism is illegal.
>>2337919> communism is not illegal de jure.Wrong. Communism is illegal in totality. Read amendment 5 of the horrible and illegitimate bourgeois constitution.
>No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. >>2335444>So if I were a democrat who wanted to winthe democratic tactic of constantly adopting the astroturfed right wing framing on everything and throwing everyone else under the bus to appeal to some cunts who'll just vote for the killminorities party instead of the killminorities-diet party
Why does every "edgelord" online just end up sounding like a DNC consultant
and also pretending that the blue haired college sjw is somehow the person that is ruining your life and runs politics, as if it's not white boomers with stocks who want to stab anyone to the left of them and constantly blame said college sjw every single election
>>2337998the obsession with transhumanists is just catnip for right wing culture warriors to stop thinking about things, right when you're bombing another nation
this country is so fucking stupid
>>2337493He uses working class politics as a LARP and to put it solely into a white nationalist white supremacist I am not mincing words framing. He's closer to capitalists who know capitalism is fragile and framing and simply adding some bandaids to keep it alive more. He doesn't care about anything further beyond wrangling nonwhite people and forming a police state for them. He's one of those guys who sees China as the ultimate threat to the US and to the western(white) world, but subhuman monkeys on the left only see his pro-Russia stance. He's said the Monroe Doctrine(BBBBASED HURRR) should be invoked to stop Brazil from forming ties with China. He's also praised Israel for having bounties on Ethiopians and forcefully sterilizing them and said that the US should do that with immigrants. Clearly the type that loves Israel as an idea, just doesn't like that it's Jewish. It's why he can only tepidly criticize Israel by saying "well they bombed a church I don't like that", because he thinks Muslims are subhuman.
Any "leftist" that still falls for this man's shit should be dragged into the street and shot. Absolutely amoeba level autism score.
>cultural contamination between us and the chudsthat's just typical right wing coopting of leftist stances and concerns retard, they've done this for decades
>>2337502The "dissident right" is what a lot of retards call them
>>2337518>I will support tucker when he admits thinktanks were paying to create an artificial witch hunt over trans people and that socialism is the lightSo all the white nationalism is a-okay right?
This board is as stupid and naive as it was years ago
>>2337823I remember 8chan era leftypol cooming to the idea of Varg being a communist. It's hard to tell when they're memeing or are just being retarded
>>2337804Thank you
>>2337962>All that actually says is that if private property were to be seized and turned public that the owner should be compensated. You don’t know how to read law my guy.You don't know how to think critically. What good is reading when you read bourgeois law at face value and cannot think
You are wrong. You are bourgeois minded dumbfuck like democrat nazi. AmeriKKKan constitution outlaws Communism. I demonstrate.
>No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.No capitalist's life or property may be expropriated without approval of their own court system; neither shall any capitalist be expropriated without market-value or immense compensation that makes Communism impossible.
Our democrat here thinks taking one million from a capitalist and giving them back one million or more is path to Communism. Our democrat is wrong.
>>2337900>nuh uh n-n-no you!k
>but da robbor boolits r supposed to be shoot at ground and bounce like muh john wick moobies!fucking dumbass retard lmao
>>2338346One day, as you go down turtle by turtle by turtle, you gotta realize that it's not all "ZOG" and "ZOG" itself just one of the many westoid imperialist turtles
Invading Canada and Mexico is unironically some shit in the weird Peter Thiel/Curtis Yarvin handbook though. Strangely apparently the ACP too
>>2338329Almost like "MAGA" was just the Trump cult itself and anything that could even supposedly be outside of Trump worship was either flimsy fragile anti-war stances with no strong foundation to be a real actual legit anti-war movement, or reactionary garbage that no one should've fucked around with unless you're just a reactionary yourself
>but is it just me or have most democrats been kind of quiet on the whole iran thing.If MAGA could somehow turn against NATO just because they thought it was a gay libtard Biden thing, libs and normie dems will be able to view Iran as "Trump's War", and also that it's not just trump but the whole neocon baby eating agenda too. Many of them are already coming around with the gaza genocide
The dems that run the party are either useless or complicit though
>>2338419>>2338453steve bannon has said that trump got elected for two reasons. the debacle of the iraq war, and the 2008 economic crisis.
