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Putting the "brah" in brahmavihārā since 2002. m+/H raider in WoW. COVID realist. Jazz music is life. (he/him)
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Le Petit Hermàn*
"Мы выполняем миссию от Бога"
Orson Welles would murder every one of you motherfuckers with a hammer.
never trump republicans had *one* job which they failed miserably at *twice* so maybe they should find a quiet corner and think about that for a few millennia before lecturing the left on literally anything
Unfortunately, people have a mental image of what “criminals” look like and they’re already perfectly acclimated to accepting their deaths.
"Les Freres Bleu," a 1980 musical drama from lesser-known French New Wave founder Jacques Elwood, about a couple of local Chicago musicians and their struggles with the carceral program and divine callings.
Petty grievance governance. What I mean is that people who are embarrassed for having been publicly lambasted and ostracized for their past cruelty and bigoted trolling are now targeting strangers for being kind.
He probably hates Marshall because the Marshall plan was woke and helped the "wimpy" Europeans. It was also aid to help both sides, and these people only see things in a transactional way. Although one can argue they hate all of that generation because they think the wrong side won the war
Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard. The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
That Unknown Number documentary is a perfect example of what I’m talking about when I talk about the irrevocable biological emotional tether children have to their parents, and how that connection, a connection the child never chose or agreed to, can be used to harm them over and over again.
This was my take for the NYT's profile on Bari Weiss and The Free Press.
Idk if child labor is that much of a healthcare staffing shortage solution so much as it's a way to burn out a whole state's entire generation's healthcare workforce in just a few short years, but that sounds pretty genocidally fascist & the state named Indiana is prob named that for good reasons..
This has to be the most chakralike flower I've ever seen. Beautiful
“As of press time, the administration had not yet decided upon the mechanism for the cover-up that we will eventually regurgitate without skepticism so please just take it as read… “
Funny way to say "I enjoy hurting people and trying to make them less."
[forgot to say]: This utter mendacious sociopathic fuck.
In addition to all the other awfulness in this clip, Kennedy is actively encouraging antivaxxers to engage in harassment here. "I see somebody...carrying a little baby, and I say, 'don't get them vaccinated.' And he hears that from me, if he hears it from 10 other people, maybe he won't do it."
"food-shouting" ❤️
It's difficult to rank the magnitude of all the lies that RFK jr has told – they've been numerous, manipulative AF, and deadly – because he's trying to cull Americans, en masse. But the idea that Trump has any empathy is so absolutely manipulative – a dangerous lie. Trump has ZERO empathy. NONE.
Hinky AF. Impulse Control Disorder AF. Is this Melania or the short-fingered vulgarian himself?
Get vaccinated while you still can.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Yeah this fucking sucks. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a bitch a poison apple yet." is an all time bar
This puts you on the fascist side of the divide, actually.
[at the Pearly Gates] yeah I guess some of the posts were pretty mid, but Saint Peter, I only ever quote-dunked on like five highly deserving people
Climate change is a hoax. Right.
These clowns need to scold harder.
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
One of the most disillusioning things in my life was Obama talking about looking forward back and his DOJ not pursuing charges against bush and cheney. If those dudes were in prison right now I think we wouldn’t be here.
The energy behind Asimov's observation about anti-intellectualism -- "my ignorance is [better than] your knowledge" -- seems operative here.
JD Vance … from a European perspective
Adorable
It is good to remember this every time when logging into Twitter.
"Avoidable mass death is what our ruling class has decided will be normal, and there is nothing any of you can do to change it," said on network TV in the immediate wake of one such mass death event, is indeed some sick shit.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
"Insert child's name" is a funny name to give a kid.
Daughter is blessed because mom & b/f are showing her who they are now vs. later -- although it is difficult to envision how daughter hasn't seen many, many similar antecedents in her dealings with mom.
www.youtube.com/shorts/iaMqq...
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this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
When children are killed in school, Republicans make gun ownership *easier*. When disease kills and gives major long-term sequelae, Trump limits and even plans to ban vaccines. This is a culling.
