Potato Of Reason

bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything

midwest oil refinery shuts down due to lack of supply. saudi arabia is unable to provide any oil to anyone until october. the bab al-mandab and hormuz strait both closed. it’s so cool to be alive in the worst energy crisis in history. can only get this with republican leadership!

Kraft has power because he’s a billionaire. He’s exploiting and weaponizing his faith to advance his politics. But we should be extremely clear that Jerry Jones could do the *exact same thing*. Billionaires are bad. Billionaires are benefitting from fascism. We have to condemn takes like the below.

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

has a vast but still-undetected disinformation campaign from "china" flipped americans' attitudes on data centers in a short time OR are many americans angered by a vast consolidation of land and resources by SV dipshits for something with nebulous benefits that shows little concern for their needs?

a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat

these guys are willing to get piker killed, blow up their own party, and bring the economy and what's left of the social safety net down forever all to serve an otherwise powerless foreign government's desire to dominate and destroy all the people around it

i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality

the tech elite is officially off its goddamn rocker www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situ...

tech capitalists: we're building 95 jiggawatts of AI datacenters and you'll all be jobless soon. guess we rewrite the social contract...UBI or whatever (no taxes for us tho lol) voters: ok. socialism then tech capitalists:

join DSA

ok i’ll renew my DSA membership and pay dues

trump was always uniquely positioned to bring about Great Depression 2.0: 1. a perfect combination of low-IQ, demented, and corrupt such that he'd initiate this war all his predecessors knew would lead to this outcome 2. unable to control Israel 3. unable to control himself

vouched fundraiser for the Minneapolis defendants chuffed.org/project/1865...

just finished chapter 9 of project hail mary and god this book sucks so far

Goode won.

A win for free speech, a loss for Matt Taibbi.

they’re getting mad about depictions in film of killing actual fascists come on lol

it seems likely we’re doing a ground invasion, which fulfills american policy at every turn is that we need more dead americans for the glory of israel

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

linux heads were always right. time to sit my dumbass down and learn

getting word iran launching strikes on mr beast land in saudi arabia source tells me mr beast land is stable please god

@katmabu.bsky.social sending me cat pics in exchange for a donation is decidedly the best deal i've ever gotten out of a political contribution

Mamdani: "$5.4 billion is a very steep mountain to climb ... We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million per year and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations."

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.

it really feels like everything is falling apart lol

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

2. ICE is buying your private location data from sleazy data brokers through a legal loophole. I've had a bill to stop this since 2021. I'm renewing my push to get it passed into black letter law as soon as possible.

I believe history will show the following: The masks are to conceal the fact that many of these masked ICE “agents” are pardoned Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. I would prefer that “history,” in this case….is pretty damn short.

So fucked up most of the elected leadership of the US is okay with MPLS being under paramilitary occupation and not being worried about the end of our democracy.