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It’s been interesting this last week watching liberal people complain about age verification laws that don’t even exist yet, as if it isn’t an eminently good thing to keep social media out of the hands of kids.
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It’s been interesting this last week watching liberal people complain about age verification laws that don’t even exist yet, as if it isn’t an eminently good thing to keep social media out of the hands of kids.
Motherfuckers all.
But do yourself a favor and read up on the Polish Resistance. Those were some seriously metal sons of removed.
And for those of you who don’t like reading history: Imagine watching 50-100 of your friends getting summarily executed every day, and it doesn’t make you afraid to stop killing Nazis. It makes you even more emboldened, and that’s exactly what you do. You exist to make them afraid to walk the streets.
You’re not wrong.
The only time we see Democrats pretend to be leftist is when they have no meaningful power to enact change. They’re conservatives in sheep’s clothing.
I mean, 99% of voters pick capitalists every single time, and then clutch their pearls when capitalist things happen.
On the plus side, it’s still possible to do good things on the local level. (For now.)
Yeah, but those people don’t have the power to destroy the entire world when their brain short-circuits.
I also get hung up on the fact that the supposed good guy in the story drowned an entire planet.
It’s unavoidable.
Remember in 2016 when we learned 40,000,000 Americans couldn’t absorb an unexpected $400 expense without going further into debt? That number has almost certainly exploded since then, with the housing crises and massive inflation that America has been forced to endure. I doubt those people are going to forego a badly needed day’s pay to vote for one of these two assholes when the last eight years has reinforced emphatically how little they care about the poor and working class.
No they don’t.
They have an interest in keeping themselves rich, consequences be damned.
That’s a silver lining.
Biden looks like he’s on the verge of croaking, so maybe, just maybe, we’ll get a black, female fascist enabler instead of an old white male fascist enabler for once.
Because we’re ruled by the billionaire class, and they like giving us two useful idiots to choose from.
I dunno, man.
I’d say stop watching corporate media, because CNN is making a shit-ton of advertiser money off these charades, but people won’t.
I mean, you’d think the total inability to hide Biden and Trumps’ cognitive dysfunction, caught on camera many, many times over the last few years, and now live and in color, would be enough to get people to stop pretending that there’s a good option here. Hell, Biden’s handlers have been caught on camera making sure he doesn’t wander off, like they had for Feinstein before she died.
But then again, Americans have watched the gradual, but now inevitable, slide into fascism over the last 40 years and managed to convince themselves that all is well, provided the guy enabling it is wearing their preferred jersey, so I guess we’ll just chill and let Biden and Trumps’ unelected handlers rule the country.
It’s too bad you all didn’t vote for Williamson in the primary. It’s been clear neither of these two assholes are fit for a long time, just like it was clear Feinstein wasn’t fit when she was falling asleep in hearings.
What’s wild to me is how most news sources are reporting that the president’s rivals did their part by opting not to provide support to the coup attempt.
I think, if a bunch of armed rednecks attacked the White House, we wouldn’t see solidarity among rival factions in defending our seat of government.
As with bulletproof backpacks and multiple security doors in schools… another thing that shouldn’t exist in the first place, and it’s only necessary because dead kids aren’t enough for Americans to reconsider how convenient it is to kill people here.
The US wasn’t even close to the worst offender when it came to imperialism or colonialism
LOL, what a super apologist argument.
Pick up a US or World Hstory book as an adult and two things will dispel the illusions you may have about Americans and the human race: First, the rest the world hates us for very good reasons, and the things we did on a smaller scale in previous centuries are now much more widespread. Second, our species is infinitely more capable of evil than you were made to understand.
I wish the video were of that crowd bashing that person’s brains in.
Agreed. Handing over personal info is not unlike handing the wrong person a loaded gun.
I wish our schools did a better job teaching about resistance movements. Here in the US most people don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain, for example, even though it was the largest armed resistance action here since the US Civil War.
But if you know what the BoBM is, you know why it isn’t taught, for the same reason churches don’t teach what the Bible says about usury.