Josh

Knitting machines also stop people from having to spend hours knitting a single sock, and lets poor people be fully clothed and not in rags. Technological advancement is good, the issues stem from capitalism's push for limitless profit and endless consumption

Extremely funny thing to say when just last year the president nearly destroyed the economy singlehandedly with tariffs no one else wanted or liked

Please, for your own sake, get some rest, this isnt a good use of your time or energy

To give his parents the benefit of the doubt, their son died just this morning, its understandable theyd say something stupid in their grief, and it's possible the AP is quoting it specifically to paint any opposition to ICE as stupid. But like, christ people dont do interviews the day your son died

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

YouTube video by things i stole from facebook string em up

If I remember right he's actually a mormon trotskyist (weird combination I know) and this here is the one clip of him I've actually seen. He seems ok
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I mean the easy comparison for what they might do is iraq or afghanistan, but that was a little before my time to be honest. I don't know if these people are competent enough to do a venezuelan operation iraqi freedom, but regardless they just want the oil, you don't need a stable govt for that

Like Jesus Christ my main criticism of Maduro now is that he didnt go far enough in securing his government because the consequences of a US-puppet Venezuela is far worse than the consequences of an "authoritarian" one

Y'know that Parenti clip where he talks about how the Sandinistas, when staring down a US-orchestrated coup, were basically forced to impose authoritarian measures? Can't help but feel that way about Venezuela now

I mean work boots are pretty normal for the trades, warehouse jobs and deliverypeople, it's not all workers of course, but it is a significant portion. And lets not forget shes a public figure and the wife of the mayor of nyc, it is kind of her job to look nice

*like traveling through private property. You can't travel through some public property though, of course, like a military base or a mayor's office

Rights have limits -like traveling through public property- and a right to travel isnt meaningfully limited if you're given other ways to fulfill it. The way things are now, those who lack the money or ability to drive a car are facing far, far greater limits to their rights than any car owner

feels similar to another group the GOP hates but who loves the GOP: Latinos (a few not all of course). With stuff like Marco Rubio as SoS, it seems like they've made it work, for now at least. Maybe it's a way to hold onto privilege; cops benefit a lot financially from terrorizing their communities

Yea that one guy is either full of shit or went to a very unique school, we all learned them. I remember my AP history class in high school talking about metacoms war and the trail of tears and stuff, at least a little, but dont think they discussed it much, my memory is bad though

Who are these psychos defending Bill Clinton in the replies?

I mean at least Garfield was apparently super into spiderman as a kid and loved playing him, and he was good in the social network right that came out right before. Picking Holland seems pretty indefensible though just find some other 20 year old that looks like a high schooler

No one derserves to be brutalized and sent to a concentration camp, going all "he's no angel" plays entirely into ICE's hands and justifies deporting an old man who hasnt committed any crime in 50 years. You can't give the fascists an inch

My mom is dyslexic and she's told me she couldn't really read until she taught me to with hooked on phonics. Its boring yea, but it objectively works way better than anything else

Think comparing the actions of a genocidal state to this is a bit of an exaggeration, to say the least. I dont have much experience in using my penis but it still seems to work fine despite losing a little off the top. Again its very bad and should be banned but that isnt really comparable to, yknow

I mean to be clear yeah slicing off babies' skin should be banned, but y'know, i doubt the actual cabal of pedophiles in government like rfk care, if anything the fact that circumcision is child mutilation is a reason for them to like it, its part of why them doing this is so weird to me

Yeah without a doubt. It also feels like, weirdly old school anti-semitism. Almost everybody here is circumcised, its not just a Judaism thing. Its like when varg was saying "let me guess you have no foreskin"; to most USians its just super fucking weird and incoherent, but it's clearly a dogwhistle

FUCK ITS NOT IT'S GODDAMN IT

Cuba faces population decline and aging amid mass migration exodus Cuba's population fell below the 10 million mark in 2024. Independent experts fear a more pronounced demographic decline, driven by the exodus of the working population and a drop in birth rates on th...

I mean according to this at least, its 10% in like 12 years, which is still horrifically bad, guessing that person thinks its for some stupid reason rather than climate change and the US doing everything in it's power to destroy cuba for the past 65 years
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A mormon speaking is indistinguishable from chatgpt, by design the church makes them all a bit uncanny to outsiders

I think the mechanics have good bones, I like the feeling of progression, the combat (excepting magic) lacking feedback for misses I think is the main issue. Like with kenshi you also start as a schmuck and end as a god but you actually see your hits get parried or connect, and that adds a whole lot

I never thought I was good enough at to try to pursue it, I just settled for delivery jobs. Unionized delivery jobs or trades arent so bad (provided your able-bodied), even though I don't really feel attatched to what I do I can at least take pride in helping people and doing something essential

You can't "build a society" on most industries, that doesnt mean, say, accountants arent important. I think its fine to be a bit suspicious of the richer "content creators" for the same reason you would any member of the petit-bourgeoisie, but I dont feel like we need to go that hard on poor artists

And just like the originals, our own freikorps is having an increasingly large influence in government, and we cannot imagine the horrors they will inflict when capital lets them loose against us

This comes to what I love so much about the essay: the author genuinely understands how harmful this is, it's disasterous effects both within the military and in civilian affairs and politics. The US has made its regular army its freikorps: psychotic, remorseless killers in service of capital