But they could bring Exxon in to Esequibo; that was in progress before the USA got into a fight with one of the families involved.
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But they could bring Exxon in to Esequibo; that was in progress before the USA got into a fight with one of the families involved.
I don't see what's to stop it. The US has long treated Latin America as its playground.
The United States is probably not going into war in Venezuela, not yet, but supporting neighboring Guyana in a border conflict with Venezuela seems likely and the Guyanese border province of Esequibo might become the base for an assault on Venezuela.
Oh. Credit to Ian Ellis at the bad place, twitter.com/ianellisjone...
They're probably working on intervening in an election in Guyana, and perhaps helping Exxon develop oil fields in the disputed Esequibo region of Guyana.
He's 78. Yeah, it's time.
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social ?
Bluesky management actually wants it to work, that's why it works. There's no wink wink nod nod OK fascist stuff.
That doesn't seem like a responsive answer. Or am I missing something?
Who said anything about Jews? The end of the poem is "And then they came for me!" and that's what we need to emphasize.
It's a wedge issue, a "first they came for…" So it has to be fought and we also have to emphasize that we need to fight this now so that we don't end up fighting in a much larger battlefield.
Hey! No fair remembering stuff!
highway, has wandered off on a side road and can return to the main road. We make the road as we travel and now we're making a different road.
I think the reason there is so much compliance from what I suppose I must call our ruling class is not that they're mostly fascists but rather that they think that this is temporary and things will go back to "normal." But there is no normal to return to. It's not like society was traveling on a
Naive atomistic anarchism, duh.
There has to be organization. I keep saying this and it's like shouting into the wind. Our model of political activism is not realistic. Too much of this naive anarchistic anarchism in it.
We're not doing a general strike anytime soon.
Glonzo rules.
I don't love every aspect of bluesky's culture. It's not perfect. But, what bluesky's culture does have going for it is that it's the genuine product of the people who are here, rather than the skinner box manipulations of a drug-addled reactionary man baby. I'll take that choice any day.
Yes. In fact, I'm not sure that the US is leading. In many ways Germany and the UK got there first.
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
Fkng Idaho. Beautiful country, but…
None of this makes sense. OK, Trump is awful. We know that. But why does anyone else have to be awful in response?
You assume that he had a soul in the first place.
Er, *trans* rights.
About a week ago, I commented, "If Newsom became the Democratic Presidential nominee, I would vote for him, but I do not trust him." I would also find it very hard to work for somebody with his positions on trance rights and homelessness. He's like an American Starmer.
Come to that, this also applies to the radical left. Do they really think they will do better in a world governed by the likes of Putin or Khamenei? Every great American reformer has turned to Enlightenment ideals because they know these ideas give their people a chance. Why has this been forgotten?
When our working families are strong, Minnesota is strong. That’s why we’ve established paid leave, expanded the right to collectively bargain, and why we’re investing in the projects creating the union jobs of the future. Happy Labor Day, Minnesota.
That's how you succeed in publishing. Why has that been forgotten?
This country made them, gave them everything. Where is the loyalty, where the joy in what they had? Seriously, what is wrong with people? (3/3)
Everyone has their eyes fixed on the future, but we had a fine present, and they are throwing it away. And for what? The lesser and saner figures. Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, all those university presidents, the governors, the representatives and senators. (2/3)
What is it with these people? They have such small dreams. Bezos, Thiel, Musk—they don't have to bow to Trump's corruption. Instead of growing in sprit as they became wealthy and powerful, they turned themselves into caricatures. (1/3)
Connecticut. Karenlandia. Oy.
It's eerie how quickly we have forgotten how bad covid was pre-vaccine, the refrigerator trucks full of corpses, the children losing grandparents to a disease they brought home.
And it's not even clear it makes the work better. The management reports keep showing a loss, not a gain, in productivity.
Crypto…
THERE ALSO WERENT HEALTHY TEACHERS lol like people want to pretend this was purely top down
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
it's very cool that if you tell me a government's position on trans people, i can tell you with a great deal of accuracy about their social views in general
Holy shit!
That's causus belli. I do not expect Europe to react appropriately, but why tf not?
So. The song is about the Night of Long Knives.
It isn't, and the people who run the ECB believe in discredited economic theories. And neither is the RMB. No one seems willing or able to step up and do the work of the Federal Reserve.
So if the dollar falls apart, what happens? Do we go back to the gold standard? That would be awful!
🎶 I sit here now by the banks of the Rhine / Dipping my feet in the cold stream of time…
That seems quite plausible.
They aren't leaders, but they're very effective legislators and they've done quite a bit while in the minority.
I have this whole discussion muted because I do not trust the reporting in that article and I'm also really tired of hearing why it's problematic.
Wired is credible, Lorenz is not. She frequently overclaims and then refuses to walk back her claims. It's to the point where I simply don't find her articles credible.
