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United Healthcare getting sued by its investors, because it didn't warn them that the CEO getting murdered (by the tendrils of their unmitigated greed) was going to lead to them approving more claims (for covered services that they had no right to deny) is a cartoonish example of exactly why their CEO got murdered.
Their argument is essentially "You promised us a specific profit margin that is not possible to achieve under this increased public scrutiny of your unethical practices. We only agreed to invest because of those unethical practices. So we demand compensation because you didn't warn us that you'd be behaving more ethically"
And idk. Satire isn't just dead. We've pissed on its corpse and now it's dissolving in lye.
#executing ceos is all well and good and deserved#but we need to step up the game and start doing the same to investors#investors are cowardly evil scum who expect others to serve them and die for them
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decentralize and clean up your life!!!
use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
use storygraph instead of goodreads.
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
last updated: march 18th 2025
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All Eyes on the Sumoud Convoy
Eyes on the road people. Eyes on the thousands of people on their way to the Gaza border to break the siege.
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#tyranny#right-wing libertarians#yeah#right-wing libertarianism is an oxymoron because being 'right-wing' politically has always been 'for the establishment'#it's not even an opinion it's always been the explicit main concern of right-wing ideologies to protect the establishment#even those professing libertarianism ultimately believe in the hierarchical structure of capitalism#they believe that people should be able to 'choose to sell themselves into slavery' and do not see a contradiction#every right-wing ideology always seeks to maintain power structures in some way#often while cloaking it in the language of freedom as if the person left with no choice but death could make a free decision#they do not care about equality and freedom for all because to them there must always be a hierarchy#if they're not on top someone else will be#it's an inherently rotten worldview
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something really vile about Bernie Sanders using MLK as an example for how peaceful protests are better than riots as if he wasn't about to join in on more aggressive forms of protesting until they(white folks in power) took him out.
white people love to use king as an example but then forget they were the ones that killed him.
I hate liberals to an unnatural degree
#protesting#mlk#fbi#'violence begets violence' only works as a descriptor of the social phenomena that a violent establishment causes social unrest and violence#by trying to apply it to protesters one makes the incorrect assumption that the establishment is non-violent (it is not)#only if you understand the violence inherent in the system can you understand why protests turn violent#the problem is not that the establishment is inherently peaceful and protests should be peaceful in return#the problem is that the establishment constantly reaffirms itself through violence and a peaceful protest will not change that#so-called peaceful protests are still broken up by violent cops acting as the enforcers of the violent system#so it doesn't much matter how peaceful you are because protesting the injustices of the system is always met with violence#the system doesn't give a crap about justice or fairness or equality it only cares about social cohesion#call it the status quo or hegemony or whatever the point stands#if you do not fall in line comply and submit you are seen as a threat to the system#and social cohesion mandates that any threat to it must be removed by any means necessary#so before you start moralizing protesters for 'not being peaceful enough' maybe consider that there is never a 'enough' for the system#a system that seeks to maintain itself sees any level of dissent no matter how benign as inherently threatening and violent#so maybe examine that you may in fact have an incorrect picture of the society we live in#and maybe just maybe try to empathize with protesters once in a while instead of always taking the side of the ones being protested against#if you can't even consider the possibility that the society we live in was not made with 'all of us' in mind#you should really try asking yourself why maintaining social cohesion even in the face of injustice matters so much to you#and how that could possibly be used by bad actors to turn you against any cause that requires changes in society#if the system you love so much is so unable to address the inequalities and injustices rampant in it why do you think that is#if you believe it's just a matter of finding the right leaders then ask yourself why these things happen even under the right leadership#a violent system upholds itself through the use of violence and if you only blame the victims for defending themselves why is that#why do you tolerate injustice as long as it's someone else other than you suffering under it#and before you blame 'idiocracy' or some other liberal nonsense consider that you're the one who'd rather plug your ears and yell lalala#than consider that just because you don't personally want to see the violence of the system doesn't mean it isn't there#anyway good post
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Some security plans for Unite The Right 2 got leaked on Twitter and too many people were mocking how terribly made this is rather than talking about the fact that fascists are actively planning and developing tactics to straight up kidnap antifascists in the street.
Going to the gym solo and showing up with a few comrades and hoping other people will be there and fascists will break and run from confrontation isn’t going to work anymore. Times are changing. If you’re serious about directly confronting fascists in the street you’re gonna need predetermined plans and strategy and yes point people. Decentralized non-hierarchical mob tactics in a chaotic street brawl against organized fascists isn’t gonna do anything but get people arrested at best and killed at worst.




