Yes, it is intentional. And the “never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence” trope is clearly wrong in the context of politicians.

When they do these things they know what they are doing and who they are doing it for. Imagine an engineer would have designed 10 generations of exploding phones. Would you say it is just incompetence after the third one? So why give politicians the slack to always be “incompetent” in the same way over and over again that just so happens to defend the interests of the oligarchy against the normal people?

Did it improve? Yes. Did it improve more than the general improvement through advances in technology, medicine etc.? That is at least questionable.

If we look further at unethical experiments done on primarily black communities or prison inmates, again primarily black, such as testing biological warfare agents and pharmaceutics on them, regular lynching and other acts of deadly violence, the whole forced labour in the prison system… It becomes clear, that the government still very much considered the former slaves and their descendants as property, they could largely do with as they pleased.

But you can’t leave the property because you cannot afford rent anywhere else. You can’t get a different job, because there is no different job available in the area. You can’t get a better education because you cannot pay for it or even if it is free you cannot pay for your survival without the full time job, or multiple part time jobs. You get abused by the police or now also the ICE. You can’t afford to marry anyways…

Of course from the formal rights it is a huge difference, however from the practical result, modern wage work for working class people creates similarly unfree conditions. And it is no surprise that the ardent Neoliberals want to go further and establish slavery, by allowing contracts where people sell themselves “voluntarily” into permanent ownership of somebody else. This is the ultimate freedom according to these kind of Capitalists and they work to create such a society.

Why?

Still a better outcome to worker ratio,

If a slave is granted accommodation and food by his master, is it functionally different from a worker in a country with no social security, whose wage does not cover both food and accommodation?

They helped pass budget bills for Trump before.

They attack politicians who want to do something tangible about Fascism like Mamdani and Sanders, instead of fighting fascism.

Yeah i dont think the North was a beacon of equality. They stopped slavery. They did not stop racial seggregation.

Dude none of what you feel offended by was said in the comment you replied to.

It really depends on the company. Some look for any way to squeeze you. Others are pretty decent and probably more efficient as they dont waste as many working hours on bullshit claims and claim resolution.

Also if i rent a car i want things to go smoothly. I got places to be. You make my life easy, ill happily pay again and do my best to make yours easy too.

Things cannot go without casualties. But the more people stand up to fight, the less casualties there will be as the prospect of “crushing” the resistance dwindles from the start.

And people who larp 2A should get a grip that if they claim the armed resistance, they have to take what comes with it.

On the other hand you see a lot of people still in their liberal fairytale land, where they think that if shit starts delivering the suspected instigator and cozying up with the police would help them defeat fascism. See various posts in the 50501 community.

Lets be real about it. Fighting as an armed resistance means people will be killed. Not fighting will lead to being killed at much larger scale, as the killers reign freely.

The US military lost against the resistance in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan…

There is no way they would win against a properly organized resistance in the US either.

Problem is people thinking that the guns themselves would safe them from Tyranny, when it is using the guns against the tyrants that is protecting them.

The Democrat party elites would celebrate together with the Republicans and the cokeheads at Wall Street as this means putting the sexual predator and “centrist” Cuomo back on the D ticket.

It als gives healthy bones and natural anti depressants.

Seeing the sun rise over the snow as you take the train to work can be quite nice though. Who am i kidding we only get proper snow every 5 years now.

Arguably letting a big weight fall down after being brought into the air somehow is also pyramid age tech.

The US intelligence community kept asserting that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon as late as Spring 2025.

Nothing of this was based on consistent intelligence.

In the late 2000s, for instance, rumors circulated about a bunker in Iran struck by a bunker-buster bomb. The bomb had failed to penetrate—and remained embedded in—the surface of the bunker, presumably until the occupants called in a bomb-disposal team. Rather than smashing through the concrete, the bomb had been unexpectedly stopped dead. The reason was not hard to guess: Iran was a leader in the new technology of Ultra High Performance Concrete, or UHPC, and its latest concrete advancements were evidently too much for standard bunker busters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordow_Fuel_Enrichment_Plant

Construction on the facility started in 2006, but the existence of the enrichment plant was only disclosed to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by Iran on 21 September 2009,[6][7] after the site became known to Western intelligence services. Western officials strongly condemned Iran for not disclosing the site earlier;

Seems to fall into the same timeframe.

It is not that it can do what concrete cannot. It is just that digging a tunnel under a mountain is much easier than making a mountain out of concrete.

It is like a rifle vs. a cannon.

Yes it is functionally the same, but the “bullet” is much much larger.