• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    ‘Emergency order’

    “Hurry! If we don’t act now people might not starve to death!”

    Trying to end the starvation to death of civilian populations is more of a developing, 3rd world country kind of behavior

    (Yemeni warriors in regards to the man-made famine in Gaza)

    (Cuba and Venezuela in response to Hurricane Katrina; in unsurprising fashion, the government blocked it)

    Compare instead for example the man-made famine in Ireland during the second Desmond rebellion:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Desmond_Rebellion#End_of_the_rebellion

    And then Britain’s exacerbation of the so-called potato famine

    All this just history? Britain went on to starve the people of Bengal to death as well

    And also Western powers supporting Israel while they starved Palestinians to death; and they KNEW Palestinians were being starved to death quite early into the genocide, as this comic from the ‘left-leaning’ Charlie Hebdo publication shows as early as March 2024, six months after the start of it; mocking the starving Palestinian people; one wonders what’s going through the artist’s mind while he literally draws a goofy looking starving child:

  • i_drink_bleach [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    One decent egg is around 33¢. One round of 5.56x45 is around 30¢. One round of 7.62x39 is around 48¢ (sorry Warsaw comrades.) Food is going to keep getting more and more expensive. The US is a country that prioritizes the production of ammunition over the production of food. Bullets are not going to keep getting more expensive. ATC is not getting paid. The military is not getting paid. How long until quartermasters start “losing” barrels of ammunition to the market to keep their family fed? Draw conclusions from that as you will. I am not suggesting or condoning anything actionable, but the circumstances as they factually are do not bode well for the ruling class given historical precedent.

    “Only [ x ] meals stand between the status quo and a revolution”

    —{an amalgamation of over a hundred years of variations on this same quote1}, 2025; where x is the untested, but certainly low and absolutely finite number of meals that prevent revolution.


    1 - Farthest traceable original variation is attributed to Alfred Henry Lewis in 1896:

    “Those of us who are well fed, well garmented and well ordered, ought not to forget that necessity makes frequently the root of crime. It is well for us to recollect that even in our own law-abiding, not to say virtuous cases, the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen.”

    1896 October 24, The Irish Standard, Murderous Hanna, Quote Page 8, Column 3, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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    Justice Jackson issued the ruling. I went to Bluesky to try to figure out what was going on with her fucking sportsball ruling. I saw people calling it a “wizard move”. But there were no good explanations about why and how so I googled.

    I found a Substack by a lib lawyer. He calls it a “a very quick explainer” but he drones on and on and on and on and fucking on. I skipped 90% of it. Jackson’s lib logic seems to be by doing this herself - she thinks she’ll get a better outcome because if the GOP justices issued the ruling - the results would be (much?) worse.

    190. SNAP WTF?

    A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an “administrative stay” in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what’s likely to happen next

    […]

    In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control the timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have.

    In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree, but which strikes me as eminently defensible under these unique (and, let’s be clear, maddening and entirely f-ing avoidable) circumstances.

    […]

    From where I’m sitting, that’s why Justice Jackson, the most vocal critic among the justices of the Court’s behavior in Trump-related emergency applications, ruled herself here—rather than allowing the full Court to overrule her. It drastically increases the odds of the full Supreme Court resolving this issue by the end of next week—one way or the other.

  • Что_такое_любовь [any]@hexbear.net
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    Am I reading that right? The justice who blocked the full payments was a Biden nominee?

    I seem to remember people telling me the reason it was important to keep Trump out of office was to avoid allowing him to nominate hostile judges.

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      It’s a classic case of liberals (and especially those liberals in high positions in government) believing in process over goals. To them, it is more important that the judiciary not overstep their bounds than that millions of people not starve.

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          You fucking commies just dont understand how to fight fascism, something only liberals know how to do.

          So. First off. Get a gun. Join the ss. Become their finest soldier, lead every charge rape murder and pillage the enemies of fascism until they trust you.

          Then when they allow you close, you must suck their dicks so hard your body literally implodes from vacuum pressure as you suck on the Fuhrer’s dick and he has a spectacular orgasm.

          If enough of us do that, he will have a heart attack.

          Any interruption or opposition to this plan is basically being a fascist.

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          Yes, remember, even a “good” supreme court judge has lived a life insulated by wealth and cannot relate to the suffering of the proletariat.

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      Because it is not what the original, slave owning, Rome worshiping, racist, misogynist, aristocratic “founders” would have wanted. How does the council know it’s not what they would have wanted? The scientific, empirical process of time-traveling mind reading, of course!

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    In the perfect Communist future, the Supreme Court will only exist to determine which products can be marked with the Supreme logo and sold for a higher value for some reason

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    Why are people surprised (particularly non hexbear)? This is what America is best at… Creating starving conditions through sanctions or aiding people Israel who starve others. This won’t be the last time it starves its own people

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    There’s a violent white supremacist group that claims only 3% of the population rising up resulted in the successful American revolution.

    42 Million people are on the brink of starvation, by their government, at the behest of capital and the government isn’t even trying to hide it. Seems like greater than 3% of the US population…

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      Why do you think they are moving top figures onto military bases? They are creating riot situations.

      Of course, this would work better if they also paid the military…

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        I wonder if they genuinely think they could put down unrest at that scale.

        I just don’t think they have the numbers or actual will for it.

        Even if you aren’t directly affected by this stuff you know people who are. It was one thing when they created a reality without facts for their followers, but it seems like they’ve eaten their own tail on this and now genuinely believe the reality they’ve made up.

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    I’m hearing that the Wal-Mart corporation is set to take over most of the functions of the federal government, relegating many of its various bodies and functionaries to ceremonial roles.