tarrifs make sense for exploited countries. they essentially raise the crazy low wage being paid for Mexican labor (by subsidizing the government, so they don't have to take more out of the hands of the workers, and can better support them). this...is communism.

american evangelical authoritarianism is just domestic abuse at scale

America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities. The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.

they want us sick and tired and weak so we can't fight back. do everything you can to be healthy and alert and strong so you can fight back. do it with others. use fighting fascism as your motivation for taking care of yourself.

the empire will try to make our disobedience seem futile, to keep liberals scared, to keep them from crossing over into violent resistance: why, after all? we'll never win. we should just stay safe. why risk your life to end this banal evil? you won't succeed.

all conservative trans rhetoric is intentionally-crafted psyop shit, and most liberal rhetoric is unintentional parroting and promulgation of the propaganda because they have a vibes-based ideology and zero capacity for social analysis.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

"We should take America back for our native population" yeah bud we really should #landback

WOKISME

ICE tried to arrest a Somali woman in Minnesota and protestors de-arrested her by pelting the agents with snowballs. This is good. We are fighting back. We are getting closer and closer to doing what we must do. ICE acts tough but they don't actually want smoke. Imagine if they weren't snowballs.

I'm 40% sure this is a psyop to stir up violence in airports. Why is the Wall Street Journal reporting on this? As if they possibly know if someone is faking? They didn't track down the people and interview them and check their medical records.

you can tell who is an educator and who is a perpetual 10th grader. "why do we have to learn this? I'm never going to use this" bitch poetry kills fascism. fascism is the reason we are stripping down colleges down to bare bones utilitarian training grounds to churn out compliant laborers.

non-sequitir is killing me lol but also it is very much sequitur. mental illness is often triggered or caused by external factors, especially things like lack of social acceptance and bullying and a government that wants you dead. Palestinians are also mentally ill, bc there's no way not to be.

Americans need to stop paying taxes wherever possible

No. It’s a great time to be a violent criminal in America. Our most sophisticated law enforcement agencies are busy hunting landscapers & housekeepers.

Right, we don't really have an opposition party so much as a Dave & Busters

what social media companies have done is turn into giant, unregulated advertising host sites. we are logging on to look at business disguising their advertising as real life. this is why original Twitter was the best social media site to ever exist. when it was just text and timelines.

Look at the date. Disabled people told you. They made too many disabled people.

X said there's nothing more dangerous than a Western liberal, because he is a fox who approaches you with what looks like a smile, but actually is bared teeth, and many don't realize it until it's too late.

the villains in western media these days are always just people who can't possibly be anything else because of the amount of stress and trauma and pressure, and the amount of time under said stress and time and pressure. they're humans, in other words. they have done nothing wrong of their own.

you can just tell within ten seconds of meeting someone if they have a rich internal world or not

if Republicans are an abusive father, Democrats an enabling mother.

I cannot fathom being this stupid and in need of praise. Many such cases.

btw if you or someone you know is a beginner/intermediate gamedev having trouble finding friendly teammates we connect people in a flexible process to finish long-term projects together, freeware jam vibes but 2-6 month schedules. no genAI art etc, the whole purpose is for people to learn and collab

A message from Xiomara Castro, the incumbent leftist president of Honduras, who has been fighting the Network State of Próspera. This is what the Network State does: technofascist colonialism engineering coups. It happened here. It's happening in Honduras. How much further do we allow this to go?

regular reminder that as an adult, it is YOUR responsibility to manage the potentially abusive power you have in interactions with children, not children's job to manage the risk of interacting with adults.

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

I have long somewhat jokingly thought Supercar Blondie was a psyop, but seeing them posting AI slop videos with zero connection to the "theme" of their page and zero purpose other than engagement / blurring the lines of reality in Boomers' brains really makes me seriously consider it.

i find it infuriating honestly because it just means they don't see us AT ALL. not just "us" black people but any marginalized or historically oppressed people. they missed ALL THESE FIGHTS AND STRUGGLES???

A trainer at the gym told me that one of his clients in tech (very Seattle story) was frantically asking him what AI might be good for at the gym. Real “We have to make this thing happen, what is it for???” vibes.

Cool Harry Potter fact: J.K. Rowling invited pedophile Prince Andrew on set to meet the new preteen cast

we need a party that is attached to a militia. there's literally nothing the fascists fear more, because that's exactly what they are, and we outnumber them 2:1.

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

They asked a question but have replies and quotes turned off, so idk if it's a breach of etiquette to screenshot and reply or not? But: Elevation of material conditions and education is the answer. Obviously a level of tolerance must exist until we in the West overthrow the ruling class.

sports is literally one of the ways fascists keep hold of Westerners. sport itself is great, but not this weird bullshit. whenever I get a liberal avalanche in my mentions half of them mention corporate sports in their bios.

Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case. Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.

that's literally what they want us to think. that's why they do this shit. you're doing their work for them. they don't want us to start getting creative and handy and learning. the IRA used to blow themselves up making b*mbs but they learned as they went and became more and more effective.

If you talk about Material Differences and mix up the cause and effect, that is eugenics! Black cis women are not inherently weaker or more able to endure pain (two contradictory statements that highlight their disgraceful treatment). Race isn't materially real; its consequences are.

"[T]he data ... show significantly smaller jumps in [ICE] arrest rates in states where advocates have most aggressively worked to reject [ICE] collaboration, and much higher rates in states that have embraced it."

Nobody tell Mario what the capital of Pakistan is; as an Italian he's already primed for and susceptible to xenophobia.

Shame on the evil West for incessantly perpetuating the manufactured lie that people who know their worth and demand equality and equity are just "jealous of others' success." Only those who are personally invested in maintaining the status quo could believe that.

lolllll idk this is so funny to me

today in "capitalists writing capitalist fan fic:"

the so-perceived intellectual and moral decline of the Western Right is simply the intellectual and moral incline of the Western Left -- that is, the education and empowerment of the working class. as we grow and learn, they fall apart and steal. our simple act of learning disrupts.