And on both those issues trump has now fucked up hard. trump has now fully become a neocon. might as well have jeb or nikkie, or mitt up there as president. also the economy is shit with inflation still.
democrats have a chance here, its only been 6 months in the trumpen reich and he already imploded his support base. if they dont come out as viruntly anti war they will have failed
>>2338494 >steve bannon has said that trump got elected for two reasons. the debacle of the iraq war, and the 2008 economic crisis.Trump basically sold himself as a new kind of conservative that wasn't a neocon, and more "moderate" or even "leftist" than the democratic options. Year by year, the people who still shill that are proven to be more and more retarded or just became neocon reactionaries themselves, ie every anti-sjw youtuber from that 2016 era.
>democrats have a chance here, its only been 6 months in the trumpen reich and he already imploded his support base. if they dont come out as viruntly anti war they will have failedSchumer and Hakeem Jefferies's leadership have showed us there's nothing good to look forward to with the current democratic party
The base hates Musk and Silicon Valley, they still try to suck off Musk and "win" him over. The base wants nothing to do with maga anymore, the leadership still is trying to shill that bipartisan anti-extremism soy garbage that every narcissist thinks they discovered on their own
>>2338507Leftism without a hatred for white men always fucking fails I swear to fucking god and it's a psyop to say otherwise.
Anyways could've been more cringe, gets the message across I guess
>>2338561Basically yes. But these ads are aimed for the more selfish type of voters, they did a "republicans want to take away your porn" one(true) and "they're gonna take away abortion"(also true), I think they did "what if your teenage daughter is forced to have a baby" one. It's for the selfish yakubians of the nation who are biologically incapable of caring about others.
>>2338494That's interesting seems to imply Bannon thinks progressives are winning on cultural issues.
Stange that Democrats have almost the exact opposite view. They need to jettison progressive culture issues and double down on financialization and war.
>>2338329Dems are abandoning every single issue for Israel, it's pathetic.
They can't even remember that thier last popular president Obama, actually had a landmark nuke deal with Iran! Which Trump eviscrated!
>>2338492You mean about Varg? Because I'm talking about how he said communists are more aligned with his utopia than most conservatives. Something he said years ago. But by this he meant the typical shit, like saying that communism causes things to be primitive and simple and always stagnated and that it forces people to live off the land or some shit like that. He always liked eastern bloc cars too. He still thinks everything communist is jewish(bad).
But leftists on imageboards are retards who try to take W's whenever they can get it, even if it's a neonazi larpagan. This is no different than Kyle Kulinski always making 50 videos celebrating cunnyrapist1488 or the Jugheadretard Podcast Show saying that they maybe regret their positions, before going back on it again in the same breath
>>2338580They don't remember how Obama only won by feigning himself as a huge progressive.
They can't even do that bait and switch anymore. They always try to go more tepidly right wing now.
>>2338607good take
>>2338619haha funni boi
>>2338658They are quite unironically demonic. They only care about
It's the version of a guy destroying someone's sandcastle, but on a global scale. Their motivations are primarily spite and sadism and wanting to see their enemies suffer, and their enemies are people who the perceive as being lower in a some made-up hierarchy in their mind. As anti-human as you can get.
You're not gonna win over every single one of these guys, a lot of them are just gonna have to be gotten ridden of.
>>2338649>GTA vgh sick of this libtard dei anti-cop propaganda in games
when are we gonna get good games again, like Tetris
>>2338656Would be based. Probably not.
I don't know if this will actually legitimize one of the only main competitors to Musk's 4chan clone and make it people take it more seriously, or if it will just overrun it with chuds and kill off the libs/non-chuds
>>2338655He's one of the most disgustingly millennial people with power. In his fat bloated look, and how much he spouts the most 4chud pseud bullshit ever.
