The British Government considers being Arab as synonymous with being a terrorist. Not, incidentally, any differently than how Israelis see them.

Of course, the Brits were a colonial power that spent centuries quelling domestic revolts in order to extract natural resources and exploiting cheap labor. Also, not that different from their Israeli peers.

A real picture of colonialism, when the seven largest English-speaking populations after the United States are drowning in US debt and surrounded by US military bases.

Imagine if IBM and Ford and Chase National Bank had pretended like Germany didn’t exist, rather than flooding the country with cheap capital and credit.

从今天开始，仅限中国模因

I would like to see that orange fascist try

Yanking funding from state and local agencies is almost trivial, thanks to the DOGE infestation of the US Treasury. Quite literally a matter of button-clicks.

The dream of the Unitary Executive under Bush, has finally been realized under Trump 2. Congress simply could not stop handing the Executive branch more and more authority, both implicit and explicit, until now they’re effectively superfluous.

The one upside is that - given the state of Trump’s BBLB - there may not be much funding left to pull from NYC by the time they’re done gutting the domestic budget.

Zohran the Destroyer

Jesse Waters graphic design department really missed the memo.

Step 1: Go to an Ivy League school

Step 2: Make friends with a failson/daughter of a prevailing plutocrat

Step 3: Put the Matrix-code screensaver on your laptop (apparently, this worked on Elon Musk in the early Twitter takeover days)

Step 4: ???

Step 5: Get a $10M Series A and a $100M Series B thanks to the family of your rich friends buying into your hair-brained Theranos knock-off.

I’m not against people having money

It’s been an archaic and backwards system for managing collective wealth for over a century.

We’re living in an era of unprecedented surpluses. But we’re still gatekeeping the most rudimentary essentials of daily life behind a paywall.

I am absolutely against people having money. All money causes is grief, anxiety, and depravation.

From my perspective Ukrainian strikes are carried out in self defense

And that’s the problem. Any amount of bloodletting is permissible if you stick “I think they’re defending themselves” in front of it.

So long as you’re aligned with the US of course.

I’ve heard Americans say the same about Middle Eastern casualties weighed against Israelis.

Certain people’s lives simply don’t matter.

You’ll still see plenty of bots

the oil industry.

I guess it’s cool to kill civilians when they’re roughnecks?

It’s not that I didn’t know any of these

Strange that you would pretend ignorance up front

Ackman is throwing all this money out there precisely so that the right people don’t realize it

Okay, but if you make $1.1B…

Unfortunately, he’s plugged into the unlimited free money system via his friends in private equity.

Much like Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump, he will never run out of money to borrow and gamble away again.

Can you elaborate on Ukrainian salvos please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_in_Russia_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

And also - on Russian peace proposals too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

they didn’t inherit their immense wealth

Except even that doesn’t hold up under close scrutiny. A big component of the market cap of any Fortune 100 company stems from equity and debt held by the generationally wealthy, typically through family funds managed by private equity groups. Amazon and Tesla aren’t worth $1T without the Vanderbilts and the Carnegies and the Adelsons and the Waltons bidding up asset prices. Microsoft doesn’t exist today without Bill Gates’s mom sitting on the IBM board of directors and handing her son the contracts for their 1980s OS. Hell, Berkshire Hathaway is owned by the sons of a Congressman and a federal judge, respectively.

What’s more, the biggest source of market capital is inevitably government contracts. You can’t tell me that Michael Dell is “independently wealthy” when the bulk of his fortune came via the Texas public school system buying all his company’s computers. Particularly when the governors, legislators, and board members making these decisions are (a) big shareholders of the Dell corporation and (b) legacy scions of wealthy Texas families.

It’s been open war for the last three years. Idk if you can blame the latest salvo on Russians being extra mean during Constitution Day any more than you can blame the next Ukrainian salvo on Russians deserving a double-plus bombing on Lenin’s birthday or whenever.

Every proposal for a peace plan gets flattened with a media barrage of “They’re inhuman monsters who are incapable of peace and all deserve to be exterminated!” So until the two countries can get past that (or one/both finally collapse - which I’ve been told will happen very shortly, continuously for the last three years) we’re going to continue to see new records set in the number of atrocities committed into the foreseeable future.