Nah. The electoral theatre and ritual has too much ideological value for the yanks to do away with it as it gives the people a feeling of having a stake in the regime and diffuses discontent into harmless cheering for either the red or the blue faction of the state party. America might very well take the mask off even further and crush all dissent but they would still keep having elections.
Mr. president sir, on a scale from one to ten where one is least favourable and 10 is most favourable, where would you put 5?
That one was explicitly legalised by government decree right after the war started.
The sentence "someone who fought for ordinary folks all their life" is exactly one "for" too long to describe Genocide Joe.
Why would Trump end the Ukraine war? It's perfect for keeping the European vassals in line as well as for funnelling money into the MIC. Isn't the republicans as beholding to MIC influence as the democrats? Is there a better grift for republicans than Ukraine?
We all fear the emergence of a competent cognitively intact fascist.
Hindenburg was also touted as the sensible and moderate candidate that would protect Germany of the extremes of the far right as well as the far left.
Hooray! I have been yearning for feces-infused tap water for ages!
That is a criticism you could make against most of the slop that passes for political journalism in the golf course countries. Politicians of all variants of reactionary ideologies are routinely allowed to lie, bullshit and evade questions and are still treated like serious and important people. The libs are just mad that their guy was too demented to take advantage of it this time.
If genocide Joe resigns, will the democrat faction of the American state party be able to agree on an alternative ticket? Do they have anyone who is liked by donors and who is at least not reprehensible to voters? Will American voters be dumb enough to think that a fresh face also means a fresh start instead of just more of the same late capitalist rot?
In an act of magnanimous humanitarian generosity Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime has decided to accept a number of quota refugees in 2024, primarily women and children.
How many refugees will flood the tiny kingdom and will Danish society be able to bear such an inflow of non-aryans non-whites non-westerners without succumbing to the burden? Kaare Dybvad Bek, head of Denmark's succdem-controlled ministry of integration and immigration gives the following answer:
We have always said that the number is very important. I believe that by keeping the number at 200 quota refugees, we ensure that integration can still keep up.
Since 2020, Denmark has accepted 200 quote refugees. Denmark has a population of six million.
Trump is a disgusting pig but at least he seemed aware of where he was and he could form reasonably coherent sentences. That kind of thing is big with voters.
I got it from Danish government broadcaster DR. The link is in Danish but I'm sure you can make sense of it with machine translation.
There has been plenty of stories the last time of naval incompetence, including ships on deployment in the Arctic being too understaffed to operate at night, guns that could not be aimed for years be aimed because somebody didn't buy the necessary fire control systems and ships being struck in harbour because their engines doesn't work for inexplicable reasons.
Danish media has written a lot about the failing frigate. I don't know if there is any English-language sources but you can run this interview with the captain through Google Translate if you want to know what happened.
You are right. Biden should live in an assisted living facility where qualified elder care workers can give him the care he needs. In an ideal world, such a living situation would also be available to him from the day he is extradited to Palestine and until the sentence of the war crimes tribunal is carried out.
Europeans feel superior to the American people who they consider to be uncultured swine with nothing but guns and cheeseburgers on their mind. Europeans also feel houndishly loyal to the American state, as they give it sole credit for saving them from the horrors of Nazism and communism. Received wisdom in Europe is that America is the benevolent big brother who keeps us safe from the "jungle" with their bloated military and that any break with America would be the recipe for disaster and Russian/Chinese invasion of ever inch of land from Portugal to Svalbard.
Trump represented a big ideological problem for Europeans as he was the leader of the American while also being placed solidly in the "average American idiot" category by his theatrics. Other presidents acted the part, not confusing the Europeans. Even the visibly demented Biden has been able to project sufficient "professional elite" vibes for Europeans to accept him. Maybe this will change now the powers that be has decided that Biden's dementia is an acceptable topic of conversation.
The frigate was engaged in combat with drones. Her surface to air missiles malfunctioned and the crew attacked the drones with the main cannon. Many of the shells fired were past their expiration date and exploded in mid-air before hitting their intended target.
The Danish navy had stocks of fresh shells but nobody had thought of equipping the ship with those instead of the expired ones.
