She still lied. She openly refused to call it a genocide, she said Israel was “defending” itself, and she helped Biden sell the lie that they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire and a two state solution. That’s all lies too.

Lying to Americans about Gaza has been the bipartisan policy our entire lives lol

… although, yeah, him tearing up the nuclear deal in his first term and his Arab-Israeli normalization plan to unite Israel and the Gulf states against Iran actually might have set us on this course. The nuclear deal could have potentially brought Iran in-line with US interests in the region, and he blew that up. Normalization, meanwhile, was basically the reason for Operation Al-Aqsa Flood which started this phase of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians (to be clear, the genocide was ongoing before Oct 7th).

In the counter-factual, where Hilary won and the nuclear deal was maintained and Iran was brought in with the rest of the Gulf states in alliance against China, Israel probably would have been able to carry out its ethnic cleansing of Palestine without a war. Instead, thanks to Trump, Israel is going to destroy itself trying to wage war on all of its neighbors and will be broken against the Axis of Resistance.

Naturally people will blame Trump because he doesn’t really care about Ukraine, but this was inevitable when Israel started sucking up all of the USs military aid. Without a massive increase in industrial capacity to build even more weapons, eventually, the stockpiles were always going to run low.

Because it’s a weak vassal state and it exists to obey the imperial core.

Critical support for Trump’s struggle against US cultural and scientific imperialism.

Army recruitment is down, unionization is up. Support for the government has fallen and support for imperial adventures has also fallen. Wages have been stagnant when measured against inflation for decades. This all means something, don’t you think?

Maybe it’s premature to say the first world workers have been fully debourgeoisified, but I think the process has begun.

I think bourgeoisification was something that happened when the empire was at its peak, and even then, the imperial core contained its own internal colonies where workers were superexploited for superprofits.

I also don’t think it’s necessarily useful to think of first world workers as bourgeoisified anymore. The superprofit are running out.

What is the reason you think philosophy of the mind exists as a field of study?

In part, so we don’t assign intelligence to mindless, unaware, unthinking things like slime mold - it’s so we keep our definitions clear and useful, so we can communicate about and understand what intelligence even is.

What you’re doing actually creates an unclear and useless definition that makes communication harder and spreads misunderstanding. Your definition of intelligence, which is what the AI companies use, has made people more confused than ever about “intelligence” and only serves the interests of the companies for generating hype and attracting investor cash.

Iowa was the first, so there was no elimination. Let me remind you the voting systems crashed and then Pete was declared the winner… and then he never won any other state again. It was a one-off victory surrounded by controversy.

It’s why Iowa lost it’s first in the nation status.

Let me rephrase. If your definition of intelligence includes slime mold then the term is not very useful.

There’s a reason philosophy of the mind exists as a field of study. If we just assign intelligence to anything that can solve problems, which is what you seem to be doing, we are forced to assign intelligence to things which clearly don’t have minds and aren’t aware and can’t think. That’s a problem.

Is that so? 💅

If your definition of intelligence doesn’t include awareness it’s not very useful.

Do you think Buttigieg actually won the Iowa caucus?

Gasp!

… so only 255 people have been arrested in five years? Or did they just leave out the part where they mention the total number of arrests?

Republicans are going to kill me, but Democrats let them.

I’m not saying the Democrats could do anything now, but that they could have done this same thing when Biden was president.

Democrats certainly acted like they needed a 3/5 override, it’s no wonder you thought so.

Bouta find out if the parliamentarian is real, or just something Democrats pretend is real.

I thought I hated beans until I tried cooking them in the air fryer, but it totally changes their texture. Gives them a nice crunch for wraps, tacos, pasta, salad topping, whatever.

Oh also get one of those huge cannisters of MSG. That shit is magic.

So is mine, but if there isn’t a civil war my state is still going to put me in a camp for being trans.

Let me rephrase: do you think we’ll be safe if the US doesn’t collapse?