Mark W. Coulter

This need to be said more often. Elon Musk is not an intelligent person. He used is father's money to buy intelligent people's ideas. Americans confuse that with intelligence. But he's an immature idiot who surrounds himself with young men who tell him how smart/funny he is. He is neither..

04.02.2025 06:52 — 👍 4915    🔁 1135    💬 169    📌 48

Well, I believe, that's your job isn't it? It's literally what you're elected to do.

So do it. Oppose, filibuster, obstruct. Because honestly, four years of simple gridlock would be better than what this administration of psychotic oligarchs has planned.

Do your job, because we're not right there!

31.01.2025 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, I believe, that's your job isn't it? It's literally what you're elected to do.

So do it. Oppose, filibuster, obstruct. Because honestly, four years of simple gridlock would be better than what this administration of psychotic oligarchs has planned.

Do your job, because we're not right there!

31.01.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Question for you:
Why didn't you all just advertise a Copilot version to people and see if they upgrade for it rather than automatically raising the price and foisting it on people?
If you think anyone wants AI tools, why the need to force it in, instead of trying to sell them on merit up-front?

25.01.2025 18:18 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

24.01.2025 14:09 — 👍 3851    🔁 2263    💬 196    📌 227

So true. it's its own narcissism reaction to the utter narcissism of the right.

People watch those movies and they picture themselves as the main character, who'll surely make it through.

They kind of miss the parts with the mass graves of so many other individuals and the years of suffering.

25.01.2025 00:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We've all seen some people succumbing to a weird "Fine, let it all just burn so we can rebuild after everything is destroyed" mentality, despite the horrors involved.
I don't know if Bernie's just given up in that way or is so focused on class and econ that he doesn't even get how bad RFK Jr. is.

24.01.2025 23:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨

24.01.2025 18:24 — 👍 26312    🔁 12941    💬 289    📌 454

"A rising tide floats all boats."

That only works if you never let one guy buy a battleship, ram over everyone else's speedboats, rowboats, and canoes, then displace a ton of that water while people are trying to swim and shout, "Hey, your only choice is slave wages on my crew or drowning!"

24.01.2025 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The guy's an Apartheid South African whose family got rich off of exploitative segregation policies. He's brought that here through shady dealings and an early PR blitz to trick people that he was a "good guy".

No need to deep dive, he's just a Nazi and has simply been slowly sliding the mask off.

24.01.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The onslaught of horrible, straight-up Nazi policy initiations is made infinitely worse by the immediate, clear and open capitulation of nearly everyone with an ounce of power who should be rising and saying, "No, this cannot stand."
Like they all just instantly gave up on even mitigating harm.

22.01.2025 23:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So... powerful state officials want to attack someone for their pleas to consider the humanity of the downtrodden and marginalized. Those state authorities and their followers practically want to crucify that person.

Gah, there's some story like this somewhere, can't put my finger on it...

22.01.2025 19:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

- lied about Haitian migrants eating pets
- threatened to imprison people for criticizing the supreme court
- repeatedly praised foreign autocrats and promised to govern like one
- picked a fight with Arlington National Cemetery
- both white men

Normal!

20.01.2025 19:47 — 👍 876    🔁 135    💬 36    📌 6

If you are not already, pay attention to increasing attacks on porn even if porn is something you do not care for. The attacks, architected and carried out by zealots, are intended to broaden the classification of "porn" to include all sorts of speech determined "subversive" by zealots. This is what has drawn me to this community and fight. I'm not a porn super fan. "Obscenity" is long where this battle has been fought and sex workers are on the front lines of that fight. *Their* free speech battle is one you benefit from, fellow artists.

Don't get me wrong! I don't mean to distance myself from love and appreciation for smut, subversive art, literature, trash and more. I am a true fan of all of the above (in no small part because I also know and appreciate its role in the history of this struggle). But one should not feel they have to be a fan to appreciate what this fight means for the freedom of speech (especially speech including queer and feminist perspectives, which have often been grouped together as "subversive" and "dangerous" texts in the name of state censorship).

Pay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.

18.01.2025 19:45 — 👍 2940    🔁 1413    💬 22    📌 56

"Well, I'll probably be saving a lot of money in 2025."
"Oh, thinking about retirement?"
"More that with every major company going to creepy efforts to bow down to a dementia-addled white-supremacist imperialist over one election, I'm buying only essentials and small creators I can vet."

11.01.2025 00:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting up here and hopefully can find a bunch of people that used to connect on other sites.

10.01.2025 15:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0