chapotraphouse

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-retiree-return-active-duty/

I want to see the show writers flesh out their Kamala character more. I hope they retire Biden soon.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3579533

Another proof of genocide: Israel destroyed all the high populated areas in Gaza

Tmw you profiteer off of a settler-colonial project that gets the [K-slur]s out of your sight and makes them useful as instruments of slaughtering the Afro-Asiatic Hordes(tm). Tmw you're happy to see Jews and Arabs killing each other because that means you don't have to do it yourself, and you'd rather see that than Jews and Arabs as a united force against imperialism. Tmw you're given free reign to decide what is and isn't antisemitic because you have a certified "Jewish Friend" from one whole Europe away. Tmw as long as you can obscure the settler-colonial relationship with the ol reliable "3000 years" line you can act like "wow why are the Israelis and Palestinians both so violent to each other? Must be something in their... genes, maybe? Just kidding... Unless?"

Tmw you can't say any of this out loud and you have to temporarily concede white privilege to the Israeli Jews and talk about the "only democracy in the Middle East!" because the Overton window isn't Quisling enough to say the quiet parts out loud, and until then settler-colonial imperialist game has to recognize settler-colonial imperialist game with this liberal bullshit. Overton window doesn't pose many restrictions for complaining about Muslims and Arabs though, so you can just fire away with the same dehumanizing and conspiratorial rhetoric you're one day gonna openly use for Jews as well

Insert emojis of Qin Shi Huangdi setting fire to the Norwegian flag here

https://twitter.com/mis2centavos/status/1755418492751249502

Him holding Mein Kampf

Automation would increase productivity and replace workers in manual jobs, so we wouldn't have to work as much.

Here we are in 2024 and we're still working at least eight hours a day. We're actually afraid of automation because it'll take away our opportunity to work eight hours a day so we don't starve.

Productivity has also increased exponentially (note: may not actually be exponential, just using the word as a figure of speech, but a math nerd can correct my use of scale here if they want), but has the average worker benefitted as much as they should have? Of course not

Folks, there a vibe in the American left before the pandemic hit, it was weirdly optimistic. I think the podcast this site is semi named after perfectly encapsulated it. There’s two parts to this story. The High Hopes Saga, and the Post Bernie Depression. Let’s start with High Hopes, which was peak chapo. I call it that because Pete Buttigieg used the high hopes song as his campaign themesong and he absolutely ate shit much like Chapo did. Let’s look at peak Chapo, there was the five main cast. Will, Virgil, Matt, Amber, and Felix. They had ran the podcast for years and were making bank while doing it. They had a whole community of leftist podcasts surrounding them like cumtown and redscare which not an endorsement here but they were popular then. Anyways they were interviewing presidential candidates, they voice acted in disco elysium, they were touring doing live shows, they were no longer dorks on Twitter but actual celebrities. I think it all culminated when they all sang solidarity forever while doing a makeshift Bernie rally not long before Bernie dropped out and the world was forever changed by the covid virus.

Post Bernie Depression Saga.

Chapo put its faith in electorialism and it failed. You could sense the depression in the air when Bernie dropped out. Then Virgil left the podcast for sex pest allegations and the Maoist friends/daily show monstrosity crumbled at the seams. Virgil left another podcast high and dry and now we don’t talk about Virgil anymore. Amber flirted the most with the stupidpol/terf crowd and she personally stepped back. Brandon James, or the guy behind the scenes editing the podcasts has become a semi regular now. Matt had a fucking stroke which sucks because he was the only one in that highly dysfunctional group of Brooklynite failsons who had personality. Felix has no personality, his personality is as malleable as wet cardboard, and Will, I fucking hate will. He is the dumbest, least funny, annoying Chapo, he would fit in much better with cumtown. And what about the other podcasts? Besides trueanon they all kind of fucking died. Trillbillies lost a host due to harassment, Proles of the Roundtable died because someone embezzled money from it, Red Scare needs to fucking die because they are just the bisexual hot chip version of Nick Fuentes at this point, Cumtown was never funny and it was recommended to people in the same way people in Chicago recommend out of towners drink Malort. Not sure if last podcast on the left fits into the dirtbag left but they fell off too, I think the patreon for chapo is so large still only because people forgot to cancel their subscriptions.

