Note that the trump v1 staffers that lasted the longest were the ones who had stairs between their office and trump
If you want to actually run this down, before you speculate about UH you should look at how comparable health insurance stocks have moved during the same period of say the last 3 months. This kind of "x company dropped $y in market cap following z!!" story often conflates large scale market movements with specific events like Luigi.
yes for sure, I am surprised they were taking potshots at soldiers though (alledgely)
reacting with shitposts and emojis is not, no. I'm not sure it's officially codified, but newsmega Civility and Norms^TM^ call for top level posts to be somewhat substantive, with shitposting relegated to responses to top level posts. also, american electoralism is generally frowned upon (hence the electoralism sub being distinct from the newscomm).
discussion, analysis and reaction of trump v2 policies is absolutely good for the newsmega, especially as they pertain to geopolitics. dragging the first lady for looking like she's going to steal the washington monument is not.
I can tell you're all excited about inauguration shitposting and so as a treat I will not remove all these not newsworthy posts. Get it out of your system now as tomorrow we will be back to our usual schedule of mod tyranny. Also, everyone shitposting now had better be thinking about what useful content they can bring to the thread later in the week.
edit: I encourage those shitposting on this blessed day to join the imperialism book club
Edit 2: it is now tomorrow. mod tyranny is back on the menu
Almost 10 people killed at a south African owned gold mine in Ghana. The story says they were illegal miners but also says they were armed. This is a poor story but I will try to find more info.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8x0y9g4x7o
The BBC has a bit more info, or at least is better written than Reuters. The above highlights the question mark about whether or not these illegal miners were armed. In any case, that is a big group of people to either get into a fight or to be shot at. I bet there will be more on this.
Looks like she spent 2020-2024 learning gun kata
Well Elmer is a very credible and knowledgeable reporter on Gaza and this one is focused on the military resistance of hamas. He talks about organization and structure of the different fighters and domestic weapons manufacturing capacity. He also talks through the ceasefire stages and details towards the end.
Yes exactly. Watching how Chinese companies operate outside of China is indicative of whether transnational Canadian mining companies are uniquely bad or if transnational mining in general is poor.
Jon Elmer on the latest radio war nerd discussing specifics of the Palestinian resistance within gaza. A lot of topics covered won't be new to the newsmega but Elmer brings a deep understanding of tactics and history all the same.
Arnaud bertrand continues to be a good follow on twitter
spoiler
The real important story that happened since the Cold War is perhaps best illustrated by this Margaret Thatcher anecdote: in 2002, she was asked for her greatest achievement. She replied: "Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds."
And guess what: she was right, that was indeed her greatest achievement.
That's what happened throughout the West: the ideological takeover of the "left" by "social democrats" who had no substantial difference to their opponents across the aisle. And in order to maintain the pretense that they were different, they decided to focus their platform on cultural and identity issues while abandoning any challenge to economic or imperial power - reducing civil rights struggles to convenient diversions from questions of class and systemic change. It's not the left that's unpopular, it's this sanitized ersatz of it. Voting essentially became a choice between the same product with different packaging, the illusion of choice.
Even more contemptible: candidates who emerged who were actually on the left, who wanted to drive actual substantial and meaningful change, were endlessly demonized with some of the most dishonest and disgusting tactics in politics. Jeremy Corbyn in the UK is a perfect example of this - smeared as a national security threat (and an antisemite) not just for his economic program but for questioning the wisdom of NATO expansion and opposing Western imperialism. In France we're currently seeing much the same playbook being applied on Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
This ties back to the concept of "extreme center" described by thinkers such as Tariq Ali, Pierre Serna or Alain Deneault. A radicalized form of liberalism that presents itself as moderate and reasonable while actually taking extremist positions in defense of the status quo - whether through unwavering support for imperial adventures abroad or the suppression of democratic alternatives at home. This centrism is 'extreme' in how viciously it reacts to any genuine left-wing challenge to the established order, whether through media smear campaigns, lawfare, or the cynical weaponization of identity politics to defend both domestic inequality and imperial power.
The irony and the situation we today find ourselves in is that this "extreme center," in its zealous defense of neoliberal orthodoxy and its refusal to address fundamental economic grievances, ended up creating the very conditions of social instability and political polarization it claims to stand against. And, ultimately, the conditions of its demise as we're currently seeing throughout the West.
The sad result though is that because the actual left has been so thoroughly demonized, legitimate popular anger and resentment largely get directed towards nihilistic movements that, far from solving our fundamental problems, channel these sentiments into scapegoating and division. These movements won't solve our fundamental problems - while they may break with certain aspects of neoliberal orthodoxy, they mostly offer the aesthetic of rebellion while dropping even the pretense of serving the common good.
That's where we are: the victory of the 'extreme center' over the left has proven to be simultaneously absolute and self-defeating. Thatcher's boast about Blair might have been premature - her true legacy may not just have been making the left compatible with neoliberal economics, but creating a world where our only choice is between the plague and cholera.
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ty comrade, i'm going to repeat this for sure