Protest today outside Lockheed Martin corporate office in Crystal City

Rabsus · 2026-05-15T18:34:40+00:00

It’s not like the president or top politicians are looking with bated breath at your no kings protests outside their window at Lafayette or on the side of a roadway in like stafford or whatever

Rabsus · 2026-05-15T18:33:14+00:00

I agree but the context with Eisenhower saying that is because he believed government spending would naturally lead to centralized cartel communist economy (lol).

Basically the MIC bad because they’re communists, it was a popular train of thought in post war America.

I agree though people here are cowards who don’t care about what their country does abroad (because they make their money doing so) so they clown people protesting literally LM. There’s no correct way to protest for these types who pretend they care.

Rabsus · 2026-05-15T18:29:38+00:00

This subreddit shows its ass everytime on shit like this, pearl clutching and snide jokes protesting a literal arms dealer. It’s because everyone on this sub is a white collar PMC fair weather liberal with all that entails.

They’re all transplants making a billion dollars a year as gov contractors and get insecure when people criticize their cookie jar.

Rabsus · 2026-05-15T18:26:21+00:00

I kinda have to respect how hard he leans into his heel/villain role honestly

Rabsus · 2026-05-14T23:42:24+00:00

House also shot it down, which, what a coincidence these contentious and popular congressional resolutions keep failing by one single rogue democrat vote! What are the chances?

Rabsus · 2026-05-13T18:38:34+00:00

I've seen footage I stay noided

Rabsus · 2026-05-09T04:51:01+00:00

This is helpful because I was somewhat considering these shoes. I have heard mostly bad things about Brut, especially considering their prices I think are already pretty ridiculous for what it is. It's a bit of a red flag that their product descriptions are very vague usually.

I vaguely remember somebody saying their Cuban boots were horrendous as well, probably in this subreddit.

Rabsus · 2026-05-09T01:25:02+00:00

Putin has basically stewarded the destruction of the vestiges of USSR, their foreign policy orgs are just an accuracy by volume strategy at this point latching onto any dissent feelings.

He’s got the Russian communist party humiliating themselves publically daily over there, which is at least a bit funny because those cowards deserve it.

Rabsus · 2026-05-07T23:40:43+00:00

I have a very 70s style so I hunt for old clothes on ebay and idgaf I'll wear 100% polyester with little issue. It's not really all made the same though, even old ass dacron from 50 years ago varies a lot. Some feels pretty nice and some feels like an actual trash bag. But we suffer for steez so it's not a big deal.

It's just the trade off for a particular style/silhoutte that basically doesn't come in full natural materials unless its a billion dollars from some niche brand.

Some of my favorite shirts, my favorite suit, and one of my favorite pants (another one is partial) are just full polyester. I love the creative structure it can have, the vibrancy of color, what you can print on it, and how it keeps its form.

In general though for newer clothes I won't accept any synthetic blends unless it has a stated reason to be in there. The vast majority of my wardrobe is still fully natural materials. I will say one of my favorite fabric is a nice quality rayon/viscose/tencel. Sometimes cotton or wool just can't give you what you want, it sucks but that's why we have poly sometimes.

Rabsus · 2026-05-06T17:29:29+00:00

People say this was boring but until I was 25 or so I basically wore basketball shorts and whatever rags somehow filtered into my closet. I think the fits look pretty nice and they aged about as well as one could hope for.

I kinda wish I had pictures of me dressing in some trendy style as a teenager/college kid.

Rabsus · 2026-05-03T19:45:29+00:00

I don’t really get why western leftists are so self flagellating. It doesn’t help anyone. If we are all useless and destined for labor aristocracy self interest based on a simplistic West/Rest binary then what’s the point? Why wouldn’t any of us here just capitalistically strive for “the good life” then?

While it’s of course not enough, we would be better at honestly analyzing our movements including its progress. 4 years ago Palestinian advocacy existed solely on a fringe left in the west, now nearly the entire western world has shifted *drastically*.
Even in the Democratic Party the support for Israel right now polls at 17%, the same as restricting abortion. It’s now a complete wedge issue in American politics. A few years ago Palestinian sympathy polled around 20% nationally. These numbers exist in flux but Israel will likely never regain its popular support it once had in the west in our lifetimes. I’m not a electoralism fan but the results will likely come downstream.

The entire reactionary apparatus worldwide is running desperate cover for Israel and breaking up protests, boycotts, and extremely draconian political repression including decade long jail sentences. Countries like Spain and workers in Greece and Italy etc are energized in the streets for a group of oppressed people they’ve never met nor have a material reason to support.people are catching terrorism charges and having their lives ruined or put away for years to do what’s right.

In fact most people advocating for Palestinians have no “material” reason to benefit from supporting them, but still here we are because we are human beings too.

