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The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

oh buddy i am so sorry to hear this!

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

christopher nolan’s the odyssey bravely raises the question ‘what if odysseus was from boston’

whoever told you this, you should inflict some equally dreadful americanism on them

we ARE gonna end up being just like sparta, but not in the way all the guys responsible for it it think

god i just love men. love their giant forearms and the way they lope around like a werewolf

gaggle of hale, buff young men leaving the bodega together, each with his own smoothie. all of them excitedly complimenting each other’s smoothie choices. saying Bro a lot and such. warms the heart

oh billy newspapers…i’ll miss you most of all

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

i like when my bus driver says Beep Beep to a bus driver going the other way it’s so richard scarry’s busytown

Challenge for those who claim the stripper is only hanging out with me for the money: Explain how friendship works.

well yes right so what happens when the actual websites are run out of business and stop publishing

i wonder what chat GPT will do for news once it’s run all the sources it steals from outta town lol

this part I also didn't get but then I saw an NBC anchor goggling open mouthed like a 12 year who just saw boobs for the first time because the Iranian foreign minister was like"yes we will fight if you invade" and they really don't think of other people as having any sort of agency, it's wild

i’m reasonably confident i didn’t do any of that but you’re in the mix, you’re offering solutions, and i appreciate it

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

some people now also do this with RED LIGHTS lol

This is a great read; I highly recommend it! #techbros

Love this piece, very spot on considering the fervor with which people participate in nostalgia anymore. Also I talk with my blue collar husband about this, who lives parallel to the imagined, most desired life of many white collar men. There's a phantom of masculinity which we all worship.

man i whipped up a vinaigrette fully on autopilot and it was by far the best dressing ive ever made but for the life of me i can’t remember what i did? what did i put in there!!!

I watched a video of a man being burned alive in a hospital tent. The IV still attached to his flailing arm. Someone was trying to heal him and someone was trying to harm him and the latter won out in that contest as they almost always do. Murder being so much quicker and easier than medicine. I didn’t actually watch the video. I lied and I’m sorry about that. I watched maybe five seconds of it before I had to look away. How easy that is to do right? I couldn’t bring myself to watch the whole thing. I don’t know if he would have wanted us to watch it. Some of us would want that if it were us and some of us would not. I suppose I would if I thought it was going to make a single fucking difference but no picture or video has made a single fucking difference over this past year of slaughter. No matter how horrific the images of suffering captured on film day after day of man woman child or infant being crushed or burned or assassinated by bullet there will always be someone saying that they deserved it. Often most of our elected officials and the majority of the media. More typically some random regular person. I don’t think I have ever read about or watched the death of a civilian during this genocide without someone saying in the comments that they had it coming. 224 I did watch the video from a few months ago of the young man asking for help from anyone who might be watching. Trying to explain his predicament. He was the provider for his family because he is the oldest he said. He had two sisters and two little brothers and his parents to take care of he said. He was studying software engineering he said. After that I saw a picture of an ice cream refrigerator with a neat stack of tiny bodies packed into it. Wrapped in the white cloth shrouds that have become such a familiar sight all year. “Here is the children’s favorite ice cream fridge being their morgue in Gaza,” a Palestinian journalist posted. I just looked at her bio. “Both a human rights activist and journa…

Someone was trying to heal him and someone was trying to harm him and the latter won out in that contest as they almost always do. Murder being so much quicker and easier than medicine.

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

to be fair he genuinely believes that’s good writing

hell yeah bud thank you 💋

Read the whole thing, it's fantastic writing

indeed!

too bad i’m the amateur toilet repairman and i got Suggestions

Good post and good point. Though what is most maddening about our current self-appointed overlords as opposed to Antebellum aristocrats is that our crop didn’t actually lose any power or influence. They just had to hear more often from poor/cool/POC folks how much they sucked.

i think that’s true! i also think that, even before entering its bloodsucker phase, the prevailing ‘optimistic maverick’ attitude of tech made it vulnerable to takeover by a very historically specific type of sociopath speculator