Happy Christmas ❤️

Truly incredible how CEOs are so integral to the operation and success of a business that they “deserve” wildly outsized compensation, but that holding one accountable for performing a core function of a business is “wrong” because he somehow had nothing to do with that

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image

also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

Screenshot from the website for Latino Chicken Place featuring a full plate of chicken and sides behind a rotisserie chicken graphic and the name “Latino Chicken Place”

I’ve always appreciated the clarity and directness of naming a restaurant ‘Latino Chicken Place’

World Aquatics graphic depicting some of the world record-setting swimmers from the 2024 Short Course World Championships who contributed to 30 world records broken at the meet

The 2024 Short Course World Championships that wrapped up today (Sunday, 15/12/24) was one of the greatest swim meets in history.

If you’re even remotely interested in competitive swimming, do yourself a favor and watch these races to see tremendous performance after tremendous performance. 🏊‍♀️💨🔥

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few people had so much wealth and so much power."

"In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. We have an oligarchy here, too.

it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills

Any socialist project should view and conduct itself as a necessary step on the way to communism.

That step may last decades or more, but rectifying lifetimes of capitalist brainwashing is vital work. Without that, true egalitarianism and liberty will not be possible.

If you’re not interested in noon being when the sun is (technically only at the equator) directly overhead, then why not shift the whole day over so that sunrise is at 1PM and you can party in the sun all night? AM/PM isn’t accurate anyway.

Daylight Saving Time is contempt for the natural world.

Love The O-Ned-ers

That thing you do film/ capn geech and the shrimp shack shooters 🦐🎷

Captain Geech and The Shrimp Shack Shooters🦐🎷🦐🎷

what a mess of a skeet. typos and double words. 🫠😭

*spent

The people confounded by Luigi Mangione not being a United Healthcare customer must have spend their entire lives baffled as to why white people people would protest racial injustice

CNN: “There is a real sense of nervousness and even fear in C-suites across the country.”

Who gets to kill? Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione

Luigi Mangione was taken into custody just as Daniel Penny walked free.

The ruling class wants us to celebrate the murder of the vulnerable and condemn the murder of the powerful.

They fail to see how killing the powerless breeds violence against the powerful.

www.jphilll.com/p/who-gets-t...

If “rights that require the labor of others cannot be rights,” then life, liberty, and property cannot be rights; all of those things require the labor of others, as does any recognition of rights.

Someone has to birth you for you to be alive, and that act is literally referred to as ‘labor.’

And the award for Commitment to the Bit goes to… Zach Silberberg!
🏆

The reason why cutting Medicaid in a society that grinds people into dust on the altar of productivity and profit makes sense is that everyone knows that people make better workers when they’re chronically ill from preventable conditions.

this only suggests to me that everyone needs to keep being meaner to those in power. the wealthy elite need to be scared

Millions of people in the US agree that denying essential services to the powerless and tearing apart our public systems for profit is premeditated murder. These tyrants aren't gods. They're cowards clinging to stolen thrones and they don't have a divine right to rule forever.

Good news for the CEO of UnitedHealthcare: there are no concerns about preexisting conditions in hell

“The proposition that existence stands higher than a just existence is false and ignominious, if existence is to mean nothing other than mere life… It contains a mighty truth, however, if "existence," or, better, "life" (words whose ambiguity is readily dispelled, like that of "freedom," when they are used with reference to two distinct spheres), means the irreducible, total condition that is "man"… Man cannot, at any price, be said to coincide with the mere life in him, any more than it can be said to coincide with any other of his conditions and qualities, including even the uniqueness of his bodily person.” - Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence”

On the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson:

Whilst you slumbered, I studied the blade.*

*watched all 240 episodes of The History Channel’s competition series Forged in Fire in a delirious binge

I just think that more cisgender people should actually look at the laws republicans want to pass about trans people.

Ok Skeleton Crew fucking rocks

For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver is a great snow album 🌨️