Who also owns Fox News and the NY Post. Additionally practically all of British and Australian media too.
Singularly the scumbag most responsible for all the lies, defamation, libel and slander used to brainwash Anglo chuds worldwide.
The MO has always been to get ahead of a story with the most inflammatory RW reactionary bullshit possible. He’s perfected the Hate Machine/Fear Factory.
When I’m through today it’ll be well over 20 miles of urban banging. Done right patches for sure. But lots of amazing social scenery and the pulsing of human life.
NYPD have been conditioned to reflexively hate and demonstrate against even the most vaguely left, even centrist elected officials. They're molded to be brutish, non-thinking thugs or they're not part of the cosa nostra. So it was gonna happen either way.
But I do think like in many other things Zohran has been introducing fresh ideas in various directions that, while socialist in nature, can be perceived by the average shlub as just good common sense platforms that will be good for the proles fed up with constant precarity, economic insecurity, rampant price-gouging, etc.
And in that sense he does have appeal to perhaps some of the more idealistic younger (and even older disenchanted) cops with ideas that, again, bepspeak socialist ideas, but will have a material positive effect on their jobs. Such as not forcing then into overtime they don't want, reducing their obligations to deal with the homeless and domestic disputes, etc. I really think he just might be able to make some inroads with some of these guys, and hopefully begin the transition to less policing as we know it, rather than "defunding" the "racist" police.
As for his error with the odious FBI informant Sharpton he simply could have pointed to the 2012 (I think) decision made by an Eastern District judge that the NYPD was guilty of racially profiling young black and brown males by a staggering degree. There's plenty of evidence there. Straight-up, factual, undeniable racist policing. Should have shoved that in Sharpton's controlled-opposition face.
my elderly dad, with Fox News on: "Did you see this horrible killing?"
me: "Wasn't he a scumbag?"
dad: "He had two small children. There was just a guy on saying how much of a good guy he was."
The fucking Hate Machine, Fear Factory of Fox has (for two generations now?) utterly and completely brainwashed the tv-addicted, suburbanite, old folks faction. As much as we all know it it's so pathetic and evil to witness in the numerous ways it gets decent people time and again to become debased fascist bigots.
Is that right, about little contributions to Animals?
That is very definitely one of my all-time favorite records. And not in the least because of the soaring, impassioned, melodic leads on Dogs.
(Folks, if you don't know that tune it ranks as one of the great anti-capitalist takedowns, of how alienating and compromising, exploitative and demoralizing a system it truly is in our every day lives.
Dogs:
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need.
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street,
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed.
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight,
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
And after a while, you can work on points for style.
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake,
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile.
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in.
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder.
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you
get older.
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man,
All alone and dying of cancer.
And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown.
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone.
And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw
around.
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone,
Dragged down by the stone.
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused.
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used.
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.
If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this
maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend.
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun,
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone.
Which might adjacently explain why so many cops commit suicide when similarly they lose their impunity upon retirement to continue to beat and murder defenseless black and brown kids.
Disincentives greed and hoarding, which is the end game of capitalism.
At the same time heavily fund campaigns to mock and bully the rich.
Not a Ferrari or Porsche should be without broken windows and flat tires. Hound all their residences until there’s no peace for those sociopathic criminals. Form flash mobs to terrorize golf courses.
Make it so they can’t give away their money quickly enough.
Finally, the country that was especially revered by Che Guevara has offered and delivered really meaningful material help. Especially that historically the aid from the Soviet Union came with the stipulation that Cuba couldn’t advocate or participate in global communist revolution. China was more amenable.
And secondly BRICS is shaping up to be the long overdue, great international rebuke to the great bully of imperialist America. They’re forming bigger and bigger trade partnerships and mutual aid that will soon enough usurp America's dominant influence in the world.
It’s the End of the American Empire…and I feel fine.
But mostly right now I’m elated for the people of Cuba. Who have endured so much due to the strangling American sanctions. And through it all not only persevered but thrived in many ways.
I mean, it seems these days that you can go to any small town across this hellhole country and encounter an immigrant/recent citizen from somewhere else - who might have different customs in eating, dressing, decorating, etc. What’s so scary, little boys?
Isn’t that what makes the world interesting, and something to celebrate?
Nope. These stunted adolescents insists on living in a fake dreamworld of conditioned nostalgia preening to make them believe their best days are behind them and that if we could only get these illegals out of here everything would be Aok again.
Also came after Jill Stein, after Bernie was conspiratorially cheated out of the Dem nomination in ‘16.
Total douche punching down.