Note also that the project of moving the vast majority of manufacturing to China was supported by both parties. Every major corporation lobbied for this because if environmental regulations exist at all there, they are mostly ignored, and wages there are a rounding error for most balance sheets

Ok this makes me want to vomit for many reasons, perhaps the foremost being that isolated areas full of "high tech geniuses" could ever design or manufacture anything high tech. Brother if you end world trade I promise you will soon be hunting deer using wooden spears cuz bronze doesn't smelt itself

I often think about how the entire curriculum of every MBA program since 1980 is just: "EPA regulations got you down? Here's how to increase profits 100x by outsourcing manufacturing to Asia" and now most of what's left in the US is food processing plants 90% staffed by immigrants

@gspeng.bsky.social super off-topic from your AOC post, but your very Chinese surname makes me assume you're of Chinese descent, anyway I just need to rant, because I'm crying inside about this. The whole immigration thing in the US is crazy but I have no idea what solutions there are...

Sorry but Democratic Party leaders have not articulated a remotely progressive economic policy since FDR. Arguing about whether to increase the top income tax rate by 2% will never solve the problems of capital gains and monopolistic corporate power.

This reeks of Welsh erasure

We shall reign over the entire world for the next 1000 years by mandating everyone speak the Old English of Beowulf circa 950 AD. Any words that did not exist at that time will be banned from use.

The majority of tesla shares are held by entities like vanguard and black rock, who do not care how much money they set on fire because they assume they will get bailouts. It's corruption all the way down.

Liquidate Trumpcoin crime family, liquidate Coinbase, liquidate Winklevoss, liquidate Sacks, liquidate Tether, liquidate all shitcoins - Andrew Mellon (probably)/s

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

So, back when my psychosis was severe, I got super into strange numerology. If you set 1776 as year zero, and then look at fibonacci year differentials, both before and after, you see big events line up. E.g. 1776 +: 13: constitution 55: nat turner 89: end civil war 144: women get vote 233: obama

Love how Clinton and Obama post categorically useless advice like "now is the time to stand up" while Newsom says "trump bad maybe sometimes". If Americans can't pull off targeted strikes to effectuate regime change because they're all slaves to dollars that are becoming worthless...

Call your AG, file a suit declaring the administration is a criminal conspiracy against rights. Then call for a general strike starting with every airport. Until this happens, I will assume you like Trump and want to help him.

Hello sir, I see you represent northern Virginia... Did you know that if there was a general strike in *specifically northern Virginia* many good things would happen?

"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend." Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

Hello sir ICE is in Harlem, it's time to call for a targeted general strike at large banks and your airports. The Trump regime is a criminal conspiracy against rights and they post the details of the conspiracy online. Call up your lawyers and NY AG and start the process.

I’m no longer going to call it Europe because that normalizes that they are apart from who they are. They are WEST EURASIANS. EUROPE IS NOT A CONTINENT.

We are now at the fork in the timeline where the odds of Europe, Canada, Mexico, and China uniting to liberate the USA from fascism in the near future are quite high.

Right now everyone in a position of power (I'm thinking mostly about IT infrastructure people) has a moral obligation to get themselves and their families somewhere safe (get out) and *do things* which I will refrain from describing.

people who choose competition over solidarity will legit never make sense to me

the colbert discourse is stupid and cringe but it is resolutely true that anyone who lives by the image dies by the image and we are squarely in a society that has chosen the image as their primary mode of governance. sending in the clowns is a rational response against the circus.

My article on "The Eco-Marxist Problematic" just became open access through the Taverne-Amendment. Free for anyone to read! research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...

Way too much online posting is cries for attention. That's not always pathetic, we all want and need some attention. Sometimes it is though.

@scottwiener.bsky.social you're now being accused of hate crimes against home owners. I'd laugh but this is worrying.

I think the phenomena of “parents would rather spend another hour scrolling ig/tiktok/hulu than socialize their child or reinforce their education by helping with homework/overseeing their self application in an enriching extracurricular” is staggeringly high and something nobody wants to confess to

Years ago, I met this guy on a dating site. He, an industrial engineer, tried to mansplain stem cells to me, who has a PhD in a biology field. My profile stated I that I have a PhD. He didn’t know the difference between the types of stem cells. I unmatched him while he rambled on the phone lol

Ghislane Maxwell has an opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time right now

mfer i just told you all four of my grandparents were holocaust survivors. my father was born in a dp camp in germany. my grandfather was also in auschwitz. the nazis had a network of literally THOUSANDS of concentration camps and handful of death camps. read a fucking book!

the people who police use of the term "concentration camp" have no idea that the nazis had over 14,000 camps across europe and that the vast majority were detention camps and labor camps and not killing centers, which is what they ignorantly think concentration camp exclusively means: death camp.

the moment is ripe for a wwg1wga "release the files or you prove you're a pedo" movement

My goal is to be the first person stripped of citizenship for posting "Trump is a nazi" on bluesky.

darth vader: (arm extended dramatically) join the dark side way too many people, way too willingly: ok darth vader: (quickly withdrawing arm) jesus christ

I know it maybe sounds unkind, but we are very much at a point where people need to move past the acute grief stage for the future we thought we might have and into the stage of planning for the future we actually will have

In a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court rules that any "Micks" or "Wops" ruled not sufficiently American as determined by the president using his unrestrained executive authority can be deported back to Potato Land or the Funny Boot Country as appropriate

my most millennial trait is I still assume there are only 6 billion people on earth

2) Platforms supercharge identity formation processes Online “discursive spaces” mold our ideas and identities through our participation (h/t @pettertornberg.com) We make sense of the world through shared stories, and platforms funnel us into niche tribes where belonging often outweighs truth

This is literally the definition of a white nationalist police state.

Trump is now threatening 35% tariffs on Canada, one of our closest allies and largest trading partners. Hard to think of a stupider way of running trade policy.

Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri's consumer protection laws. The crime? When asked…

ANTIOCH, SATURDAY… @ilhanmn.bsky.social heading to the home turf of bigot Rep Ogles with @brotherjones.bsky.social — since Pinocchiogles won’t have a town hall himself…

Arguably the pogroms are already here, everyone is just too scared to acknowledge it

Here we go. "All rise" as Judge Xinis enters the room and a court officer calls the case. Counsel identify themselves for the record. Andrew Rossman is here for Abrego in the first chair, joined by his three co-counsel.

The word "vaccination" appears nowhere in the Constitution, so it's hard to see why liberals are so upset about the massive measles outbreak. by Jonathan Turley

Any fans of dystopian hip hop? I transcripted the lyrics of my fave song here, afaik they don't exist on Genius or any other site, the artist is not well-known. Please give it a listen! The whole album has no explicit words.

White supremacy is not a “legitimate view.” Vilifying migrants is not “reasonable debate.” Eugenics is not a “controversial belief.” Genocide is not a “justified action.” These are all examples of violent racism. We should recognise this basic fact and reject such politics unapologetically.