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Hopefully a lot of interceptor ammo was expended trying to stop them.

I'd love to do this with some cheap degraded agricultural land near a city. Part of it is set aside for a subsistence homestead and native plant nursery, the rest is restored to native habitat as an interpretive space with a focus on group education and wildlife reintroduction. A one stop beaver shoppe with every good plant nearby cities could want.

:yea: The best I can hope for is to plant trees in the ashes of the empire. There's no spontaneous unorganised uprising that can make a dent in a machine built to slaughter civilians and the monologue I feel most accurately describes this era is Brace Belden's "You are a serf". We aren't proactively on the verge of a 1917 or 1905 because class consciousness isn't established, but as the empire decays it stops meeting needs and allowing for civic participation and fostering organic community.

Building up dual structures in the way the Black Panthers did in the 1960s-70s seems like the most pragmatic path to achieve anything in the US so I became what they were at that point. We need to use our orgs to replace the things late stage capitalism steals from people because the people learn through observation.

edit: https://www.marxists.org/archive/hampton/1969/05/19.htm

That’s what it’s about. That’s what it’s got to be about. Huey P. Newton was a man that said that whenever a slave kills a slavemaster, it’s a cleansing process.

Because it was Huey P. Newton who said that the people can only understand basically by observation and participation. What did he do? Well, we done said it so many times, but let me tell you—it’s so beautiful.

There was a situation down on the corner where there were four intersections and people were being run over. And Huey said we’re gonna stop this situation. The people went down to the government and they redressed their grievances peacefully, begged the man to put stop signs up as a humane action, just to stop our children from being murdered in the streets, to stop these maniacs who are driving fast and they don’t have any legal reason to stop. And you know what the pig said?

They said you can go back home because I’m running this thing and you people don’t have any say-so. But Huey P. Newton came through, and he told the people to “give me a chance, because I believe something else. I believe with all my soul and with all my heart and with all my mind that the people should, could and will have the power. Let me go down and let me see if I can put the stop signs up.”

They said, “Well, Huey, we already tried.” But they didn’t understand that Huey was like brother Malcom. That Huey would do things even if it didn’t correspond to what you thought ought to be done. He would say things not because you wanted to hear them or not.

Huey got Bobby Seale and Bobby Seale got a 9m pistol. Huey got his shotgun, he got four stop signs, and got him a hammer, went down to the corner, handed his shotgun to Chairman Bobby Seale and said, “If anybody come on this corner and fuck with us, we’re gonna blow their brains out.”

Huey P. Newton said people learn basically by observation and participation. The people observed. Next time they had another four-way intersection. Same type of problem. People were running past where there should be a stop sign but there wasn’t any; children were being murdered and maimed in the streets. Again Huey went, got Chairman Bobby, Chairman Bobby got his 9mm, Huey got his shotgun, got four stop signs and a hammer. He went down to the corner, told Bobby, “Anybody fuck with us, blow their brains out.” Nailed up the four stop signs. No more accidents, no more problems.

Next time—the people who gassed last time, gassed this time, too. They observed and participated. What happened? They had another intersection, a four-way intersection. Children being murdered. Children being maimed. Huey was gonna move again, but he understood what was gonna happen, but he didn’t know it was gonna happen then. But then he looked up, and even the vanguard was surprised when he saw all the people gettin’ their hammers, gettin’ their stop signs! And the people were down there. No more problem and more accidents. How did they learn? They learned by observation and they learned by participation, and that’s the way the Black Panther Party believes in doing things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3K7wUTX-SY

Meanwhile actual coders managed to make Doom playable in an Excel spreadsheet.

Grocery store security guards might be the lowest kind of hog. Around here they dress like they're on the SWAT team to take food away from poor children. If one was crucified in front of me by their neighbours, my heart would grow three sizes.

This would explain why nobody has been coming to my discount Jurassic Park.

Arleigh Burke-turned-Charlie Kirk. To think they're scoring hits like this in the first days.

Pervert Glasses are the most antisocial thing someone can own outside of a cybertruck.

With any claim from any side in any war, I only take it seriously when there's a photo or video that holds up to scrutiny. I can confidently say they've had drone/missile strikes in densely developed areas but that's the only thing backed up so far from the footage I've seen. The logistics of dealing with two destroyers' worth of casualties should be noticeable in the coming days if that's accurate.

Goddamn, born in 1917 and joined the CPC in 1937. Imagine seeing that kind of success in 89 years of organising. In his lifetime China went from total collapse to something so horrific we call it the Warlord Era to a genocidal invasion and civil war to effectively becoming the dominant world power.

Since seeing this image last night of what a Shahed launcher actually looks like, five drones in the kind of truck that delivers to small retail stores, I'm so curious what that means a week or a month from now when even the cheap interceptors are facing ammo shortages. Iran is already scoring hits with them that I wouldn't have expected so early. Surely they factored a successful decapitation strike into whatever long plan they had when building such extensive underground infrastructure. Will the gulf states or Ukraine become the sacrifice zone if every cargo truck in the middle east potentially suddenly becomes a super accurate base killer?

I would peel off the stickers immediately obviously. It would be themed after my dog's country and placed outside the door where he sits to track things he barks at. There's nothing cringe there.

paid administrative leave

We disapprove of your paedophilia, and to demonstrate that we wanted to give you lots of money and no work commitments to keep you tied to one place.

Come on Hexbear, can we come together and purchase one of these for my apartment because it looks cool?

Maoist Purging of the Landlords Apology Form:

They've built an entire gundam suit. Five North Koreas per arm and leg. Three as a torso and one big North Korea as the head. Another is a shoulder-mounted cluster missile pod. One has been stretched into a katana sharp enough to cut god in half.

Could those just be a civilian/surplus version? US rations are sold similarly on the civilian market and this seems to be the standard outer packaging for any of the PLA rations I can find online.

50 North Koreas, stacked on top of each other.

I think it's blowback in the short and long term. The Saudis have been off-and-on hostile toward Iran for decades. It's been escalating with proxy wars, and then the Iranian support for their proxies is the basis for the aggressive expansionist narrative the west uses to make them a threat. MBS has also been cited as one of the people pushing Trump toward this current war.