new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

What if the world was made of pudding?

If you think the important difference between freedom & tyranny is that freedom is genteel & tyranny is vulgar, you've shown yourself to be an enemy of freedom, a grossly incompetent defender against tyranny, & generally not competent to engage in high-stakes political discourse. Seriously fuck you.

In a bar and the musician who’s playing introduced “Across the Great Divide” as “a Nanci Griffith song” and I’m so offended

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

When these shitty Dems advance their careers it hurts us. It ALWAYS hurts us. They are not conceding something of no value to cleverly gain room to maneuver, they are sacrificing our equality for their advancement.

Hey Sarah McBride, you’re not gonna stop the leopards from eating your face. Have a fucking backbone. Such a god damn disappointment - and I already didn’t expect much.

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

I find the militarized ad campaign that is “the rise of AI” fully as dispiriting as the concomitant rise of a smallish, and to a man unimpressive, crew of incompetent Nazi wannabes to power, and whether or not the two are functionally linked, they reflect some of the same things about their context.

We would not be where we stand today in the US had we intervened in this genocide instead of enthusiastically supporting it. Everything that comes to us now flows from that choice. We, as I have often said, have it coming.

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

When people throw around random neuroscience terms to make their pop psychology sound more sciencey, it really makes my amygdala itch.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

The most charitable conclusion I can draw from the way NYT, NPR, Atlantic, and other US outlets talk about “civil debate” is that right-wing threats or acts of violence, direct or mediated by the state, are so much part of the fabric of politics that “liberal” commentators are unable to notice them.

Reminds me of when Google fired me for quoting a book about how white men are socialized

“Charlie Kirk ran a Professor Watchlist the right way.”

I’m built different

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

I really just think it's class and racial solidarity at work. They see themselves in him and they do not have solidarity with his targets.

“Political violence has always been at home in a nation built on Indigenous slaughter, slavery, dispossession, and exploitation, to say nothing of rates of incarceration and shootings seen nowhere else on the planet.”

LMAO he literally said your wife was an "affirmative action hire" because black women "do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously" get a fucking grip

Looking for a distraction? I recommend every episode of sywwapp - the series is a hostile, abrasive delight, and Lardner is in a class all her own with this sort of comedy. This is my favorite episode because of Laff Car, a conceptually brilliant bit the show commits to so hard for such a long time.

every lowered flag for Charlie Kirk is a swastika flag raised

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

it's just a matter of what type of "political violence" you can ignore or justify and what is visible to you

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

america is a country where "progressive" politicians are fine with the media calling black teenage victims of police brutality "no angels either" but will fall over themselves to eulogize a literal nazi who wished them dead

you cannot expect a whole world of people to just accept the fucking bearing-down hydraulic press piston of structural violence forever. nothing just goes away in there. it all comes out the sides, man. if you're standing there cheering and you get hit by a hard piece of it, that's how it goes

I’m also not interested in litigating what is or isn’t “political violence” with people who willfully refuse to consider the quotidian violence that defines this country as political, or to entertain that the very idea of violence itself is ipso facto political. sorry but no thanks

Compare the tone, quantity and duration of the response to the shooting of Charlie Kirk with the response to the horrific murder of thousands of young children in Gaza. As for those warning that Trump will use this to clamp down, he will do so to precisely the extent that centrists enable him to.

As stated earlier by others, it does not matter what you post or do not post here. The right wing has their narrative they’re going to push, because they understand they are at war with democracy and that propaganda *works.*

[wormy dipshit whose entire lifestyle and worldview is propped up by direct and indirect violence that they are privileged enough to be insulated from, and who only speaks up for an ethical respect for human life when the most wicked devils alive finally get theirs voice] I condemn all violence!

Just got my COVID vaccine at a CVS store in Northern California. I scheduled an appointment online and checked the box that says you have a condition that puts you at high risk from COVID. I wasn’t asked any questions once I arrived.

Most people are not huge pieces of shit, and people who try to convince you they are are either selling you something or selling you out.

Reminder that blaming racism, conservatism, or any other evil on “stupid people” is eugenics.

“i’m an ally, but only if you’re sufficiently deferential and nice to me” is one of the most embarrassing statements imaginable, yet so many people feel perfectly comfortable shouting it from the rooftops absolutely mortifying

Stunning that five years into a pandemic that has killed *checks* 7,099,904 people, and people aren’t conscious of the influence of eugenics on government health policies

Eugenics and the elimination of “weakness” is very literally at the core of every fascist regime that has ever existed. The Nazis were famous anti-science and the very first people they imprisoned were the disabled and chronically ill. This is absolutely classic fascism.

One thing I've noticed about the podcast @boontavista.com is that it's very funny. I laugh a lot when I listen to this podcast

I am once again begging people to stop suggesting Gavin Newsom represents a meaningful alternative to the unrestrained state violence of this federal government.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

he literally stole an election and then passed a massive surveillance bill and set up gitmo and other black sites to disappear people into. ICE and the DHS were both created by him. literally every tool trump is now using was created or massively expanded by the bush admin.

Abraham Lincoln was a messy bitch who lived for drama

oh so you’re focusing on the latest “politics” “scandal”?what if I told you it was just a Distraction from what was Actually Going On, namely the primordial oneness of all sentient beings in this, our mutually created Hell. you’re welcome

A really good (and scary) point from @erininthemorning.com... for trans rights, a President Gavin Newsom could be *more* harmful than a Republican would be. www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...

just because gavin newsom keeps stating publicly that he wants to shoot you and all your friends with a gun and will take immediate steps to do so if elected, you think you have the right not to vote for him!?!

update: the people who promised "ai will make you faster at work" are now saying "you need to work 80+ hour weeks" who could have seen etc