jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

megan mcardle: people are making a big deal out of this but i gotta tell you, i think we’re overreacting a little here josh barro: look, youve gotta eat mcardle: youve gotta eat, exactly my point. and people hear the term “cannibalism” but look… barro: it really is a pretty loaded term

When I was in elementary school we were visited by a dude who draws well in pointillism using his feet because he was born without arms.

"Sen. @edmarkey.bsky.social coauthored a letter to the CEOs of Apple & Google asking the companies to pull X from its app stores due to Grok’s repeated generation of nonconsensual sexual imagery ... On the same day that he sent the letter, Markey made 5 posts on X." @phileil.bsky.social

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

Ok, listen Yes, it is a spectacular claim to say Trump will have ICE at every polling station. Nobody reasonable is saying that. But as we've seen, Trump does not have to. He only has to concentrate on swing states, and within those, a relatively small number of polls in minority neighborhoods

The Founding Perverts, derogatory in the left and laudatory on the right

There's a lot of things about BlueSky that remind me of the SA forums circa 2008 but the funniest thing is that the mods are trapped in here with us and kind of hate it. It manifests itself in some very unfunny ways but it's v funny how history has repeated in that way

the idea that there’s something you can do - some level of performance you can achieve - that makes you safe from the whims of execs is something they want to avoid they want you to fear for your job, they want you to feel unsafe and unable to speak out that, above all else, is the message

"actually, it's ephebophilia" was a joke on 2005 Something Awful

Me in 2026

Nothing you are hearing about this city is true If it’s coming from national level sources, we still have fascist terror squads breaking into homes illegally we have warrantless searches going on and mass convoys of masked fascist terrorizing every moment of the day.

What we’re dealing with is more than just politics, which is an expression of deeper psychological processes. This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.

Pedocon theory going back decades doesn't fail

I really need people to understand that blaming individual voters or even groups of voters for all this happening is like blaming raindrops for a hurricane. You have mistaken the effect for a cause and the product for the producer.

Hey quick question, chat: what must be done?

The Liberals have been accustomed to console themselves with constitutional illusions and phrases about the rule of law, and close their eyes to the real relation of forces, to the class struggle.

Appropriate since Marx was also a journalist for a while

Bad idea. Here is a photo of organized crime associate and former Trump business partner Felix Sater with a friend.

"I'm not a Leninist" but why though. Why refuse to be right.

This is by far the funniest takeaway from the Epstein/Dracula joking going on here Yeah, why would we compare an extremely rich guy who traded in human flesh, especially young female flesh, and used his wealth and power to move around the world in search of it, to Epstein?

If this chant somehow broke out in a WWE crowd, fucking HHH's music would hit and he would legit start tear-gasing the first few front rows.

Person who refuses to look into any socialist organizations, literature, or really anything that requires more reading than a single Tweet: "Wow, so you won't singlehandedly explain how to completely restructure society for me, specifically?"

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

They don't need to be on the take by the administration specifically; they serve the same interests - those of the very rich - that Trump and his cronies do. They aren't on our side. Their whole purpose d'etre is to mediate the contradictions in our society caused by their masters, the rich.

Stop naturalizing the system you live in like an illiterate dog

"actually, it's ephebophilia"

nothing has more predictive value in the current moment of world events than Being A Marxist

This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot. Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.

"Believe women" until several of them start blocking your favorite poster because he won't leave them the fuck alone on his own accord. Obviously THOSE women are malicious liars working to ruin a man's life with False Accusations, right

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

This is why you don't praise a narcissist. Will Stancil has spent a decade hating on the people who built the networks to fight ICE today, showed up for a fight for the first time in his life, tells them what they're doing wrong and makes himself the face of a movement that's now kicked him out.

Just so happens that I just finished reading about this exact subject and why corporate owned media only exists to serve the capitalist state.

Dumb cunts like this think that leftism is about "purity" because they, themselves, can't imagine either *knowing* anything beyond your own half-baked suppositions based on nothing. We know that *from a practical standpoint* that the things we say are true and history proves us right every time.

there have been many, many more egregious and awful bans on this website but this is perhaps the stupidest just from like, a business perspective

Just pray and petition the gods and burn incense and chant and pray and vote, vote with all your heart and soul, and maybe - just maybe - the gods will turn off the orphan shredder. You people are sheep. Pathetic sheep who will die in winter as your false shepherds abandon you to the wolves.

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

The entire *point* behind Bezos buying the post isn't to make the best paper he can, it was to act as a propaganda bullhorn for right-wing, pro-billionaire viewpoints. You dorks saying he could make the best darn paper ever with all that money need to *wake the fuck up*. The world has changed.

It's not *for him*, he just had the juice to get electoral victory and the willingness to ruthlessly implement a fascist project. If Tom Cotton had charisma it could have been him

The reason "Abolish ICE" scares them so much is because it speaks to the power of political imagination. Our political imagination has been intentionally suppressed in favor of the stagnation and inertia of the short-term profit economy's political desires. This is existential as well as physical.

how can we suffer these people to live among us, let alone purport to rule us? they're not just our enemies. they're an affront to the human experiment. they're hostile to all life not their own. they'd burn any number of us alive to avoid even a moment of mild discomfort. hideous

"Opsec seems paranoid. So anyway, I'm gonna infiltrate my way back into this group that kicked me out as a security risk so that I can take advantage of the information within that group, for my own purposes, against the interests of that group." - average liberal

This dude Stancil has quickly revealed that he is to Minneapolis what Shaun King was to Ferguson

Hrm I'm not an expert but it seems problematic to attribute to "ego" a woman's decision to change her mind about doing your thing. Idk if you'd say that about a man.

If you’re writing more about being upset property is being destroyed than murder by fascists in the street you’re actually not an Ally you’re a threat and should be ignored and mercilessly mocked.

While hospitals in the rural U.S. have been shuttering for years because our government's pathetic half-measures and the greed of the rich, China is making a hospital that comes to you. But hey, communism hasn't worked in any country where it's been tried, right?

The workers saw how their united struggle forced the abandonment of hypocritical police lies…They understood who was their real foe when they, who were not violating law and order, had the troops and police sent against them, just as though they were the country’s enemies.

stancil getting a small amount of good will from people and immediately turning into the hall monitor of ICE protests is so funny, little guy just can't help himself

I'd argue our oppressors have dehumanized themselves by dehumanizing innocent people, and while I agree that in order to build a world where hurt people no longer hurt people that dehumanization will have to end, but me and Dr. Agro disagree on *how* that will happen in the first place.