Aye. My personal take is that both must be condemned as horrific. The Youtuber is wrong to call it “just a symbol”. I didn’t see any discussion of the $8 billion in arms anywhere though, which struck me as bizarre. Perhaps it is just due to a filter bubble.

No, they’re Rottweilers.

“The prolongation of the working-day beyond the limits of the natural day, into the night, only acts as a palliative. It quenches only in a slight degree the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour.”

~ Marx, Karl. Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 10, sec. 4.

“Who is the real criminal, Ladies and Gentlemen? Is it the starveling who occasionally steals a loaf of bread or burglarizes my house or is it he who is the eternal vampire on the body of labor, forever feeding on the bone and marrow of the worker, exploiting and oppressing him, always keeping him on the verge of starvation that he may exercise his benevolent charity upon him, and ultimately degrading him to the lowest depths.”

Berkman, Alexander. Confession of a Convict.

Eventually there is blood but no shit.

Better red than bidet!

Freud getting praised by everyone but actual psychologists always baffled me. Imagine if politicos started backing up their points with references to luminiferous ether.

Pacifism

Oh

What is SBC?

Article says the rebels going in are Islamists. Sadly, I don’t think life will get much better in Syria and will definitely worsen in Kurdistan.

They’re calling Musk a tourist

?

Damn, TIL. Thank you.

And for the first time in my life, thank you Erdogan.

NATO has not changed its position, that’s the thing.

Proudhon said that property is theft

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_218165.htm

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-backs-israel-and-warns-iran-to-stay-away-gaza-hamas-netanyah/

There is a very good reason the Irish care about Neutrality. The Montrealites are not so different.

Edit: Thank you Chairman Meow for telling me about this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

We said the same of Kissinger and Thatcher.

Fair. Thank you!

If the girl repeats it, there will be consequences for her and her family. Children have no filter.

There are proxies and VPNs. My student is a little girl who innocently asked if YouTube is not working in my country either. It is this that is depressing.

The cause of the YouTube block is that it blocks Russian state outlets. That is obviously going to prompt the question of why it did that.