It's already genocide. It became genocide when Israel, with Trump's blessing, cut off all aid to Gaza.
The word "pimp" is considered impolite.
BYD is working on it…
This is Taylor Lorenz. She's a very sloppy reporter. I wish people would not share this piece.
Break up the media monopolies, new FCC regulations with teeth, social media company regulations, non-profit news, prosecutions for fraud.
And with fuel prices rising and automobiles becoming more expensive, we are going to very much regret the loss of our bus and rail networks. Fk Trump.
There, there.
Hope this isn't true. It sounds like a scary crank theory but I can't quite count it out.
points out that the effect of decades of fascist propaganda has been to create a doomsday machine without an off switch and somehow we are going to have to deal with this. We need trials and a denazification program, or the moral equivalent.
As @driftglass.bsky.social keeps telling us, history did not begin in 2016. This has been decades in the making and while Trump's death would certainly put a spike in the wheel of the factions that comprise this administration, those factions would still exist and need to be dealt with. He also
That's what all the flotillas have done. The whole thing is a publicity stunt, and a risky one. So far Israeli has just captured and released the participants but who knows if that will continue, especially with Trump's participation.
He thinks they're vermin and his wife probably agrees with him.
A politician from Chicago knows from corruption. That 1876 feeling…
It will be independent sources, like economists use in every authoritarian regime.
That 1876 feeling.
Department of ignorance, center for plague
I don't know, but that's likely. I suspect a regional manager somewhere.
I can't believe we need to say it, but you know the Bluesky community guidelines should probably say this.
The judge is angry.
Please do not advocate committing violent crimes in a public forum.
It's also only that particular chain. Most markets and supermarkets don't do it, or if there are armed guards, they are unobtrusive. I cannot imagine a tactical situation in which firearms could safely be used within a supermarket. Perhaps they are concerned about the parking lots.
It's harder to get permission to carry firearms in Chicago. In Washington, it's easy.
Reportedly, Trump is trying to avoid paying the Guard now patrolling DC. Not paying your troops is a good way to turn the military against you.
There wasn't the space then, alas. She did have an illustrious if lesser career, however, and it has not ended.
It was also discredited scientifically by 1930. Unfortunately, like anti-vaxx, it persisted.
On what Democrats are doing.
We have the best chance at saving the world when we praise those doing the work not just the top five that everyone can name off the top of their heads. You have one of the biggest platforms in the world. You could use it to talk about those that no one else is talking about. 7/
That's a control illusion. This endless fantasy that individuals have far more agency than they actually do is destructive both to individuals and society.
And, with the complete shut off of aid to Gaza in March, actual genocide.
Do not broadcast lies on television.
There is no ability to get a job. That is dependent on employers, not applicants.
I don't think that's true. For one thing, the states enforcers themselves will commit crimes. For another, a totalitarian regime will not accurately report crime.
Voting strategically is difficult and disheartening, but voting without strategy is unilateral surrender.
It was mooted before the election. May the supporters of Palestine who participated atone for the rest of their lives and never be free of the shame.
This is not true. The only way that the Biden administration could have taken Trump into custody was by ignoring the Supreme Court. Perhaps they should have, but Merrick Garland as the chief agent of federal law enforcement in the United States, could not undertake that decision on his own.
I'm sorry, Trump's supporting farmers. We can't protect you. We can't even protect ourselves. I think the soybean business is probably gone forever. At best a trade deal is going to have to be negotiated with China again and they're going to drive a hard bargain.
We really ought to be calling Trump a childish sore loser more often.
The intention is to occupy all the cities, always was. It's the only way they can impose their authoritarian program.
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
The United States cannot, in itself, match the productive capacity of the entire planet.
"The networks of trade that make us a rich world, if not all of us rich people, will be dismantled and all nations will be the poorer for it. Refugees will be turned away to be crushed under brutal autocrats. Possibly shooting wars will follow."—Raven Onthill, 2016
Here's a source. Problem is, I'm not sure I trust it. us.socialgobeta.com/posts/breaki...
Survival and no rule by tyrants.
I don't have a model for what we're fighting for. Like, 19th century, safe work places and decent pay. Okay, that makes sense. So now we're fighting for healthcare and a government that doesn't kill people in job lots? There's never been anything like this. We don't know how to fight for this.
This whole Medicare denials thing is going to be full employment for lawyers. I expect it will actually make the system more expensive because that's usually what happens when you deny people what they have rights to; everything turns into a negotiation.
It's 5 years since the best thing I've ever written and will ever write aired on Mad As Hell
Had to add Lorenz by itself to the mute list; unfortunately I don't want to mute Taylor, so I'm still going to see some of this.
One born every minute.
Yet again. The only people who are obliged to obey executive orders are employees of the federal government.
Just muted "Taylor Lorenz". Blessed peace.
Trump lies, and thousands die.