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Me after reading the headline: I bet they were trying to unionize. The article: They were trying to unionize.

It's good that our wise business guys backed the free market president who is now telling them who can and can't work at their companies

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

i trust the chinese communist party with my data more than i trust larry ellison

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

I DROPPED ALL MY SKILL POINTS IN SWIMMING BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT TO DROWN IN ALL THIS PUSSY

on the letter itself Gene Simmons gets third billing lmao

hahahahahahaha oh fuck here we go

Its so funny how like 1 in 3 actions done by the Trump USDA team make more sense if you assume it's being run by angry vegans lol www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

Hmm. Did they chop the indictment to take out the page(s) with the count the grand jury refused to indict on? Can’t tell from the pixels.

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

im sorry but this couldnt scream "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!" any louder if it was in neon the size of the hollywood sign.

boycotts work. anyone who says otherwise is spreading pro corporate, pro government propaganda

Doug Bowser has announced he's going to Switch 2 a new job

this is a signed executive order that directly violates a law passed by congress & signed into law!

i think if you shot goku in the head with a sufficiently large caliber firearm while he was sleeping it would kill him. discuss

This current political moment makes me hate Not For Broadcast so much more because they had such an amazing idea for a game but in a world where the hard right has been gaining power across the world, their idea of authoritarianism was people being too mean about taxing the rich lol

I remember when that anti-bullying campaign started in the 2010s and I hated it because 95+% of people who did videos for it had a very "Liz Lemon" recollection of bullying and it caused such a social uproar that they did research on it and found out that the Liz Lemon model is the norm lol

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

(sorry for any Debra's out there catching strays it's just comedic effect)

anyway, if purity policies truly was good faith they'd go for the Bible first and foremost but they never do, do they

"But abusers use it to--" ABUSERS USE ANYTHING THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH, DEBRA. it can be math textbooks as easily as it can be genshin impact loli doujinshi AND IN FACT OFTEN MORE LIKELY

Unless you can prove to me the making of the fiction harmed a real human, I don't care. Which, for the record, that normally happens with things like crunch, fiscal abuse, work place bigotry, and professional exploitation. It doesn't happen because pixels on a screen made you uncomfy

"But it's fetishized and romanticized and it grooms--" Fuck you. Genuinely. If you care more regarding someone getting off to some incest loli waifu 18+ game or rape gore porn on AO3 than you have about gun regulation or police brutality, fuck you.

You don't have to like it. You don't have to accept it. You can criticize it to hell for all I care. And you should. Art existing doesn't mean it's free from scrutiny but art is how culture moves and art is how people learn what exists in the world without having to live it.

But even all that aside, the main reason I believe fiction shouldn't be censored is because EVIL SHIT HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE and fiction has every right to reflect, inspect, magnetize, and interact with REAL LIFE. stories are experiences that are TOLD and HEARD. Conversations shouldn't be taboo.

queer and trans are always the first in the line of fire to be discriminated against but the collateral damage is toward everyone because what it does is it flattens nuance so people can arbitrarily be marked "undesirables" the moment you step put of line to then burn as a witch

"What about pedo shit--" It's remarkable how many people who think they are better than Q-anon are just repeating Q-anon conspiracy so casually. You know how pedophiles get away with so much? By crying wolf about child abuse so much that no one takes any reports of it seriously

incest is supposedly such an ick that people poison cultural norms like pacific-asian languages addressing colleagues/peers as "brothers", which is just racist short stacked women and dwarfism are hated on for being "child coded" which is all levels of fucked up moral panics are always bad faith

the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist

"pinky, are you pondering what i'm pondering?" "gee, i think so, brain, but if the muppets guy made tokusatsu instead, wouldn't they have to call him jim henshin?"

This is Blueskyism

watching our government do subterfuge is like when you're a kid watching the ninja turtles put on their human disguises and you're all like HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS WORKING???

The Western mind cannot conceive of a middle ground between "perfect society" and "deserves to be bombed to rubble".

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Shhh let them cook

I’ll never tire of sharing this screenshot

Gotta be honest today was the first time I've heard the phrase "ANTI-ICE". Typically leftists say things like 'fuck ICE' or "Abolish ICE'

He steps aside as the bull is coming.

This whole "writing your message in sharpie on unspent bullet casings" thing is bullshit, right? It's just so obviously fake

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

Because nothing says "security" like requiring a user to keep webcam and microphone active at all times. No way that that could be abused. I certainly can't imagine any backdoors that could be exploited by bad actors or bad governments. In fact, why not just set up a camera facing my window.

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

Spain and Italy are sending warships to assist the transport of baby formula to starving children in Israel from the Freedom Flotilla www.reuters.com/world/middle...

more than strong regulation and enforcement, more than "ethical and responsible" AI research/product development, this right here is the kind of change in the world that I long for