The moment institutions start saying "no" is the moment it crumbles. These people are not serious, they are not hardworking, they are not smart. They are coasting on luck, and institutional cowardice. The moment institutions stop enabling them, they will fold like cheap camp chairs.

The ONLY reason any of this works is because everyone is handing victory to them. The media reprints their lies credulously, the universities let them set curriculum, SCOTUS and congress have utterly abdicated their oversight duties.

Please don't call it that

Worth noting that Bluesky, in its infinite wisdom, has not seen fit to tag this as mature content!

to be clear i dont think this is too violent i think if we all accept that we're able to handle this, which we clearly can, we can obviously also handle art where gay furries are getting naked and so forth

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

Trump: "Let #JimmyKimmel rot in his bad ratings" Kimmel:

Better yet, for folks who have Sinclair and Nexstar-owned stations not airing Kimmel tonight, DO watch whatever they’re putting on in its place & see what local businesses are advertising. Contact those businesses and let them know you’re boycotting them until they pull their ads. Hit ‘em in the 💰

continuing to run the UBI experiment 14,000,605 times every decade in search of one time it ever won't produce clear positive results for everyone involved so there can finally be an example for the ultra wealthy people to point to illustrating why we can't do that like they've always been saying

What getting raptured taught me about B2B sales

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

free speech is when your government takes over a communication platform to secretly decide what can be said on it, who will see what, and who spends how much time looking at different types of messages about their interests for, you know, normal reasons and stuff

for anyone who would like to be more effective in life than chuck schumer as a pro-tip when you make clear beforehand you won't say no in a situation like this, you have nothing to negotiate. like walking into a car dealership telling them you really need to drive out in a new vehicle no matter what

Things aren't good. Now is the time to try lots of different things.

Cf. "[They] insist on ... the freedom to ask uncomfortable & politically incorrect questions ... but they are unwilling to grant us the same freedom if we are interested in using it to ask questions about what the fuck is wrong with them." -Ivy & George 2022 doi.org/10.1002/9781...

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".

Not to go all 2012 era r/atheism, but I do think this pew research poll explains about half of why the modern US is the way it is.

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for years and years we're hearing Pay Attention and Here's What He's Doing and yep have been watching the robbers carrying all of our things out of the house, they got the police helping them do it, what more are we supposed to do to stop it, and they're like Pay Attention and, ok, check, but, also,

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

why is it so cute to see buses going back into their depot at night 🥲 like aw they’re going to sleep 🥲🥲🥲 goodnight buddies 🫶🫶🫶

You almost certainly aren’t going to get out of the war crimes tribunal by producing a letter that you solicited because you were aware that the legality of your orders was questionable.

there are more channels than ever but they're all owned and controlled by the same handful of enormous companies, like how in the grocery store each aisle appears to have a lot of competition but each aisle is 1-2 megacorps selling to different demographics with brand labels they made up or acquired

Oh since we're talking about boycotts, way too many of y'all still eat at Chik fil A and shop at Hobby Lobby, two companies whose profits are literally dedicated to killing trans people

still convinced Google opinion rewards is a psyop to convince you their data tracking is terrible

I can tell this site needs more sports knowers because everyone's been yelling about canceling Disney+ and Hulu all day and I literally haven't seen anyone yelling about canceling the new ESPN app, which was just rolled out and the success of which is existential for ESPN.

I think charlie's neck just did that due to heavy drug use. Did the coroner even check for fentanyl or meth?

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

Canceling #DisneyPlus until they take a stand

ah, well

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“Look, Double Hitler did a lot for this country, I won’t deny that. But Triple Hitler is a step too far.”

excited for this trend to continue when 30 years from now Nick Fuentes takes a principled stance against the policies of President Triple Hitler, a clone containing the souls of three Hitlers in a single body

You should join a union, or a tenants' union, or local mutual aid organizations, or get to know your community at the very least if you want to make it through America's near future

Fallon being the last man standing is such an indictment of Fallon

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Old and busted: Security theater New hotness: Government theater

Why hold people to account when you can just publicly embarrass them, leaving them with full power but also slightly more vindictive.

see also: supreme court justice confirmation hearings, sure hope they're p r e t t y embarrassed about the things we found out about them before they gained power for life to devastate so many people's lives while being showered with favors for doing so

"boom, roasted" I say, as they go back to ruining reality for hundreds of millions of people completely unimpeded, and for which no consequences of any kind will ever reach them

guess it beats this not happening but it does seem like we have a system of government where twice a year bad, unqualified people doing whatever they feel like get told on TV so we can see they got dunked on before they go back to just doing whatever damaging government or tech thing they were doing

you think they ever get tired of playing dumb? it must suck knowing you can lie and everyone will assume you're a giant dipshit. killer strategy, but humiliating.

So long as people are materially operating on the assumption that the position is correct, you are describing a situation where the material harm that vulnerable groups already suffer because of the debate is an acceptable sacrifice to protect the right of their opponents to argue they deserve it.