need someone filming to see if feds are using 1620 to stage kidnapping from like they are the parking lot at the 4d headquarters

genuinely helpful!

If you don’t already have military experience and/or speak Russian or Ukrainian I think this is probably more helpful

Man I literally have a Ukraine flag hanging in my window and my org has nothing to do with this. The war in Ukraine is an illegal, despicable invasion, but it’s ghoulish to not have empathy for kids who have never known life outside the Putin kleptocracy and are now dying for its crimes.

Yes? that's exactly the conditional. the russian state is extending promises it doesn't intend to honor to convince people to fight. idk what you're arguing but not everything is like some manichaean teleology where the facts all have to add up to a good-bad binary or they can't be trusted

It is clear designing enticements to convince people who would otherwise not sign up, and often those are extremely dubious to downright fraudulent. This is primarily a reflection on the duplicitous Russian state lmao

dawg do not misunderstand me, I don't think any of them are blameless. but I think all wars pit the working class of one nation against that of another, even when one side is in the right (Ukraine) and the other in the wrong (Russia). Russia is not filling its ranks with just jingoist grunts, though

www.rferl.org/a/russia-sys...

Not really, no! There are a lot of real monsters but I think there are also a lot of people who see it as just a job and definitely some who think "whoa I can go cool places on deportation flights" - Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE, published in N+1

there is for sure reporting on the tactics that recruiters use in Russia - it's fair to say a not-insignificant share were tricked into it

I think it's fair to say a lot of national political commentary, of the ostensible objective centrist type, is just white supremacist in its assumptions and methods and so their coverage of trump's white supremacy just validates it

As a kid with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD, having an accessible font made a huge difference for me!

He is indeed - source (because he was 12 in 2015): fivethirtyeight.com/features/pod...

Half formed theory that people over a certain age believe anyone in public is within their menu of acceptable consumable discourses, and not only do they not bother discerning if those people are abhorrent, they are convinced that if someone was a Nazi they’d have been shunned, so they must be fine

arguably the worst outcome as far as these industries go is for people who go to work in them to then be trapped and feel like they can not pursue a future apart from the furtherance of surveillance, violence, and destruction

I personally would like every single person involved in the military industrial complex to get a new job! it seems good that they are no longer putting their energies towards the work of palantir!

hit ‘em with the mamaloshen youtu.be/YUpFFG1RLEc

got my ass handed to me in 2021 for my org daring to say "statehood! democracy!" wasn't compatible with supporting unconditional aid after sheikh jarrah, and it would have been so much easier to have taken the advice that you don't need to bring up "unrelated" issues in a coalition

I feel like saying "subordinate their values for expediency" in this case elides some of the inter-organizational dynamics that make these sign-ons appealing to people. like it sucks but I think it's just way less thoughtful than any critic or defender would admit