This started with the election of Chavez. I’m not endorsing his autocratic tendencies, but he recognized that Venezuela’s huge natural resources should benefit the people, not large foreign corporations. But we can’t have the world’s largest oil reserves controlled by a socialist, now, can we?

In the midst of all the bullshit, bits of good news. EVERYONE benefits from quality universal childcare. Even if you’re not a humanist, the economic payback in the long run is huge.

Why is the neighborhood hostile and dangerous? Could it be centuries of British & American meddling in the affairs of countries in the region? Supporting despots & stoking coups? Drawing arbitrary borders designed to create ongoing instability? Resource exploitation? Nah. The people just love war.

After 30 yrs working with large companies, I found the amount of unethical, unfair or amoral but completely legal behaviour breathtaking. In that world, ethics boils down to technical legality. There’s a set of rules for people who can afford $1,500/hr lawyers and a set of rules for everyone else.

The Holocaust was legal. Anyone who conflates legality with rightness is on a very wonky wicket.

oh, the legality. yes. that will save us all. *stares at absurd supreme court ruling*

Högern tror att om man säger något så blir det sant. Svantesson är en idiot och ett se, som all höger.

Asshole. (Although he is handsome.)

They’re dressed for a black-tie dinner party.

I don’t know what the big deal is. I conquered Bagram airbase like 17 times in Medal of Honor.

Goodnight, assholes.

Am I doing this right?

I’m stunned, frankly.

Wow.

Did not know that Charlie was a fan of Karl Marx.

The idea of independent media is on life support. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A system that is premised on the idea that some people are worth more than others is not a system worth having.

They killed him because he believed this

Here ya go. 😊

I added a nice quote from Charlie. 😁

What Charlie Kirk Should've Said, But Wouldn't. #WCKSSBW I'd have voted for *this* Charlie Kirk. Regardless of party.

This is an absolute judo move. Your opponent comes at you, help him run through the plate glass window behind you. So smart.

“Successful women go to college and wait to have children, if they have them at all” — Charlie Kirk

Wise words from CK.

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido.

Word.

"Do it for Charlie!" 🙂

Joining in the fun, if it's cool

RIP to a champion of women's rights 😇

This is actually fucking brilliant. Like in judo, use your opponents weight and momentum against them. Let’s make Charlie Kirk a leftist icon, and watch his cult deny he was supportive of any equality, freedom or human rights.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

It really is.

Took this picture back when Blackie first started showing up. It was pretty tense at first between Tiki and him, but they finally realized that we could all live here together in peace 🥰

But remember folks, throwing people like Vivian under the bus is a small price to pay for …*checks notes*… getting bigots to vote for the Democrats.

Liberalism hasn’t been liberal in decades.

Meh. 15-20 years ago I started to suck it up and admit I was wrong about conservatism. I got both ITYS & understanding. But warm words isn’t what changed my mind. It was cold hard facts. I couldn’t make sense of my ideology in light of reality and my underlying humanity. Had to drop-kick my ego.🤷‍♂️

Waiting Sausage is what they used to call me when I w*cat bats phone away*

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

And honestly it’s words meant to take the air out of the movement — to make the middle of the road folks who are upset at watching mass murder of children but not too attuned to the day to day of it all— think something is happening. But what, actually, is being done?

Recognizing Palestine. Recognizing genocide in Palestine. Ok, so are you going to stop it? Are you going to intervene? To withdraw your material support at the very least? Otherwise it’s just words.

Of course, I still think it’s a little better that we didn’t elect this dipshit.

UK friends, I don’t think you have an excuse. See, your Prime Minister is a dipshit but also LOOKS like a dipshit. Our confusion is more understandable.

It’s sort of like how we recognized Indigenous rights after we had killed >90% of them, stole all their land, crowded them onto reserves and kidnapped their children to put them in schools and erase their culture. We’re nothing if not consistent. www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...

In related news, Mark Carney needs “all the evidence assessed” before recognizing himself in the mirror. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Good idea. Just decades late. Might be too late. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...