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When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

4 panel comic Panel 1: Pink Guy on a cinema screen says: I am the protagonist Panel 2: Blue Guy sitting in the audience, pumping fist, yells: YES Panel 3: Pink Guy: But I’m not necessarily “The Good Guy” Panel 4: Blue Guy choking on popcorn: WHUUUUUU

Media Literacy In 2025

“This bill won’t pass”
“This won’t affect me outside the U.S.”

This is ignorant. These things trickle down. Go educate yourself on censorship. SESTA/FOSTA. KOSA. Age verification in US/UK/Australia. Tumblr bans. Backpage. Visa/Mastercard. ITCHIO. Patreon.

This isn’t the first canary…

"Agents stormed our restaurants in a show of force that went beyond anything reasonable or humane. They raided the heart of our business, tore through our spaces, and left behind a trail of fear, confusion, destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken."

They think we don't have time for this shit. Yet they're the ones who took away all our work, meaning we have all the time.

Call your reps.

This helps explain how rich kids/nepo babies get offended when they are told they didn't earn their spot. It's not that they're delusional, they did throw the darts. They're just oblivious of the other factors...how many extra throws they got, how much closer to dart board they stood, etc.

this is from back in May, but while youre calling your representatives about the SCREEN act and KOSA, its worth including a mention about the 'Interstate Obscenity Definition Act' (IODA).

remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

Riot Games Accused of Blocking Mastercard Discourse in VCT Chat As multiple different parts of the art, entertainment, and gaming industries are being impacted by ongoing crackdowns from various payment processors, it appear

Riot Games is accused of actively suppressing any negative comments related to Mastercard or otherwise mentioning the anti-game/NSFW censorship movement on its esports broadcasts.

The decision to do so was reportedly made internally, according to an obtained statement.

www.si.com/esports/news...

you know what would be really funny?

if people started calling MasterCard saying "I mentioned MasterCard in a Riot/Valorant/League of Legends stream and I got timed out/warned/banned. I don't understand why that would happen. Can you explain it to me?"

This page has a big button for you to email 20+ customer service departments at once with an (editable, if you like) prewritten letter. You can even do it from your phone! There's zero reason to not be participating in the pushback on this.

DONT STOP CALLING

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This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away.

So don't let it go away. Keep it going.

In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

here's an ICT article on this for more info btw, this is why the US is always trying to remove power from native ppl, because we will fight back even if nobody fights for us or the land, thank you Miccosukee 💕

ictnews.org/news/advocat...

Norman Rockwell painting of man standing in a town meeting, presumed to be a controversial statement

i want bluesky to stay small and be too weird and scary for brands, advertisers and politicians

A source reached out to me claiming MasterCard contacted Riot Games about the ongoing Steam/itchio controversy. MasterCard is a major Riot esports sponsor. This is the message going around internally from Riot, paraphrased: * MasterCard has asked Riot to keep an eye out for negative sentiments on official Riot streams * Riot has asked esports content creators working with official Riot properties to watch out for any negative sentiments toward MasterCard * Moderators have been told to look out for any unusual activity around the MasterCard issue

Riot has a bunch of livestreamed esports this weekend. Youtube, Twitch and even Tiktok.

if you have some free time, doing some trolling and making their moderators put in work sounds like a good way to piss off mastercard

Mastercard has reached the stage of desperately trying to gag people for saying bad things about them

WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WORKING

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SCREEN ACT: -full age verification. (biometric scans, ID uploads, background checks) -Deeply unsafe for personal and data privacy. Security/data breaches are rampant, and uploading so much sensitive data to every single we site is just asking for mass ID theft. -id verification is much, much harder on small websites than larger ones, creating a chilling effect and stifling speech for anyone that isnt a massive corporation -draw comparison to UK's OSA [online safety act] and the backlash it is receiving

KOSA: -creates "duty of care,” meaning that tech companies and platform giants would be required to take steps to prevent potentially harmful encounters, such as posts about eating disorders and instances of online bullying, from impacting minors. -who gets to decide what is or is not "unsafe for minors"? Especially under the current administration -it will block access to important info minors could use to keep themselves safe or advocate for themselves. Ex: sex ed. -the vague nature of the bill will almost certainly be used to target LGBT content under the guise of "protecting children"

CONGRATS SOLDIER, we've hit 2 weeks of solid #SaveSpeech pressure! Youre doing a great job! Reward yourself!

And keep on calling/mailing!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

www.congress.gov/members/find...

cancel your fucking game pass subscriptions already

VISA and MASTERCARD are now refusing all calls related to their policy changes. So call up as a concerned shareholder, prepared to short-sell their shares to reduce financial harm and loss to their portfolios.

They're trying to ignore us. Don't let them.

Evangelical Censorship is death to progress

When will we finally admit: the Gaza death toll is higher than we’ve been told | Arwa Mahdawi We have no idea how many people have been killed in Gaza but I would bet my own life that the number is far higher than the 60,000 number the media uses

People have been saying this since early on after Oct. 7th. It has always been the case. Accurate death tolls are often difficult to gauge but it’s always been intentional by the Israeli gov to obscure the true scale of their genocide against Palestine.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Holy crap!

There's an ACTUAL NUMBER for PayPal in this!

PayPal is NOTORIOUS for never giving out numbers!!! This is pure gold!

two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field . ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

"Bluesky is dying"

Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

US Customs and Border Protection arrest 2 women on Alvarado and 8th around 3:15pm.
They can be heard saying they're US Citizens.

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