I remember on 4cuck they were getting mad at the funny face meme, and were fantasizing about how Vance is actually some chill cool dude who plays vidya and probably posts on 4chan with them, desperately humanizing a Thiel bloodboy. Sadly they were probably right that he probably went on 4chan all the time.
>>2338683The president can do this around the world daily but I'm not allowed to say what the president deserves
free speech btw
>>2338693oh good
I thought maybe Trump decided to directly enter war against Iran or something
>>2338574It's not yakubian for people to need a way to connect something to them for them to not only care but even understand it.
It's one to highlight Americans or "white people" not developing the skill of connecting something to them, or that the connection doesn't need to be so strong – but you're just selfish to think you're dued support.
Before posting again, google the concept of "consent", and read it slowly.
>>2338899Oh right, you're not used to asylum seeking.
You don't need a degree, you just pay for someone to illegally ship you to another country. You know 'mexicans'? Do what they're being accused of doing. You're the new mexicans.
>>2338900>fag flagdidn't read
>>2339097He tried to join the CIA like his dad, but failed.
He did actually tour with the Contras in the 80's. He also did fluff jobs for mercenaries in Iraq and talked about how uncivilized monkeys Afghans are and how they never had culture. And praised Israel for holding bounties on Ethiopians and forcefully sterilizing them and how the US should learn from that.
When he criticizes Israel he just says that they killed Christians in Gaza.
>>2339105We know it's what he means because we have years of him saying it
>the democrats will despise him no matter how correct he is The democrats that run the party tried to force Liz Cheney on everyone and want Elon back, they are the ones who want to jerk off any republican they find useful because they have no values
>because the years of transgender bathroom discourseand aren't the ones who give a shit about that, these are the ones who think transhumanists ruined the party
Unironically I think you should kill yourself or be killed
Sure you can jerk off to Tucker finally being right on something but
1) He's tepid. He NEVER attacks Trump, despite us knowing he hates him. His criticism are useless. But yeah yeah "orange man bad", the fucker IS bad
2) Everything about him is awful and he should be shot in the end once he opens his mouth on anything else or reveals he actaully thinks we should bomb China or some shit
>>2339130All true except I won't celebrate what's obviously meant to be an attack both on LGBT people and the pathetic excuse for public services we had left
>establishment libs no longer give a fuck about anything other than appealing to the mythical centrist vooter who hates gays and brown people but also thinks we should continue to be a functional genocidal empire with an internally colonialist fascist police state.True, true.
>>2339188I mean they've been doing that on and off since at least Reagan.
>>2339191I guess. I was thinking, like what Yakovlev claimed to do in the USSR, we should turn the ruling ideology back around on itself. Fighting Americanism with Americanism. I don't know.
>>2339203Fun fact I never heard anyone mention, they got their nukes by stealing enriched uranium from the USA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
>The Apollo affair or NUMEC affair was a 1965 incident in which a US company, NUMEC, in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Apollo and Parks Township, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium, with suspicions that it had gone to Israel's nuclear weapons program.Maybe if one of you big social media guys are reading this, you should get on it.
>>2339121>What does the USian empire get out of people trying to stop their war on Iran?Controlled opposition. Incorporating the topic into the culture war, instead of politics to prevent opportunism.
Are you a toddler? Did you believe that republicans wanted to end the proxy war in Ukraine as well? Do you believe that the EU has just collectively realized that Israel was genociding Gaza?
GUGU GAGA, retard.
Barring Congress or the Supreme Court breaking with Trump, I think the old constitutional order is pretty much shattered. I think liberals are growing disillusioned with current politics and governance and I don't think the Democratic Party simply regaining power would restore their faith in the government.
>>2339277Definitely. A lot of them seem to be rapidly losing faith in existing American political institutions and I think that unless Trumpism just somehow dissipates we're going to at least see some sort of American Years of Lead scenario.
>>2339200Conservatives always do this shit but it's mostly playing on the existing ignorance of their audience. It wasn't even communists, it was the New York Times in the 1960s. That's why Israelis like to say "according to foreign press reports" in a winking manner whenever they talk about their nukes.
