Israeli tier foreign policy

the number of deaths that will be directly attributed to the cutting of USAid internationally and the loss of healthcare, jobs and environmental regulations in the US

Hey now, we didn’t cut USAID. We just sent $40B to our good friends in Argentina. And now Milei’s party has won the midterms, which means he can continue his War On Leftism inside the state and along the borders.

We’re also helping to arm and secure Guyana, in a Kuwait-like project to drill into neighboring Venezuelan oil fields. That’s not happening for free. Lots of Latin Americans and US government contractors are absolutely getting their palms greased. It’s been a bonanza for NATO aligned mercenaries since the Bush Era, thanks to all the money we’re spending on freelance military.

We’re saving lives, man. All that money is putting food on the tables of any number of cocaine snorting, whore house frequenting, tacti-cool sunglass wearing Afghanistan washouts and their Guasano peers.

Are you just going to ignore that?

If they claim they know that these boats have drugs on them, they could just apprehend them when they made port

That would require due process, instead of a spectacle of Shock and Awe.

Also, let’s say, hypothetically that these aren’t drug boats. Let’s say they are boats moving medical supplies or fuel or building materials between Venezuela and Cuba. Let’s say they’re actually military units working on behalf of the Venezuelan Coast Guard or just fisherman who got caught in an international crossfire.

It’s just easier to say “Drug Gang. Killed them.” knowing no major American media source is going to publish a rebuttal. Nobody in the US has access to the details of the attack. Nobody is going to interview the families or investigate the wreckage. Nobody is going to contradict this regime when it comes to butchering citizens of the Global South.

So why not call them a drug gang? Call them human traffickers. Call them roving nautical pedophiles. Call them Islamic Jihad.

American audiences won’t hear anything different.

The same creep who whines and cries and complains about how the HR department is a conspiracy to oppress white men will be cornering the fucking CTO in the break room at the first opportunity.

Only way to deal with these assholes is to shove them in a concrete box until they sober up and learn manners.

We’re getting the same reporting on South African refugees to the states. A lot of it is local propaganda, playing up how horrible it is in foreign countries by comparison

I wish they would all leave. Make Russia Atheist Again.

How do you say “Cablegate” in Hebrew?

Funny story, this is a popular playbook in US foreign policy.

As a comparison, Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

Israeli counterintelligence has been focused on tarring journalists in Gaza by labeling them as terrorists.

And in The Philippines, the American businesses have employed the process of Red Tagging of labor activists in order to bring down the wrath of anti-communist hit squads on their head.

Misinformation is a major component of our foreign policy.

Religion is just a part of it.

Ranchers, golfers, and data centers are at the heart of this thing. Plenty of these guys are fully secularized

Can’t do that. It’s evil Communism

Hardly unique to Tehran. Utah is facing the same crisis right now. Their answer has been to privatize harder.

“BuT WhEn ReDdiT aLtErNaTiVe”?

Voat exodus imminent

Almost certainly. The future is a line of megaphones screaming “It’s never been better!” on autopilot while the world burns

The old Soviet Union’s environmental record wasn’t great. And environmentalism was very low on the Dengist priority list.

Capitalism incentivizes industrial growth. But it was the “free” real estate of the colonial era and the massive surpluses of the industrial era that incentivized capitalism and created the illusion of unlimited economic expansion.

The problem is one of economic planning. Can we, as an intelligent advanced civilization, collectively manage the scarce resources of our planet? Or will a handful of individuals continue to divide and conquer the proletariat mass? Simply going socialist isn’t enough. Bookchin will tell you that. Hell, Kropotkin will tell you that.

It isn’t enough to merely establish a central and democratically managed local economy. We need a world wide organization capable of balancing the current demands against future resource constraints on the scale of centuries. And we need it to be equitably operated by a planetary consortium of committed socialist ideologues, not a handful of post-war juntas that run one another into the ground in another Cold War.

Whatever tiny hope of correcting this died when Trump was re-elected.

The bulk of greenhouse gas emissions are occurring outside the US. Americans have a far higher per-capita output but a relatively small gross population. Even then, the median American’s emissions pale beside that of their billionaire neighbors.

If global change comes, it is going to have to come through the BRIICS, where the bulk of new industrial activity is taking place and the vast majority of emissions already occurs. Trump decoupling the US economy from the rest of the world and his inadvertent quest to tank the fuck out of the US consumer economy is (quixotically) working in favor of these ends.

It’s been game over for a while now.

The game isn’t over, its simply changing. Areas of the world that were habitable will no longer be habitable. Mass migration began in earnest 20 years ago, at the outset of the Iraq War and near-total destabilization of the Middle East. Population growth globally has staled out due to exploding cost of living and economically engineered social isolation of the working class. Foodstuffs that we once considered staples - beef and almonds and oranges - are increasingly categorized as luxury goods.

But we’ve been in the Holocene Extinction Era for over 200 years. This is the sixth great extinction event in planetary history. And through it all, humans flourished. Hell, the advent of modern nitrogen fertilizers have made plant life flourish. The Earth isn’t going anywhere. Humans aren’t going anywhere (certainly not Mars, given how much more inhospitable it is than even the most nightmarish climate change scenarios). Life as we know it and human engineering as we’ve managed it are both far more stubborn and persistent than you’re giving it credit for. We can endure at a much more efficient level of biome utility than we currently employ. We can persist at a scale of hundreds of millions rather than tens of billions.

But we’re going to see sweeping changes. Really ugly ones. What we’re seeing in Gaza today is the roadmap for the future of the Global South, unless they can organize and resist a modern western eugenics regime. There is going to be more war and more bombing and more industrial annihilation and more sophisticated efforts by one group of humans to massacre others.

That’s probably good for the climate, long term. Not good for us or our kids or our grandkids, though.

They declared a cease fire, so now Europe and the Arab world can go back to business as usual.

Are you saying the Israelis did something to violate the peace? We’ll form a committee to conduct a survey to discuss a vote about beginning an investigation.

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar in Berlin for a friendly drink

CIA Agent says: Why do you like Russia so much? You have no freedom. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, “Down with Ronald Reagan”, and you will not be punished.

KGB Agent smiles and shakes his head: Nonsense, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, “Down with Ronald Reagan”, and you will not be punished, either.

Okay, but what if I told you they only took it down because a Canadian plutocrat didn’t like it?

Would that be better?

I’ve seen the “California cancer label” line get tossed around. And its beginning to sound a lot like the “McDonalds Coffee Lawsuit” line, which was - itself - a dishonest mischaracterization of a severe injury caused by corporate neglect.

I’d say it cuts both ways. If you label everything “hazardous”, you’re absolutely right. The term loses all meaning. But, at the same time, if we live in a marketplace where everything is hazardous then the theory “we’ll just put a label on it and let the consumer decide” of patriarchal libertarianism falls apart. What is supposed to be informative becomes little more than marketing material.

The real problem is industrial. Mass production of stuff that delivers a short-term jolt of pleasure at a long term health cost, because the manufacturers consider it more profitable than releasing products with a shorter shelf life or a lower addictive quality or a more expensive production cost.

Oops, now everything needs a label, because the folks producing this shit don’t care that all their products are horrible.