PKMKII

PKMKII, 3 months ago

Oh, a government program to buyout defaulted properties? You don’t say?

PKMKII, 4 months ago

Of course, none of this has anything to do with the slaughter of innocents, just that Israel is creating too much “uncertainty.”

PKMKII, 4 months ago

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

Has this asshole never been at a firing range? Gunshots are loud, how could he mistake an acorn for them except out of ignorance?

PKMKII, 4 months ago

Wait until they find out Jesus carried water

PKMKII, 4 months ago

So I get if they think the bids they’re getting from the streaming services are too low to justify spending on the marketing, or if it’s unfinished and at this point it’s not worth completing. But if they’ve got a full movie in the can, why not just upload it to YouTube and be like “free movie y’all.” The PR off that move would at least be something.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

See, Houthis only care about their personal political games and only put on airs about caring for others, unlike America that’s defending global liberty and democracy

projection

PKMKII, 4 months ago

The amazingly stupid part to me isn’t so much that he bought a luxury car and then the price came down, it’s that it looks like he bought it with the expectation that the value was going to go up. Rule number one of buying a new car, 30-50% of the sale value disappears the moment you drive off the lot. That he thought Elon hype magic was going to offset that is an extra level of sad.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

At least the Jobs one seems to be dissipating, or maybe it’s just easier for people to see the warts when it’s generic CEO running the company and not The Visionary.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

It’s sort of analogous to the whole “The televised debates won JFK the election” thing. It helped JFK but him and his team didn’t fully understand it because it was too new. It would take later politicians to fully exploit it. Likewise, Jobs had the public persona for the mystery cult but he didn’t really develop it or get the potential in the Web 2.0 era, whereas Musk and Trump did and played it up for maximum effect.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

This makes no goddamn sense. France is partially capitalist? I could see that being a “social democracy isn’t real capitalism” angle but then why the hell are the Nordic countries full capitalism? Botswana is full capitalism but South Africa is only partial, guessing that’s a “we have to recognize it’s highly developed for Africa but we don’t like Mandela so it gets a ding.”

PKMKII, 4 months ago

Dude clearly has delusions of grandeur, but the fuel being fed into that is far right ideology. In a sense, he just acted on what right wing rhetoric says is the ideal.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

I don’t mind that AOC isn’t all “viva la revolution!” all the time, but this pusillanimous inability criticize her own party’s leadership when it’s warranted is contemptible. You’ve got the most prominent profile of any Congress critter that isn’t in leadership, your electoral base isn’t dependent on their kind graces, they’re not going to give you shit anyway, stop playing nice with them. Oh no, Nancy Pelosi said something mean to you? Then tell her to fuck off!

PKMKII, 4 months ago

Removed his bloated salary from the payroll, man was truly dedicated to profit margin optimization until the very end.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

Firing squad is messy, fentanyl I’m guessing being a controlled substance/opioid makes it a no go. I remember reading a few years back that the EU was ceasing the export of the chemical traditionally used in lethal injections in the U.S. so my guess is they’re experimenting with a replacement they can source easily.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

Either West or the PSL candidate depending on who’s on the ballot. I never thought the “voting at all only legitimizes the system” argument was valid because it makes the false assumption that TPTB are dependent on voter turnout to legitimize the system. The turnout could be twenty percent, they’d still push a “shining beacon of democracy” message and the consent will be manufactured.

Now I know there’s zero chance a third party candidate will win, but I’ve noticed that non-voters don’t even get discussed in the narrative. They may demonize third party voters, but at least they talk about them.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

I get the impression most of the people who are anti-conscription have fled the country.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

My first thought was, Asian American PMC type who lives in a bougie suburb who got pulled over to be given a friendly notice that his left taillight was out.

PKMKII, 4 months ago

I think the best outcome would be some negotiated settlement where the separatist territories get some sort of semi-autonomous status, halfway between being Ukraine and being Russia, but more importantly that it’s China that brokers the negotiations. Release valve gets put on the pressure cooker, but Zelensky essentially abandoning the U.S./West as the path out of this in favor of someone that can talk to Russia instead of talk down to Russia. Absolute humiliation for the DC blob.

PKMKII, 5 months ago

That’s what I really love about the fetishizing of antiquity and medieval masculinity, the guys they’re jerking themselves off over were on average a good half foot shorter than the average modern man.

PKMKII, 5 months ago

ThE oNlY dEMoCrAcY iN tHe MiDdLe EaSt

PKMKII, 5 months ago

Yes, we have one party here [in Tanzania]. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!

Julius Nyerere

PKMKII, 5 months ago

Mexico elected AMLO that’s why they dropped their “democracy” score.

PKMKII, 5 months ago

At least in my circles, the main talking point is the fact that this war goes back literally to the dawn of human civilization in this area.

Would really like to hear what this person thinks the “Palestinian” side and “Israeli” side was 10,000 years ago in the Levantine.

‘Complexity’ is an illusion.

That is the ultimate “dumb guy’s idea of a smart idea”.

PKMKII, 5 months ago

American insistence that this war continue until Russia/Putin is “broken” is doing way more to end Ukrainian lives than Russia.