George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Put the rich on notice: we are done fighting for scraps!

Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors. They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

Everyone deserves healthcare. Everyone deserves housing. Everyone deserves education. Everyone deserves food & clean water. This should not be controversial. They’re basic human rights. We could provide them to everyone if we abolished the billionaire class and taxed corporations properly.

The party of free speech and individual liberty wants to control everything I say and do.

So I’m to believe that at age 18 people aren’t mature enough to know that they want gender affirming hormone therapy. But they’r mature enough to sign up for military service where they’ll be given weapons to hurt others. Kiss my ass.

Years ago, scientists warned us that Covid would create an "unfathomable" crisis of longterm illness that included diseases not typically diagnosed as "Long Covid." Now a fight over exploding healthcare costs has shut down the government. These two things are connected.

Greta Thunberg is conveying that she got that shit on.

I'm so over breaking news. How about some fixing news.

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I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

The moment you concede some lives are acceptable losses--I'm speaking specifically about trans people rn--you're adding a gray area to who deserves bodily autonomy and safety in a society. Once you concede some people are acceptable losses, you've established other lives are ALSO negotiable.

Important PSA for Portland. 🚨 Do NOT feed the Gestapo. They don’t get to enjoy our city while attacking it.

Just a reminder that authoritarians use the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy against itself, including concepts of "free speech" and the "healthy exchange of ideas." They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

"it can't be uninvented! it's here to stay!" it literally can be uninvented, none of that nonsense is happening on your computer, it's all happening in a massive and massively unprofitable data center somewhere. You can't run that locally. The moment someone pulls the plug, it's gone.

His kind of Christians lie. Their entire lives are a lie.

nobody has another site move in them. its this or we all just say goodbye to each other and unplug the internet on the way out.

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!! Just the one!!

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

Black Lives Matter was the last true bastion against fascism that posed a real threat to what the regime is now And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

the most powerful twin forces against facism are "sure, i'll do that [proceeds to not actually do it]" and "fuck you, make me." there is literally not enough force in any given country to subdue a population who just lays down on their desk and refuses to punch details into the immigrant database.

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

Unlike YOU snowflakes that get upset over your civil rights being taken away, I only get upset by real issues, like non-binary robots, pasteurization, and minorities in movies.

It comes down to people don't want to take part in small scale individual choices they can make to fight fascism. And I can't make people do that from where I sit or only on a small scale. You could avoid slurs for the disabled that justify the regime's brutality against us, you could wear a mask.

The overwhelming weight of knowing that people sounding the alarm about every erosion of rights has been correct for decades is just … a lot to carry around all the time.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money. We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

me core

I don’t think many of these companies get how many subscriptions exist because people forget to cancel them. When you get people to ask themselves “wait a sec, do I actually need this??” you’ve already lost

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

I will never understand why religious people care so much about how others choose to live their lives. As long as they aren’t causing harm to anyone why do they give a fuck just let people be as they are

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

I still can’t believe how they called it Project 2025, and people were still willing to believe it wasn’t the plan all along.

So much chaos, just to protect monsters in the Epstein files.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

one of the primary tactics of narcissism and yes fascism as fascism is large scale cultural narcissism IS THE USE OF SOCIAL DYNAMICS TO AVOID BLAME based in keeping the social players silent by TARGETING different people/groups

We need to shittalk Microsoft's video games legacy more because, at no point in their history, did the Xbox achieve any market of cultural dominance over the games industry for a significant amount of time.

Or slick the field with canola oil or walk off the field or pick up the ball with your hands or appoint a new ref from the stands or whatever the hell else you need to do to slow their roll. Punch the nation state in the face and things likely won't end well, but get creative

LFG

They cannot round up everyone. And if everyone is saying The Thing, targeted speech crackdowns on people saying The Thing are that much less effective.

Like, if you are doing sensitive work or already have a legitimately good reason to worry about a knock, sure, be careful. But if you're living a relatively normal life, not leading actions or secretly housing the undocumented or something? Say it loud and say it proud. Often.

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.