I seem to remember he took a poster off the wall to keep as a souvenir, so they killed him. Don’t touch the posters, people.

No one is immune to a concerted propaganda campaign. American propaganda has just been a bit more extreme than most, for a bit longer.

The investment in demonizing scapegoat groups does seem to pay off for the far right. It helps them sell their own ideology as a solution for people’s woes, if they can convince people their problems are caused by the designated scapegoats. It effectively distracts people from the plunder of their lives by rich kleptocrats, while filling them with the kind of misdirected hatred that fascism thrives on.

I think the intel was wrong

The intel said that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons. The strikes happened because Trump decided to ignore the intel in favor of the random imaginings in his head, and no doubt Netanyahu encouraged him.

“… they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”

He always was a master of projection.

It has been working for them for decades. Why stop now?

sometimes the only way something worthwhile ever gets done in the first place is because somebody started on it without realizing how hard it would be.

Yes, that’s a good point. We both benefit and suffer from humanity’s overly optimistic moments.

often the achievement lasts a lot longer and outweighs the trouble by orders of magnitude.

True too, but Columbus might not be the clearest example of that.

Hook up a couple servers to some dams.

As someone who works in IT, I love the optimism of making it sound this simple. Things that I expect to take 10 minutes can end up taking weeks, because there’s always a surprising answer to “How complicated could it be?”

Specifically, since Thatcher and Reagan. The UK never recovered.

A highly selective natural disaster maybe.

I’ll get a cabin in the woods and forget about all this.

Enjoy the uncontrolled wildfires. There’s no escaping the damaging effects of capitalism.

And they quite probably killed the scientists’ families too when they attacked them at home.

There’s also a strong white supremacist aspect to natalism. It’s a form of racial eugenics.

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Saudi Arabia and Israel. The best allies.

Reciprocal nukes like Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.

Aisle 23 at Home Depot, I think.

“They have backed up their genocidal rhetoric with a program to develop nuclear weapons.”

Netanyahu’s not in the best position to accuse others of genocidal rhetoric backed up with powerful weaponry.

I did see one person commenting on the other video that they could see the flaps were in the wrong position. And it is conspicuous that the landing gear was not retracted - though could that be because the pilots realized they were in trouble and would need to attempt a crash landing, or were too busy with whatever else had gone wrong?

Are the 787’s controls arranged in such a way that you could accidentally retract the flaps instead of the landing gear?

It seems to climb OK for a little while then suddenly start sinking. There’s no sign of an obvious engine problem. Not sure whether we’d be able to see any sign of a bird strike from this far away.