This is basically existing police snatch squad tactics- the crossbow. Yes, antifascists absolutely need to study and understand mass group tactics.
So, two things. One, the American fascist movement is, as a general rule, a paper tiger which has a history of melting in the face of literally any opposition at all. They don’t want confrontation, they don’t want a fight, they want to hurt people, without consequences or risk of repercussions. They are the schoolyard bully that whines ‘no fair’ when their victims hit back. In a street fight they’re more likely to run away, and come back later in small groups to harass isolated stragglers. Two, while keeping this in mind, we need to organize and plan our defense as if they are 100% willing and able to mount a serious challenge, because there are exceptions to every rule, and if we do not prepare for those exceptions there will come a time when a lot of our people get hurt or killed. Preparing for the way things usually are instead of the way things could potentially be is a recipe for failure.
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The psychiatrist who wrote the criteria for narcissism just made an extremely important point about what’s wrong with diagnosing Trump with mental disorders
Dr. Allen Frances says in speculating about Trump’s mental health, we are doing a disservice to those who do suffer from mental illness. In a series of tweets, he explained why he doesn’t think Trump is a narcissist — and how harmful it can be for us to keep assuming that he is.
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cannot describe how deeply rotted these people are
#just in case any 'vote blue no matter who' people still somehow happen to be following my blog#centrist liberals are just self-righteous hypocritical conservatives in a rainbow trench coat#it's the small mocking sadistic smiles that really seal it for me
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Aside from all material and political considerations, liberalism can't combat fascism on a philosophical level either because both worldviews are obsessed with aesthetics.
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ok i've been called a sex freak tranny too i get where you're coming from but like also please be more careful with extremely vague posts about Problematic Kinks
no. people's openness about what two consenting adults can do in private has no bearing on how likely they are to be child abusers or close ranks about child abusers & thinking there is some correlation is a sign that your stance on sexual abuse is mediated more by disgust reaction and aesthetic associations than by structural analysis. there is a pretty hard and obvious line between not condemming consensual sex acts between adults and being a pedophile and thinking that it's some sort of spectrum or slippery slope there imo speaks poorly to your conceptualization of why SA is a bad thing.
people love to say that X or Y kink Normalizes Abuse, but, like, actually think about communities where sexual abuse is 'normalized' in society. is the problem with the catholic church that it's too pro-kink? is the problem with US professional gymnastics that it's too pro-kink? is the problem with the amish that they're too pro-kink? was the problem with the british entertainment industry in the 1970s that it was too pro-kink? is the problem with the prison system that it's too pro-kink? &c. &c. &c.
sexual abuse doesn't happen because people are degenerate perverts and everyone is too accepting of that, sexual abuse happens because society is full of institutions that give adults structural power over children and men structural power over women. giving credence to the former, even in the form of thinking you have to be "super careful" about perverts, is a straightforwardly reactionary position.
#abuse#sexual abuse#kink#yes this is so well put#the knee-jerk association between kink and sexual abuse is evidence of nothing else besides how stigmatized sexual behavior is#this does in a way relate to the one post about how conservatives in general and puritanical christians in particular#tend to see evil as sort of an infection#they can't rationally justify why hating gay people trans people kinksters or any non-cishet non-'traditional family' setup#that happens with everyone involved consenting could be spun as 'these people should not exist' without sounding like petty jerks#so the logic they follow is 'any step outside the boundaries of the traditional cishet marriage model and reproductive sex#will inevitably lead you down to the dark depths of sexual depravity that for some reason is suddenly fully non-consenting'#it's an argumentation tactic they use in all areas of life btw#'body positivity will inevitably make you into a gluttonous monster and criticizing capitalism makes you blow up orphanages'#it's slippery slope all the way down#it does not matter that the majority of sexual abuse happens in more conservative environments#because to them the logic goes conforming = good and non-conforming = evil#it's why sexual abuse in places conservatives like such as the army is about 'depraved individuals' not a system of opportunity#their logic is based on the faulty premise that conservative law-abiding behavior is what's keeping people on the straight and narrow#and any deviation must come with extreme social punishment because it's not really about 'saving the children'#it's about conformity and obedience to the system#any abuse happening within such a system doesn't register as abuse to them but as natural order#and indeed feminism and other social movements protesting against this are paradoxically the actual abuse spokespeople#to a conservative person evil is disobedience to the system to their natural hierarchy not acts of violence in themselves#that's why conservatives deride things such as domestic violence only for people who don't fit their social order#when people are hurt and abused within the acceptable system the abuse can be spun into not being abuse#since abuse to them is a function of evil only in the context of happening outside of the parameters of the natural hierarchy#i'm anxious rn and my brain is going around in circles so i'll leave it here sorry for the rant#anyway good post
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Sorry to be a le epic Reddit atheist again, but I think it is extremely bad that many of our national leaders believe that the voices inside of their heads are coming from an omnipotent supernatural being, and that this being is telling them that they’re divinely chosen to lead.