The Danish navy is withdrawing the frigate Ivar Huitfeldt as well as her sister ship Niels Juel from NATO service. The decision is caused by several weapons system failing in active combat on Ivar Huitfeldt during a recent deployment against Yemen in the spring. The failed mission caused the Liberal Party-controlled ministry of defense to sack the chief of defence in a messy and public process.
The two ships were scheduled to be alternating NATO flagships in the latter half of 2024 but they will now have to stay in Danish waters until their armaments have been thoroughly tested and repaired. In the press release announcing the withdrawal, the acting chief of defence claims that part of the reason they will not send ships with potentially faulty weapons systems on NATO missions is that the threat level now is elevated compared to a few months ago when the deployment to Yemen happened.
I feel stressed and overwhelmed with the constant amount of stuff I have to do all the time. There's work, there's family, there's chores, there's personal finances, there's my health, there's personal relations, there's a thousand little things that screams for my attention. Somewhere in there there's also the desire to one day relax and maybe do something because I want to do it instead of it being something I have to do.
There's just so much and the pile of tasks keeps growing and growing. I don't have the time and energy to do half of what I feel I'm supposed to do and almost no time and energy to do what I have to do. I'm exhausted and stressed and I feel guilty all the time for letting people down.
I feel like I never have the time to do things right or to handle the problems that are draining my time and energy. Instead I'm constantly running around and putting out fires. If I were to put enough time and effort into actually improving some of the things that are stressing me it would mean I would have to let go somewhere else and suffer the ramifications.
I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years back. I got meds and they have improved things a lot but nobody helped me figure out how to organise daily life with ADHD. I don't even know if time management would help, I don't waste my time, I get things done, I just never get enough things done. And besides, what good is a schedule if there's constantly some external factor demanding a change of plans?
How do you manage this?
I hope 2024 becomes a great year for you reading this, for the Hexbear community and for working class liberation all over the world.
Terf Islanders are tiiiiiiired
I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th
It's a red flag with a steam train on it. How cool is that?
The picture is from a recent visit to a railway museum where they had an exhibit about the cold war. Being written by western libs the text next to the flag talked about how civil defence at places like the railway workshops was complicated when "everybody didn't agree on who the enemy was" and called the communists a "fifth column". Apparently, as all workers had to take part in civil defence still and know about plans in case of war, authorities were worried that the large communist presence at the workshop meant that they would tell the USSR about the plans or use their knowledge to sabotage the railways in case of war.
I work in tech. I like the work itself and my coworkers are all nice and polite people. But their views on politics, economics and the world in general is complete dogshit.
Elon Musk? The world's biggest brain genius. Demanding fees for healthcare? Very reasonable and necessary. Inheritance tax? An unspeakable injustice. Jordan Peterson? An insightful intellectual. Learning a second foreign language in school? Waste of time when you could have programming classes instead. Learning ancient history in high school? Stupid and useless when you already know you want to work in tech. STEM? The pinnacle of prestigious human knowledge. Humanities? A ridiculous and useless waste of time. Trades? Probably okay if you're too stupid to do something better. Unions? Outdated and useless. Arts? Does not compute.
All they seem to care about is learning how to code, getting a job or starting a business and succeeding at that by being a lone Randian superman. They have no sense of broader solidarity or for the existence of something of value beyond the hamster wheel of the grindset.
I think these people are a product of an educational system that is set up to produce good employees rather than good citizens. University level education will include a few token classes on broader subjects like history or philosophy but staff and students treats them like something to get over with so you can do the important stuff rather than something of importance. And you can hardly blame them, the dog eat dog world of capitalism doesn't reward an engineer for writing sonnets or knowing labour history and consequently students focus their attention on learning stuff that will make them less likely to end up on the bottom of the hierarchy.
In essence generations has been raised to be very skilled in a few practical technical fields while being completely illiterate about everything else.
How do you deal with these people in daily life? With their idiotic reactionary beliefs and their stubborn refusal to acknowledge any form of culture beyond the handful of IP rights white western cishet males are expected to enjoy?
And how do we prevent STEM lord bullshit under socialism?
