They are just more overt. The government has long been the enemy of most good things.

This is a token resistance they gave us up long ago.

There is actually a lot of unrest in China, most just never gets reported.

It’s not a new phenomena either, back in their imperial days they had a lot of local rebellions and revolts, and they similarly didn’t even record them unless they surpassed a threshold.

But they have a lot of incidents of villages throwing out their government officials, or hounding them during the party congress, or so I read, although that was around 2011 when I read that incidentally.

Organized crime is in bed with the administration make no mistake. They are junior partners, or in the case of organized crime in the service of certain nation-state actors they are controlling partners.

Just as an aside, when Steve Bannon was in prison, he hung out with the mobsters.

Probably the government is the one telling them to do it, the governments I should say. By probably I mean absolutely although they will be given their own enticements for doing such things.

Israel has made the president look like a bitch on every single ceasefire he has negotiated over there, from Gaza to Iran the first time. It’s not a surprise they do it again. And the president has to act like he was in on it or else he looks like a bitch, which he is.

Israel is going to be violating Lebanese and Iranian sovereignty for years, or so that is their plan. That’s the whole point, a forever war.

Israel will keep sabotaging any peace. That was the whole point. They need Forever War for their leaders to stay in power.

My phone battery just a few weeks back started to drain faster as well. When I used reddit it did too, when I switched to lemmy it stopped, until a little back.

Was thinking it’s time for another factory reset, it’s just such a pain.

He is claiming he will just institute them under another authority, which would take time to work through the courts. It’s a broken system.

He’s a finance guy, a confidence man, like Musk. That is the quality prized by society, not the ability to do anything productive.

I do not think he will drop a nuke, what he will do is hit any Iranian uranium to make a dirty bomb of sorts. Israel on the other hand, they will drop a nuke if they think they can. They are that Reckless.

I’m pretty sure the 48-hour deadline already passed So the president looks like a bitch once again, faced with a situation he can’t bluff and bully His way out of for once, I don’t know about Allah, but Jesus hates this mother Fucker. Jesus would put a bullet in his, wait can I say that? Never mind.

And even if you won that Court battle, politicians including the president might call you out by name, they absolutely would call you out by name, and make you a hated figure and a target across the entire country. Not just for the maga diehards, but for all of those conniving police and prosecutors looking to curry favor with the administration.

We could have a very long Nuanced discussion about what led us to this place, I’m not entirely sure your factor is the overriding one either, although it is a factor.

Reminds me of what’s that show, the one without canned laughter, in Orange County California where the dumb brother joins the Army and is running Drone operations and they suspect his morality, suspecting he has some, and try to force him to crush a kitten and he refuses and they kick him out.

If they did so, there would be court-martialed, perhaps called out personally by the president and made into a hated figure amongst the 15% of the population that are Mega diehards, and of course the rest of the population that goes along to get along, which includes cops and prosecutors. But it is beside the point really, they knew what they were signing up for or should have, if they didn’t know then they are too stupid to be relied upon anyway or more charitably I could say to misguided. But between you and me stupid.

The international order did not die in 2025, or rather it was on its death bed since long before then. But yes I agree.

The international order did not die in 2025, or rather it was on its death bed since long before then. But yes I agree.

Ww2 was where hitting the means of production occurred on an industrial scale. But from russians razing and burning their own land they retreat from to romans it has been standard.

International law means nothing anyway. We all know it. I’m sick of hearing about it because it means nothing.

That NBC should fuck right off goes without saying at this point but I don’t disagree.