News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bombs)

[rublev]

[rublev]

i'm not sure i was prepared for it to be this bad only a few days in

[swampblood]

Welp this has been an incredibly demoralizing couple of weeks to start working on the Hill. I've been trying to work through empathizing with some Trump voters while not showing solidarity with the man or his policies, but in all honesty this first couple of days just has me seething. The gag order placed on the EPA & National Park Service staff is particularly egregious. Our phones literally haven't stop ringing as these confirmations happen, still holding out hope that DeVos doesn't make it through but I'm really not sure.

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

trump's a repulsive pig but obama deliberately killed a 16-year-old american citizen with a drone strike so are things really gonna get worse or is the shit just more transparently shitty now

[odradek]

things are actually worse.

[swampblood]

[rublev]

hehehe

[rublev]

[rjbman]

[Ques]

[rjbman]

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

[BobbyZamora]

Just dropping in to mention the fact that the guy who shot up a Mosque here in Canada, killing 6 people and wounding 8, was a trump supporter who frequented alt-right forums on the internet.

[rublev]

[rublev]

[ramseames]

[BobbyZamora]

I haven't heard anyone here mention the fact that Trump is reviving the Dakota Access pipeline

So as a reminder, this is what happens when militarized police throw a flashbang at your arm while you are protesting the pipeline:

[pirxthepilot]

pwc lols @ bela's 10 year uncertainty and goes full futurologist. srsly if we are ever going to make money out of report on teen consumption patterns in 2050 the time is now

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -brexit-us

[bels]

I thought you said pwvc and thought there was a futurist ventile collection in boring colours incoming

[rublev]

i'm ready

[vgtbls]

The teen consumption patterns I'm most interested in are the inevitable rise of drug-resistant juvenile tuberculosis

[rjbman]

- something fucked up going on with the Sandusky clan. Either they're both just horrific deviants or Jerry Sandusky abused his son.

[wolflarsen]

. Flynn sets a record when it comes to shortest tenure here, but will this be some sort of major defeat/hurdle for the administration? From what the last two years have shown, probably not. Maybe another think piece will do the job though?

When it comes to neoliberal democracy, institutions trump (no pun intended) individuals. The current US administration is heralded as the death knell for the neoliberal age, but it was granted power/is shielded by that same political philosophy.

[rublev]

trump's national security apparatus is a disaster. i think we need wait for the rest of the investigations re russia and the new administration to run their course. flynn will be the short term fall guy for a potentially compromised administration. with his IC history / record, i still can't get over how stupid he was to have made that phone call - he would have know it would be recorded. presumedly trump knew about it. peskov is giving a 'no comment' to all questions flynn related. i'm surprised by the level of discomfort in the kremlin / state media over the resignation.

btw, most criticism i've read of trump has been less chomsky dialect / ' end of neoliberal age' (???), and more centred around his attacks on the independent media and judiciary, his disregard for checks and balances, his nativist agenda smuggled in under the guise of 'law and order' and his general apathy towards the US role of 'balancing' (europe, east asia etc). i'd imagine everyone would be concerned about those

[rublev]

[deadirishwriters]

[rjbman]

Characteristics of Facism:
#6 Controlled Mass Media: check

[rublev]

3 years ago today russia's little green men began to seize crimea









it's quite interesting to BBC reports from 2014 again

also worth binge watching simon ostrovsky's vice news dispatches from on the ground which really were A+ (and addictive)

[rublev]

[rublev]

what a correction