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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thief, please do something mildly funny and wave an electric wand to make undocumented folks safer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Death panel. Only literally this time. And it's privatized. Palantir is not just a defense and marketing surveillance company; it's in healthcare, insurance, finance, your taxes, etc.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Chris Hedges interviews Norman Finkelstein. The Fink is right about a lot of stuff, I think. Such as Israel accelerating not because Trump "gave him the green light', but simply because Trump is taking the media spotlight constantly, and Israel knows very well how to take advantage of that. And, unfortunately, that the resistance (nor anybody else) probably doesn't stand much of a chance of keeping the zionists from "finishing the job".

Unfortunately the Fink also shows his brainworms and blames "wokeness" for a lot of the attack on academic freedom. Hedges doesn't really challenge him on that, but does kind of shunt the conversation away from it. Probably still worth watching/listening to.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

wished to tag His Holiness in the post but in her haste, forgot to put the @ sign. Which might work as an explanation except that His Holiness does not have an official Facebook page.

All tweets go to heaven, so it doesn't matter if he had a real-life shitter profile. angel-biblical-shh

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Infinite ugh's on the Catholic Church, TBH. Once they've cleaned up and made reparations on the economic, cultural, political, and social damage of their long history of missionary work all over the world, we can talk.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I'm not sure it'll ever be possible to characterize the Catholic Church as anti-colonialist. Ugh.

But it makes sense to acknowledge what this one pope at least said about this one genocide. Probably good...diplomacy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know some people liked him because he wasn't as bad as other popes, but any pope is a king, a CEO, and the head of one of the largest oppressive hierarchies in the world.

crab-party crab-party crab-party sorry/not-sorry crab-party crab-party crab-party

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

They sound just like the Spanish "explorers" from 500 years ago. Colonialism is pretty timeless, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He made a statement afterward that was most definitely not a "heartfelt speech". At least, not of the kind Bezos would've appreciated. Of course, he might have changed what he was going to say because Bezos pissed him off. Who knows.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago

high pressure solidarity low pressure

Come on, working class: catch up, will ya?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Donna Brazile, is that you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Article dated Oct 4, 2021 on the U.S. Army website (archive link): Large-scale Ukrainian-American military exercise strengthens cooperation

YAVORIV, Ukraine - Showcasing an ability to jointly and operationally flex in a dynamic environment— to leverage multinational cooperation and insert ground forces both rapidly and appropriately in response to a potential crisis anywhere in the world— U.S. Army Europe and Africa successfully organized and helped execute a massive and complex multinational exercise at the largest training area in Ukraine, the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre near Yavoriv.

To strengthen allied and partner nations’ capacities to more effectively defend themselves, about 300 U.S. Soldiers worked tactically alongside about 6,000 multinational troops from 15 nations under the banner of Partnership for Peace, a cooperative program for NATO and Euro-Atlantic partner countries, Sept. 20 - Oct. 1.

"While this is a tactical-level exercise, there are strategic implications to what we have accomplished as we have worked side by side," said U.S. Army Col. Michael Hanson, co-director of Rapid Trident 21 from the U.S. Army. "As every member of NATO understands, a strong national defense and security system doesn’t require the newest technology or billions of dollars to fund the largest military in the region. A strong national defense system requires human, procedural, and technical interoperability with your partners to provide joint security and mutual assurance."...

"In Ukraine"..."Partnership for Peace"..."strategic implications"..."strong national defense system"..."joint security and mutual assurance"....

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