The dumbest part is it really doesn’t matter. Union endorsements don’t move votes like it used to, and if the Teamsters leadership endorsed Kamala in spite of the member votes it would’ve made her support look artificial. Best to just shut up about it.

Not the treats!

The fundamental flaw with patents is being transferrable and the property model of them. Within the context of the current political economy, it would make more sense if someone used another’s patent commercially, the patent holder just gets a tax credit equal to some small percentage of the sales. And sweet Jesus the entire concept of being able to buy and sell patent rights is fucked up.🔝

Which would work out in Pocketpair’s favor; establishing that it was an existing, common mechanic before the patent was filed will typically get it nullified.

According to a Mastodon post, the speculation is it’s over “patents such as one for throwing and using Poké Balls in a 3D space (JP,2023-092953,A); and one for automatically switching between ride Pokémon as a player transitions between different terrain, such as between air and the ground (JP,2023-092954,A)."

IANAL, certainly not in Japanese patent law, but the first one sounds stronger to me, but still not bulletproof.

3 is just a rip off of the MTA’s “If you see something, say something.”

80% of these can be summed up as “You have semi-functional alcoholism.”

So they took the most cartoonish lib propaganda version of Lenin and said “That was actually good, it just needed to be right wing.”

going spray painting

Graffiti?

Workers so goddamn lazy and entitled these days

Whelp time to invade Iraq

Unlike in America where no one ever stifles people who voice their opposition to the political system

This is a result of a political system that only allows dissent against the neoliberal economic order to be amplified if it’s crouched in ethno-nationalist terms.

It’s one of those things left intentionally vague so that the audiences can fill in the blank. It echoes MAGA not saying when America was last great or what made it great then. So one person fills in brand identity, another fills in wokeness, another fills in celebrity worship, another fills in big government, etc. The point isn’t coherency, it’s about getting people with wildly different views to think the solution is to turn the clock back.

Religion is not it

To cover up your bullshit

Now please do not make a fit

Time to get in the god damn pit

Yeah guys the intended targets were Hezbollah, the kids killed were an oopsie. The Lebanese are being illogical if they feel terrorized by it.

Capitalism, militarism, and neo-colonialism

Fascism

There’s something about the use of hip hop here, especially in that dorky Lin Manuel Miranda cadence, that harkens back to an early 90’s PSA using the worst, no-flow hip hop to teach the kids it’s cool and dope to not litter, yo.

SMFH the unwoke YouTube channel has gone woke by forcing the disabled into their videos

The front half of the car in the background is a Volkswagen Beetle, the back half is a Chrysler.

Never actually been to an Aldi. My gold standard is Wegmans, how does Aldi compare?

New York’s finest, everyone

The dumbest part is these aren’t big Republicans. If they were, they would’ve just identified them by name.

The Garrison effect

Ironically, I don’t think it’s the FOMO of the game itself that drives them, it’s the FOMO of the pseudo-social experience of the day one purchase-play-social media feedback cycle.

Someone on here once pointed out that because feminism and the LGBTQIA+ movements didn’t come to Britain until after its colonial era, it was never weaponized to justify imperialism to bring LGBTQIA+ enlightenment to the third world “barbarians” like what happened in the U.S.

Which in the context of the scene makes sense. They’re sneaking off to a restricted area they’re not supposed to be in while most of the denizens of the springs are asleep, of course they would be keeping quiet as to not alert anyone.

The second bit with Mr. Nomad is much more infuriating to me than Luckey. Luckey is a ghoul but it’s typical ghoul shit: war machines, American exceptionalism, justified the two with the “threat” of Russia and China even though they’ll be inevitably used against “underdeveloped” nations no where near superpower status (which has a domestic equivalent in the creeping security state justified with the threat of terrorism but overwhelmingly used for the war on drugs).

Nomad, on the other hand, how willfully ignorant do you need to be to think efficiencies in the military industrial complex would lead to reduced government spending? When has that ever lead to anything other than more spending? This is the most part of libertarians, they simultaneously think capitalists are good for putting the profit motive above all else but then also think “good” capitalists follow this morality play version of capitalism with all these rules that go against the profit motive.

But also, throwing shit tons of money at the military industrial complex is the exact opposite of different. That’s about as status quo as it gets in DC.

Yeah mainstream western animation, especially back then, tends to have action, dialogue, or both going on at any time. Execs saw more than a couple seconds of just scenery, emotion and were like “fill the gap with something!”

Yeah it goes off towards the end. The sub script isn’t bad in the abstract, but it’s also kind of weird that they decided to deviate that much. It’s not like the Japanese script has anything weird or problematic. Almost like Disney just assumed that they had to change it because something would be off-putting to Western audiences, even if they didn’t know what.

Yeah this just confirms that America is on the wrong side of history here

I assumed they meant in the context of Star Trek Voyager

The “[historical figure] would’ve supported [modern candidate/movement/policy]” is the most brain dead argument. Obviously, they’re not here to tell us otherwise. But more importantly, despite the iconography being fun, figures like Lenin, Mao, etc were not prophets delivering holy truths from on high. They were just people making the best of their situations and figuring out what worked in the moment. Which is the best we can do, and often that means taking a different tactic than leftists of old. Ironically, playing games of “What would Lenin do?” is the exact opposite of conceptualizing theory in the modern context because it ties leftist politics to people who had decades of evolving context since their deaths.

I enjoyed Donut County and Neon White that they published

Yeah how’d that work out for the New Popular Front in France?

I’m going to assume “toned down the physics” means her breasts no longer constantly jiggle like there’s a blind mouse inside them trying to get out.

I’ll take a slightly different take and argue it’s a coping mechanism. They see an ascendent neo-fascism that they’re powerless to stop, with the liberal institutions discarding any pretense of caring about what their constituents want and are at best indifferent to the neo-fascism, at worst willing to ally with it to protect their interests (see: Macron). So they look for something easy to feel like they’re getting a W and, oh look here’s this loud online but completely powerless in real politics hard left. So they can act like “containing the tankie contagion” is them doing their part to preserve “democracy.”

So is she arguing for a single state solution then? Because Palestinian statehood is intrinsic for a two state solution, and the only other option is one state with equal rights. Getting big-time vibes from her.

So what they said is, there was a relatively straightforward way of accessing the services; general doctor gives you a referral to a specialist, most likely in Moscow, you get treatment/services at their facility. On paper, state run and covered. In practice, getting better care typically meant greasing some palms. Things like paying out of pocket for sheets at the facility, or a little “gift” to the doctor to ensure you get the better meds. Without that there was still care, just the minimum.

Two important caveats/notes: this was their observations as a youth receiving disability services, so it doesn’t speak to long-term programs for adults. This was also in the waning years of the Soviet Union, so their observations don’t speak for the entirety of the USSR, just that period of heavy flux.