"No more suicidal empathy."

The first response to suffering should be to check what issues in the socioeconomic system are causing it.

It's like how Covid wiped out small businesses and consolidated wealth for major chains who could afford to ride it out. The Altman RAM shortage can wipe out small shops doing on-prem, small web-hosts, indie dev shops, small ISPs. More market control to giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft.

The word "individualism" is such a euphemism. It's an ideology that favours some individuals at the expense of the others. "Selectivism" would be an accurate word for what people call "individualism."

All I want is to purchase services on the web that I trust. That don't make me nervous that they're spying on me, designing their UI to manipulate me, or extracting excessive payments in return for a shoddy enshittified product. It's so depressing that this has become incredibly hard to find.

I miss this era of web design #nostalgia

We need solidarity to overcome oligarchs, but "big tent" isn't that. If we throw some groups under the bus, we play into the hands of their Divide and Conquer strategy. Solidarity means none of us are left behind, which is what makes us stand strong together.

I think there is a miscommunication happening. When right-wing voters hear "inequality," they think "Some people have more status and luxury than others." When left-wing voters hear "inequality," they think "Some people have power and leverage to harm or control others."

Lots of talk about how people don't know what communism is, but it's really amazing how many people don't know what capitalism is even though they live in it. So many people seem to think it means "markets exist" or "you're allowed to choose your career" or "income in proportion to merit."

Conservative watching people remove leeches from their skin: It's sad how envious you are that they have all that blood

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Many with anxiety or depression are anti-authoritarians. A major pain of their lives is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized; but they fear that compliance will cause them existential death. ~Bruce Levine

Willingness to put up with these objectifying questions "Our women are more fuckable than yours!" 🙄

Cosplaying at the people who caused the Great Depression

I've seen manosphere bros trying to make "toxic femininity" a thing and making no sense, mostly because those bros refuse to acknowledge what toxic masculinity actually is. But this right here is an actual thing you could call toxic femininity.

Friends, the word “radical” comes from the Latin word meaning “root.” To be politically radical does not mean fringe. To be radical is to focus one’s attention on the *roots* of the systems that govern us, such as Capitalism. Fundamental, systemic change requires radical thinking and action. ✨🌲✨

there's a class war going on but only one class knows it

Weird how people are calling themselves centrists but aren't advocating that around half the means of production be communally run and owned. Rojava is centrist: agriculture, energy, health and education run by councils but small businesses are still capitalist.

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

Anyone studying what sort of flaw in the human brain could make the word "peacenik" an actual insult?

Inform the French police that I have solved the case. The crew is all in this picture 🧵

For some reason the kind of people who yell at microwaves to hurry up seem to be just the people who get jobs as managers

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

For the love of all that is good and holy, how can I send money to an artist internationally without giving money to Peter Thiel or agreeing to be surveilled by Peter Thiel

It's starting to look like "crashing out" or "having a meltdown" just means "saying something I don't like"

We learn history so we don't repeat the same mistake, but there is one very important thing they forgot to teach us. We might not be in this mess today if history class didn't skip one important part. 🧵

Every time I see a discussion that goes "Doing _____ would cause harm." "But if we don't do _____ we look weak."

It doesn't mean you're cool if someone found a horror movie scary and you didn't. It's because horror is individual. For a big chunk of the animal kingdom, the most horrifying thing imaginable is this

What if we had a law where everyone who wants unregulated capitalism is legally required to watch Les Miserables and Oliver Twist

As a rational person I believe - Some people are objectively smarter than everyone else - Those people are the ones who are just like me - Those people should make all the decisions, receive most of the privileges and not have to do any of the unpleasant work Rational.

They don't need to stop elections. If you control the media (news and social media) then you can control the outcome of the election.

"Wealth distribution is not as equal as we think it is, as current data doesn't account for off-shoring and tax evasion" So it's even worse than we think it is?? cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Printers are the final boss of open source www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

We talk a lot about how rich people are greedy, but let's not forget that they are also lazy and refuse to work.

Thinking about historians who say that the left would have stopped Hitler's rise to power, except leftists were too busy fighting with each other. Dunno why I'm thinking about that in 2025, must be some reason for it.

Rich old men: Go kill and die to make us richer. Young men: No, we don't think we will. Rich old men: *invents toxic masculinity* Well now you have to or else you'll get called weak. Critics: That's messed up. Rich old men: Watch out, young men! Those critics are attacking you!

I'm not a girlboss or a tradwife. I'm a secret third thing (union organizer)

If you only care about women being abused or assaulted when immigrants do it, then you don't care about women being abused or assaulted.

The reason why some groups love debate is because debates privilege bullshit. People who listen and reflect before responding, who strive to understand the other's point of view instead of trying to "destroy" them, or who take time to look up facts before making claims - those people lose debates.

imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means

Handouts. Wealth created by people who work, given to people who don't work.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

I am deeply disgusted with everything I hear that Charlie Kirk brought to this world. As a living being and as a dead one. And the following post was written on my behalf as well.

Just discovered Elisabetta Sirani. An Italian Baroque painter who depicted scenes of captivating beauty, like this one of a woman throwing her rapist into a well.

Each billionaire is the guy who didn't contribute anything to the group project. Yet somehow that's the only guy who gets credit for the group project.

"Life is unfair." Skill issue. Plenty of people manage to be fair. Get good.

I don't want Charlie Manson to be shot by a vigilante. I want him to have due process. But imagine if he found a way to massively scale up his operation, and the police and justice system did nothing about it. He just kept scaling up while law stood idle. Would you be surprised if someone shot him?

My empathy and sympathies are reserved for people who do not commit, fund, or advocate for violence against innocent people.