The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
True story bro.
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION “Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt. Thank a rail worker today!
unions: they get the job done
Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again.
Bravo
“Far Leftist” here! My Leftist contract doesn’t permit me to speak for other Leftists, but, I can guarantee, all else being equal, that as long as actively opposing genocide—and making sure that would-be Presidents do as well—remains “performative outrage”, you can count on my “performance”.
So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.
how it feels logging onto my little spreadsheet email job
Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words
so they're mycoblogging
You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community, to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are lead by the least among us, the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary; we are lead by the least among us, and we do not fight back against the dehumanising values that are handed down as control icons.
It’s be more ecologically sound to allow them to be eaten by ants or colonized by mycelium or something, but whatever the case, let’s not think of it as retribution, but instead an opportunity for them to demonstrate their “inherent genetic superiority” by adapting to adverse conditions.
For decades, we’ve seen this expression drift inexorably toward its most violent, repressive, totalitarian extreme, compressing the spectrum of viable political thought amongst the ruling class. Respectfully, fighting to identify the ever-finer distinctions among them is a poor use of resources.
The dominant power structures in this land are a metastasized amalgam of capital interests and the fears and prejudices and weaknesses capital leverages to exercise power, and those who broker that power inevitably reflect each of those factors to a greater or lesser degree.
The purpose of a system is what it *does*. I am, and will continue to be more interested in assessing what our machine of State is producing than in microscopically assaying individual politicians for minute variations of principle in pursuit of some precise taxonomy of “goodness”.
autistic people not having to pay taxes is news to me. i want those back
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.
Witnessing genocide makes us feel:
Helpless
Emotional shutdown
Guilt for living
Shame for not doing more
Fear that nothing will change
Psychological warfare is part of their tactic.
Resist it.
Stay grounded.
Lean into Community. Connection. Steadfastness.
#FreePalestine🇵🇸
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
They’re “suggestions” when it comes to stopping oligarchs and fascists from plundering and killing. But you try something like UBI, socialized healthcare, or feeding hungry children, and you’ll see quickly just how powerful and uncompromising they are.
Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.
Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids
Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation?
Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate
Yes, isn’t it truly remarkable how that “horseshoe theory” phenomenon only ever seems to work in one direction?
I suppose if you define “healthy” stringently and explicitly to mean “someone who has not, at this particular time, died from infection with this specific disease on this discrete occasion” then it *almost* passes a logic test. But the simpler answer, as you say, is “eugenicists are so stupid”.
"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"
As someone who not-infrequently rants about unnecessary, bullshit jobs that consume resources while returning little to no value, I cannot fathom the magnitude of cognitive distortion it takes for the world’s wealthiest, least-productive human to be pressing this line of thought.
Echoing points made by others today, in a country where getting an abortion or gender affirming care or protesting a genocide can be felonies, I am going to need everyone to stop talking about "the rule of law" and "innocent people" and "criminal records."
