Cunigulus [they/them]

Marijuana isn’t even cool anymore

See this line makes no sense to me. A two state solution is would help preserve Israel long-term. Heightening tensions threaten to lead to collapse. It’s not actually in Israel’s interests to pursue this kind of conflict, it’s happening due to a particular set of internal political contradictions. I also don’t read US support for Israel as some Machiavellian imperial plot. It undermines imperial interests pretty heavily to be constantly pissing off the whole Arab world. It forces them to rely on illegitimate and therefore weak regimes and constantly engage directly in the region to stymie organized resistance. It’s really just zionist ideology driving this whole endeavor.

I really disagree that support for Israel is just a straightforward extension of imperialist interests. It really is its own project that exerts outsized political influence even to the detriment of the imperialist project as a whole. The ambivalent attitude towards Israel by early post-war US governments demonstrates this. Truman and Eisenhower treated Israel on the basis of objective interests of the empire. US politicians in more recent times will sacrifice imperial interests to support Israel, and that is definitely due to their political influence and blackmail operations.

Peering deep into the TradCath rabbit hole and how they think Biden is some kind of satanist makes the secret Vatican agent Biden meme so much funnier.

IDK things just have this heavy inertia right now. It doesn’t feel like history is breaking free just yet.

There’s just no way. It would be the final strategic disaster. There’d be no strategic capacity left to deal with China. The US shied away from war 20 years ago when it might have been possible, now there’s no way, they can’t even deal with Yemen. The only move against Iran is to use Israel’s nuclear arsenal, and the leadership might get desperate enough to do so.

Alien Jesus theory confirmed.

There is so much potential for efficiencies if the state can subsidize and guide software development. It should really be treated as public infrastructure to be efficiently managed for the public good rather than a means for private monopolies to siphon as much rent as possible.

Never played Half-Life Uplink. Pretty good bonus content.