Well, this is all someone’s profit at some point. Killing brown people is just a fringe benefit. Every rocket we fire and bomb we drop is ultimately counted as points on GDP and revenue for the DOW.

It costs $30m to build a drone and another $1-3m to actually send it to a war zone on the other side of the world. Then each mission involves firing a $150k piece of ordinance at targets that may or may not be a valid military target. All that so you can kill a few dozen Houthis, or perhaps the family or friends of those Houthis. Perhaps a parent or an infant child. And what are these people worth? Nothing.

The important thing to remember when doing all this back-of-the-envelop math is to always remember human life - particularly human life in a country as remote and foreign as Yemen - HAS. NO. VALUE. That’s why we’re gleefully obliterating it at every opportunity. We render their limbs from their bodies with some of the most technologically advanced killing machines in existence to prove once and for all that they are not people. They should not exist. They all must die.

Same with Palestine. A country of roughly 5M people, but the lives of these people are worthless. Same with Haiti. Same with Iraq and Afghanistan. Same with Somali and Sudan and Syria and Libya. They are expendable. They are disposable. They are, if anything, a tax on the well-being of the better, brighter, more noble, more fundamentally human population of English-speaking and Western-aligned peoples dedicated to sending us mineral resources at below the market clearing rate.

What we are buying with that $30m drone is a beautiful perfect world expunged of the evil rebellious creatures keeping us from all those wonderful minerals. And they have the fucking nerve to knock seven of our Wunderwaffe from the skies? This only further justifies the genocide.

Given his tanking popularity, he might be better off ordering the Trump 2032 hats alongside this and get a bulk discount.

They’ve been saying it straight back to WW1. Hell, the antiwar movement was at the heart of Bolshevism.

Shame it’s now all just Slav on Slav violence, pumped up by greedy arms dealers and psychotic mass media agitators.

it’s filled with Ukrainians who aren’t letting them.

Well… it’s filled with NATO arms and munitions, and a fair number of mercenary companies and “volunteers” from over the border who are ahem advising what’s left of the Ukrainian armed forces on how to fight back. But given the degree to which involuntarily conscription is needed to keep both Ukrainians and Russians on the front lines, this is nothing if not a rich man’s war.

Willingness for peace would be going home.

It’s crazy how often I’ve seen this with regard to Russia invading Ukraine. But not once from the US invading Iraq/Afghanistan. Or England’s occupation of Ireland. Or the Israeli presence in Palestine.

Western Chauvinism is butting up against Eastern Chauvinism. But, as usual, its the proles who pay the price.

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wrote one user on X

Any article that quotes an anonymous account on Social Media must be obligated to prove it is not a Bot, beyond a reasonable doubt, before I’m going to take it seriously. FFS, for all we know, the person who wrote that was working for Newsweek at the time.

Similarly, some hardliners

Anyone we’d recognize? No? Just anonymous randos, then?

I swear to god, if 4chan hadn’t imploded last week, we’d be getting Greentext in the headlines.

The US has been a petro-state for over a decade. Can’t imagine what they could bring to the table at this point. Probably the most effective policy towards the US is the same one applied to Iran or Cuba.

the Chinese supported the Trump campaign

The Evil Foreigners Strike Again!

Chinese end goals are one people walking along a path of corpses.

How many genocides does the US have to be involved in before this reads like a punchline?

It’s so funny to see people respond to Kristi Noem’s “Fuck you, you fucking <racial explicate>s” TV ads and think to themselves “It would be just as terrible if the Chinese started running ads where they were friendly and nice.”

The American idea of fairness is bananas. Literally getting mad because the Chinese are being too polite to brown people.

Getting really nervous when my office computer sign-on keeps prompting me to enter my credit card information.

it’s russian bullshit to distract form the fact that crimea was fucking invaded and taken through violence

Who has forgotten about the 2014 invasion? But we’ve had similar referendums in Iraq and Afghanistan under US occupation. We’ve accepted votes in Northern Ireland and Indian Kashmir and under coup governments in Chile, Spain, S. Korea, Panama, and Hawaii at face value. Clearly, violent occupation does not disqualify subsequent democratic referendums.

After that nobody should care about democratic assent.

If violence committed by a state institution disqualifies a democracy from functioning, show me which country qualifies as a democratic institution? Territorial control is predicated on violence. Ukrainian territory was only originally under Russian dominion because it was wrested from the Nazis, who wrested it from the Soviets who wrested it from the Russian Imperialists who wrested it from the Ottomans, etc, etc.

At some point, the violence has to end and democracy has to begin. If human life continues to be less important than property rights, the killing never ends.

That’s obviously untrue. We’ve spent centuries endorsing invasion of other countries and obliteration of their native cultures.

NAFOs are very defensive of Ukraine because its territory that was staked out by Western Europe after the fall of the USSR. No takesies-backsies.

I love how this is getting downvoted, particularly given that “Crimeans don’t want to be a part of Russia!” and “They’d rather die than be occupied!” were big talking points to justify Ukraine’s bombing of the territory.

You want Iraq 2.0?

After Yemen, Syria, and Libya I think we’re closer to Iraq 6.0

While the president brags about his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran and throttling its oil exports, its weapons sales to Russia get a pass.

In the spirit of bipartisanship, I think we can all agree it is time to invade Iran.

Andrew Yang also championed hiring a management consulting firm to identify areas of inefficiency in the federal workforce and cut 15–20% of current government workers, assigning KPIs and sunset clauses to all Congressional legislation, and assigning AI life coaches with Oprah’s voice to people in need of marriage counseling.

So, a very mixed bag of ideas. Few of them had a serious implementation behind them. Yang loved to noodle, but failed to explain where the novel technologies and extra-constitutional authorities would come from.

Maybe instead of whining about Panama paper doesn’t do as much as one can fantasies, read the report I linked again

The man running the law firm that managed the fraud never saw a trial, much less a conviction.

Your article of "Um, actually!"s doesn’t change that.

Researches, investigations, lawsuits, trails, laws and legislation tooks years or even decades to conclude.

After FTX imploded, Sam Bankman Fried was indicted within weeks and in prison within months. The Enron investigation and indictments came down four years after the company officially filed bankruptcy in December of 2001.

To claim prosecutions under the Panama Papers (or the Trump indictments or the Sackler oxycotin scandal or the Epstein case dismissal or the SEC investigations into Tesla or any number of other endlessly delayed prosecutions) required decades to wrap up only illustrates a deliberate attempt by domestic governments to slow roll and bury investigations that prosecutors had no personal interest in pursuing.

Joking about nothing has been done after Panama paper every time everywhere the topic came up over and over and over again is tiring and insulting

Ramón Fonseca Mora, the central figure behind Mossack Fonseca, was let out on bail a few months after his arrest and remained unconvicted until his death. How is that not a joke to you?

After the Panama Papers and similar leaks, people are ready to believe some kind of anonymous hacker collective is still out there investigating and releasing information. So they’ll jump on the headline, because it resonates with their memories of historical incidents. They won’t interrogate it, because they’re not in the position to sift fact from fiction.

This is one of the problems with Upvote-based news aggregators to begin with. You’re asking people to make evaluations of an article’s interest at the headline level, rather than relying on editors and ombudsmen to sift out what information is both credible and interesting to a wide audience.