I can see where you are coming from but I don’t think this is the hill to die on and I think you should go to the funeral if you are able to. I also have relatives I strongly dislike, but if we are simultaneously at a funeral or a wedding or something, I just don’t talk to them. If they have hurtful things to say about me (I know they do) I don’t care because their opinions don’t matter to me.
Seems like ansarallah is the most likely explanation to me, as this could discourage shipping to Saudi arabia via the suez canal. Could theoretically be forces in Iraq. Based on advances in drone warfare recently I don’t think it’s particularly shocking on a technical level for any of those groups to carry out such an action, but I tend to agree it is too politically risky for Iran to carry out themselves, at least not without very solid plausible deniability. I doubt the false flag explanation, though I can’t categorically rule it out, and in general I think this site thinks far too much about false flag operations.
How likely do folks think it is that this will cause Egypt to intervene in the war in a strategically meaningful way. Versus how likely is it for such actions to seriously exacerbate existing pressure on imperialist shipping and supply lines.
already-rolling camera, and not having it activated
The models which theoretically continue recording for some period after they are turned off can simply be covered or aimed in the wrong direction, among a litany of other tricks
However even if the cameras were not constantly malfunctioning or getting covered at convenient moments, the settler-bourgieos laws and courts are rigged in favor of the settler bourgieos paramilitary force. Most of the atrocities the police commit are infact legal (remember that three of the four pigs who murdered George Floyd on camera were found not guilty and it took a national uprising for the case to even go to trial) For every time we could successfully use body camera footage in court, they can use it several times to convict people they might not otherwise have been able to of bourgeois “crimes”. Obviously proof of police atrocities have a propaganda value, in addition, which is why civilians should film the police.
The police are the Frontline foot soldiers of the enemy. Body cameras are simply tools they use to surveill us, and routinely turn off before committing atrocities. That’s why the police unions are demanding they be given body cameras. The fact that we can occasionally cite body camera footage against them in court is a weak plus. Audits suggesting police are misusing a tool they have been given (which is entirely predictable because they abuse virtually every tool at their disposal) is not an argument for said tool.
I don’t think so based on scales of capacity. A kc-46 tanker carries 31,000 gallons of fuel (according to wikipedia. The smallest classification of commercial tanker ships carries 3.2-8 million gallons. So 100 tanker planes is less than one small tanker ship.
I think your analysis is overall very good but I want to flag one thing
Very, very few sex workers are simply working a job because they have other reasonable employment options. Most are trafficked.
Is a bad take. The org I am a part of actively organizes sex workers among others (both hookers and dancers, not so much porn actors/models) and probably a quarter of our cadres are such. A large majority of the sex workers we organize with in our specific local area consider their work preferable to other jobs under capitalism, for a variety of reasons. Conditions vary widely from region to region and from industry to industry within the exceptionally broad category of sex work, much as the specific experience of manufacturing workers will vary wildly based on region, industry etc. Broad and inaccurate generalizations are not necessary to argue that sex workers face unique forms of exploitation under patriarchal capitalism.
Utterly disgusting behavior obviously. One note on one of the articles “experts”
One common trope of the pornography that these gooners consume has men ejaculating over women’s bodies, faces and hair – acts that, Lankford said, have no basis in evolutionary biology and are difficult to interpret as anything other than demeaning to the women.
This is both obviously wrong and so completely misses the point of how generic porn is misogynistic/what is going on here. I actually would like to never hear criminologists and “evo psych” weirdos takes on sex.
Incredible stuff
I love they live
Truly an incredible statement about the times we live in
I should know better than to underestimate the ignorance of cis people lol
Yeah, It is almost indistinguishable from parody
no twinks
Thank you for the energy everyone
Just forced by circumstance.
So relatable