the US is starving Cuba in an act of war and the entire Western media and political class who can't stop hysterically whining about "human rights" and "the international rules-based order" and "sovereignty" are not only laundering it as entirely legitimate, they're cheering it on

"...a pervasive nihilism, where the truth of what’s being discussed matters less than the fact that it is being turned into content, the reaction to which will also become content." archive.ph/3387x

Time for Americans to switch off whatever cognitive capacity remains and let the unconscious jizz of the Top Gun soundtrack prop their miserable pursuits.

Marx to his father, 1837

The whole game of these rightist spokesholes consists of serial interruption and talking over with ideological, question begging conceits, torqued with sophistical opportunism. Never let anyone finish a sentence much less a paragraph without Hannityesque ejaculation.

Struck by how contemporary the final lines of Marx’s 18th Brumaire feel re Trump 2.0

In 2004 a Bush official, probably Karl Rove, mocked the "reality based" community; insisting that empire and power makes its own reality and the nerds and losers can deal with it. American conservatism hasn't changed because this attitude towards reality hasn't changed.

ian bremmer 18. Trump isn't leading the world through alliances and institutions. He's seizing the nodes: the chokepoints and resource pools that make the world - and AI - run. Whether it works or not, this is a coherent imperial strategy. thehill.com/opinion/energy…

Incredible. As The War Nerd has been saying for years, America’s rich GCC allies biggest and easiest vulnerability is their desalination plants—hit those, and the countries collapse. So naturally the US decided to bomb Iran’s desalination plants, as if to force the escalation.

Trying to bracket the horror of a President that outstrips Caligula having got stuck in a no win scenario with nuclear weapons

Straw Man Sami Gold Karl Marx knew Greek and Latin and Roman Helmet Guy doesnt.

Seems like what's going to happen is that Iran is indeed going to tank the global economy, and Trump & co. are going to console themselves through unparalleled sadism & destruction against its people, which will not actually solve the 1st part, but will shock & outrage the world.

Even the Wizard of Sophistry sees quicksand. Lol, f r a n k l y...

Anyone remotely paying heed to reality could see this scenario miles away

Remember STUXNET? Back in 2010 I think America and Israel unleashed malware attack on Iran. Another thing they likely don't forget

Bro wake up. Awake from your dogmatic slumber. Causation is unknowable lol. Inductive reasoning has no basis in objective reality lmao

I cannot believe my life lasted long enough for computers to stop being fun.

The world will forever wish Iran had got the nukes

Time for another Steven Pinker piece on how everything is going well