It is related to my own personal speech I've given about how beating the shit out of someone, even for a good reason, permanently lessens you. Partially because it opens a door inside of you that never goes away, but also because you are now that guy who beats the shit out of people.

I think this is good. But I do wanna add something as a trans man - Woke obviously isn’t the enemy but a lot of people have frankly taken the patriarchy to mean that each and every man is somehow personally responsible when it harms us too and distilled that down to men bad men evil

If you engage in activism but cant view facists as human beings the same as you or I, your just trying to square your personal trauma, not engage in praxis. But thats a conversation a lot of you really are not ready to have yet.

Oh I do not like this argument one bit. Free speech is a universal human right, and the whole point of human rights is that they're supposed to overrule nationality. Just because Republicans pretend to care about something doesn't mean the rest of us have to throw it out.

“The human individual has rights wherever they are, independent of the soil or the blood or the community they come from” is the hardest single liberal postulate for society to accept the world over

You just *know* Drake would be getting in on this shit if he wasn't Canadian, too. "Yeah, the wokes, hate them Mister Trump, Make America Great Again papi, now listen, there's this blud who hates you papi, his name's Kendrick-"

This kind of project is something I've wanted to see for fucking years. Finally. youtu.be/OgMdO0ckICg

I had a weird thought today. Tron, the one from the 80s, not legacy so much, is, when you view it from the namesakes own perspective, a story of religious liberation.

Preacher, its got better writing than you'd expect is funny as hell, I have no idea why this show went under the radar as long as it has. Plus it beats out The Boys by a country mile. Yeah I said it.

The prince is dead, long may he reign.

Watched Mickey 17 today, I decided to give the book a read prior to going into the film and was pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoy Edward Ashton's writing. I frankly have a hard time believing this is the same Boon who directed snowpiercer and parasite because this movie suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Salami Brandished

if you have an android, Google might have switched your Google assistant to Gemini today without asking for permission. open #Google assistant and use the proffered option to switch back from Gemini if you don't want your phone enshittified and your location data saved on it #ai #enshittification

Pouring out some estus for a real one. Dark souls has been a huge influence on me for over half my life and I will be forever greatful for this womans part in it. Long may her sun shine.

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

Unironic Pinkerton shit, shame on these cunts being the boot and even double shame on the cunts at ebay and tcgplayer for hiring them

Ok in Andor are the Ghormans supposed to be French or Swiss? Because the entire planet is swiss coded but the rebel cell there feels like its drawing a lot of inspo from french partisans.

"maybe teach boys to be less shit" yeah man the basic issue of "how do you teach virtue" is among the top five topics in philosophy going back three millennia. this is the humanities version of "just invent cold fusion how hard could it be idc"

one thing which is extremely funny is the completely inverted moral framework within which someone can be excused entirely for violent crimes because of extenuating circumstances but bad politics can only result from an irreversible and acausal defect in the human soul

Love it or hate it an irreplaceable piece of the internet probably died today. I'm not going to pretend it wasn't a den filled with awful people but it was a place you went to when you felt like a stranger everywhere else, and if nothing else the place gave us Katawa Shoujo. Gonna pour myself one.

Logging into Counter Strike only to make the heaviest Mexican accent I can on the VC and tell Americans to "pay my tariffs white boy."

Wow. Now I cant even legally vote. Fantastic.

George Orwell’s conception of Newspeak in his novel, 1984, highlights the dangers of the oversimplification of language and how it can be utilized to socially engineer division and control. One of the biggest linguistic barriers we face today is the over-reliance on the use of prescriptive labels

I mean no malice toward here but this is...only partially correct, and the full truth is both far more grim and far more existential for the fate of democracy on the North American continent and worldwide This may take a sec to explain so buckle down

I actually grew up in the town where the architect who designed these had founded Cal-Earth, he made a prototype lunar colony out in Hesperia to prove to NASA that these could be used for space colonization. They teach people how to make these and make rolls of the bags too, really something else.

Yesterday was the 57th anniversary of the My Lai massacre. I don't think there has been a time where Hugh Thompson Jnr's behaviour, and his actions that day, have been more relevant to US history than they are right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Mu... I promise you, you have not heard this LOST theory before

[Banging the side of a cast iron pot with a wooden spoon] ACTUALLY EXISTING POPULAR FRONTISM

I wish I would've met you Now it's a little late What you could've taught me I could've saved some face They think that your early ending Was all wrong For the most part, they're right But look how they all got strong That's why I say, "Hey man, nice shot, Good shot, man"

Which, if anyone's interested in it:

For all of human history the hard part of learning real things was "obtain information". In my lifetime that has changed, and is now "suppress noise". None of our social, cultural, or political structures have adequately adapted to this change

You know? I still find it remarkably easy to remain patriotic throughout this administration. Trump and the MAGA crowd are a repudiation of every single civic ideal that the United States is meant to represent—and I see no reason to stop believing in those ideals because of them.

Im almost convinced that this has to be with the intention of people dying. There is no fucking way they can be this stupid.

As a wise man once said, smoke em if you got em

There's a union out there called AFSCME and they're busting their balls for you doing a lot of shit work you take for granted

Anyone who sees this that voted for trump (unlikely but anyway); He doesnt love this country and the people in it. Never has, never will. And if you are ok with this, never beat your chest for being patriotic again. Because you dont love this country or the people in it either. You just love power.

This isn't "assimilation", it's reclamation. Black people, like Natives, have *always* been a part of the American experiment, and our stories do not- should not- have to be reduced to us being an Other for White Americans to contrast themselves again.

A black man wrapping himself in the flag, showing him as patriotic and claiming America as *his* country too is a direct threat to that paradigm. It's a Black man breaking out of that prescribed role and saying: "No, *you* are the Unamerican one here. I'm American as apple pie."

Notably, the right-wing's feathers were not especially rustled by it, because this is what Black people are "supposed" to do. They're *supposed* to hate America. They're "supposed" to position themselves as apart from and opposite too Old Glory. It's their role in the racist paradigm.

To the people insisting Kendrick should have burnt the American flag: 1) Kendrick's clearly proud to be an American. 2) Burning the flag at America's Game is asking to start a riot against you. 3) Proclaiming that American Heritage = Black Heritage makes the GOP angrier than burning it ever would.

Are you fucking kidding me

I say with 0 hesitation that Direct File is the best thing the IRS has done in years, my home state of California had this option with our state taxes for a while and this incombination with that has completely cut corperate middlemen out of my taxes entirely. Fuck corpos, use this thing, pass it on

The replies on this post remind me of some words from an old friend of mine, "Politics is not the place for you to engage in self care, and you hurt literally everyone around you by doing so."

The trans unity coelition is holding rallies in the capital cities of California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and Utah tomorrow. Spread this around so more people know and attend. I myself an going in hopes I can volunteer transunitycoalition.org/events/rally/

Thank you, billion dollar corperation. I feel so greatful, and hopeful for the future.

No one who hasn't shared or donated to this gofundme is allowed to talk about Disco Elysium ever again. I know! I'm poor too. I don't always eat either. A single dollar. One currency.

Credit where its due, Elon really is an innovator. He has managed to invent an entire new level of stupid I really didnt think he was capable of, its really something