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• Post #4456413

  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@nogodsnomasters/117062102110173136 There is no fairness under the law. There is no fairness within capitalism. There is no fairness unless you force the powers that be to bow their fucking heads as we take it from them.

• Post #4213045

  We are attacking Iraq now? [eye twitch] These motherfuckers are the worst gods damn jackasses to have ever a modicum of power.

• Post #4021675

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/116964035598498050 Companies won't comply with society because it stops their real income. The deal with the city wasn't a service it provided, it was access to provide mass surveillance to be sold off and bartered with everyone else. Deal with "services" like this as if they were literally turning us into products to be sold off - everything from Ring in homes to Flock all across a city. You - yes you! - are being turned into a co...

• Post #4014545

  I don't know what musk's turnover for his companies is like, but damn must they be fucking worn-the-fuck-out! "Make a better version of the subway! No make me a robot, stop that - build self driving cars instead. No, make a habitat for Mars, wait, build an ai for my social media - Oooh - can it do all the racisms? NO! Kill it and start over. Hey can you build a .... " Like a fucking adhd super villain with all starts, and no finishes! [rolls eyes]

• Post #3777718

  I am absolutely fucking tired of the horde of fuckwits that carry water for the Founding Fathers in regards to them being rapists, slavers, and genociders. How many of them hid behind words like "All men are created equal" while putting price tags on Black people? The majority, if you didn't know. Last repost had a few responses on how Jefferson's enlightened values were in conflict with his economic security? If he decided his wealth was more important, he didn't have th...

• Post #3769934

  The only version of patriotism I'll ever respect is when someone fights for other people's rights. When people break oppressive laws to protect the marginalized. When someone stands against injustice and fights the powers that be. The only good in this nation is when it's fighting to be better. Everything else is authoritarian propaganda and dead white men's fetishes.

• Post #3700783

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116891536262424683 If you sit at a table with three nazis, it's a table with four nazis. If you sit at a table with three rapists...?

• Post #3661506

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116880067637308986 One of the things that gets me. If this was some famous person from Hollywood (with current cachet) there would be a hundred reporters on their lawns. There would be a 24-7 countdown to when they get proof of life. But one of the more important political figures in the fucking nation and we're just ... uh.. fuck it, is he alive, dead? In a coma? who cares! Right?

• Post #3660742

  I get trying to make light of a serious topic might lessen the burden of a thing. I really do. But for fucks sake, when a poor, marginalized woman, with a disability says "fuck, why is life hard" don't be that cis, white, well-to-do stranger who makes light of it. And if you have to make light of it, at least commiserate and share an empathic laugh, not ignore her and just make some self indulgent grab for attention. You can be a complete asshole at open mic night with all the...

• Post #3598046

  Am fucking amazed that the ignorant asshole throwing fireworks on their balcony are better at both fireworks presentation and fireworks safety that the federal government! Like, we've had 250 years experience in the US blowing up pretty explosions and these fucks are like "let's set off 800,000 fireworks, too close together, in a low spot, in high humidity' so we get choking smoke clouds wafting over watchers; amorphous fog glow instead of actual displays, & serious hearing...

• Post #3437790

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116824468294496259 Seriously. There were multiple studies. Heat waves increase violent crime, extreme heat, especially extended periods of time, cause real changes in violent behavior and self control. (Especially among men, but not only men!)

• Post #2513194

  Well, to maximize racism and fascism the Texas DMV has become, somehow, worse than it was last time I went there.

• Post #2368412

  RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116539903624989398 You can't get your health care through the mail if you're trans or a woman; you can't vote by mail; you can't even trust the mail to be delivered if you're in certain parts of the states; but republicans (and probably a handful of dems) would burn the US government to the ground and salt the earth to let you mail guns. Ya'know, that nearly anonymous courier service that'll deli...

• Post #2184212

  RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/116398384962040381 Control of children instead of caretaking is paramount to abusers; control of third spaces instead of community building is paramount to capitalists; control of communications instead of curating is paramount to authoritarians. Who are we letting control social media?

• Post #2166785

  RE: https://blob.love/@nora/116530059382222367 Ted Turner is dead. The man wasn't great by any means - but he co-created Captain Planet when everyone was making toy commercials instead of entertainment, and it's not nothing. So kick a corporate or fascist polluter in the balls in memory of Turner. He may not of liked it, but it's a better legacy than any billionaire deserves.

