Some problems in society really are zero sum and redistribution is the only solution. Unfortunately, that runs directly counter to what most peoples' ideas of what freedom is. To many, being a moral person is meaningless if you dont have the choice of whether you can watch your neighbor starve.

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As hilarious as it is that right wingers keep getting radicalized against Trump, the silence about this is deafening. If there was a *single* trans person involved here, it'd be all over every news network as a 'radical transgender plot' or some bullshit.

Starting a "Found Out" thread

THE LAST SENTENCE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

"because it's an irreversible procedure" - yet again it all boils down to patriarchal society demanding entitlement to your reproductive labor. Which is exactly they aren't just gonna stop at "T"

I remember when professional lobotomite David Lammy released a video where he criticized liberals for caring too much about Gaza and not enough about Sudan

A lot of people, even on the left are going to assume that Dems top priority is going to be defeating Trump no matter how much they hate the left. I can 100% promise you this will not be the case. Defeating the left will be their sole focus with failure against Trump blamed on the left.

we need more education about how the long-term punishment of Haitians is crucial to the white supremacist project a proof-point for them about why you should never rise up, how you can never be free

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Imperial boomerang: for centuries, Europeans have framed tech to protect against cold (fire, furnaces) as noble and good, while they’ve framed the warm climates they colonized as full of lazy people (Asians, Africans) and, thus, the need to use AC or fans as frivaloues, wasteful & unnecessary

Elected democrats believe with all their hearts that elected republicans are their friends, republican voters are real americans, and democratic voters are worse than scum

full pardons for anyone convicted in these nspm 7 convictions should be an express and mandatory part of any democratic platform

They try to scare me about the Stassi and I’m being careful what I say when I’m in my phone They bemoan censorship and I think about what might get the discord server shut down if I write it 30 years in prison for carrying zines In the USA we have the bad parts of the USSR, but not the good ones

The law should exist to terrify the powerful and protect the weak, that should be its only purpose

Did the Supreme Court just come out in favor of cancer?

Oh no you mean the progressive dems'll take and hold all three branches of government and pass sweeping reforms? How awful!!

Anyone who uses AI for shit they can't do on their own are the same person. You're mad you can't do it and don't believe skilled labor is a real thing so you'll pay ten times what it would cost a human to make something, only AI does it much, much worse and you can't admit you're wrong.

As much has he's absolutely obliterated HHS, please god do not let RFK anywhere near the fucking USDA, the last thing we need is fucking American Lysenkoism

"with no ill will or animosity" but clearly with searing contempt and condescension, given you know for a goddamned fact that your party has intentionally ensured the physical impossibly of third party viability in this country. So either you think we're all pitiful rubes, or you're one yourself

Lol. So you tell us every election year that there are only two options: blue or red. Voting third party is a vote for red; staying home if a vote for red. But we’re also not allowed to refashion the party into something that actually reflects our values—genuine representation we want. Mmkay.

On the subject of etiquette, there's also this, covered in a previous Picnic: when reading is more expensive than "writing", the asymmetry makes sending someone unsolicited AI slop nothing short of rude.

You can tell if a movement is serious by whether or not it abandons its prisoners, especially the "messy" ones. If Trump-era political prisoners are not released after he is removed from office, then the specter of Trump will not be gone.

The Prairieland defendants and the Spokane 3 need twice as much coverage as the Broadview 6 because now this administration has found a path to horrendously punishing it's ideological enemies.

The fact that there was nobody to challenge Corey fucking Booker from the left is a travesty and an indictment of the entire reformist left

Honestly when your comrades are getting sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving a box of left-wing magazines, it's time to brush up on your BPP history and tactics

New miles underground hurdle for the Dem nominee to somehow tunnel under just dropped

100 years for preventing the murder of an unarmed, retreating protester. Read this.

Couldn’t even make it 100 years past the Great Depression. A failed experiment.

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.

Trump wants to make an example out of the Prairieland defendants, so we need to make an example out of them in the opposite way. We need to hold them close and not let the state claim they are the "bad protestors" who fought against fascism "inappropriately."

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

AI CEO: our technology will fire 30% of American employees Also AI CEO: we get to pirate everyone’s intellectual property, otherwise we will tank the NSDQ Also AI CEO: it’s not our fault that our chatbot talked those kids into suicide or shooting up the school Also AI CEO: stop freaking out

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This just in: plagarism machine linked to reduction of novel thought, more at 11

About 5.3 billion phones drop out of use every year by the way We need socialism so we can build stuff more sustainably instead of having an economy oriented towards planned obsolescence and waste which harms human beings and consumes their conscious time to produce and “recycle” and throw out

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No one else was even wearing a cape in Cape Town and now I feel stupid.

Classic Trump, this is my favorite bit he does. He gets all his slobbering viceroys to go all in agreeing on him, enforcing the new party line and staking their reputations on it, only to eventually change his mind

"many people ask me if the music on this channel is ai generated, and it is, but" stop talking, i don't care, you already lost this argument "i'm a producer with 30 years experience in djing and production" great so you're a talentless hack and also a scab and also a shitty manager

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If you can't handle her bishoujo, you don't deserve her gremlin

Impossible to read this in anything but the most annoying grating nerd voice you've ever heard in your life

Why would a hedge fund with a football and basketball team and some nice architecture need to teach anyone? That's just silly.

Guarantee you they conspired to use the suit to kill Kat's campaign and they're scrambling to bury the evidence before they get turbo fucked

The US government could stop Israel any time it wanted, but they don't because they need them to project hegemony over the Gulf States. There can be no genocidal Zionist occupation of Palestine without US support both militarily and financially.