>>2339127I saw someone wonder why Cruz even bothered to go on his show because it's not like they need anyone's approval for what they're doing. But I figure throwing a bone to the anti-war right is still useful for them because it's like a controlled opposition.
>>2339116Not do be a "lol who care" nihilo-leftist but everything i have heard from these suicide hotlines showed them to be the most useless thing ever.
I rarely punch left but this is peak patronizing liberal services; "oh you poor weirdos need a SUICIDE hotline…". I can't even think of one gay or trans person who ever used this too, it is most likely a scam to milk or launder money.
>>2339473That part is retarded either way
as if fucking nancy pelosi gave shit about blm, the democrats literally funded the police more
>>2339550I think they really do exist to prevent suicide. More cynically, they exist to be spammed at anyone who expresses any sort of depressive thought. A way of "doing something," and "providing access to mental health resources." They are probably just very bad at either of these things. I don't know. I've never thought it was a good idea to call them, and I distrust them. But I understand that their original intention is at least genuine, although it's practically also a way of washing one's hands of a difficult crisis situation.
But I also believe that people manning the lines mishandling crises that are directly related to LGBT issues can make depression or suicidality even worse, and the general lines were mishandling them. Shutting down the LGBT line is a political attack on queer communities, at the very least its symbolic meaning is clear. It actually increases the burden on the general line as well. The call burden would have to go somewhere, it doesn't necessarily reduce the need for people to man the lines.
>>2338985>Tucker is probably one of the few elites in America who isn't a psycopath. He is an owner of capitol and he will probably never be a communist but unlike people like Jefff Bezos and Alex Karp he doesn't revel in prols mass dying and dosn't wnat to cause massive amounts of death.Always expect the unexpected, they say. But no, he ain't.
>>2339078>I really fucking hate this board sometimesYou're not alone, they're still burgers after all.
>>2337804>>2337493>Guys is tucker a leftypol user?>>2337511>Tucker Carlson is now independent >>2337518>I will support tucker when >>2337536>If Tucker became openly communist
>Stop sucking the cock of a glowop that walks like a man.Hear, hear.
Tucker Carlson: The Elite Pedigree of a Brilliant Cosplaying “Populist”https://www.mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson-biography-nicaragua-cia/279782/ >>2339226>Everyone already knows this, No they don't. Show me like one big youtuber covering it or even any big twitter account tweeting about it. All of a sudden Israels secret nuclear program big in the discourse which is what led to me and the other poster mentioning the Apollo Affair. It doesn't seem to be that widely known and it never hurts to spread it more.
https://thebulletin.org/2014/04/did-israel-steal-bomb-grade-uranium-from-the-united-states/
>Last month the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), the nation’s highest classification authority, released a number of top-level government memoranda that shed additional light on the so-called NUMEC affair, "the story that won't go away—the possibility that in the 1960s, Israel stole bomb-grade uranium from a US nuclear fuel-processing plant.”
>The evidence available for our 2010 Bulletin article persuaded us that Israel did steal uranium from the Apollo, Pennsylvania, plant of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC). We urged the US government to declassify CIA and FBI documents to settle the matter. In releasing the current batch—the release being largely due to the persistent appeals of researcher Grant Smith—the government has been careful to excise from all the released documents the CIA’s reasons for fingering Israel. Despite this, the documents are significantly revealing. For one thing, the excisions themselves are a backhanded admission of the persuasiveness of the CIA’s evidence. (Why these excisions are legally justified is not apparent—after nearly 50 years, the “sources and methods” issues have long ago dissipated.)
>While we still don’t know exactly what the CIA told high government officials, we do know from the released memoranda that top officials thought the CIA’s case was a strong one. Also, as described in our earlier article, one of us was present at the CIA’s February 1976 briefing of a small group at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). At that session Carl Duckett, then-CIA deputy director for science and technology, told the NRC group the CIA believed the missing highly enriched uranium ended up in Israel. >>2339850freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
>>2339867Several reasons.
