aka The Spectacle, Max Powers, etc. Your neighborhood Warlock’s familiar. Aging bisexual catboy, freelance eschatologist, Portland cryptid •he/him, 28?, communist 🚩 Free Palestine
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My city has one of the best public transportation systems in the US, or at least it did by the standards of a few years ago. A monthly pass costs the equivalent of about 85€ and gets you a lot less. It is both car dependent, and poorly designed for cars.
For 58€ a month I can ride on almost any public transport anywhere in Germany. Within a 15 minute walk from my house I can access 4 S Bahn lines, 3 UBahn lines, regional trains (I honestly don’t even know how many of those), 3 tram lines and at least 4 city bus lines (probably more).
I sincerely hope Newsom's weird fans and liberals at large are starting to understand why you can't budge a single solitary inch on a single solitary issue for a single solitary marginalized group.
Ooo what was Truss? That was like a fun little monster of the week arc.
LISTEN KIDS IT'S TIME TO SCARE YOU STUPID LITTLE MOTHER FUCKER STRAIGHT! IF YOU DO HEROIN YOU WILL TURN INTO THIS MAN. *Screams*
Yeah totally, ride sharing companies not having to pay drivers is equivalent to launching something into fucking space For the first time. Some rich people really do think uber is like the most amazing futuristic thing in the world. Rubes like this are massively influential in our society.
Doing crime has always been cryptos one practical use case. Sometimes it’s massive wire fraud, sometimes it’s exercising your human rights despite government oppression.
Payment processors should not be able to tell people what is and is not able to be purchased with their systems, since it's not their money.
You know all those cyberpunk works where a corporation gets to make the law? Well, that day has come, and it came a long time ago, but now many more of us are starting to feel it.
That asshole seems like a great dad on top of all his other glowing qualities
I mean his own son saint something similar, but he is a racist teenager who says a lot of things so maybe take that with a very small grain of salt.
She sounds just like my grandma. She got far enough into the hippy stuff that she stopped being a catholic, but I think she needs some other grand narrative to replace it and politics never excited her. She read chariot of the gods, saw the Phoenix Lights incident, and became a MUFAN member.
When I'm right I'm right
I found this pretty remarkable: head of the Met Police demanding that government tweak the application of comms laws so that they aren't spending all their time going after people for inflammatory social media comments. The U.K. arrests 30 people a day for this, with fewer than 10 percent convicted.
Meet me in the Lubritorium
meta ai trying to figure it out
This magazine has literally been shit for almost 200 years. "The Economist, the European organ of the aristocracy of finance, described most strikingly the attitude of this class." -Karl Marx
FALLEN BEHIND OF WHAT
There are so many persistent liberal illusions that we exist within really delusions such as rights and citizenship and the inherent good of so-called liberal democracy. Rebranding oligarchy works for a couple hundred years but eventually they get tired of pretending.
We’re in 1320 motherfucker on.soundcloud.com/wlT5ivvuhsJw...
I'm a peasant you are a peasant a peasant revolt would be quite nice but that would have to start with an acceptance that you are a peasant first.
We are legitimately looking at a genocide against trans people in the United States. That's not hyperbole. The Department of Justice isn't talking about disarming us so that we can all live quietly in peace. There is still time to stop this, but only if cis people care enough.
noah.... where are you getting this from?
Straight from his anus I would guess
One doctor started the myth that the combined MMR vaccine caused autism because he stood to personally finically benefit from people buying 3 individual vaccines instead and it spiraled out of control because he was never punished.
Ah, Christ's second passion: graphic design
Canadians in chat:
I forget that DJI is a surveillance company and not just a blogger video camera for fun and travel. Hard to find cameras aimed at digital content that's not actually a military drone company. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
yall better get real comfortable with defending gun rights real fast.
Again, I do this for a living: If you're going to take action against RFK Jr, if you're going to spend your time and energy on opposing this fucking monster, the time is now.
Yeah no country on earth is moving in a positive direction for birth rates, even the ones that are growing are slowing down. We’re pretty much locked in on this path. I don’t even claim to know why, it’s complicated, but it’s something that applies to every country on earth which rules a lot out.
i actually want birth rates to keep going down specifically because it makes weird guys sad
They worship death, they are doomsday cultists who hate the physical world and want to ascend to an imaginary perfect world. I don’t know if RFK is like this himself, but most of his anti vax supporters are in one way or another.
Reporters, I beg you, please stop using headlines with the form “Trump does X” when X is something the president clearly lacks any legal authority to do.
I don't think vegans should eat a raw onion like an apple. I think when they do it they're reinforcing comphet.
I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
“The YIMBY case for more prisons” was really always waiting in the wings, wasn’t it? As soon as Matt Yglesias started in with “sprawl doesn’t matter” we jumped the shark on YIMBYism.
The tape worm should have finished the job
The annoying long haired hippies and socialists who called everything the government did over the last 80 years a sign of creeping fascism were correct and every sensible moderate was dead wrong.
Woke cenobites be like (uses ur pronouns correctly as she flays u alive)
Shout out to the idiot liberals who want to bring this same kind of cop run gun control to Oregon.
