B rated 9-11?

Or

Is the heart of the empire really this dead.

  • ocho [they/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    The empire was dying regardless, this is just a panic move in order to preserve power at the expense of the other factions of the owning class.

    Chinese Century dropping soon :xi-lib-tears:

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      This. They managed to get inside because there was no real opposition until someone found out that the secret service does not fuck around.

  • Shmyt [he/him,any]
    ·
    3 years ago

    My money is on "elaborate advertising campaign to bring back 24"

    • Randomdog [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      "CTU Agent Jack Bauer, now a 74 year old man, must battle the Ant-Heefer terrorist group to stop the United States from becoming a Chinese vassal state."

      • Shmyt [he/him,any]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Voiced by David Hayter, just to confuse metal gear fans one last time.

  • Sam_Hyde [none/use name]
    ·
    edit-2
    3 years ago

    Does it matter if it was real or not? The outcome is the same. (spoilers: it's more fascism)

  • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
    ·
    3 years ago

    My hot take is that it was a planned operation in order to allow the GOP to split from Trump while painting the extreme Trump supporters are crazy, as a way to message "C'mon guys, who do you really want to follow at this fork in the road, our normal factiom, or the ridiculous trump faction." It just seem almost choreographed with how many are turning on Trump right now.

  • AliceBToklas [she/her]
    ·
    3 years ago

    nah, def not a false flag. but this is what online organizing can do and we could learn from it.

    • Randomdog [he/him]
      ·
      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Important caveat: This is what online organizing can do if the ideas of your group do not actually threaten the existing power structure.

      Any leftist operation like this would have been drone striked. (E: Drone Struck? Is that... Which one of those is grammatically correct? I kinda feel like neither?)

      • AliceBToklas [she/her]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I think there are things about how it went from "gather in DC on X day" to literally inside the senate chambers that we can learn from maybe. like, obv what they came up with tactics wise (ie just walking up to the cops and saying "we're coming in here!" and then taking a pic with them) isn't gonna work for us to a hilarious degree. but maybe we could do the kinds of stuff that they were too ineffective and incompetent to do like leaking data from terminals left open and shit.

          • AliceBToklas [she/her]
            ·
            3 years ago

            I mean, if they'd had guns it would've probably gone quite differently, it would've been great to see what kind of resistance they would've been met with on that but I don't think anybody wants to be one of the ones dying when you know it's not gonna ever go anywhere.

            and yeah, I mean, we're gonna need to think in a completely different way to actually realize a transformative revolution, things like this are obviously not going to be the revolution.

      • garbology [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Which one of those is grammatically correct?

        Grammar is made-up so don't worry too much about it, but if you're trying to keep "drone strike" as a noun phrase, you could say "targetted by drone strike".