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This has been the plan from the beginning, as I’ve noted repeatedly - to kill as many Palestinians as it takes to terrorize the survivors into either fleeing or submitting to direct Israeli rule.

At this point I just wonder what their angle is.

I don’t credit the possibility that they’re sincere. They didn’t just spontaneously grow empathy and principles and integrity and ethics, and if they’d possessed any of those qualities in the past, they would’ve been reporting the truth then.

So there’s something else going on here.

Cynically, I expect that factions in the government are moving against a few key players specifically - most notably Netanyahu - and that the goal is to make a big show of removing them, then stop reporting on the suffering and go back to all propaganda all the time in order to hopefully head off the growing threat of internal opposition by throwing a few of the grosser right-wingers under the bus, but to not fundamentally change anything about the situation or in any way even slow down the genocide.

Thanks for the clarification - I sort of suspected that, but all of my first-hand knowledge of it is 10+ years out of date.

Yes. That’s why they call it a “spectrum.”

Last I knew, the accepted term was “high-functioning autism.”

The last chapter was already great, but seeing it all from Akira’s perspective just made it all that much better

Emulated on a PC.

In about '98, I discovered SNES9x. I had an SNES hooked up to my TV at the time, but as soon as I discovered how convenient it was to play on a PC instead, I just stopped using it and eventually boxed it up and put it away. And I haven’t looked back.

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Snowflake.

Huh… they just did Yemen the other day and they’re already back to Syria. So Lebanon can expect their turn… sometime this weekend?

At this point, every attempt at this ludicrously dishonest spin can and should be met with the same one-word response - “Mamdani.”

Huh…

This might just be an exceedingly rare instance in which those corrupt and compromised conservative fuckheads on the Supreme Court won’t just rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants, since pissing off the Fed, and the entire banking/investing industry whose interests it represents, could be even worse for them than pissing off the Toddler-in-chief.

There is no rule of law under the Trump regime.

It strikes me that it might actually be a bit of plain, old-fashioned trolling - deliberstely poor but with no signal that it’s satire, just to draw more or less the response I posted, or more broadly to reflect poorly on the point it claims to be making.

It’s strange, whatever it is.

Is this some sort of joke or did somebody actually unironically do a vividly piss-poor job of writing an essay attempting to make the case that writing with AI is not shameful?

Like they’re going to actually admit that they’re corrupt, dishonest and blinkered by ideology and bias.

How odd that a single policy document okayed white supremacism, false medical information and pedophilia.

It’s almost as if the three are all somehow interrelated - like they’re all promoted by and for the same people.

🤔

As well they should be.

Trump has already made it clear that his opinion of the accuracy of economic statistics depends solely on whether they reflect well or poorly on him.

So it’s pretty well guaranteed that the primary requirement of any future statistics will be that they reflect well on him, and accuracy and veracity will be somewhere further down the list.

They’re either schmoozing with the donor class or attending symposia on things like Effective Methods for Creating the Illusion of Concern for the Common People Without Having to Debase Yourself by Actually Being Around Them.

This is how a republic becomes a dictatorship.

Entirely predictable.

Every single time that a Republican administration purports to be cracking down on “wasteful spending,” you can be sure of two things: that their definition of “wasteful spending” is “any spending that benefits anyone other than ourselves and our cronies and patrons,” and that all they’re really going to do is shift it so that it exclusively does benefit themselves and their cronies and patrons.