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“You bitches screamed too loudly and now you got bombed, you happy now?” is actually not an expression of feminist values. It’s an expression of patriarchal disciplining.

So much of discourse about Iran relies on the false binary of “being victimized by IR vs being victimized by western imperialism”. When the majority of people are fucking both.

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Those feminists you’re mad at are actually currently getting bombed. The feminists you’re mad at might have been in that very volleyball team actually. This is antifeminism cloaked as feminism.

I dunno if they're just stupid or set on trying to install the Shah's son, but they also demonstrably have no issue with the secret police or the state apparatus that oppresses Iran's populace, because they're not striking fucking police, they're hoping they can just shift control over them.

I've heard folks speculate that they were having AI compile lists of targets and then were surprised at who they killed, but I think the more plausible explanation is that the they gave the command to take out all potential leadership alternatives, including relative moderates.

What the actual fuck is going on with people sympathizing with Ahmadinejad and other so-called political opposition in Iran.

Motherfucking campism is rotting your brain.

Fuck you all, sympathizing with murderers and painting that bullshit as righteous

We would have killed them if we had a chance

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or how Paula Ben-Gurion (his wife) was originally an anti-Zionist anarchist from NYC since her teens. All
nationalism (but especially settler or imperial nationalisms) is a fascistic singularity, inevitably bending all ideologies towards fascism like a black hole bends light toward itself.

This just begs the response:

"There will be future generations?!"

I remember when my uncle from Philly called my dad to see if Philly had made the Canadian news. My parents were positive he was drunk, cuz no way the govt drops a bomb on a city and it’s not all over everyone’s news shows. We were all so dumb.

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

We all stan Lisa, and I would say she's been extraordinarily functional in a ton of contexts, but yeah being instinctively wedded to "participatory democracy" and without a more mathematical/LWMA critique of collective decisionmaking... things can go sour.

Oh the grumbling I did. Yeah, not saying there weren't organizationalist misuses of consensus within the anarchist movement, particularly with spokescouncils at summits. But at least there had usually been some points of unity, vetting and social filtering of participants.

Yeah, this to me was always the biggest fundamental break between Occupy and anarchism. Two completely different approaches to consensus, and so it's particularly annoying that normie libs and socialists walked away with this wild ass fucking perception that Occupy was anarchist.

In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentivized to destroy that company. The reason goes back to the question of international law, North Korea, and the rest: International law is ultimately a function of power; might makes right. There are some categories of capabilities — like nuclear weapons — that are sufficiently powerful to fundamentally affect the U.S.’s freedom of action; we can bomb Iran, but we can’t North Korea. To the extent that AI is on the level of nuclear weapons — or beyond — is the extent that Amodei and Anthropic are building a power base that potentially rivals the U.S. military. Anthropic talks a lot about alignment; this insistence on controlling the U.S. military, however, is fundamentally misaligned with reality. Current AI models are obviously not yet so powerful that they rival the U.S. military; if that is the trajectory, however — and no one has been more vocal in arguing for that trajectory than Amodei — then it seems to me the choice facing the U.S. is actually quite binary: Option 1 is that Anthropic accepts a subservient position relative to the U.S. government, and does not seek to retain ultimate decision-making power about how its models are used, instead leaving that to Congress and the President. Option 2 is that the U.S. government either destroys Anthropic or removes Amodei.

Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...

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I mean I respect and like much of Spencer's work on antisemitism, but during zionism discourse he kept complaining that he had an position he was keeping secret that would get him canceled and I was like okay put up or shut up do you think israel has a "right to exist" and he did not like that

Occupy is widely talked about within anarchist spaces as the deathknell of the counter-globalization era, where for the first time in a decade the big thing *wasn't* anarchist. The point where we were eclipsed and drowned by libs. Completely at odds with the narrative that occupy was our apex.

I've written many times on anarchist involvement, but involvement -- usually a minority of a local anarchist scene doing unsung infrastructural support work -- is not remotely the same thing as the camps being anarchist.

(The Oakland Commune at Oscar Grant Plaza was pretty much the sole exception where existing anarchists were widely actually into shit.)

The idea that Occupy -- a liberal shitshow widely shit-talked and almost entirely boycotted by the anarchist movement for a thousand reasons -- was "anarchist" is one of those insane-making historical revisionist narratives that I will be suffering until I die.

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

hate to see it (again and again and again)

love to see it (again and again and again, always ignored)

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Goalpost already moved from "the military is comprised entirely of the starving orphans from 'Oliver Twist'" to "50k annually isn't middle class, the cost of college justifies bombing people way poorer than that", so that's good to know.

Everyone in the US is one bill away from bombing a school!

Governments, notably the USA but most others as well, operate very much like gangs and cartels, threatening to go murder their opposition, threatening retaliation if they are murdered etc.

And yet people act like it's completely unreasonable to question the global system of patron psychopaths.

Ah, yes, the NYT has no choice in what writers and opinions they platform and set as within the overton window. That's why there's so many anarchists calling for immediate revolution on the NYT editorial page.