Embrace Collapse

I don't know why we ever treated neo-Confederates as reasonable people.

Funny how the "Tea Party" cos-players get their panties in a bunch when real people take their inspiration from Sons of Liberty.
#usa #usa #usa #history

A world where barroom Nazis can coexist with others is a world where regular folk are totally powerless, and therefore harmless. Nazi symbols are threatening, which is why people wearing them get driven away.
I hope Greene (in the screenshot below) was be sarcastic.

They are all just whiny brats

A Christianity that causes the hungry to go without food, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be mistreated, and God’s creation to be ravaged, all while the greedy and cruel satisfy their every desire, is a Christianity that can no longer claim to follow Christ.

I don't know Killian Harty, but my understanding is that Russians have long demanded that subjugated nations to read these authors as part of appreciating Russian culture and acknowledging its superiority to their own. The antagonism probably has more to do with that than the authors themselves.

"THE WICKED BECOME EVEN WORSE WHEN THEY ARE TOLERATED. - TOLSTOY

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A Penguin Classics edition of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy stands upright against a misty, dark-toned background, with silhouetted wildflowers and soft light, creating a sombre, reflective mood.

One of literature’s most profound meditations on mortality and the search for meaning. Through Ivan’s illness, Tolstoy peels back the illusions of success, exposing the emptiness beneath bourgeois respectability. A true MUST READ.

#BookSky #BookReview #PenguinClassics #Tolstoy #RussianLiterature

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

I'm sure the President has been looking for an excuse to bring all the Smithsonian's jewels into the White House for safe keeping.

somebody rich person (who will ultimately buy them and reward the thieves)

One thing is certain about the fate of the Louvre jewels: some rich person will buy them, and the thieves themselves will become very rich. Our kids will be working for theirs. This is how it has always been.

Don't rebuild it. Abolish the Presidency.

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Giuffre’s Memoir "Nobody's Girl: Trauma, Justice, and Her Final Allegations Implicate Former Prime Minister And A Story About Abuse To Horrific To Put Into Words On Tuesday, Virginia Giuffre names names from the grave. The Royal Family, a former "Prime Minister" and a few other powerful elites are going to have a very bad day.

deanblundell.substack.com/p/giuffres-m...

America doesn't need a president.

We need a council of governors collaborating. We need proportional representation. We need structures that teach, encourage, and incentivize civic engagement. We need corporate money out of politics. We need publicly funded campaigns.

The "say yes" scam only exists due to the collapse of multiple major social systems in the USA... including our telecommunication system to our finance system.
www.experian.com/blogs/ask-ex...
#scam #collapse #fraud

Well, for an authoritarian government, disinformation technically is essential work?

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

Here in the USA we get "deport elon". People think it's clever to toss his own attitude back in his face (not that he'll ever see it), but it suggests that they think that deporting political opponents is just some partisan flex and a joke. I can't take such people seriously.

how about "plutocrat-nonce"?

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

Who is paying this person?

Not even the right-wing propaganda pollsters (Harvard-Harris) are have provided any numbers. I guess they have not found a way to phrase the question that would get most people to agree with it.
harvardharrispoll.com/press-releas...

I don't know why you need a slur for a chatbot or a text generator or an image generator.

I'm probably missing some context, but any idea that 'anti-AI' is 'anti-human' probably rests on the assumption that AI is real -- when much of the anti-AI criticism is simply pointing out that much of what is being pushed as AI does not live up to the hype by a long shot.

Not to say that we should abandon the Democrats, just don't get too caught up in supporting them. They're doing what they can. We can do what we can.

The radical left has been irrelevant in the US for the past 50 years. All of this decay happened while we put our faith in center-left reformism, which was never able to resist the growing radicalism of the right, because it relied on hucksters and plutocracy.