We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

I wonder what the 'anonymous' freedom fighting people have to say about China. Oh wait it's not China. It's yet another US empire genocide.

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

I think- the novelty of the trumpism is that he _still_ hides behind a pretense of 'humanism'. But the american culture/mind is completely destroyed, rotten and perverted by propaganda, individuality, greed & capitalism- the charade can continue- it even builds it's own grift economy.

Fascistization is also the production of fascist subjects: subjects who enjoy both their own submission and the dehumanization of others, who identify with forces of domination infinitely larger than themselves. AI functions here both as a medium of indoctrination, and as an aspirational model 6/

This dynamic also explains why «artificial intelligence» is so central to current processes of fascistization: not only as a tool of oppression, surveillance, and counterinsurgency, but as a symbol, an almost mythical force of domination that must be unleashed on a global scale 5/

Violence is no longer concealed, apologized for, or displaced. It's openly celebrated, performed, and aestheticized. This aesthetics of cruelty — blatantly evident in the social media output of the Trump administration — is not incidental but constitutive of the ongoing fascistization of the US 3/

One thing I learned from this inspiring discussion is: We have to understand #fascistization as a process of both explication and escalation. It makes explicit the dehumanizing, racist, sexist and neocolonialist structures of exploitation and repression already at work in liberal democracies 1/

these punks are so hilarious, greedload griftriding anonymous forever- they claim 'transparent reporting' which is a page saying 'pinky swear we are cool, also you don't know who we are and can't hold us accountable, give us money plz' you ripped off everyone who did the work bind my asschaos 🖕

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

Folk will never be free because they only care for themselves. Mentally and physically, you will always be a slave because you're willing to sacrifice your fellow man for a different form of oppression.

Bezos brother, we could strip you back to max 10 million in total net worth and it would make the planet a better place. I promise you too.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

It’s VERY IMPORTANT that corporate media NOT frame this as a judicial settlement. Trump DROPPED the suit this morning. There is no lawsuit, and therefore, no settlement. you can’t settle a suit that doesn’t exist. This is just pure theft.

Hell ass country. Absolute hell. The experiment failed. Unplug it.

I want to know the name of the judge who presided over this. I want that judge’s name and email address public. I want people to be able to ask that judge what the fuck was wrong with him or her. /1

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

daaaamn london

Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.

They sent me to war :( and I kept going back by choice :( over and over again :( working for people somehow more evil than the US government :(

Musk says an hour of his time is worth $100 million yet he spends six hours a day angrily posting online every time a big budget Hollywood movie casts a Black person in a starring role. Curious!

I guess this is what it looks like when your discover nothing in your culture is actually worth saving.

it's telling that americans getting shafted by just about any billionaire when they step out of the door simply cannot comprehend what an 'economy' is but instead resort to calling it the 'strangest and most interdependent job cycle'

bluesky aesthetically is the perfect image of the american left on a website having an opinion, being completely satisfied with that not mattering and not doing anything at all. it is essentially a hopeless place, desperately clinging to having opinions instead of doing things, feigning hope saves

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

twenty million alarm fire, the us is now a terrorist regime

I think we're in the era of humanity where we need to stop calling them the upper class, but the 'demon class'.

The "You can't have food, but I have feelings you need to care about." part of the population of this planet is really asking for it- being launched straight into the fucking sun I mean, livestreamed.

Idk, I think Wolff and Mattei cook when they describe it as a way for the ruling class to obscure their class warfare by dressing it up in pseudoscientific "objective" language.

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Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Economics is to Capitalism what Phrenology is to Racists

*Taps Sign*

It's already outrageous and offensive that people with unimaginable wealth view themselves as the victims, but the fact they feel comfortable saying it in public takes it to another level. Their brains are broken, simultaneous delusions of grandeur and victimhood wrapped in malice and shamelessness.

it's capitalism. the american world has not grappled with that the infinite toxic disintegration of their life is capitalism.

Yanks happily continue posting about the latest dippe dappe hippi happi on their socialilly mediadilly about the tiny little tinnieinniws that bother them. MEANWHILE

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

I think Russians have this idea that- that they always lose to Americans because they are so.. goddamn stupid. So inconceivably stupid. As poetry is, Trump is so goddamn stupid - the reason he might be overthrown, wouldn't be guardrails, but just sheer and utter fucking tastelessness and stupidity.

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

and its got bigger ... hands

Republicans are using gerrymandering to steal Black political power in order to retain control of the House of Representatives. Why do they want control? To make sure the House does nothing to get in the way of the dictator. It’s “Elect us — we’ll keep doing nothing.”

This is serial murder by your government with your tax dollars.

Just a reminder that corporate media will happily launder any politician as long as they talk to them and play the game. You can carry out any war or genocide or kill literally millions of people and they'll slop up this bullshit for you if you give them a minute of useless, meaningless chit-chat.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

Genuinely the one, absolutely effective, and good proposal for what to do with mi/bi/trillionaires

in retrospect seems kinda obv the cult of action wd beat the cult of inaction