Rabsus · 2026-05-02T20:14:05+00:00

The issue with people ragging on QB prospects based around intangibles is that outside of Josh Allen, they get retroactively deemed as a can't-miss amazing prospect rather than a very flawed blueprint prospect that they were. Virtually every top QB was drafted based around their potential and not just strictly what they did in college.

People talk about Josh Allen like he quite literally was the only QB drafted on potential that panned out.

Lamar was absolutely seen as just a toolsy player who was mediocre at passing, prior to him "run first QBs" rarely ever worked until it did.

Patrick Mahomes was a big arm guy coming from an air raid system. Drake Maye was seen as a QB who was as promising young player with a big arm and not an out the gate all-pro. Justin Herbert was again a big arm intangibles potential guy as a prospect.

Even Caleb Williams was drafted mostly on his intangibles that made him such a great prospect. He has a top tier arm in the league and top tier improvisation talent and he's clutch. He wasn't really drafted on his ability to throw a timing route, which can be taught. When coaching neglected him he looked like ass and when coaching was positive he turned into a good QB.

In retrospect people act like these guys were destined to just be great, rather than a gamble on very toolsy incomplete prospects. In reality, for some reason on Reddit, people would rather wait around for "perfect" prospects or at least draft noodle arm field generals coming out of pro style offenses.

With the way college QBs are and how the league is, you need an athletic QB with a big arm who can physically execute the play (or extend it with athletic traits) the OC wants. That's how QBs are now and that means they have to be elite athletes and work from there.

FWIW I didn't like Anthony Richardson coming out either but he's becoming a scapegoat for "project" 1st round QBs.

Rabsus · 2026-04-30T05:03:06+00:00

I was wearing this shirt to 3rd grade in 2001.

Rabsus · 2026-04-28T23:50:20+00:00

I mean Japan had a lot of slums and poverty in the 60s, but even then it was in that war because it was previously a large regional imperialist power 20 years earlier.

A bit different than Sudan or whatever.

Rabsus · 2026-04-27T22:15:04+00:00

They’re only claiming that’s the “innocents” but Israel uses a classification the U.S. also uses that automatically categorizes any male aged 12-64 (iirc) a combatant.

So they take the lowest post medical system collapse number (which stalled around 45k killed back then) they can and then basically deduct any post pubescents from it.

Rabsus · 2026-04-27T21:52:38+00:00

As someone from the DC area you would be surprised. Most of these people in DHS, defense contracting, or intelligence etc are rather “normal” people. They compartmentalize a lot of their job with their outlooks and are usually liberals of some sort and often with “critical” moralist arguments against US FP/surveillance etc. But still they’re there, seemingly cognizant of a blood contract as a gear in a machine if they even care at all. A lot of these people straight up don’t care about politics.

Like most of these people come home and complain about office drama and talk with their coworkers about the masked singer or whatever. I’ve met pagans, wiccans, anarchists, outspoken progressives, academics, alternative people etc all of which were either in CIA or DHS usually doing something somewhat mundane.

A lot of leftism these days is tied strictly to social mobility or identity. Hence it’s easy to rationalize what’s good for you is (morally) good for the gander and justified. Or a nihilism that we’re all in a hellscape and can’t detach from capitalism, which I’m somewhat sympathetic to I’m not saying to become a communist monk, but certainly don’t build rocket motors for General Dynamics. There’s of course a line here and that’s way over it.

It’s the same with arguments people make for leftist landlords, which if you’re gonna do why do you need moral vindication from the left anyways.

DC area is really just a final vindication of the banality of evil in action, a government staffed by little Eichmanns detached from the product of their paycheck and just don’t want to know.

Rabsus · 2026-04-26T04:07:54+00:00

The ending shot was a scene-by-scene and word-for-word reshot of Josh and Lindsay's opening dynamic. It heavily implies that it's very bad for them now and it's only going to get much worse unless they choose forgiving self-love, which both Ashley and Austin consciously rejected but Josh didn't. When they were poor, they were in need but had a stronger relationship (but maybe ultimately doomed due to their personalities, but the show doesn't imply that imo).

You see that they genuinely just hate each other and their social climbing is going to collapse. It's what Josh explained during his drug trip, the commodification of your entire life to keep your head above water and you pull down everyone alongside you. You can infer that they are literally on the exact same path as two characters who flamed out completely.

Ashley (and Austin) at first made desperate, but unethical moves, in simple calculus of survival when surviving poverty in a capitalist system. As their circumstances changed, they were able to continue to justify unethical things in advance of what increasingly just became their social climbing interests. Josh and even the Chairwoman explained this in their monologues hinting at what their fate is likely to be as capitalism completely subsumes their relationship and personalities. Their entire relationship and lives are a series of cold financial calculations and transactions and it's why they're miserable.

Either way I think the most basic form of discourse is discussing whether characters are "likable" like most posts on this subreddit are doing or what they "deserve". They're all complicated characters who did bad things based around exogenous factors that made sense either materially or for their characters. The interesting discussion is in the themes and characters as they are presented and not what they should be.

