I stopped being Charlie Brown falling for the football 23 years go, when I saw that the consent manufacturing for the second Iraq war rested on no hard evidence.

Edit to add that the bone picking has been going on for two years already. Everything must go, including seaports.

Teen Vogue (I know, right?): Police Unions: What to Know and Why They Don’t Belong in the Labor Movement

Police unions have always been outliers among organized labor, and there are many reasons why the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union has long refused to allow cops (and prison guards) into its organization. […] Actually, police unions themselves used to be illegal, because local governments worried about the consequences of allowing armed state agents to organize. And historically speaking, the police have been no friend to workers, whether officers were shooting at the families of coal miners during the Battle of Blair Mountain, crushing the ribs of immigrant garment workers during the Uprising of the 20,000, or teargassing working-class protesters in Minneapolis after police killed George Floyd.

If you loved this then you will likely enjoy British linguist YouTuber @DrGeoffLindsey.

In capitalist states, the core mission of the police is to 1) protect the bourgeoisie’s private ownership of the means of production and to 2) discipline the proletariat, cracking heads if necessary. Historically in the US, they began as slave patrols, because slaves were private property, i.e., means of production.

There’s no nuance from the left.

I would say there are many, many thick volumes of nuance, with reams of footnotes to evidence supporting it.

But progressive liberals are not going to engage with any of it.

Meanwhile the far-right floats on clouds of self-contradictory nonsense.

A few related thoughts.

• Money, capital, and profit are not the same things.
• Labor vouchers are a form of money.
• Every time you give fiat money back to the government which owns the “money printer,” that money has been in effect destroyed.
• I’m not of the opinion that money should be abolished, not even necessarily “eventually.” Maybe a time will come when it makes sense to, but I don’t have the foresight to speak meaningfully to that.

Time will tell 🤷 AFAIK, nobody’s turning a profit from a project that runs solely on donations and volunteerism.

Some east coast areas, like where Sanders is from, inherited non-rhoticity from England. The “r” is pronounced in most US accents.

But you know it’s possible from firsthand experience. Whomsth’n’t reached terminal velocity by shooting the ceiling & floor and jumping in?

Being a native, a Yankee to me is a New Englander. My Spanish friend had to gently explain to me, “shut up, you’re all yanquis.”

When Yanukovych was couped, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea seceded. If they had wanted EU integration, why would they have taken such extreme measures, and why did they turn to Russia for support? Russia ran into virtually no problems in annexing and integrating Crimea, because most Crimeans were on board with it. And good thing, too, because their Donetsk and Luhansk neighbors subsequently suffered nine years of Banderite terror.

I wasn’t there, and I’m not going to assume that one quote is representative of his entire history or even that entire political campaign. The electoral map shows that in general he was liked by the Russian-aligned electorate and disliked by the European-aligned electorate.

If Ukrainians already wanted to align with the EU, then why did they democratically elect Yanukovych, which the US subsequently couped in coordination with the Banderites?

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You understand that you’re reporting me to myself, right?

Now I’m even less convinced that you actually did “a quick search on google.”

Reason: Mis or disinformation. These numbers are not correct.

Seeing how you found such evidence, feel free to provide it, or it didn’t happen.

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Fellow Lemmings

Why exclude the rest of the fediverse? I’m not a fan recreating redditisms in general. It’s bad enough that Lemmy has cake days.

The commenter said mRNA vaccines.