meanwhile California's tomato harvest rots bc they've raided the fields....
I feel like screaming
I kind of wonder if the Trump regime is taking lessons from Netanyahu about how to starve a population.
(It is slightly more correct to refer to both governments by using the same type of name)
god I hope not.
Thanks. the three of you for the reminder of what Deadly Exchange looks like.
It's not anti-semitic to describe that the various international right wing movements cooperate and learn from each other.
And it's not like Netanyahu and his coalition invented intentionally causing a famine to kill off a local population. There's plenty of other examples throughout history.
There is plenty of documentation that there is a famine in Gaza, and that factions of Israel are the ones intentionally maintaining the blockade of food and critical supplies from reaching Gaza that are causing this famine.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165383
It is pessimistic of me to think that Stephan Miller hates Hispanics so badly he would trigger widespread hunger in Los Angeles. But kidnapping farm workers and deploying troops does look like a first step of an occupation.
So maybe it'd be less Gaza and more Sarajevo, but that 1992 event has been long forgotten by most.
The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a halt and endangering the lives of everyone reliant on aid inside the enclave, UN agencies warned in a powerful joint statement on Saturday.
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That page makes no sense. It takes multiple different claims, and somehow concludes that they are all the same and ergo antisemitic:
1) Israeli training is responsible for US police brutality. (This is a gross mischaracterization of statements made by Jewish Voice for Peace. And obviously US cops don't need any help when it comes to being racist or brutal.)
2) US-Israeli joint military training makes both countries more racist and fascist. (How is this statement antisemitic? Fascists encourage each other, as always.)
3) Accusing Israel of murdering children is antisemitic. (It's a statement of fact that Israel indiscriminately kills massive amounts of Palestinian children and is in the midst of deliberately starving the rest.)
4) It's scapegoating to accuse Israel of complicity in US cops murdering Black people. (Well, no it's not scapegoating if the US cops actually doing it are blamed too. And again, this is a very "creative" interpretation of what was actually said by JVP.)
That page is as logically incoherent and full of false equivalencies as the rest of New Antisemitism.
@alienghic @cynthiarose @ai6yr oh no, that's silly. He's taking lessons from Pol Pot and Mao.
"It's gonna be a GREAT leap people, THE GREATEST leap ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN! We're going to leap back to when America was great. So many people will cry when they see what we're doing with this country."
Yeah the attacks on universities do remind me of that old time cultural revolution
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This was 4 decades ago.
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My gf's little brother picked tomatoes. He lasted less than a week.
He was good at the beginning:
@ai6yr US cuts off chips to China. Chinese government sets a goal to produce them domestically, then develops a plan and supplies the resources to make it happen.
US government plan when faced with a self-created shortage, cut off external supply and hope capitalist forces correct the problem. Any suffering caused waiting for that to happen is a price they are willing to let us pay.
@ai6yr I truly wonder what this administration is trying to accomplish.
Hanlon’s Razor suggests that the motivation behind these stupid decisions lies somewhere between incompetence and magical thinking, based on nothing more than what plays well on conservative TV and talk circuits.
I think this administration is staffed by deeply racist and ignorant people who have escaped consequences all their lives, and expect to continue to do so no matter their actions.
@numbercrow @ai6yr I think there are two groups that are actually intentional in their actions: the Steven Miller and Peter Thiel types who want to go back to subjugation and slavery, because they are truly ghouls who want to implement an iron rule of a “superior” few; and the industry titan types who have no values beyond wanting to transfer as much wealth as possible from the public to the industries they occupy while the going is good (I include Elon in this group).
But I also think these groups are TINY compared to the army of middle-managers who have been put into positions where they can actually make decisions and implement rules every day. Those people think they can profit solely through loyalty and proximity; they have no hope of being *actually* part of the groups above. This majority appears to be quite stupid and incompetent, to the point of self-harm, because they think they can outrun reality.
Waiting for all the techbros to start working picking tomatoes, I guess. Kind of hard to boost US production when you keep arresting the workers and putting them in concentration camps, with no hope of due process or release.
@PandaChronicle @ai6yr And we (aging techies) value people, capital, and goods being able to move easily. I think some tech leaders think they can influence Trump because he's transactional without a strong ideology, and apparently fascism is not a deal breaker for them.
I think they're getting played.
$150,000 and they can work 7/24 picking tomatoes, red balls, human hearts.
And the reason we buy fresh tomatoes from elsewhere is because of seasons. I can make fresh Arkansas tomatoes about 120 days a year.
But you aren't getting a fresh tomato in February from anywhere in Conus that isn't an enclosed building with added heat and/or light.
One not really funny part of this is how AP puts these stories to every news service. "Hoping to increase tomato production..."
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