There’s more parallels when you consider Tolkien was writing a critique of industrialization. Evil wasn’t just represented by the One Ring, but also mining too greedily and too deep, cutting down all the trees, poisoning all the water, etc etc.

There’s smoke rising from Isengard these days because they fired the coal plants back up.

Foundational childhood memory right there.

I would, because I don’t think this current body will last much longer.

If they replaced him who knows how long he’d be around?!

We still have people out in the fields picking vegetables. It’s not a solved problem.

It’s more labor intensive, especially for corn. You can’t just run a big harvester over the field, someone has to go out and pick it.

I think it’s as simple as projecting their guilt to tear down the person making them feel guilty.

Feeling guilty is hard. Feeling angry is easy and fun!

China’s the only country Israel can’t blackmail?

As far as I can tell it’s not “especially” weapons export, it’s exclusively weapons export. European arms embargoes are good, but China seems to have gone farther here and stands alone in willing to do a larger general ban. According to the article it’s not just one company, China has declared that Israel is a “red zone” for investors and have prohibited any investment. Though, sure, this might actually just be something being made up for the lawsuit.

The pragmatic choice would be to continue investing in Israel, which is why everyone else still does it.

Why isn’t any other country making this pragmatic choice?

So is their necromancy, since tons of people declared “executed” by tabloids are later seen alive.

Why is China the only country reading the room?

Yeah I was gonna say, swag bag Machato ripped the mask away. This shit is just a prize we give to the empire’s dogs.

This Canadian chauvinism is really weird.

The internet is international. If you don’t want to talk to non-Canadians, go outside and talk to your neighbors. The internet is not for you because most people on most websites aren’t Canadian.

>gets compliments

“Am I being bullied?”

We’ll see what the court says, because my intuition is that an LLM making an offer is categorically different from a human doing it. No one was scammed, this would be more like your own poorly designed website giving you the option to get 80% off if someone clicks the right combination of settings.

The recent bloodbaths at the polls are happening without voter intimidation, hence, they’re going to start employing it.

Why do you think Tulsi Gabbard just raided Georgia? They want a list of the people they need to intimidate.

I think there’s reason to believe that voter intimidation works; that’s how Reconstruction was defeated and how the white minority dominated minority-majority districts for nearly a century. White terrorism was basically the norm through most of US history.

The regime is acting like popularity is irrelevant, and that only approval from their base matters. I think that tells us their plans.

Yeah he’ll send out a check and say it’s paid for by the tariffs or something.

I also think sending ICE to intimidate voters is likely. Might even be seizing voter registration data to make a list of enemies that need to be harassed and intimidated into not voting.

I think they may have signaled to Trump that they were going to rule this way and that’s why the regime is talking about federalizing elections in blue states.

It’s dangerous to Monsanto’s bottom line, because they rely on having a monopoly on their seeds. I’d say farmers breaking patent law is a revolutionary act! But, at least for now, the government doesn’t care if you save heirloom seeds or your own cultivars.

For now.