Never thought I'd see a "not zero consequences = state execution" take in a leftist forum, TBH. Wow.
ziggurter
joined 2 years ago
There is no kill switch on the Tesla Cybertruck.
You have a pending software update with critical security fixes. Install now, or postpone for 4 hours?
There's no "kill switch" on Ukrainian F-16s, but they had to wait for US intelligence sharing to resume before carrying out frontline operations again.
It's like those "security cams" and "nature cams" you can buy, which don't tell you that you are actually buying an online service, without which (e.g. if the company goes belly-up) your hardware will be useless unless you can find a way to hack into it.
Huh. Did whats-her-name's transphobia actually get to be too explicit for the mask-on fascists' "civility"?
Hey. George Washingwhilestoned and Andy Jerkson (among dozens of others) deserve their share of the blame too.
The Black Jacobins is a very good read. The British struggle to seize (or buy, or destroy) the wildly productive and growing French slave colony of San Domingo was well underway, and was leading to a pretty predictable move of England to attack/ban/abolish the slave trade (because the British Empire had plenty of slaves already for its global colonies, and didn't rely on the trade like San Domingo—and, coincidentally—its own increasingly feisty colonies on the mainland—did). The American colonies and France thus made pretty natural allies in the fight to keep the slave trade alive and well, for their mutual fascist interests against the larger fascist colonial power.
When the consent manufacturing fails and you do actually have to step in and exert direct and explicit control. It's like the media equivalent of "soft vs. hard power".
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You'd think that as a fucking billionaire capitalist, he would know this. I guess he has financial and legal and tax advisors who know that stuff for him, though. When he bothers to listen to them.
Still, like, while the meritocracy was always fake, industrial capitalists used to educate themselves reasonably well in order to effectively defend their property. Not hard to do when you have the time and resources and don't really have to do anything else.
This is so fucking pathetic.
"White collar crime"?