Part three: they shut down the subreddit as a joke and it was not okay

The only based thing reddit ever did was shut down Chapotraphouse. The “community” fractured at that point and it was funny. If I wanted to listen to daily show marvel quips by people who weren’t funny enough to get on snl I would probably still listen to the daily show which I don’t because im not stuck in 2004 hopelessly watching the invasion of Iraq on a loop like some millennial boomer. No, im perpetually stuck in 2020 reliving the what ifs of the only significant event in my lifetime so far I seem to remember. And what did I get from this experience of being a chapostan during the years of 2016-2020. Random internet jokes I cannot get out of my head, whenever I see a cat i intrinsically think in my Bernie Sanders voice that that cat can have a little a salami. I don’t even eat meat, why would I fucking think that? My mind is filled with all this useless esoteric knowledge only known by the most insufferable people on the planet, like a perpetual afterparty in purgatory. I just wanted socialized healthcare my guy and now im forever jaded towards society.

Ands what’s the worst part of this? Pod Save America is still fucking going.

Repressing emotions is illogical

I'm going to keep posting about Star Trek until we get a Star Trek comm

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Two days before he died, Bertrand Russell, the great mathematician, philosopher, and humanitarian left the Israelis this message.

“The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profound miscalculation. The bombing raids deep into Egyptian territory will not persuade the civilian population to surrender, but will stiffen their resolve to resist. This is the lesson of all aerial bombardment.

The Vietnamese who have endured years of American heavy bombing have responded not by capitulation but by shooting down more enemy aircraft. In 1940 my own fellow countrymen resisted Hitler’s bombing raids with unprecedented unity and determination. For this reason, the present Israeli attacks will fail in their essential purpose, but at the same time they must be condemned vigorously throughout the world.

The development of the crisis in the Middle East is both dangerous and instructive. For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.

The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I.F. Stone as “the moral millstone around the neck of world Jewry.” Many of the refugees are now well into the third decade of their precarious existence in temporary settlements. The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their number have increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.

We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. Not only does Israel condemn a vast number. of refugees to misery; not only are many Arabs under occupation condemned to military rule; but also Israel condemns the Arab nations only recently emerging from colonial status, to continued impoverishment as military demands take precedence over national development.

All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in June, 1967. A new world campaign is needed to help bring justice to the long–suffering people of the Middle East.”

Connexions

https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5576-RussellMidEast.htm

Bertrand Russell’s Last Message, 31 January 1970

Unbeatable.

It fucking sucks, how tf did the subreddit get so big? This is just them talking about decade old twitter drama.

TIFFIN, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man who ate Chipotle every day for the past 500 days says he is finally ready to eat something new.

Bruce Wayne ended his streak Wednesday after grabbing a meal at the Tiffin Chipotle branch.

Wayne ended his streak in style, the Findlay Courier reports, by donning a Batsuit and ordering mini quesadillas because "leather isn't very forgiving."

Wayne broke the record for the most consecutive meals at the Mexican fast food restaurant in December at 426 days. Chipotle pledged a $4,260 donation to Seneca-based Financial Assistance for Cancer Treatment, in honor of the $10 a day average Wayne spent over the 426 days.

In a post on his Instagram Tuesday, Wayne says "it isn't just the end of one adventure; it's the start of a new one."

Orange cat is goated. That's it, that's the post.

I don't make the rules

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3574084

Israel stealing organs from bodies in Gaza, alleges rights group

It's a dumb bit idea. I tried it though. It was fine I guess. Maybe like 3/10 wouldn't really recommend but it has it's uses

If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.

Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.

A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.

"Get the hell out of here!" — American cartoon (undated, ca. 1930) showing the '4 Hour Day' booting the devil of 'Depression' off a cliff.

Presumably published in one of the Industrial Workers of the World's newspapers.

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