Well you have to understand, they’re saying this is a good thing. “Hell yeah, look at how much money we stole from the workers!”

But not all labor is getting removed, and they won’t really try to do so. Deportations are basically at the same level as they were under Biden iirc, the difference is that we now have spectacle in our media.

It’s fundamentally just terrorism.

Sure, I wasn’t saying that it’s good for the US because I think it’s good.

Yup, learned that when I was a pesticide handler for one of these operations. Pretty fucked up that they fly these lead gas planes over our crops, huh?

Right, but Trump thinks it’s magic. I suspect he saw a demonstration of the material by some construction company (he is a real estate guy) and it blew his mind.

And now we get asbestos brake pads.

Labor discipline. By terrifying migrant workers it allows employers to treat them even worse and pay them even less.

Good news for US gas producers and exporters.

You ever notice how every other animal manages to survive without water bottles? It was like that for most of human existence, before we figured out water skins and wooden cups and clay jugs.

Revolution.

Trump actually has a personal fascination with asbestos and thinks it’s a miracle material. He’s talked about it a lot in his speeches.

Colonizers are disgusting.

The office of the presidency isn’t inherently legitimate, it gets its legitimacy because civil society groups like the NAACP give it legitimacy.

But, also? Why didn’t they invite Trump this time?

They could mobilize their base for unending mass demonstration and a general strike. Shut down the country until the fascists capitulate.

They won’t. Instead they’ll side with the regime and criticize protesters for being too violent.

Either that, or ICE detention centers will become forced labor camps.

How on earth do you think of “precisely the information you need”.

By having a brain as smooth and aerodynamic as a bowling ball. All those wrinkles are inefficient and get in the way.

Voting in rigged elections forced on them by the occupation for candidates forced on them by the occupation. Colonial schools that were meant to preach occupation propaganda to train up the next generation of compradores. Aid that is conditional on not being a resistance fighter against the colonial occupation and laying down their arms for their occupiers. And all of that infrastructure comes with strings attached and with debts that are expected to be repaid.

They’re not backward mud people, they were resisting colonial occupation.

Every gift from the Great Satan is poison.

It also gives them legitimacy and lets them pretend they aren’t horrible racists.

People weren’t interested in gifts brought by colonizers. It’s not our way of life, it’s the fact that we forced on them at the end a gun.

Not cynical enough.

The goal of the war was to destroy Afghanistan and kill its people. The empire needs to “mow the grass” periodically to keep the underdeveloped world in its place.

Same in Iraq. Same in Libya. Same in Syria. The death and destruction is the point.

The war in Afghanistan was never about helping anyone. 🙄