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When statistics agree with my preconceived notions, I consider them trustworthy, and if not, I assume that reality lines up with what I expect.

I… thought you were being sarcastic. This is an obvious and severe flaw to have in one’s rational thinking.

prejudice (noun)
1 The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions.
2 An adverse judgment or opinion formed unfairly or without knowledge of the facts.

You’re assuming a Harris administration would have handled this significantly differently, when regime change in Iran has been bipartisan consensus ever since the 1978 revolution removed the puppet regime that the US installed in 1953.

Administrative detentions can be longer. On paper they can hold you about a month, but it can be longer than that with a judge’s signoff if they have proof of a crime.

And in the US, jail can be up to just short of a year.

This is typically where the police try to get you to confess to something and drag it out as long and uncomfortably as possible until you do, after which you either get to go free (though you end up on a list for a long time) or you may go to a “black jail”/黑監獄 which is a sort of under-the-table prison.

The terms of release can also sometimes require completion of a rehabilitation program, which is often the voluntary alternative to prison, or getting transferred to a short stay detention center for a few months to perform community service.

So pretty similar to the US.

More ghosts of Kyiv propaganda.

• To this point, only 37 members of Congress have endorsed any of the pending resolutions designed to keep the US out of a war with Iran.
• Instead, the Democrats have allowed the resistance to be led by the likes of Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alex Jones, Matt Gaetz, Rand Paul, Steve Bannon, and Thomas Massie.

Indeed, homelessness in the US is massively more nuanced than “we need to build more homes.” Simply building more housing will hardly help at all, because there are already many houses & apartments intentionally left vacant in order to manipulate prices, because the real estate and banking industries are only interested in line go up.

Doesn’t this framing serve the petit bourgeois YIMBY luxury housing developers and the DNC’s new neoliberal, deregulatory “abundance” movement? We don’t have homeless for a lack of housing so much as a glut of vacancies and a lack of affordability, which are intimately tied to each other.

Not that NIMBYs aren’t problem at all; they are. But “YIMBY” has been co-opted by bourgeois/neoliberal interests. It’s an astroturfed movement.

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RIce wasn’t born with a silver spoon. She’s rich now from her lifetime of work in the interests of US empire.

I was naming a non-white person. Also, people who carry water for US imperialism tend to be well compensated. You don’t have to be rich to do it, but you will likely get rich by doing it.

The state and private industry being in cahoots is capitalism.
The state, private industry, and the military being in cahoots is imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.

Fascism is when the capitalists feel that liberalism is not longer sufficiently serving their interests.

Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt -- it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
— Tommy Douglas

• Michael Parenti » 🔈 Fascism, The False Revolution
• Gabriel Rockhill:
  • Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
  • Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
  • The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

Maybe because you don’t watch mainstream media anymore. I don’t.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIIBQ%253D%253D&search_query=condi+rice

That’s what people said for decades, while continuing to poke the bear. They stopped on Feb 24, 2022.

World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country

The rest are in undeclared labor camps

Goes for both

US labor camps are not undeclared (though extraterritorial black sites are). They’re called prisons, and the labor is slave labor, thanks to the 13th amendment.

You don’t have to be rich or white, you only have to be useful in furthering US state propaganda. Condi Rice is still gets plenty of airtime.

This reminds me how there’s a world of difference between learning history and living it. In my mind’s eye, I can still see Walter Cronkite saying every evening that it’s the XXXth day of the Iran hostage crisis. And still I remember Ollie North’s trial. There’s no way I’d mix them up.

Those who do US crimes get airtime; those who expose them get canceled.