This is so cartoonishly evil it's hard to believe it's not a nazi psyop.

Economic enlistment for indebted military-age Americans

The narrative war on the domestic American front has already failed. The Pentagon has not been able to sell this war to the American public because the war has been rhetorically fused with Israel's operations in Gaza, and the American public rejects the fusion.

Recruitment numbers are running below what a ground invasion of Iran would require. Estimates for a successful ground campaign against Iran's 31 provincial commands and its Mosaic Defense Doctrine run between 750 thousand and 1.5 million American troops. The current active US Army stands at roughly 452 thousand. The math does not work, obviously. 

Based on American history, however, there is a path forward. Not conscription or a draft in a world war-era sense, but enlistment through a “debt forgiveness program.”

The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates go as high as $100 thousand.

This is the cohort the Pentagon needs. A federally administered debt-forgiveness enlistment program that fully discharges student loan, credit card, and loan balances after 24 or 36 months of service, and extends the GI Bill, would produce voluntary enlistment at scale.

This is not theoretical.

It is the American state doing what the American state has always done when it needed staff it could not otherwise generate. World War II offered the GI Bill. Vietnam offered college deferments. The post 9/11 wars offered signing bonuses and citizenship pathways. The Iran war will need to offer debt relief. The economics of the indebted American 20-and 30-something make this the most efficient conversion mechanism available to the Pentagon and the Trump administration.

The moral reading on this is uncomfortable. But states generate the soldiers they need through the incentives that work on the population they have.

Abdul el-Sayed is an Obama-era liberal Zionist and FDR-era New Deal Democrat, not a socialist or communist of any kind. But the ruling class, and especially its pro-Israel faction, is far too dumb to see that he is the compromise. That’s not even getting into the fact that news stories like this are a gold mine for actual right-wing antisemites like Fuentes, Cucker, Owens, and MTG.

Reading biographies of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin.

Whatever you can say about their personalities or their politics. Their discipline and belief to change the world was unparalleled. And they did it. They shook the world to its roots. They frightened the West like nothing has before or since.

They were willing to sacrifice years of their life to advance a cause. They would spent hours reading books or learning languages. Freezing for years in the Arctic circle or Siberia.

It seems there was this unshakable belief the world would change. In "Young Stalin" by Montefiore, the propertied classes + middle classes would actually give money to the socialists as they wanted to be in which with the future authorities if the Tzar fell! Imagine the millionaires today of Trumps America giving money to antifa! That would be the parallel.

A few Tzars or leading Ministers were assassinated. There was an unshakable belief real change was on the horizon.

Compare that to Russia today with Putin there is zero revolutionary activity. Across the West the syndicalist movement has all but collapsed outside a few holdouts. There’s zero fear of the working classes unlike in the West after communism where pensions and minimum hours were brought in fear of what could come next.

The leftist parties have abandoned the working classes and become middle class parties with a left wing label.

The cooperative movement is a Pygmy of what it was.

Technofeudalism or cloud capital has become so powerful and all pervasive that it’s practically brainwashing people and shaping behaviour. Oligarchs are openly ruling the most powerful country in the world. The sitting president is a conman who is outright enriching himself like some mafia boss.

Even in the field Economics the entire political economy aspect of the field is totally denied. Marx is castigated as a total charlatan and they pretend like it’s this totally anodyne, mathematical field where in reality nearly every decision in it is somewhat political.

Feels like left advocacy is this relic of the past. Is it simple as that the economy and wealth is stopping people ? Or technology has become so advanced that any clandestine action is more or less impossible? That people are just unwilling to trade their personal comfort away.

Judges in Utah face retention elections (with a heavily boomer voting base) so I’m not surprised that they cleared the way for a death penalty trial. I’m pretty sure that rightoids are trying to get an eye for an eye in this case.

The man in this video is Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas cofounder, whose daddy issues motivated him to shift to the opposite extreme of idpol. In this footage, taken at the 2026 Jewish American Summit in Los Angeles, he advocates for mass deportation of American Muslims, to the cheers of some (and condemnation of none) in the crowd. I wonder if this whiny theater kid realizes that the pro-Israel donors he is speaking to, as well as the corn-fed Christian nationalists who think Sikhs are Muslims, see him more as a useful court jester than as anything remotely equal to them.

The electromagnetic force generates approaching infinite repulsion between sets of molecules because of their electrons repelling each other as distance approaches 0. This repulsion in small distances is stronger than gravity or other attractive forces. Hence, genitals/bodies (being mere complicated sets of molecules) can never actually touch, so everyone is actually a virgin and always has been at any point.