America is very very large and not that populated for it's size. You can get away with granting a big house with a yeoman pasture to every family thanks to this, instead of hyper dense vertical urban centers with flats.
Then there is the issue of the middle class (not just middle class whites btw) refusing to live in dense urban centers because they don't want to be near working class blacks and the immigrants that gather here. Dense American cities (and sadly european cities are becoming like this too) are for the upper class, affluent students and their generally racialized service providers.
The suburbs offer more security and class homogeneity, but it also completely nuke creativity and scenes, which is why white popular culture have been reduced to nothing while blacks and "woke culture" incarnated by affluent urban whites kept on being so influencial.
You can see the same phenomenom in some european countries like France too where the cultural production is from Africans and boogie cultural left whites from the affluent parts of town.
>>2339942mix of 1 and 3
they're gonna revoke his citizenship and deport him
>>2340017the question is, is there anybody in the ruling class who wants war with China over Taiwan
before dealing with Iran?
>>2340201No the reason that suburbs exist in the first place was the give car manufacturers and oil companies more money my making people dependent on them and they deliberately made cities worse by shutting down a lot of street cars and public transit.
Look up the "General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy".
>>2340196If it wasnt for the fact that this is the worse timeline I wouldn't believe he really said that shit.
>>2340202No, its not the wrestler and movie star. He means Fulgencio Bastista.
>>2340449shut the fuck up retard
>>2340444holy fuck what a hottie, the future mayor of NYC is a lucky man
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/iowa-farm-chemicals-cancer?
>Six months ago, Alex Hammer was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 37. Dianne Chambers endured surgery, chemotherapy and dozens of rounds of radiation to fight aggressive breast cancer, and Janan Haugen spends most days helping care for her 16-year-old grandson, who is still being treated for brain cancer he developed at the age of seven.
>The three were among a group of about two dozen people who came together last week in a small town in central Iowa to share their experiences of cancer. They are part of a new research project investigating potential environmental causes for what the American Cancer Society’s advocacy arm calls a cancer “crisis”.
>For the last few years, Iowa has had the second-highest rate of cancer in the nation, and is only one of two US states where cancer is increasing.
>“People in rural communities are getting sick. Cancer is just everywhere,” said Kerri Johannsen, senior director of policy at the Iowa Environmental Council, a non-profit focused on improving the environment that is helping to lead the project. “Every person I talk to knows somebody that has [recently] had a cancer diagnosis,” she said. “It’s just a constant drumbeat. It’s scary.” A Virginia man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to pursuing and ultimately shooting two Latino men because of his “anger at illegal immigration.”
Court documents identify the two Latino men Cornett shot as “Victim 1” and “Victim 2.” Authorities in Spotsylvania previously said they are both from Prince William County.
On Feb. 28, 2024, Cornett was driving on Interstate 95 when he came up on a box truck driven by Victim 1. Per court documents, Cornett honked at the truck and remained behind it despite Victim 1 trying to let him pass. He then followed the truck to a fueling station.
Upon his arrival, Victim 1 spoke to a friend of his who worked at the fueling station. He asked that friend, who spoke English, to ask Cornett what was wrong. After a brief conversation between the friend and Cornett, Victim 1 left the fueling station.
Cornett proceeded to follow Victim 1 to the Thornburg area Sheetz, located close to the fueling station, according to court documents. Seeing this, Victim 1’s friend called Victim 2 and told him that someone was following Victim 1.
Victim 2 happened to be fueling up at the Sheetz at that time and he witnessed both Victim 1 and Cornett pulling into the station. Victim 2 then approached Cornett and asked him why he was following Victim 1. Cornett answered by asking Victim 2 how long Victim 1 had been in the United States.
With Victim 2 translating for them, Victim 1 said he had been in America for about a year and a half.
Cornett then pulled out a handgun and shot a total of six times. Victim 1 was hit three times and Victim 2 was hit once. Both had serious injuries. Per court documents, Cornett then left the scene, returned home and told the two people he lived with about what happened.
