Entire Middle East Land.

Fuck you NBC for continuing to sanewash your batshit headlines on actual, batshit people saying batshit stuff. Just editing out ONE word changes the tone of this article for the millions of people who will glance at it and shrug.

They want ALL of the Middle East, Mike said they have a mandate or some such shit to be entitled to basically the entire nation of Egypt all the way across Iran and down across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. For those not proficient in geography, that’s a region of land over half the size of the US and occupied by hundreds of millions of people, who likely do not want to be converted into rubble so that Israel can expand indefinitely.

theater meant to placate the angry masses

Thousands of years into our civilization and the oldest tricks still work the best. The more things change and all that.

edit: that said, Epstein was almost definitely working as a double-agent between various organizations, maybe a quadruple agent or more, he wasn’t so well-connected and powerful just because he dealt children, he also dealt secrets between superpowers, so just having contact with him as a state official puts a massive spotlight on you as a security risk.

National governments care a lot more about you being a security risk than they do about you hurting kids.

Since there is no such actual thing as “law” when it comes to power and wealth, the best we can do right now is keep the horrors fresh enough for long enough that when hopefully the administration collapses (likely) or that we see the current legislative and judicial branch decide to take action (a snowball’s chance in hell) so no, no arrests will happen until the fascies are out of office. And even then, it will hinge on the political will for a new administration or new set of representatives to take on.

There is a very strong chance it will never go anywhere. There are a lot of Epsteins out there and they’re not going to face justice for the exact reason that nobody has wanted to release Epstein’s files, which is it’s tied to too many people and massively destabilizing to governments. We want that, they don’t.

Even if we get an amazing new administration with progressive, law-abiding values, just touching the Epstein files is going to be political suicide because of the political warfare that will be leveled on anyone who tries to dig into it, so every potential leader is going to have to decide if they want to dedicate their entire time in office to fighting a raging river of opposition and legal threats and physical threats for trying to get rich, powerful people brought to justice.

I had to double check that they weren’t just recycling stories, but who would have thought that erosion and geology is still happening even as humans exist and oppose it!

An omen that we can’t fight water.

When water rises, we cannot fight it, there will be mass migrations as coastal cities become unlivable with constant storm surges and rising sea levels in the coming decades.

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At a previous job of mine in the US, the private equity company that bought out the CEO and founders came to me, a mid-level manager one day and said “We want you to look into replacing the team you manage with our outsourced workforce in Pakistan. They’re actually paid US wages and we ensure every measure to give them all the same benefits as American workers.”

To which I essentially responded: “If they’re paid the same, I cannot justify the costs of retraining an entire new team, when I have a team already trained, doing the work, and there’s no time-zone conflicts or language barriers to deal with.”

I was laid off of course, less than 3 months later. (About a week before Christmas.)

“Sorry, we’re implementing cost-saving measures and have to reduce expenditures.”

“Okay, who else is being fired?”

“Just you.”

The Pakistan team was not in fact paid US wages or anything close to it, and in fact it was such a disaster that they kept my original team on for another year.

Then found a new team in the Philippines who could do the work for pennies and canned the rest of my dozen or so former employees. A week before Christmas.

Hey Q-anon, you guys still out there?

I know ya’ll really enjoy playing find-a-word games and decoding clues and writing stories, but that thing you’ve been saying? Yah it’s all real, it’s happening RIGHT NOW and you just have to go outsi-

Oh, okay I see the issue now.

Oh the ISS is definitely bigger than anything ever sent to space, as I would expect from an international project that was built by a coalition of countries in better days, but it doesn’t really compare to China’s long-term goals and plans that have been on schedule. China is absolutely dominating space right now and will be into the future unless the US just suddenly gets it shit together and elects people who care about science and exploration, and even then it will take many years or decades now to undo the damage that trumpism has done to the US’s global leadership in space science.

The ISS is going to be deorbited in 2031, and I am not expecting a bigger, newer project to replace it. At this point I am not expecting to have access to health care broadly in 2031 in the US.

The current monster they have completed in 2022, Tiangong, was the third in a series of stations, the previous Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 stations were mostly meant to test technique and technology but were remarkable achievements in their own right. They currently have the largest and most active space program in the world. I didn’t even touch on their lunar program, their heavy satellite capability and their list of recent and upcoming solar-system probes.

China is an authoritarian dictatorship that tramples human rights and treats its citizens like resources and speed-bumps and treats “free speech” as the joke it actually is.

All that said, they are pulling ahead on the world stage by miles. We don’t see it in the US because again… freedom of speech isn’t real, media is filtered, but if you travel you see whole other angles on the entire planet and just how much we don’t get shown.

For example, you rarely see news about it, but China has launched 3 space stations in the time it took us to make just the documentaries about the ISS and how huuuuge of an accomplishment it was for the world. They are going to be launching probes and setting up smart, realistic goals for exploring the solar system. That’s just not the kind high-tech, ambitious, modern project that we associate with our stereotypical imagery of China that we get fed here, but if you actually walk around in any of their new cities you will feel a distinct, sinking sensation that we’ve already lost.

If you care about cats and/or if you care about the environment, you keep your pet cats indoors. Simple as.

A lot of reactionary, super-sensitive, chronically online children in this post wailing into the void because they’re imagining some kind of housecat Auschwitz.

You can’t claim to care about the environment and be fine with feral cats eliminating some of the most unique biodiversity on the planet. You midwit pussies out there have to make a choice.

Yes, let’s kill the cats because of all the havoc they’re wreaking on our biodiversity but let’s also ignore all the havoc that we ourselves continue to wreak.

So because humans do bad things, we should allow bad thing to continue to happen.

I would say you should get directly involved, I am sure there are plenty of groups trying to do exactly what you say which is raise money for alternative solutions, but I kind of have the feeling you’re not going to.