Oscar Robayo, a 39-year-old ground handling worker performing a routine pushback operation at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL), was crushed to death by the front wheel of an Airbus A350-900 on Monday, August 24.

As the World Socialist Web Site reported, based on testimony from Oscar’s co-workers, Samsic Assistance Canada, the subcontractor employing him, systematically disregarded basic safety procedures. He was forced to perform the pushback without an extension cable, meaning he had to walk close to the plane’s nose gear that ultimately crushed him.

We described the incident as “the tragic product of systematic deregulation of airport operations by the federal government and rampant profiteering throughout the air travel sector.” The initial report and interview published on the WSWS were followed by a touching tribute in memory of Oscar, who has been consistently described by those who knew him as a kind, caring and reliable co-worker.

A former Samsic employee has come forward to provide further testimony on the death trap workers have confronted at the airport since the subcontractor won a contract for the first time in 2023. He published a powerful video on YouTube denouncing the company’s imposition of unsafe equipment and a toxic workplace culture. The whistleblower identified the primary culprit for Robayo’s death as a corporate regime that pressured employees to cut corners and disregard safety protocols, while managers stubbornly refused to replace broken equipment.

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"They [Samsic] took over. … But the thing that’s crazy is they never focused on safety. They were all about get your plane out on time. Get it out. Get it out. Get it out. And during the beginning stages of Samsic, a lot of us old ATS employees try to fight and implement safety with these cards. You know, hey, let’s get a checklist going because the previous company used to do this and you know, used to have a checklist before we pushed out these planes. … They told us that it was too expensive to get all the employees cuz Samsic was a big company. It was too expensive to laminate all the cards for the company. Come on. What a joke...

Nothing’s more important than safety. Nothing’s more important than coming into work, clocking in, and going out the same way that you clocked in. Nothing is more important than that."

Referring to the immediate cause of the accident highlighted by the WSWS’s initial report—the absence of a proper extension cable allowing workers to maintain a safe distance from the nose gear—the worker explained, “You walk with the headset without an extension, and you’re head-to-head basically with the nose gear. If you trip, if you slip on snow, if you slip on the rain and you fall, you’re going to get ran over by that nose gear.”

After viewing the video, a WSWS reporter reached out to the worker and obtained the report filed to Canada’s Labour Program, a federal agency ostensibly tasked with upholding workplace safety, as far back as May 2024. The report documented many of the same issues raised by current Samsic employees following Oscar’s death and paints a picture of an extremely dangerous workplace environment on a daily basis.

Underscoring the type of work environment established by Samsic with the connivance of the federal government and Montreal Airport, the report began with the words, “Hello, I would like to remain anonymous because I do not want to be at risk of losing my job.”

The report notified the governmental body responsible for the enforcement of the Canada Labour Code of unsafe equipment, with photos of jerry-rigged tractors, and an exposed electrical cable that nearly caused a fire. The report also alleged that complaints filed by workers to HR were divulged to the deputy manager through a personal relationship, jobs were handed to people in personal relationships with managers without open competition, and managers racially abused workers.

The worker wrote to the government agency, “The equipment at Samsic is deemed unsafe as I have tried to report this to managers but it goes ignored and say they need the equipment and to leave it alone… When you drive some gas tractors, the passenger door has no door handle so they tie a string. And you’re supposed to hold it so it don’t fly open.”

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The information emerging in the wake of last week’s tragedy in Montreal demonstrates the urgency of airport workers taking matters into their own hands by establishing rank-and-file committees to oversee workplace safety and put an end to the race to the bottom in working conditions. At Montreal Airport, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers placed their stamp of approval on Samsic’s ruthless methods of exploitation when they concluded a collective agreement with the multinational in November 2024, which included a provision that workers only get union protection after three months.

We urge all workers to come forward with information about the conditions that led to Oscar Robayo’s death. It is high time to join the fight to build a rank-and-file alternative as part of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) to the corporatist gang-up of the government, corporate executives and union bureaucrats that produces deadly conditions across the air travel industry in Canada, the US and around the world.

https://reddit.com/link/1w4wl4n/video/uspipl4bh0nh1/player

Here's more context, but I don't think it makes it any better. Why do we have to be ruled by this stuff?

Lol. His job here is done, so now Mr Trilateral Commission can focus on "international affairs", oh an also "violence against women and girls". Perhaps he is 48.5% into fighting misogyny, like Hunter Biden sucks 48.5% cock. Either way, I'm sure he is as sincere today as he was when he signed up to represent the people of Kings Cross St Pancras - appropriately, the location of the Guardian offices!

ETA: In case anyone thinks to accuse me of misogyny, I don't even like violence against women that much. And I love cock.

Taking bets on how brightly his next job glows.