Pro-gun control liberals need to realize that empowering cops to make arbitrary decisions about who does and does not get to own a gun is a terrible idea.
hey chicago if any of y'all have the bandwidth you might want to get some graphics ready about how to spread information and not panic and what details to watch for and report. i am not in a city that's been a major focus for the trump administration but that's still been a big problem here
there's this thing that you see a lot where, someone thinks that "understanding" why something doesn't work the way it is purported to magically makes that problem unimportant. I find that incredibly annoying. also, it is destroying the planet
My mom — who is in her 70s and immunocompromised — could not get her vaccines today. RFK Jr. is lying when he says he's not making harder to get vaccines.
i think maybe dating sites became worse than just going to a bar as soon as they started trying to be a matchmaking service instead a way to just meet ppl to see offline if you hit it off
girls night girls night
It’s already got one clown in it but they can fit more than you’d expect inside
[sad honking]
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy 😞
A rude nude boob dude
He’s so cute it still gets me every time almost 2 years after adopting him. He’s older and lost his teeth before we got him, which hasn’t held him back much, but it makes his face particularly small and silly. I hope he cheered you up a little bit and I hope things look up for you soon.
Fuck RFK jr and fuck this administration
Sneaking around the workplace like Solid Snake because if my managers don’t see me they can’t ask me to work overtime tomorrow.
Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.
You're not savvy, you're just a mark. Look at what the fascists just did with their enrich the rich bill. They just lied and said it adds nothing to the deficit.
This is called murder. This is killing ANYONE you want in a boat or a plane or coming to the US or anyone here and saying they were a drug smuggler. This is killing people with no charges, no evidence, no trial. This is murder.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
That is literally what the drone war was. Dissembling little shit trying to obfuscate and legitimize the US's crimes. And the target selection was just as senseless, racist, and cruel - "Military age males".
We have spent 45 years operating on trickle-down political theory and not only has it not paid off, it has turned the wealthy into demonic idiots.
Womp Womp
He’ll yeag
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Yup, fascism is the methods of colonial violence coming home. Each countries interpretation of fascism is heavily shaped by their interpretation of colonialism. You can’t send people off to treat other people that was and not expect those practices to work their way back into the domestic state.
Trump is doing to the USA what the USA does to the world for almost a century now
Yes I was raised by left wing conspiracy theorist hippies and they’ve been warning me about americas descent into fascism my entire life. The annoying long haired socialists who called everything the government did creeping fascism were correct and every sensible moderate was dead wrong.
What did I miss here I can’t even tell what thread this was because of a block?
what is shows is a paywall
standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,
A judge officially entering the phrase “Calvin ball” to mean a game where you’re making the rules up as you go is pretty funny. I think that’s becoming a permanent idiom in American English.
Actually, the rest of that section also screams "SCOTUS is losing legitimacy in the eyes of the District Courts"
Wow BadEmpanada is a fucking freak who could've guessed Oh wait me I knew he was a piece of shit years ago Tack another on the scoreboard
Are you still looking for those Iraqi WMD’s they assured us existed?
if pentagon officials told me it was dark outside at 2am i would stay up to verify. the fuck are you talking about
Vaccines are good. Parents should not have the option to deprive their children of them. The fact that we as a society ever indulged vaccine skepticism, even a little bit, even for a few people, is absolutely shameful.
firetrucks are red to trick the fire into thinking it's one of their own
Abortion bans are infinitely easier to implement when you can ubiquitously surveil pregnant people, at all times. Everyone who becomes pregnant, enters a digital panopticon eager to find proof of criminality.
Oh: FOSTA/SESTA? Passed 388-25 in the house, 97-2 in the senate. Ubiquitous digital surveillance of sexworkers was *overwhelmingly* bipartisan. The democrats didn't give a single shit about that apparatus possibly being expanded to include pregnant people.
"his fellow millennial" is such a statement by now you can see exactly which members of our generation the ruling class wants running the show for decades to come, and it's bleak indeed
The scumbags who forced this sweet child to spend her final hours in agony and terror while using her as bait to kill her rescuers are walking free, allowed to travel the Western world on holiday or to fly in and out of their actual countries without repercussions. I can’t say what I truly want.
opening the word document again
A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane
jail, jail for a thousand years
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Things are still very fucking bad in DC right now btw
My original run hot topic merch has never been worth more.
this is a prime example of how redditors will not see the light of Heaven
Okay just a little sneak peak about the Horrors but pretty much all contempor main stream politics is driven by the fear of white guys not fucking enough. The downstream effect of that is rage against trans women for tainting their bloodlines. That's why they're so mad at you.
All the anti immigration, all the racism, the incel shit, the transphobia, abolishing Roe, making sure their kids don't know about sexual harassment, it's all the same thing. It's basically one big white nationalist rape cult. Whatever you think it is, it's actually worse in every way.
Not be that bitch but there's an entire bit in 1984 that's literally exactly this
googling "list of vices" and picking one that won't destroy my body or hurt the people around me because come on i gotta have SOMETHING
The Mexican Sovereign Wealth Fund has a chance to do the funniest thing.
ITS WORKING
i mean,
A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
