Nick 🔻🇵🇸

I hear the blood of the 1% works even better.

It's actually not difficult to process at all. We've been socialized to accept scenes of unimaginable destruction, both by the entertainment industry and the corporate news media. What people can't process is that it's happening to "us," not that this is possible.

And I've seen estimates that the damages of these fires alone exceed 50 times that, showing yet again that a small sliver of people get their pockets padded at the expense of the rest of us, and the planet.

Heeeeeey welcome. Me too.

Not finding the same crowd here, but maybe it'll come in time.

So I WANT BlueSky to work for me, but I just have found such a better community over on Threads, but I wanna get off Meta platforms!

If I text you 🤌 it means you should awaken to the class struggle.

Honestly they might take out Mangione because the support he’s getting right now and the conversation being forced is wild. It is a full court press I can’t think of the last time I saw something like this other than mainstream media versus Bernie in 2016

I’m worried they’re going to kill him because his trial may reveal the virtue of his motives on a wider scale. It will become a mainstream conversation on how capitalism murders poor people. It will be the most honest — and therefore the most dangerous — thing on US TV.

"No the healthcare CEO that got shot in the middle of Manhattan last week. It was like the biggest story..."
"Oh, sorry. I don't really hear about news unless there's memes about it."
"THERE'S LITERALLY BEEN NO OTHER KIND OF MEME ON MY FEED FOR DAYS!"
"Huh. Weird. Nope, haven't heard of it."
🙃

2/2

As I'm laughing at Luigi memes, Coworker walks up:
CW: "What's up?"
Me: "They caught the shooter."
"What shooter?"
"The CEO shooter."
"CEO shooter? The Trump shooter? Didn't they kill that guy?"

1/

Solidarity is about people, not principles.

Just a reminder.

Syria: Where Anti-Imperialism Meets Revolution On the limitations of single-narrative analysis in complex geopolitical situations

“Western propaganda leverages black-and-white thinking to paint a one-dimensional narrative that is used to justify consent for, and stifle opposition to, whatever suits the agenda of the the US Empire.”

My thoughts on the New Syrian Revolution.

Comrade, I know the knee-jerk reaction is schadenfreude, but this is an ideal situation to demonstrate solidarity. With a UNION, no less.

There is a better way, and they are primed for accepting it right now.

So many of the same so-called celebrity lawyers who are decrying the killing of Thompson as a breakdown in the rule of law have publicly called for the deportation of or felony charges against American citizens peacefully protesting genocide on college campuses and the dichotomy is striking.

😬 Oh shit! Thankfully, even at work, I'm surrounded by people with shared gleeful excitement, sharing memes, etc.

At least at the coworker level... Probably gets a little more divided in middle/upper management. 😅

I gotta say, I'm real thankful for my echo chamber, lol. Having sympathy for the UHC CEO is truly baffling to me. It reeks of privilege. And I'm glad I've had to go out of my way in other comment sections to see it.

Hits a little different as required reading in Alaska, ha

Ugh, I WISH.

Libs keep posting that picture of Harris at the bookstore saying, "We could have had a president who READS but people chose HATE instead!"

And I'm just like... Did they? Trump got fewer votes than he did last time, and she still got trounced. Your candidate was bad. Learn from it or keep losing.

Joe's pardon of Hunter is kinda the perfect example of Blue MAGA's hypocrisy. Selective outrage at its finest.

My Discover page is all liberal-y... How do I cement myself on leftist BlueSky?! Gotta get this algorithm right...

Yeah, time to jump ship(s)...

Of all the 90s things to be making comebacks, why did this have to be one of them?

Can we talk about how Gladiator 2 was pretty damn anti-imperialist?

Don't @ me for not already knowing this... The literal Roman Empire is not my "Roman Empire."

Okay so I've never been good at these "microblogging" platforms... But I want to be more engaged. Tips? Advice? Do I just let the nonsense flow through my fingers?

Alright, how do I want to use this platform? Super unhinged? Political? Shit posts? All of the above?

Time will tell...