• Post #2166780

  So I don't celebrate my birthday, everyone who knows me does know this. So before my gods damned alarm goes off two friends and two family members send me texts to wish me a happy birthday. One of them at six in the gods damn morning. [sighs] Seriously - if it's someone's birthday, send your well wishes after noon, so if they have the opportunity they can fucking sleep in or whatever.

• Post #1939508

  RE: https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/116510862611588642 I'm not even sure we need to acknowledge some of this bullshit.

• Post #1843080

  He was involved in two people's death, and was cast as the murderer. He's dead because no one with the power cared about a Black man in Texas. This is ~always~ what 'tough on crime' meant. Cold blooded execution of people the state will not tolerate based on white supremacy. His confession was 'taken' while he was on drugs; They made sure the jury had no Black people on it; They used rap lyrics to show 'he'd kill again';...

• Post #1811643

  The pursuit of compromise from progressive sources (I'll even say a ~few~ liberal ones) are typically calls for progress and community building. Setting aside bad blood, or seeking cooperation. The *demand* for compromise from conservatives (and liberals) are calls for maintenance of the status quo, or blacksliding. To return to traditions that society has evolved past. Ultimatums for obedience to whatever bullshit their regressive, bigoted in-groups come up with. Be wary of offered...

• Post #1788573

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz/-/a-wMvjbVbPTk-p6P1NrnpIcQ%3Aa%3A436232176-%2F0 I'm pretty sure it's obvious but soldiers - especially soldiers deployed in active combat - they really don't fucking want to be there, especially when their civy bosses are calling them liars and failures. Hegseth is seriously competing for most rakes stepped on in a single administration. And with this fucking regime, he is far from the only one.

• Post #1642069

  Ok, I'mma give you an in on a secret: All the people talking about how trump or this administration can fix a problem, or fix it's mistakes. It's all lies. The entire regime is happy. They don't see anything happening due to their actions as problematic, because it's all making them money. Like, robbing the government blind, sticking up other nations for billions sorts of money. Fuck you if you can't pay rent or fill a gas tank, they don&amp...

• Post #1268056

  Ok, I'm gen-x so I'm not 'in-the-know'; so this is a question for Millennials and Zs, is there a movie that was both impactful to the general culture and felt like it was a breath of fresh air for you in your childhood? Bonus points if it's a teen comedy that isn't farce? Also bonus, bonus points if any Alphas know of a similar for your current media moments?

• Post #1100236

  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116392906798713909 Having lived through both (and the book bans, Chinese products, vaccines, food additives, video games, rap, non-English speakers, fucking other people's family BBQs, ect ect) it's all the same thing. It's always the same thing, (rich/white) people blaming something else instead of their shitty abusive parenting and the harmful status quo they depend on to explain why their abused and hurting kids are abused and hurting.

• Post #1019951

  I really like a lot of AWOLNATION, but his ass can't do a cover to save his gods damned life! lol

• Post #1018163

  Trump threatening to end a civilization isn't a new novel thing. US presidents have commited genocides and atrocities throughout our history, we're just not taught it (or taught the myth version, which to be clear - are lies). We're built on atrocities and genocide. The reason people are clutching their pearls over trump threatening Iran is because he shoved their faces in it. It's fine if it's over there, unspoken in polite company. Ignoring (white/ri...

• Post #889688

  Sometimes I'm seriously struck by how easy it was to kill all of humanity by arguing over definitions.

• Post #761481

  RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116285239183264441 49 states have 'at will employment' meaning unless you have a union, which is ~not~ 90% of us, we can be fired just for saying we're sick. (yeah, it's wrongful firing - sure sue them. Tell me how rent gets paid while paying for a lawyer?) The struggle isn't even to explain sick leave is a terrible racket, half (at least) of the US labor force doesn't even have sick leave or use it...

• Post #615863

  The USSR's Venera photos were something emotionally powerful for me as a kid. I'm not even able to explain it now, but we only have images from three probes of the planet surface. That's it. The place is so absolutely extreme, so dangerous, that it devoured the probes in the span of minutes to hours. We talk about Mars being Earth-like, but it's not. It's abysmally not. Venus is Earth-like, but utterly hostile to all life, and anything we could throw at...