#atheism#religion#yeeah this is why i have trouble with uniformly giving religion the benefit of the doubt#yes religions are different no not all of them involve a deity you should take orders from etc etc#and some religions are truly closer to what we in the modern times would call philosophy and such#yet there is a fine line here that can easily be crossed and that is the supernatural line#religious thinking for lack of a better term has a tendency to invoke the supernatural at least in some capacity#there is at least a temptation to make the case that you are able to receive messages or somesuch from a supernatural entity#(this is by no means exclusive to religion as all kinds of magical thinking has these pitfalls)#the point i'm trying to make is if a religious person#a) believes that there is a form of outside entity that has some form of knowledge about material existence and#b) believes that there are people who can receive some form of wisdom from this entity or these entities#it very easily slips into 'because i said so' with the authority being a being that cannot be held accountable#(yes this is a very specific set of circumstances and not all religions blah blah i know)#point being that any time there's a chance that the thoughts formed in a human brain are elevated to divine knowledge we have a problem#i love all kind of magic stuff but the important distinction is the awareness that i'm actually not connected to the supernatural#i'm essentially doing meditation self-reflection and the like with a few theatrical extra steps#if there is a supernatural world of some kind we need to have actual concrete knowledge of it before we let it affect how we treat people#yeah this is a sore spot for me because i was a brainwashed child fundie who decades later still finds traces of that in my thinking#so didn't mean to offend anyone whose relationship to their religion is positive and comforting#i guess my past has just made me extra wary because i know how badly religious thinking can fuck up your brain#anyway rant over
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For no particular reason, this continues to be the most succinct explanation of transmisogyny I have ever seen.
#transmisogyny#misogyny#yes#this ties into a larger point but once again keeping this in the tags to avoid derailing#any longer conversation about a better world will inevitably have to deal with this one problem with the human mind#the one that many milquetoast liberal types want to avoid at any cost#it's the fact that being abusive actually can feel good#that the human brain has evolved a mechanism that derives satisfaction and joy from seeing others suffer#most often than not it's seeing someone suffer whom we have deemed to deserve the suffering#but whatever the case it's an unavoidable fact that even the most empathetic ones among us are capable of this#not only that but it's for the most part deemed socially acceptable to derive joy from the suffering of 'the wrong kind of people'#whether this is due to them having done something wrong or just being seen as a potential wrong-doer or a combination of these is irrelevant#the key part is that when we as human beings deem someone a social pariah for any reason this cruel sadistic part awakens#it is this cognitive dissonance of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' that works as the sorting mechanism#it's how an abuse survivor can be just as cruel and malicious as the person or people who once abused them#'but this is completely different these people actually deserve it' is the rallying cry of everyone refusing to learn their lesson#so here it is again#'who deserves what' is simply a justification your brain makes to enjoy the suffering of others and still feel righteous#the readiness at which we as people jump at the opportunity to find an acceptable target to abuse is a big problem#i don't have an answer to any of this but it is connected to my political views on prison abolition etc#any social system that allows for the abuse of others is a flawed one because it's always about opportunity#simply having an opportunity to be abusive without consequences is enough for most people to turn abusive#this opportunity in all its forms is what is known as power#power is a free pass to be abusive without consequences and that's in my view what's behind the lust for power#the liberal view of abuse as a personal failing of the abuser is missing this key point#that it's not about 'the wrong kind of person' being in a position that allows them to abuse others#it's that nobody is immune to the corrupting siren call of 'it is okay to abuse this person'#and if your reaction to this is 'i'm not like that i only go after the people who actually deserve it' congratulations you proved the point#you cannot have this view while not relying on some supernatural belief in an objective good and bad#a force which once again tells you who it's okay to abuse
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