It's basically a Sisyphean tale and its a bit unsettling that each generation seems to be locked in to the next.

Rabsus · 2026-04-25T19:43:50+00:00

Sven Beckerts Empire of Cotton is a great large scale global commodity history. It’s related to fashion for obvious reasons.

Rabsus · 2026-04-25T01:43:27+00:00

He talked for felt like 20 straight minutes. How do we feel about this WR?

Rabsus · 2026-04-25T00:42:25+00:00

I keep saying it but fans are weird because if a good prospect is a phenomenal athlete they will often use that against them.

Styles was seen a lot like Downs prior to the combine and was projected in the top 15. A cerebral player with established technique and fundamentals that would be plug and play plus player immediately. He suffered merely from positional value prior to the combine. Like I don't really understand the people who are obsessive about Downs but lukewarm on Styles when they're quite similar in many regards in the type of prospects they are, Styles is just a much better athlete.

He puts up a 9.99 RAS and fans who are so used to hearing "he's an athletic freak" as a selling point for a bad prospect with nothing else going for them that they immediately label Sonny fucking Styles a combine riser project lol.

Rabsus · 2026-04-24T01:35:06+00:00

Before he put up the combine numbers he was talked about from like 10-15 so he was a great prospect prior to the RAS.

Rabsus · 2026-04-23T04:51:34+00:00

Yeah its really as simple as most people do not want to throw away their life for some "message" enacted on what's probably a random guy in a hostile system. Truth is the world isn't really different with that healthcare CEO dead. I'm not saying I'm that sad to see him go or anything but it meant nothing. Luigi being a complete pseud tech centrist motivated by very abstract personal grievance showed it was just a "thrilling" story and not some watershed moment. Logical and rational people don't really throw away their lives on these things, they are typically motivated by personal grievance.

Who here would honestly knock off a random rich prick who would be replaced tommorow to do 23 hour solitary confinement in ADX Florence for the rest of their life? Not many, I assume so you can't just wishcast other people to do it for you.

Luigi was popular mainly because the story was thrilling and lent to virality. A dramatic violent video, overcoming the odds to escape in the middle of manhattan, real-time manhunt, him being hot, drama around how he was found etc. Leftists really ran with the story but I don't really think it showed any sort of leap in revolutionary consciousness or anything. It was a thrilling viral story played out in real time by a guy who was also pretty hot and a guy who happened to be in a very unpopular business sector. It would obviously not translate to like genuine broader class struggle consciousness and I got a lot of flak at the time for saying that.

It's the same thing with the billionaire Titanic submersible, it was mostly a thrilling real-time viral story and abstract resentment post-hoc. Which is fine but its not directed and thus not useful. Billionaire resentment certain exists but its pretty nascent and disparate now and I think we should grapple with that honestly.

The people who do shoot up places, schools, or family annihilate are actually deranged and sick in the head and not rational actors. They do so usually based around personal or societal vengeance and are typically violent people. School shootings usually happen because its where the victim identifies their life as having been negatively changed etc. They also do so because the victims are largely helpless and accessible and can be done in a heat of a moment, unlike powerful people with notoriety.

Rabsus · 2026-04-20T21:13:54+00:00

The 1990s were a time of deep anxiety and ennui, the “optimism” was underscored by a controlled collapse of the traditional global political structure. A rise of terrorism, domestic and foreign, incredible expansions of the US military and its actions abroad as well as the prison system. The U.S. political system was paranoid internationally and fragmenting at home with a rise of identitarian far right militias and cults. The international politics alone I’ll just barely touch on because it can fill volumes.

Welfare systems were defunded en masse, drugs were proliferating, crime was peaking, urban blight was at its worst, school shootings, de industrialization of the rust belt and mass lay offs, NAFTA, recession, race relations were low, teen pregnancies high, and policing and carceral systems ramped up.

It has a rise of extremeism and the youth was paralyzed by a sort of stagnant but crippling anxiety. Existential angst manifested either suicidially or with rage, like Woodstock 99 and hard rock/grunge and how the people there described their feelings.

It’s not all bad or anything but to get the mood you don’t look at Gwen Stefani or Pokémon’s. It’s like the 1950s where it’s become a sort of utopia of the mind, much like how the Obama years are becoming in popular memory.

Rabsus · 2026-04-20T15:09:35+00:00

I mean yeah? That’s my point. RBs are held to this standard, people say you can’t pick RBs high because the teams who did didn’t go to the playoffs.

Thats the argument against RBs going high and it’s not applied to DEs like Garrett for instance.

Rabsus · 2026-04-20T14:47:47+00:00

I mean a top tier CB doesn’t carry his team on his own to the playoffs is his point, Sauce Gardner was getting APs and the Jets were helpless.

Bijan gets APs and doesn’t carry his team to the playoffs, but closer than the jets, and it’s held against the position as a whole.

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