Per hour? It’s all a blur to me at this point.

Thanks for the link. Not a bad distraction! I hope there’s a large catalog in case I want to treat it like the random Stumble button of yore (which I must have hit hundreds of times at least).

StumbleUpon was the best. I do miss it.

Can’t get past the paywall but I hope India will see a better future with a leader who cares for all its people.

Ransomware suspending hospital operations? That’s an actual horror story…

Biden’s older than a Boomer though, he’s Silent Generation. (Trump is on the older end, but indeed a Boomer.) I’m curious if you’ll ever have a Gen X president some day, but it’s not really generation that matters so much as having someone of reasonable intelligence who has empathy and integrity instead of yet another power-networking fundraising wizard.

I’ve been meaning to look into the history of how the secular left was crushed in much of the Middle East. Thanks for the reminder.

Yes, because a stern talking to will make all the difference, when they’re already attacking people there either way.

Never even mind how at first I somehow thought the headline stopped before “until,” and continued at Biden. 🙄

Or that (if I’m not mixing events in my head), only 4 of the 22 killed in that attack were even adults.

India and Israel are just farther along on the same path we’re on in multiple countries in the West. Fascism feeds off the rising inequality and exploitation of Capitalist excesses. It could easily have barrelled ahead further here first if dominant groups here were any less accepting of cultural differences (we could still do better, but we’re at least at the bare minimum of civility) AND if we weren’t as religiously unaffiliated and/or atheistic*.

(*This is not a knock at spirituality. I only say this because another calling card of fascism is for the dominant local culture’s religion to be contorted into its absolute worst, most corrupt possible form so it may be weaponized in whipping up monstrous sentiments towards scapegoated outcast groups.)

With all the Jeff Taylor farmers’ revolt garbage that get pushed at my father on Youtube (even though the content he actually chooses has never been like that), I was expecting this to happen for a while now. We’re not in Europe ourselves, but the media onslaught by certain interests has clearly done its job.

I found the last one a lot more authentic-sounding and a decent compliment, honestly. But I don’t know, are people really expecting to say/hear flowery speeches along the lines of a bad pick up line?

Without careful, organized action by regular citizens, this will be treated as yet another opportunity for the wealthiest high rollers to shore up assets-- especially since they’ve long had the power to adjust markets to their whims.

Goonies reference ftw

Same 👍

“Cool” is from before the time of probably any of us on here-- the 1930s! It’s possible its usage might have slightly shifted over time (?) but that one just doesn’t go away.

Meanwhile expressions like “radical,” “bad,” “on fleek” (ugh) didn’t last long.

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What is the point of your link? Can you not state what part of what I said that you disagree with? Regardless of what we might think of Iran now, it is a documented fact that the US & UK set the stage for, and then backed the coup against Mossaddegh to further the interests of their financial elites. My point was that the US is no paragon of democracy. If you want to disprove something about that, you should be more specific about what you believe was incorrect.

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Even when ethnic cleansing isn’t actively going on, it’s not a democratic state if any group of people native to the land are banned from voting, can’t travel freely, and have a separate justice system that applies only to them. Iran wouldn’t have been in the state it’s in if the US hadn’t staged a coup there because they didn’t like the leftist leader people democratically elected.

Yeah I saw that and I was like “What, again? Why now?” Then I saw the comments. 😅