It’s because if you don’t “biz as usual” with everyone else in the colonies, they kill you. Every law in the colonies and many norms are enforced by a man with a gun. The laws only apply to people who cannot buy their way out of them and they will kill you if you don’t play their paper money trading game with them and let them win. They’re murderers who have a short-order murder society and they kill people or put them in cages forever when anyone without fiat money doesn’t pretend along.

They’re the volk.

*edit And it isn’t “blindness,” their whole society is about this. Half of their television is about their fixation on their “criminal justice” murder-enslavement cult. They think prisons are normal and they send corrections officers to career days for children. Nobody is subtle or hiding what they are about in the colonies. 🤦‍♂️

When are you going to start your own blog or something, Pete? I’d sign up.

Headline Editors: why Propagandists write bullshit headlines - then post articles that don’t reflect them

Credulity and technical competence are definitely not mutually exclusive.

It is disinformation to promote the idea that any of the people or corporations mentioned in this article were ever “climate advocates” and there is no reason we should continue to promote outlets that engage in this rhetoric.

Just brilliant. You created a very mild and civil honeypot for fascist sympathizers.

“I think ze golfen ze amerikkkanner ist ein guten name, Herr Garbistch”

🤳😯✍️✍️✍️

The more I look at the kind of messaging I see on this platform, the more I think maybe it isn’t great. It’s a lot of demotivating, depression-inducing, defeatist gloom and doom and far fewer calls to action than I remember seeing on other platforms in previous conservative administrations.

You are right that we ought to be posting less gloom. There is a lot of unhelpful rhetoric out there already, I’ve even seen ‘sticking it out til the midterms’ and that’s not the kind of defeatist nonsense people need to hear.

As a Gloomy Gus myself I could do better about making this a brighter place to inhabit, you gave me something to think about.

Misleading headline and pure fantasy. Breaks down to a couple western lawmakers looking for ways to intervene on behalf of National Park Services. Hope I saved someone a click.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar

This is the truest thing I have read this year

you don’t keep a Wii U hooked up?

I love the high bar of philosophy and taste being set by the discussions here about what is and isn’t art, so please don’t let this note distract from those.

Joints like Christie’s and the stuff they sell is largely a money laundering operation. Without decrying what’s coming out of the modern art scene, art collection is where a lot of the capitalists rinse their stolen wealth. There’s an entire economy around this practice. Here’s a company that will hook you up with the vaults, the lawyers, jewelry to swap, and travel accommodations.

So obviously generative output bots do not make art and- and- BUT ALSO nothing capitalists value is real, they only believe in their fiat. It’s all always just money crime game to them. Always.

👍 makes sense

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RFK Jr is more of a blow to morale than anything.

Calling the network of private and state hospitals in the colonies a vast healthcare system, as though it is something that a fed secretary can directly control, is a wild mischaracterization. Under Trump 1, the CDC failed so miserably that it meaningfully damaged the social contract on the continent and it stayed broken.

Because my family needs specialist optometry sometimes, and my region’s healthcare system was already so crumbly, we found affordable optometry in Ontario. Not only was it cheaper near the Universities towards central Ontario, the care was better quality. Out of pocket care was about 20% cheaper in Ontario than in bordering states in the colonies.

Obviously this sort of travel is prohibitive for many, but depending on what your needs are, it may be a better or the only option.

One thing that many more people in the colonies can do is learn how to source drugs from safer places (like Ontario or Chile).

People who read should already have been aware of this but it is useful to have confirmation from an official about what has already been reported. Too late for justice but the truth still matters.

This essay seems relevant to help more fully frame the question.

But in fact, gender is maintained by constant effort from everyone in society. Imagine what a truly genderless society would look like: no he/she pronouns. No seeing a stranger and thinking of them as male or female. No such thing as being gay or straight. People of all body types wearing pants or skirts as they please. The vision I’m describing isn’t a fantasy based on some fundamental change to how the world works. It would happen if tomorrow morning we all got out of bed and decided to stop paying any attention to gender.

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[There are people who…] do care about gender. They have an internal sense that they need to look, dress, and act a certain way that conforms to their society’s idea of their gender. If they aren’t recognised as their gender, it makes them uncomfortable. These are the people who made our language have he and she pronouns. They’re the people who feel satisfied and fulfilled when they get addressed as “sir” or “madam”. They are where gender comes from.

that’s not going to work for them at all, everyone knows you need Samus to counter Luigi

We’re roughly the same age then, about 1/2 of my friends served, who got snatched up entirely broke down to economics.

Whoa, your friend got lucky! Even disillusioned recruiters tend to fall into the “don’t talk to cultists because they stand to earnestly sell you the lies that convinced them” column of troublemakers in my experience. All of my friends left the military disabled, some worse than others. Most of them were injured by friendlies, the rest were indirect IED hits on transports.

Cool to see Lewis Black doing a fun format like this. Also cool to see somebody on the level of Lewis Black also having to deal with a crappy fish-eye webcam.

The rant about schnapps 😂. People have been trashing schnapps since ostriches invented it in Namibia 21 million years ago.