Make it feel like Taylorism by having missions other than making money by doing less work or making better products

under the influence of captured parties and the military’s ubiquitous and extravagantly funded public relations apparatus, America has itself redefined the “nature of war.” Armed conflict has gone from being an occasional unpleasant political necessity to the core product line of the American corporation. Wars are what we make, and like blue jeans or Louisville Sluggers, we build them to last, with Afghanistan the prime example.

Whooooa, like I-Raq! Built Ford Tough

Taibbi rightly has a moment of forbidden noticing about the matter.

Well, that's one way to try to keep the USA "in theatre"

Flushed right down the commode. Just think how much good that could have done in the form of taxes not needing to be paid.

Thots off death watch

Just like in Iraq, US bungling continues to provide endless moral authority to fellows like Nasrallah. This will prove even more fatal to the US agenda than the (now) very real possibility of an Iran friendly nation existing between Iran and Pakistan. I don't think the USA realizes how quickly the rest of the Middle East might realize that it is the right time to kick out the Americans and their quisling regimes, much like the Afghanis did. Saudi and Israel should probably cease their warmongering activities and focus on diplomacy.

The next NATO move is likely to side with the Taliban in an attempt to make a muja menace against china (Uyghurs) and Russia (Uzbeks).

Quickly building ties with their neighbors and deflecting NATO excuses for "humanitarian intervention".

As always excellent work by Scott Horton

Twenty years. All that exists of this century. As I have written elsewhere, the war was a total failure, by any measure, perhaps the great failure of our age, the nexus of all the malignant forces precipitating American decline—End of History delusions, failed leadership, the ascendant Human Rights NGO complex, public-private self-dealing—venal, arrogant, brain-dead, sclerotic, unaccountable in every aspect. We will likely learn nothing from this catastrophe. Our leadership class will not be chastened by it. They will not reconsider their magical thinking. They will simply redirect it elsewhere. Probably at home. There is already talk of forgetting the terrorists in Afghanistan so we can fight the terrorists on our own soil.

In case there is any doubt, they are referring to you and me. They are referring to anyone who doubts their mandate to rule over us. What comes next will likely be far worse than what preceded it, if equally deranged. And though the architects of this failed war might not take any lessons from Afghanistan, we can. The Pashtun persevered because they had the will to do so. Because they had God on their side.

Hold the line. Call their bluff. They will blink first. The weaker hand always does.

Great essay by a veteran. In'shallah the fall of the capital will be the next thing the empire brings home.

Interesting implications for the SPARC reactor.

Another doctrine, which was invented by a combination of the courts and executive agencies, is disparate impact. So if you give standardized tests, Grigg vs. Duke Power Company, this was a case early after the Civil Rights Act. It said if you give an IQ test and it has a disparate impact between groups… you can still use it but it’s a little complicated, it has to be related to the work, but it becomes harder. Everything you do that has a racial disparate impact, and by the way everything in the world has a racial disparate impact, if you find something that doesn’t I’ll be surprised, they can come after you for it either through the government directly coming after you or through people suing you.

And people wonder why corporate doesn't have real measurable performance metrics, and nobody's responsible for anything. It might result in "forbidden noticing" and thus be unlawful.

It says you can’t discriminate in government and you can’t discriminate in private business. And most people at the time thought that basically meant you couldn’t put up a sign that says no black people. Even the gender thing they say was added as a joke actually. Somebody was trying to kill the bill, they didn’t want the racial equality parts. They said, “it would be so absurd to have a society where you didn’t discriminate based on sex” so they put sex in there hoping to kill the bill. And it ended up passing.

Many such cases

The fact that it was vague and there were potentially substantial penalties sort of put business on edge. You needed a full-time bureaucratic class to interpret the laws and what was going on.

So the DEI industry is derived off of the rise of human resources. So you know, the way people see woke institutions today, “well they’re just deciding to be woke, there’s just a class of people deciding to take the leftwing issue on anything related to race and gender,” and some of that is obviously right. But you’re ignoring that basically legally you’re only allowed to be on one side of the culture wars.

This means half of the population is essentially unemployable in corporate because wrongthink. Surely destroying all small business won't have radicalizing consequences by forcing these people into corporate???

The extreme difficulty with which the fuel is built is the most concerning aspect with regard to its prospects for commercialization. Others have valid concerns.

The hulking edifice of lies finally collapsed in a mostly bloodless takeover. I pray the rest of the empire goes the same way soon.

BONUS: Another take on the hit this has on USA's mandate of heaven. I'm considerably sanguine on the subject, considering even the fiasco of Vietnam only took 12 years to overcome until it was back to the SN:AFU.

Bingo, we have a winner. It's $SUCCESSOR_IDEOLOGY deciding to do what all dominant ideologies do, e.g. PURGE THE HERETIC!

Great, and hilarious.

My theory has always been that lung borne viral ailments will basically do what they please, and humans are helpless before them. So far it looks like I am correct.

Having also actually payed attention in biology class this was my initial assessment and I've also seen no reason to revise it.

SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY 😎

Monetizing people's need to be heard, and have a sense of belonging to a community. It's digital frat houses filled with bought friends everywhere.

On why DC can't do anything but have tupac holograms fiddle while rome burns

Taliban still making significant gains. "Traditional" powers still aren't quite understanding how they are winning. Pakistan now supporting the Taliban from behind the scenes.

Bureaucrats truly are the dumbest of the species. Russians caught on long ago that the corruption and forgery are the point.

Muth's "Command Culture" conclusions still not addressed whatsoever

Mirrors a lot of my thinking. I've seen this unfold in real time with the young I know.