When he was arrested the following day, Cornett admitted to the double shooting and said “[his] intentions were clear in [his] brain, at that time.”
“[Cornett] then described his anger at illegal immigration, telling the detective that he was ‘pissed’ about undocumented migrants receiving welfare funds, phones and health insurance, and that he had ‘driven around before with the same thought,'” court documents state. “[He] later asked the detective whether he could be ‘charged for [his] thoughts,’ and went on to explain that he fantasized about flying an Apache helicopter gunship to the border and firing on undocumented migrants traveling into the United States in order ‘to deter’ other undocumented migrants from attempting to cross the border.”
Cornett’s housemates also told detectives that he was “kind of obsessed” with cable news stories about undocumented immigrants entering the United States.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5359450-virginia-man-pleads-guilty-shooting-latino-men/They swept into the Southern California car lot last Thursday at 4:32 p.m. — masked and armed Border Patrol agents in an unmarked white S.U.V.
One agent soon twisted Jason Brian Gavidia’s arm and pressed him against a black metal fence outside the lot where he runs an auto body shop in Montebello, a working-class suburb east of the Los Angeles city limits. Another officer then asked him an unusual question to prove whether he was a U.S. citizen or an undocumented immigrant.
“What hospital were you born at?” the Border Patrol agent asked.
Mr. Gavidia, 29, was born only a short drive from where they were standing, in East Los Angeles. He did not know the hospital’s name. “I was born here,” he shouted at the agent, adding, “I’m an American, bro!”
https://archive.is/Bs0UN>>2340823>They're evicted from the town and seething? Sounds suspicious, I thought both of them the pridefest & proud boys are feds.Meh. They don't have to be feds to do ridiculous shit like this. Of course it's something that feds might lure people into doing too. So…
But look at that Patriot Fag at 0:04. He's like "STAY BAACK!" Ayee! He's trying to sound scary but there's fear and anxiety in that voice. These people are afraid of everything. It's like they see the whole world as an ocean of threats. It's not just gays or non-whites, it's other white people too, or architecture! Or children. Or the very concept of fun! Basically everything.
>>2341022Ah yes, a common complaint of the working class, too many days off. Trump certainly is a man of the people.
What kind of proletarian cuckold would support this man?
>>2341047You fail to grasp amerikkkan holiday wage laws. The only entity required to give holiday wage in amerikkka is the government which employs nonproletarian.
The proletarian gains nothing by law on holiday in amerikkka. Therefore more holidays is bad and less is good
>>2341022>>2341083Hate to agree with hazbin hotel spammer but that was my reaction. "Who the fuck gets Juneteenth off?"
>$BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all these businesses closed.What fucking business is closed todaY?
>>2341104I'm not putting my trip code back on, but I don't agree with this take basically at all. I don't agree with the take that the workers are somehow inherently unable to be organized and are genetically fucking fascist. Is it a problem with our ability to organize the workers or is it a problem with the workers themselves? Is it a problem with the tactics we put on the table to organize the working class or is it a problem with the workers themselves? Every time I'm going to suggest that it's the former and not the latter because the responsibility is on us to go to the masses to organize them at the end of the fucking day.
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>>2341177people love the austerity narrative however
>it's ugly but if we all go back to work and stop slacking things will get betteryou can explain to them that their hard work will only benefit a few but for people searching for meaning and a sense of belonging they won't listen unless you can present a concrete alternative. the common sense a long time ago is that people don't vote austerity, but it has been proven wrong, specially in the last 10 years
>>2341275Their whole messaging is "there is no alternative to neoliberalism"
People could finally be wising up
>>2341177>>2341275The Democrats in congress are slated to overwhelmingly support the war with Iran while their voters overwhelmingly reject it.
The Democrats will not recover from this betrayal of their base right after losing a major election.
>>2341323perhaps i am misinformed ;_;
soon tho
>>2341294The US is definitely at that stage in its imperial decline where its easy for the squabbling bourgeois factions to seize control but none can hold their mandate
The Neolibs will win but will be massively unpopular outside of their bastions like SF and Reddit
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