I’m of the genuine belief that politics are unnatural to the human condition, that we’re supposed to be wading in the ocean, basking in the shade of trees, gazing at stars, creating, and providing for one another. Politics, conversely, are born of small minded hatreds which have no place in the soul

My theory is they don’t believe vilifying people as “socialist” is working anymore (especially against a group that calls themselves democratic socialists) so they’re upping the rhetoric to “communist“ No idea if that’ll work but I think it means they’re flailing

It annoys me how often you see the think pieces like “the left needs to figure out what this right wing group is doing to be so efficient” because the answer is always money.

See also: money

The irony is nobody hates capitalism quite like conservatives

They say they are the victims As their torches accrue They say there are no slaves And abduct your neighbors too They say they are the natives And corral away the few They say they are not slavers Just the boys in blue They say there are no fanatics Except who side with you

Just gonna go ahead and say that if your Christian ministry can be defined as a multi-billion dollar industry, it’s not a Christian ministry

They say they are the victims As their torches accrue They say there are no slaves And abduct your neighbors too They say they are the natives And corral away the few They say they are not slavers Just the boys in blue They say there are no fanatics Except who side with you

My conspiracy theory is that the rise of people being more conscious of their digital privacy and the ownership of their data, as well as the rise of tools allowing people to better protect said privacy and data, is a direct causation factor for the sudden desire to put ID verification in everything

Imagine getting hyped up by military propaganda, told you’re going to be the biggest badass who ever held a gun, going through all the training, and then you’re assigned to guard a pool

You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas

No. Next question

Not that these are good, but day 2 compared to day 12 is already a noticeable difference

I want to buy all the art but have no money. This is a sad

They hate even the barest peek of the left. Always have, always will. Any time the left starts to gain a foothold, instead of leaning into its growing popularity, they will veer even harder right. Progressives will get no support from Dems even as they run as Dems

I think a societal ill that doesn’t get enough attention is the perpetual need to put a clean, happy spin on everything. It’s so hot outside that people are dying? Great chance to have milkshake! The president started an unnecessary war? Look at these puppies! Sometimes you gotta sit with shit

The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

But the democratic socialists are moderates…

The sad thing about being done with Cyberpunk 2077 is that I don’t get to here Johnny Silverhand’s opinion on everything anymore

I understand 40c is brutal and I feel for the UK folks, but my American Fahrenheit brain still gut reacts to “it’s a sweltering 40 degrees” with momentary confusion before putting the pieces together

All I know about the World Cup is everyone seems to hate one specific commentator for some unknown-to-me reason, but I’m glad folks are all unifying over something at least

John Wick. Keanu Reeves is the only non-muppet

After years of seeing artists work and thinking “I wish I could draw” I’ve finally decided to actually try, so I made an account updating my progress as I go if that’s your thing. Open to pointers as well. Fair warning: I’m real real bad

Boy I sure am glad I’m spending most of my life working for wages that ensure I’ll never get the opportunity to stop working! Golly gee, it’s so great to never see the fruits of my labor nor receive a direct benefit! Not having energy to live because I have to use all of it at work is just the best!

Everyone needs money and I have none to give :(

Listen, there’s a deal. Now they haven’t agreed to the deal. Or, ok, they HAVE agreed but we haven’t, but we’re just about to agree. Ok, listen, we’ve worked really hard and there’s like 95% of a deal, we just need to hash out the most important bits. Right, ok, so there’s the structure of a deal…

My conspiracy theory is that the rise of people being more conscious of their digital privacy and the ownership of their data, as well as the rise of tools allowing people to better protect said privacy and data, is a direct causation factor for the sudden desire to put ID verification in everything

Plus they REALLY don’t like that you can hop on your phone and figure out how much they are lying to you within five seconds. You’re not actually supposed to have that information. You’re supposed to nod and be grateful they deigned to communicate anything to you at all, especially the slop

I dreamed that someone made a cover of Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam but changed the lyrics to be fawning support of Trump and I wish I could remember those lyrics because they were comedy gold

Do people still play Call of Duty? How are these still getting made?

Anyway who wants to help me take over an abandoned mountain town somewhere in Appalachia and turn it into a mutual aid community?

It has been said plenty before, but it bears repeating: A country which arrests and prosecutes its citizens for the crime of simply speaking out and/or demonstrating against the actions of the government is an authoritarian state and should be regarded as such.

“The easiest overhead to control is employees. You can always make more money by cutting staff.” Continues to be one of the most radicalizing things ever said to me

God I’m ready for all this 250th American anniversary stuff to end. Everywhere I go is just jingoistic vomit

There should be a mandatory blue collar worker on every tech company board so when they want to announce something stupid the blue collar person can go, “Shit, ain’t nobody gonna use that bullshit. Ya better off just leavin’ things be.”

Saying we can’t afford to feed, house, and care for people is a really dumb argument when you consider the fact that we invented money

I will never understand queer conservatives

Straight white folks will be like “we had the greatest time at this party!” and send a picture of grandpa asleep in a folding chair, a child looking sadly at an empty table, and an air of repression so profound it emanates from the screen even without you looking at it

I think you could build considerable public support behind the idea of not just trying and punishing billionaires, but erasing their names and existence from any public physical space

Nice thing to see on my way home.

I remember when I was growing up people would tell me capitalism is great because people with money would never do something stupid with it, otherwise how would they have so much money? Thus, all ventures that acquire money must, inherently, be worth the money invested. Anyway, spacex went public

oh my god

I’m apparently too out of touch to have been aware of the whole adding “maxxing” to the end of everything craze, and I’m incredibly thankful for that. I’m sanitymaxxing

Why is every how-to-draw tutorial like: OK first draw a circle Now draw a basic frame Great, now just finish the drawing ???

I’ve seen a lot of AI ads now and have companies constantly trying to shove it into my life, and I’ve still yet to see a viable use case for it Seriously, what does it do? It can search the internet but it’s constantly wrong, it can write an email but not better than I can, it can code incorrectly…

Anyway if anyone’s got drawing pointers I’ve got an iPad, no talent, and a dream. I’m open to suggestions.

Anyway if anyone’s got drawing pointers I’ve got an iPad, no talent, and a dream. I’m open to suggestions.

Decided to try to take up digital drawing for the 378th time (I’m worse than a 4 year old), and I think the thing that’s hardest for me to break my brain into doing is copying other people’s work while figuring out how to actually draw yourself. Like in my brain that’s plagiarism, you never copy