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Pity the country that needs heroes, as some dead white guy said

These are actually the nicer heroes.

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I didn't, but maybe it would have been different if our next door horse farmer neighbor wasn't an asshole

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I think Gatsby has the stamina, the drive to win and the potential for violence to take it

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Yeah white supremacists like to act like national borders are some unchanging divine mandate but we only started caring about them to keep track of feudal lords' property and imperial property, and got serious about protecting them to shut out Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. There's nothing that says we have to keep things that way except for the voices of a minority of dictators and bigots.

As a general rule I don't think I've ever seen much point in borders. I get it during times of upheaval and unrest, I get it when you're trying to prevent bandits and pirates and marauders from slaughtering everyone in your town. But in today's world I just don't understand it. What's the point of passports and border patrols in countries that enforce these things the most? Hurting other people who are just like you but they live 5 miles down the road? That's all it seems to accomplish to me.

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Just gonna put this picture of garbage cans fucking here to visualize the chain of techbro scams

The AI bubble hasn't burst yet (although there has been a dip in some stocks) but I think with the ChatGPT5 flop we are now in the Bezzle phase of the AI scam. Tech companies are starting to face the reality that all the investment in AI is just stolen money and are trying to figure out a new trick to keep investors from realizing they've been ripped off.

Tech ceos are either openly admitting there is an AI bubble (while pretending their own company isn't part of it) or moving resources away from AI hoping to find some new buzzword to distract investors with.

The hope being they can find a new scam before investors really get spooked and pull everything out. It's worked before - Zuckerberg for example wasted countless billions of investor dollars on the Metaverse but managed to switch over to AI hype and keep the scam going a while longer, now he's backing off the AI wagon and looking for something else to distract hedge funds with.

So many buzzwords that have been used to pretend like the tech sector is still growing exponentially the past decade - 5G, blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, metaverse, LLMs, Generative AI. All because capitalists can't be satisfied with just making a profit - they have to constantly make more money every year, and when that's no longer possible they have to start enshittifying their products and lying to investors. Anything to keep their highly overvalued stock prices up.

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Yet, staggering amounts of people will say being pregnant is an elemental urge for women, that they have no more choice about it than going to t he bathroom. It can be because they're whores or because they're divine life-makers or probably both at the same time. More realistically, they'll say they don't have a choice because the social contract demands they make babies. White supremacists especially work hard to frame it as women's duty to make white babies as much as possible, and try to make it a legal obligation.

Not that you're not as disabled if you choose to get pregnant anyway but come on.

pregnancy not being considered a temporary disability literally haunts me. it's ignored in so many disability spaces and so many feminist spaces fail to properly address accomodation for pregnant people because they don't have the knowledge of disability justice to discuss it.

but if you look at pregnancy in the light of disability justice, it clears up so much. there are so many types of accomodations that should be accessible for pregnant people, so many changes to the system and ways to implement them.

it also brings to light the ableism pregnant people often face while pregnant, from the frequent claims of "lazy pregnant people" to the lack of accessibility and options to deal with side effects like pain and loss of mobility.

the lack of intersectionality in both disability and feminist spaces leaves things like pregnancy slipping through the cracks and it's so painful to see.

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“The Democratic consultant class, and the pundits whose ears they bend, want desperately to avoid conflict with Trump over any issue that plays to GOP strength. They’ve fully forgotten that Republicans rose from the devastation of the Bush presidency not by ducking the Dem-coded issue of health care, but by throwing everything at it. Democratic voters want to see a similar fearlessness. Trump was never popular, in part because of his moral depravity, and in part because he pandered to GOP voters with a sadist’s glee. With all of their resentments, perhaps that was the only way to earn their loyalty. But he didn’t need to be popular, he just needed to beat his opponent, and they believed he’d do whatever it took. My strong sense is that Democratic voters will rally behind whoever can persuade them that they intend to fight for real. Even if it’s an imperfect candidate like Gavin Newsom, or a repeat candidate like Beto O’Rourke, or a billionaire like JB Pritzker. At least they fight. The question before us today is whether Democratic congressional leaders will work with or against them along the way.”

— (27) “At Least He Fights” - by Brian Beutler - Off Message

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Perfect in every way

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We're supposed to laugh 300 times a day to be healthy; I'm willing to bet all the people who read this combined aren't even getting close. Make space in your life for fun.

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Gruesome Newsom at it again

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Bluesky is choked with people promising to never vote for Newsom. Please take it that for granted that you do live in a two party state and act accordingly.

Gruesome Newsom at it again

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It's a pretty good story. Here in Sweden there was one (1) PSA campaign in I think the 1960s or 1970s, and then people stopped hitting their kids. Just like that.

We never like, talked about it, but my mother's father was always so enormously grateful that my mother and her brother would even give him the time of day, after he found Jesus and stopped hitting them.

Don't fucking beat your kids.

Problem #1 regarding child abuse is that a lot of people seem to struggle to imagine normal, respectable-looking parents and other authority figures ever doing it despite the statistics so instead they do the stranger danger panic and completely overlook some of the greatest threats.

Problem #2 is that even when people understand, even if in an abstract way, that parents can be abusive they just... don't seem to actually register that as something that can apply to real life. It's just hypothetical to them and doesn't actually guide their ideas of how to prevent child abuse.

Problem #3 is that even after overcoming the above biases a lot of people have a very narrow image of what abusive parenting is where they imagine like... people doing violent things basically out of sadism and without provocation. They don't seem to think it's "real" abuse if the victim did something that "justifies" punitive violence, like disobeying the parents.

In fact, most people think parents have a right to do a whole lot of awful things to their children beyond just hitting them, like violating their privacy, controlling their access to information, and deciding what/when/if they eat, among other things.

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The Man will not know a fuckin thing about me

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Woke up on the floor, with a lot of blood in my hair and a weird gouge at the back of my head. It seems that I fell on my fine marble table I got from grandma and didn't die. Exciting to live alone.

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I often think of my stepbrother's effort to build a Lego car, where he wound the electric cord around the axle in some sort of absurd belief that 9 volts of electric power would transfer into momentum just by existing

No nuance question:

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-The party YOU don't like might make you an enemy of the state one day and then you don't want them to have your permanent record

While it's true that mandatory identity verification will inevitably be leaked on a massive scale, the thing you need to understand when framing these arguments is that a lot of the folks in favour of such measures don't see that as a bad thing. Full de-anonymisation of the Internet is their explicit goal. Like, the actual objective here is for everyone to have a public record of everything they say and do – online or otherwise – linked to their government ID. The universal panopticon is the good ending as far as these people are concerned.