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You’re not taking his money, you’re minimizing the surplus value he’s extracting from you.

It’s not that; Pepperoni is from America, not Italy.

Wait, if the pizzas on the left have pepperoni and mushrooms on them, doesn’t that mean per the rules of this food universe that their pizza ancestors fucked fungus and meat products? Why is that not a problem but pineapple is? Almost as if they’re admitting that ethnic/racial mixing is only an issue for them if they find one of the races icky.

Firing squad is messy, fentanyl I’m guessing being a controlled substance/opioid makes it a no go. I remember reading a few years back that the EU was ceasing the export of the chemical traditionally used in lethal injections in the U.S. so my guess is they’re experimenting with a replacement they can source easily.

Orange County is the most soulless place on earth

Dude’s acting like the residual trauma and neurosis he has from being stuffed into his locker by every kid bigger than him in high school is some steely seal team six war gaming.

I don’t think this take is saying that chain restaurants were actually exciting in the mid/late 20th century in the abstract, but rather what the perspective of the time was. Boomers were the proverbial frog thinking it was getting a gradually warmer bath and millennials/zoomers are staring at the rotting piles of overcooked amphibian parts.

A coalition of Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and several other south and Central American countries invading a newly independent Texas to resubsume into Mexico would be absolutely hilarious.

The most recent example of something similar I can think of is Eisenhower ordering the national guard in to force Arkansas to allow Ruby Bridges into a previously all white school. Of course, that that had a much narrower physical scope than the border. I don’t think the number of states whining means that much as several of them aren’t Mexico land border states so as a practical matter they’re just complaining/engaging in political theater.

Actual enforcement of the Supreme Court order is a mixed bag. It’s easy enough to have the feds reclaim specific crossing sites, and as this is more about political theater I think Abbot will buckle before actually telling the Texas National Guard to fire upon federal agents (and for that matter, those guardsmen risking themselves like that in the name of an election year stunt). The larger border with the razor wire is a different story as it’s easy for Abbot to send people back in to replace the wire after the feds remove it, and the federal government might decide it’s not worth the cost to keep removing it.

The NY Dems are the perfect example of the Iron Law of Institutions, everyone at the top is more concerned with keeping their perch than winning elections.

This is an Israelisn’t source, but the INSS/Tel Aviv University put China-Israeli trade at $17 billion annually, mostly Israel importing Chinese goods. Does note that it’s a small amount compared with Israel’s trade with US and the EU. Also worth mentioning that it’s a tiny fraction of the $690 billion annual U.S.-China trade.

See, that’s where the messed up part is. If I’m reading this correctly, it looks like Chrome (being a Google product) is programmed to start hoovering up CPU and RAM if it detects a YouTube ad blocker. Firefox wouldn’t do that because it’s not a Google product.

Which to me isn’t just not cool, it’s moving Chrome into the realm of malware: use our product as we intend or your computer will become borderline non-functional.

Live Palestinian? What kind of fucked up wording is that?

Either West or the PSL candidate depending on who’s on the ballot. I never thought the “voting at all only legitimizes the system” argument was valid because it makes the false assumption that TPTB are dependent on voter turnout to legitimize the system. The turnout could be twenty percent, they’d still push a “shining beacon of democracy” message and the consent will be manufactured.

Now I know there’s zero chance a third party candidate will win, but I’ve noticed that non-voters don’t even get discussed in the narrative. They may demonize third party voters, but at least they talk about them.

Well if the Russian weapons are so bad and Ukraine has the great Western weapons then Russia must’ve been kicked out of the separatist regions months ago.

Dutch sounds like someone doing a bad impersonation of German

“Yes, it’s Biden and Marxists behind high oil prices. No, it has nothing to do with oil executives and their shareholders, don’t be silly.”

Functionally that’s what it ends up with, but I think their fantasy is a meritocracy/technocracy. That the people who went to the right schools with the right degrees, who got the right internships and then jobs at the right firms, with the democratic process as a coronation of that meritocracy rather than an expression of public will. A state run by an army of Buttigiegs.

Of course, the reality is that system produces more Trumps than Buttigiegs. Which is why he freaks liberals out; metaphorically speaking, he’s the inbred freak the aristocracy keeps hidden in the attic in some Victorian novel to keep up the illusion of their good breeding, and the libs are the other aristocrats scandalized that he got out and made a mess of the gala.

Because that’s politics and libs are revolted by icky pedestrian politics. They don’t want a base that has to be satisfied, they want a coalition of the reasonable who vote for blue no matter who not because they’ll get anything out of it, but because the qualified people told them that’s what they have to do to have the respect of the qualified people.

This guy sounds like my brother