Well, since they invented vanguard communism, communism is something you do to the oppressed, not for the oppressed.

By this point, the purpose of this all seems to be to enable an upper class that is determined to return to feudalism; determined that anybody not of the upper classes should, if they don't already know their place, have it forcefully pointed out to them by preventing travel; prohibiting meat; monitoring everything that's said online under the guise of preventing hate speech.

Given how big a fad transhumanism is amongst our fabulously wealthy "betters", I have a question: Do these people believe that they deserve to be a different species, one which will reduce mere homo sapiens to cattle?

... does this not also describe feminist rhetoric?

It's just that Feeney doesn't hate feminists

Also, bear in mind that cluster munitions are of necessity small enough for a kid to pick up and play with.

Some five-year-old who doesn't know better isn't doing that with a dud 155 that's buried itself into the mud, is he?

True, but if what Christiansen says here is true, there may be elements of the filing that are materially false.

Are you kidding?

After the Great Reset, you'll be banned from using electricity for anything except the massive array of monitoring devices intended to keep the peasants in line, combustion engines will be banned.

Horses will be the way our new nobility will get around. The rest of us will walk - but don't worry, we'll be in our fifteen-minute panopticons, so you'll never get the opportunity to get tired.

Of course not, this person - and all of the others trying to same trick - is trying to cookie-cutter-quote the bible - or whatever is that's the subject of the argument - into the communist manifesto.

Marxists value neither justice nor law.

I'm not sure it is, you know.

We all know what the aim is, but the language it's couched in is that of equality.

I guess a lot of it comes down to how easy CA makes it to "prove" racially-based over-charging by the prosecution.

However, the real point of this seems to be to send a message to prosecutors - those that aren't Soros-funded and minded to do so anyway - just drop cases against minorities.

You used grapeshot!

It was very effective!

That's a lot of money to spend to make barely any in return...

Maybe that's just a reflexive response from any tankers in that part of the world "Look, there's a bare spot! Slap a Kontakt tile on it!"

Not sure I'd go so far as to say tanks are obsolete.

Certainly, if you're using them badly, as the Russians have been, pushing forward with no support, yes, they're little more than targets for AT gunners, but any weapon used badly could be argued to be obsolete on that basis.

As for the Ukrainian losses, I don't know the details, but if they're going on the offensive, well, they're going to have to take some risks, aren't they?

Define "best".

Granted, it's got a very good gun, probably the best main armament of any of the NATO tanks, but the armour's ok rather than the best available within NATO and I've no idea what the electronics are on 2A4 and 2A6 Leos - but those aren't the most recent versions, so it seems doubtful they're carrying a full modern EW suite.

You know, if you look at her face, her chosen profession of "hating people for money" makes a lot more sense...

It's Reddit. Are you sure?

Eh. Every time she's failed so far, she's received a promotion.

Why would this trend stop now? She's not even reached the top of Disney, let alone decided to run for President yet...

This is the fairly-usual leftie tactic of throwing extra conditions onto something that's just a right.

See property rights, for example - in the leftie utopia, sure, you can have your own property.

Try and make use of it, though ... that's going to be problematic.

Free speech, too - sure, you can have free speech. Unless you're going to use it to say something a leftie doesn't like, then it's "hate speech".

It all fits in with the quiet managerial tyranny lefties seem to prefer - sure, you can own something, but the lefties that have appointed themselves the management have determined that all that means is that you pay for it. They still control it - and everything else.

Nope, they've killed a couple of poor buggers themselves, of course - stuck in the back of an ambulance in a traffic jam they caused - but they're zealots, they truly don't care how many they kill to get their way.

How will you know it's not crafted by human hands if it's not barely-edited, mis-spelled drivel?

In fact, from the article:

These trials have already led to a flood of error-laden, plagiarized, and poorly written content due to badly implemented — and, some would argue, inherently unsuited AI models — that still have a strong tendency to make up facts.

Bold of them to assume that doesn't characterise a significant portion of their output already...

So, NPR is calling for companies to stand firm in the face of their customers; they don't even have a gender studies degree!

And besides, fully one-fifth of a specific demographic may be affected by these issues!

No word on why the companies in question feel obliged to insult and denigrate even the other four fifths of that specific demographic - and the entirety of every other.

This is just propaganda. I don't see any actual content here.

But then, it's NPR. They get paid whether they're good or not...

Of course it is: It's Vice

It's supposed to be.

It's supposed to form an obsession that you compulsively check up on, so they can update and update and update, and you'll get shamed by your peers for missing an update.

Because then you're so busy keeping up with your peer group you don't have the energy to think if what you're doing is even moral.

Regular politicians have a chance of being held to account.

Medical politicians, being appointed, only have to account for themselves to other civil servants, generally.

Taking bets the road now becomes known as "old macdonald"...