The reason none of this sinks in is because the U.S. is one big cult and like every cult, all of its members deny vehemently they're a cult. But if you really analyze the behavior of Americans who keep voting for people who harm them (red or blue) and then defend this action, you can see it's a cult

The horrors will not end until you people stop praying for rain rather than beating up the guy who controls access to the aquifer So I guess my friends will die while you say “maybe 2026 will be different” “maybe we can fix this in 2028” I wish you people took death seriously

Then now all the changes and all the folks that swore it was so safe are like "this place isn't safe". Meanwhile I still remember all the premptive warnings admins casually slid in there about how visible and searchable and non deletable post are...

I’m disgusted with every single Dem who voted to gut healthcare and reopen the government. Who held the line for 40 days, gave the people a reason to hope again, and then ripped it away. Swearing in Adelita Grijalva better be the first thing that happens once the government reopens.

The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.

Today was supposed to be a day when those of us old enough to remember it would regale the world with tales of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the anniversary of it, today. The Democrats even fucked that up

Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.

I shouldn't have to say this but... I'm not happy people don't have healthcare. I'm not happy your system keeps failing you. I'm not happy your politicians keep selling you out. I'm not laughing at your suffering.

I understand how the fucking senate works and it works by finding a way to fuck over the most amount of people possible so a few rich assholes aren't inconvenienced.

I really just wanted to log on for a bit to shit post to get my mind off some personal stuff. And now im just inconsolably angry at this fucked up system people insist we need to keep in order prevent everyhting thats already happening

and my friend ella has a gofundme for a down payment on a car: bsky.app/profile/gara...

my friend ivy has a gofundme following their recent cancer diagnosis: www.gofundme.com/f/help-ivy-t...

that's hardly fair, they didn't completely cave in March, they got the DC Fix! Which immediately got killed in the House because there was absolutely no reason for any of the people who had just voted to loot DC's budget to move on it, since it wasn't attached to anything they cared about.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

These Democrats voted to strip millions of Americans off their healthcare. Jacky Rosen (NV) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) John Fetterman (PA) Dick Durbin (IL) Maggie Hassan (NH) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Angus King (ME) Tim Kaine (VA)

Oppressors know this and hence why we have the complexities of Hollywood parasocial propaganda and the years they spent grooming and conditioning x, millennial, gen z gens.

I feel like once you face so many conditions of social death eventually u have no choice but to fight when ur back is against the wall.

the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry

You were quite happy when I taunted the RW and fascists but the second I laugh at people who had faith in Schumer and Dems I'm removed of personhood. Scratch a Liberal eh?

Hahahahahaha Ofc these people sold you out! They've always been self-interested ghouls: they're career politicians!!!

Controlled Opposition (noun phrase): An individual/group which poses as the political opposition to a dominant political group, but which is quietly controlled by that group. By acting as purely symbolic opposition to the dominant group, controlled opposition ensures the success of that group.

collaborators every single one of them especially schumer who voted no knowing he had enough votes

Alot of ppl are still in the stage of shock and awe (that comes with disaster capitalism as described in shock theory). Shock and awe is the necessary priming mechanism for oppressors to move fwd b

Apparently Senate Democrats have broken and caved. Who the fuck are they representing?

What was the point of a 40 day shutdown if your just gonna cave and get nothing from it? Why did everyone have to suffer if you were just gonna fucking quit?

"The high school senior posted a story on her private Instagram account with the caption 'Fuck Israel. Holy shit.'" "Dawn decided she wouldn't serve the suspension." "We are proud of our daughter." #Quebec #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Genocide

Something something shitty tweet about firebombing Walmart

Just a reminder that not everyone can boycott Walmart. It can be the only option sometimes. When I was living in the middle of nowhere in Arizona, disabled and poor, we had a car without air conditioning in the middle of the summer, I had to order Walmart delivery.

Trump has made clear that he will not spend money apportioned by congress if he doesn't like it, and he will spend money *not* apportioned by congress if he feels like it, SCOTUS has made clear that they'll let him, there is zero incentive to give *any* kind of deal to him!

This dynamic is also a good counter argument for the contrarion social scripts like "you use a smart phone" to justify poverty. Because it bypasses acknowledging that there is inequity in the expropriation of capital.

We are at the "Nazi merch being sold at Walmart" stage of the American years of lead. It will not get better from here. Stay dangerous. Keep each other safe. Reinforce your community. And build together. We will survive this together or we will perish together.

putting my sons thru female socialization (teaching them how to do basic household tasks and form deep, meaningful, fulfilling relationships with other people)

every “zohran mamdani isn’t the future of the democratic party” post always ends with “the future of the party is actually this guy who sucks that only 80 year olds who are about to die think is dope”

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds

Do you actually know how Hawai’i became a state? “In 1893, white businessmen, backed by U.S. Marines, staged a coup d’état. They held Queen Liliʻuokalani at gunpoint and forced her to surrender her throne. Hawai‘i didn’t ‘join’ the United States — it was stolen.”

I think part of the problem, a big part, is that a lot of people see this as a problem of the past. But what are we doing, right now, that looks exactly the same? Have we really asked ourselves *why* Trump wants to starve people? Settler society *causes* scarcity, then vilifies the victims of it.

The majority of US voters, so far as I can tell, flatly do not care about trans people one way or another. They aren't necessarily especially friendly to them, but they clearly find the notion that they're supposed to obsess over them distinctly offputting. (Despite major efforts by the right!)

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

The curse of being a radical with an accurate sober analysis of the system is that you're always right too early and the moderates will never forgive that.

"In the context of the COP30 conference in this region, it is crucial that summit decisions focus on the traditional peoples of the Amazon, who suffer from environmental racism and whose survival is devastated, just as nature is degraded."

Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm

Just watched the new del toro movie and it oozes that he made it and it’s in conversation with Marie Shelley to lovers of the dark and monsters

yeah ok we're all still rumor-mongering here but if this is what's actually happening i want everyone involved destroyed

I’ll keep quoting it until it sinks in: direct action is always better than waiting on and relying on elections for change. You don’t have to wait to do it, and it isn’t rendered completely ineffective by politicians doing what they always do-selling out.

#OtD 9 Nov 1845 Gertrud Guillaume-Schack, a countess who became a revolutionary socialist, feminist and anarchist, was born in Uschütz in what is now Poland. She was active in Germany and Hackney, East London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1093...

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