This inspired me to create a TV series that follows along with some friends playing “Campaign for North Africa”. It will be known as the only show with more episodes than One Piece.

I keep going back and forth on this.

It’s possible the attack on the embassy was just opportunistic: “israel” saw the chance to take out a high level Iranian commander and took it, and figured they’d just deal with the blowback, maybe even deal with Iran behind the scenes like the US did when they murdered Soleimani.

Or, Israel attacked because they wanted to provoke a response. Maybe it’s to justify invading Rafah. Maybe it’s to try and escalate this to a broader regional war and drag the US into it.

Gut feeling is the most likely answer is the first one. But then again, Netanyahu really does need to keep “israel” in a state of war to avoid jail. I don’t know how much power the executive has to wage war, but if it’s anything like the US then the answer is “nearly unlimited”.

I didn’t listen to that pod specifically but I did listen to Pod Save America and was following Seth Abramson on twitter. The Mueller report is actually kind of a turning point in my life. Not because of the report, it was just that coincidentally at that exact time the report came out, I found the cth podcast and the old sub. Binged some episodes, spent hours every day on the sub, and in less than a week I renounced my lib ways and considered myself a socialist (before then I probably would have called myself a socdem, I thought Bernie and Warren were equally good choices. Yeesh.)

Iran needs the bomb like, yesterday. I genuinely worry that if we get into a tit-for-tat, “israel” will massively escalate with a nuke dropped on Tehran. The only thing that will stop “israel” will be if Iran has an ability to respond in kind (because it sure as hell won’t be the nonexistent Zionist concern for the lives of anyone who isn’t a Zionist).

Death to America but I think the most reactionary country on planet Earth right now is “israel”.

p sure Jonathan Chait is a Zionist or at least is really big on “Israel has a right to defend itself”.

The idea of disappearing information is a significant part of the plot of Sacred and Terrible Air

It’s honestly work to try and make sure my kids aren’t subject to any copaganda in their TV shows for literal toddlers.

Jerry Jones

Do you mean Jerry Jones the Dallas Cowboys owner, or is this a mix of Jenny Jones and Jerry Springer?

Yes but practically speaking for most wage work in CA workers have made a lot more than that (but not $20/hr) for many years. CA has a state minimum wage that is usually much higher than the federal.

The federal minimum wage represents a legal floor but it’s so low and never changes that it’s functionally meaningless.

I can’t recall the last time I saw more than like 2-3 people working at a fast food restaurant at the same time. A lot of restaurants are getting rid of kids play places since that requires a lot of labor to clean (or just letting them get disgusting). There’s no more labor that can be cut.

Not to mention, the Zionist entity views all Arab people and nations as a “threat to their security”. They’re like the Founders in DS9 - everyone around them is a threat and no amount of unprovoked violence against others is unjustified. If they could get away with it, the Zionist entity would slaughter every Arab man, woman, and child on earth and claim it was needed for “security”. I think a lot of Zionists have even convinced themselves this is true.

Members of the Knesset openly say this shit every day, too.

They’ve gotten worse where I live in that people used to get those fake service dog vests so they could take their dogs inside shops and restaurants. Now they just bring their dogs in without the vests. And stores have cut so many corners with hiring bare bones staff that no one’s around to tell them they can’t bring a dog in.

Even though the US is an oil producer, higher prices are bad for the US economy, and for Brandon in particular if gas prices are high in November he will get Mondaled.

That response actually surprised me. I was expecting them to blame it all on China “distorting market incentives” with huge subsidies but no, just straight up admitting that the socialist economy is drinking our milkshake.

Yep. The socialist calculation debate is over. We won. I happen to think the Austrians did have a point back back in like the 1920s. You can read all about how much Lenin et al struggled with central planning. I actually think full central planning was maybe possible before the 1920s and then after the 1970s or so. But there’s that 50 year window where you had highly complex economies but not the appropriate computing power to match that complexity for planning purposes.

Alan Cotrell wrote Towards a New Socialism in the early 90s and showed conclusively how there was plenty of computing power available at that time for central planning. Now consider how much more power computers are now versus back then, without anywhere that much an increase in economic complexity.

Has to be intentional.

Well, let’s see if it actually gets built, completed, and actually up and running first. I’m skeptical.

Even I don’t totally agree, these are all reasonable critiques that we shouldn’t be afraid to investigate further.