"Left" and "Right" are ultimately about the inequality we see in nature. What causes it, and what are the moral consequences of that? It's the difference between believing being more able or privileged confers a responsibility to help, or on the other hand dominate.
Ads during the 1996 World Series: awe look baby, the frogs are saying "Budweiser"
Ads during the 2026 World Series: white genocide is threatening the master race
Every lib and lib bot on this site telling trans people to vote for Democrats despite the Democratic party writ large joining the fascist project of eliminating them.
"I'm grieving the deaths of the two German guards at Auschwitz after they were attacked by Jewish prisoners today, and praying for the full speedy recovery of those who were injured."
Twitter For You feed: *a guy in India longposting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Wojak form*
Bluesky discover feed: "If you didn't vote for Kamala Harris they need to do Abu Ghraib style shit to you"
Of course they will ignore it. They're owned by the people who helped put trump in power. They're capitalist enterprises and fascism is a capitalist venture.
1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets
my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite
These Russian operations have driven an international authoritarian movement that has done incredible damage. But we are also inundated with this fake shit every single day in ways most people don’t even suspect and it affects our perception, imagination, and actions in massive ways.
It would probably be beneficial to recognize that the kind of social media and internet-driven perception and mis/disinformation campaigns people associate with Russia are carried out by nearly every monied interest, including nation states, corporations, oligarchs, and political parties.
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Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election.
“We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.”
From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:
Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day.
Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.
I genuinely hope this dies out with millennials. The downside of growing up with seemingly endless technological advancement is that some people came to genuinely worship technology. People used to technology and media alienating them from their own feelings are now replacing their feelings entirely
Guys, as much as I'd love for it to be possible to vote our way out of this: they'll do everything to prevent that from happening. They'll ratfuck you, they'll ratfuck the elections, they'll ratfuck the institutions, they'll ratfuck the organizers, and if that doesn't work they'll just kill you.
Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo's Chief Economist Torsten Slok. Read more: bloom.bg/3UO2c30
📷: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
Obama has to make a quip about white house decor, because if he mentions ICE a lot of people will point out what they did during his administration. and Biden’s.
I just want to point out that Lenin said the proletariat (as opposed to the peasantry) was the class to lead the revolution because they were the class closest to the oppression of the bourgeoisie. For this same reason Black people must lead (& must be allowed to lead!) the revolution in America
Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research.
Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
the 2020s are full of grief eh. from genocide to climate emergency to entire professions imploding / at best transforming; and on and on! yet were also in the least empathetic culture i can remember. 'you so cooked bro'. sure, yes, we probably are, can you just, not be such a dick about it?
"...prices began rising immediately after the broader tariff measures were announced in early March and continued to increase gradually over subsequent months" @econofact.bsky.socialeconofact.org/are-tariffs-...
AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"
A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.
Pro wrestling is a performance art where a good guy (called a face) fights a bad guy (called a heel). They fight and fight but it's all pretend. They go home at the end of the day and are friends, but to everyone else they pretend to really be fighting (this is called kayfabe).
The ones that perform really well can get a lot of money, and make a lot of money for the people paying them, too. The wrestlers and the people paying them get together and figure out what the story will be. Most adults know all this, but most kids and some grown-ups think the fighting is real.
There's no way this prediction is based off recent history, which was also correctly predicted.
It's by a white male presenting account so maybe you'll give a shit about it
youtubers, streamers, podcasters, etc are always on this beat bc they don't know how anything works & know that if they say something like this, their audiences will lap it up now & also 3 years later when they point to total gay commie revolution not happening and go "see? i was right!"
That doesn't matter at all actually. Because it changes nothing and offering no resistance means your little day out can be completey ignored.
It's entirely for yourself so that *you* feel better. Because it achieves nothing material. Because it doesn't even try to.
Is it bad when the most unaccountable and undemocratic institution in America can't field enough judges to hear a case because they're so corrupted by money?
Because four of the Justices have book contracts with a party's corporate parent, the Supreme Court LACKS A QUORUM to hear BMG v. Vetter, and one of the worst copyright decisions in recent memory is affirmed by default. It's just one bad look after another.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
Some people clearly need to hear this:
Every big successful peaceful protest movement of modern history had a violent counterpart.
Peaceful protest stopped working the moment the ruling class realized ignoring it wouldn't lead to violent uprising.
If you are worried this could happen to you, you need to have your parents put things you hope to inherit into a trust and you need them to do this FIVE YEARS before they claim any medicaid benefits.
"How could I possibly know when they'll need those benefits?" You can't, that's the scheme
JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday.
Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.