See also Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell.
And, more broadly, virtually all success of the human species is because we are, generally, friendly, cooperative, horny apes.
Big brain & bipedalism don’t get you far on their own (& arguably could/did only evolve for cooperative apes in the event)
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Penis costume protester prevails in court
Alabama officers said the woman's costume created a public safety threat and arrested her at an October "No Kings" rally.
www.courthousenews.com/penis-costum...
Under no circumstances should we do fascism light. If you want a first order of business on immigration? Everyone brutalized by ICE gets citizenship and reparations paid out of the ICE budget while all the ICE agents are tried for crimes against humanity.
"First order of business if Dems win House/Senate should be to reintroduce the far-right immigration bill that funnels more money to Border Patrol." You losers.
Trickle-down economics worked exactly as intended.
The Keystone Kash Patel countdown has started:
BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
Yes, but at least we put over a thousand S&L executives in prison, vs zero after 2008.
Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.
I really cannot emphasize just how much it matters that we, collectively, really concertedly start telling the Billionaire Techo-Fascist Class, "NO. FUCK OFF. ABSOLUTELY NO." & just keep chanting it at these unfuckable dweebazoid loser dorks until the end of fucking time.
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yep and this is linked to why we gotta ditch the demand for work too. there is no scale of profit wrt labor. everything is valuable. everyone deserves to live in comfort and pursue the life they want to the best of their abilities. we can do it if we stop supporting billionares too.
*Has anybody queried Jailbroken Criminal Grok for some practical AI help in wrecking those data centers
*I'm sure Grok's maestro from DOGE wouldn't mind if the people he's currently suing at OpenAI somehow came to a bad end
My discharge packet from the hospital has about five pages of "here are substance abuse resources" because I use cannabis to help manage the debilitating symptoms of Crohn's disease.
This country is a fucking joke. 4/20 post
It is important to keep in mind that a lot of the natalist panic in the West is in response to a successful feminist push to reduce the rates of child rape.
(Teenage girls are statistically most often knocked up by adult men. I think the average age is around 23.)
that thing about house spiders not being able to survive outdoors is obviously not universally true because here in oregon anyway i've seen a billion giant house spiders living perfectly happily in my garden or even off in the forest
"Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Me: [idly looking up info on popes]
Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.
Me: wut?
Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]
I'm still hoping for a breakdown on live TV, followed by obvious ending.
Sigh. On the one hand it's depressing that this is the world we live in, and that it's perfectly likely we get momentous news like this from a trashy outlet like this.
On the other hand, I have to admit that in THIS particular case, finding out from TMZ would be cosmically right and proper.
Well, you could just put the wrong days card in the football. He wouldn't be able to authenticate. And I doubt there is a documented attack plan for Iran anyways, hopefully he's stopped..
this is number 1 the first & most important way we have to fix the world. if we can't see the value in somebody's labour but they can, we wait. they will show us what it means to them. it's the thing that humans do. the thing that defines us as a species & the gift we'll take into the stars.
That’s stupid thing to say. I was clearly mad from the start of this thread. I didn’t suddenly get mad when your dumb ass showed up.
Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court
That’s right
Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.
Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.
The system is rigged.
true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative
A cross against a blue and red gradient background. Superimposed is text reading: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1 Samuel: 7:3
My mom made this with a Bible app that let you generate inspiration Bible verse images, but inexplicably also let you edit them
