My garden gnomes would be rigged into IEDs.

Yes the lip touch is icky and then Gabi clearly trying to pull away from the embrace in the next panel, i love the cat though lol

Excuse me just a couple degrees below freezing for a few hours? Put a coat on. Boil a hot water bottle.

This is the starting point of the real second Cold War. The moment the US admits it can not fight China. Just as it admitted it could not fight the Soviet Union and began the first cold war. The world settling into protection of their spheres of influence while cold war operations and proxy wars are undertaken instead.

Difference is that the roles are reversed this time, China is ascendant and US is in decline. The outcome is historically predictable, just need the US to be drawn into a long war it can not win nor withdraw from.

AI bubble will burst sending the US into economic catastrophe from which it will jump into wars to save itself then be unable to get out of them and eventually collapse.

Are they really going to resist when they come for them or are they going to see scary men at the door and submit because it’s scary and the magic courts will surely save them (they won’t get to a court) ?

I suspect they’re going to put up as much resistance as the migrants that are getting kidnapped, which is maybe attempting to run away but otherwise not being a huge problem.

Palantir founder openly stated the reason the company was founded was to kill communists too.

These libs think they’re immune or something. What ICE are currently doing to their list of minorities they will do to whoever is on their list of domestic terrorists too.

If the resistance is non-violent now and ineffective, it will remain just as ineffective when they start grabbing these liberals.

The roundups performed against them will look exactly the same as the roundups currently being performed against migrants.

I sincerely believe that everyone that goes on a database like this is going to get rounded up in a Pinochet-style crackdown and mass murder of any resisters when shit hits the fan. There is absolutely no other possible reason for this kind of list building. They are preparing.

Yeah like, everyone in /r/neoliberal or Destiny’s audience would use the same words so who knows. Either way I think it’s likely someone who is not a socialist whatsoever and joined specifically to find dirt and do wrecking.

It’s particularly damning because a search for ghraib will turn up previous posts including this image that weren’t removed. So the removal is entirely political and based on the mod’s supporting this trend of posts which this one is mocking and opposed to.

In the name of anti-authoritarianism I am going to snitch to Newsmax without any regard to how my authoritarian government may react to that.

Genuinely the kind of shit that could get people killed

The trots over here in europe are not explicitly anti-China in my experience. They don’t think it’s socialist but they won’t argue that it’s worse than the US or Russia and can see benefits to being friendly with them.

This smells like radlib or wrecker.

Swear to God these people read reddit comments as fact

Vote-based social media leads people to this behaviour.

The DSA member who gave Newsweek access to the materials on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation said they were uncomfortable with the Communist Party links and what they said were efforts to avoid discussing controversial issues.

“The materials document a sustained pattern of ideological alignment, narrative filtering, and network overlap consistent with influence conducted at the discursive and organizational level,” said the person, who is a member of the International Committee. “We value democracy and openness, and this directly contradicts that.”

Dipshit radlib that still believes every negative thing about China or an infiltrating wrecker. One of the two. The extremely clear way this is stated using all the key rules-based-order words smells like infiltrating wrecker to me.

Fallout Boy. Panic at the Disco.

Good to see the new season isn’t getting OPM’d

Yes true but I think you can still account for this. The attacker has to strike at one of your places of routine if they’re going to plan as meticulously as the strike team did for this. If it’s a place of routine then you can place a large ammunition stash inside that building. If you can hold out for 30-60 minutes then reinforcements will overwhelm the attacking force.

Yeah I think the “lesson” here if there is one rather than just advancing the plot for Gabi is that the work Gabi is doing is real productive work that makes something whereas the work the others are made to do is completely pointless. It doesn’t quite land though because that work wouldn’t be pointless if the machine weren’t faulty.

This is quite a difficult thing to draw, it would arguably be better to show Chief’s labour vs Gabi’s labour but that would undermine future comics where Gabi is going to end up doing the managerial and logistics stuff that Chief does. The problem here is that this is a fantasy setting so there isn’t really a “capitalist” to show the difference between labour and not-labour.

At her 2024 sentencing, Judge Lewis Kaplan said that he had never seen someone cooperate with prosecutors like Ellison in his 30 years on the bench. Kaplan nevertheless told the court that, given the severity of the crimes, he had decided to sentence Ellison to jail time. He ordered her to forfeit $11bn in assets.

Depends if she’s got something stashed or really did cooperate fully

Her digital footprint, which included Tumblr posts on race science and polyamory, provided substantial fuel for social media mockery and tabloid headlines