“Fascists set up real-life trolley problems because it gives them a framework and justification for removing all options that a sensible and empathic person would pursue, so they can convince their opponents that the pursuit of sensible and empathetic things is both wrong and impractical.”
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
This seems like the sort of conclusion that people who support a cancerous worldview must ultimately and naturally reach.
During the AI discussion at our department retreat yesterday I brought up the environmental toll of AI, and mentioned how it blows my mind that that aspect isn’t addressed more. People proceeded on and that angle of the AI debate wasn’t even remotely mentioned again.
People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky
this is fixable and the way you fix it is with public trials
And correctly identified genocide is hyperbole if (in my myopic view) it doesn't affect me personally.
Israel military admits to targeting civilian rescue teams. Anyone still supporting Israel or giving the benefit of the doubt to your friends and family members who still support Israel are on the same moral plane as Nazi apologists of 80+ years ago.
*while the police are literally hitting your door with a batter ram and shooting tear gas into your home* “Defund the police was crazy.”
This week in court a white cis woman landlord started *literally crying* when I was doing my opening argument for my client and started saying to her lawyer "how is this allowed? How are these people just allowed to have a lawyer?" through tears, because evidently oppression is when due process
Yes
Gavin Newsom is a demon. Truly. Just a vile excuse for a human being,
This will break you
You couldn't even make Piss Christ nowadays. Because of the fascism. They're taking away our heritage.
Burn on that thang 😂
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
Regardless of one's thoughts about the value of engaging with someone like that, I'm also not a fan of thread policing and people telling me how to spend my energy. Please and thank you.
They deliberately chose to let a virus that causes disabilities loose… and now they are looking to curb spending on disabilities… and hospitals still aren’t “ready”… aerosol-borne viruses are running through the corridors as free as birds…
And are you a real person, or are you a bot? I have questions
And why are you participating in your own subjugation?
What officers? I only see lawless thugs.
Why?
What do you mean?
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
The physical abuse of children by adult men is an actual plank of all right-wing political thought, a thing they believe in strongly and govern to enable, not just something thousands of them happen to do. Fascism is a politics of violent mastery and no one's easier to do that to than a child.
Exactly like they were with Gaza m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uVq...
The federal government is about to wage a campaign of terror against any blue city or state using a domestic army of red state National Guard members. This should be seen as a declaration of war against the country and people cannot continue going on like normal.
Liberals: tbh I don't love Newsom but there's no other possible... Progressives: Pritzker seems alright Libs: ...we just can't let perfect be the enemy of the good, so we have to accept Newsom until... Progs: what about Pritzker Libs...just have to be loyal to Gavin and fall prey to purity tests
my dead wife better be in this stupid fog-shrouded town
one of the most important causes of the civil war was the Fugitive Slave Act, which required people who did not own slaves in non slave states to kidnap any Black person accused of being formerly enslaved. 1
Britannic: *hits a mine* Nurse Jessop: Not this shit again
If I did a thing 50 years ago, and all anyone ever wanted to talk to me about since then was the thing, I'd be overwhelmingly tired of talking about the thing as well.
The warnings were made. allouryesterdays.info/2022/01/26/j...
The question has been "how can we tell these masked government thugs from people pretending to be masked government thugs?" and the answer isn't just "we can't" but that not being able to tell is the point. Republicans want to encourage & activate independent vigilante kidnapping & brutality squads.
Conservatism isn't an ideology in my opinion, it's an alignment to preserve and protect a status quo. The status quo that those who are "conservative" in this country wish to protect is the one they've been saying all along: that of the founding, with chattel slavery and women subjugated etc etc.
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Check this shit! Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents. Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.
These psychopaths are literally searching for crimes that do not exist
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
It's like one of those "How many things are wrong with this picture?" pictures.
Moxon meeting all my schadenfreude needs today.
Just a reminder that while it may feel good to cheer James Dobson’s death, he had a family who loved him and they are grieving, and that’s also a good reason to cheer.
I know we’ve been down the road before re: the truth about COVID coming out & people ignoring it—but one day, the latter may be far less possible. “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” — George Orwell, 1984
Feeling unalloyed glee at the news of his passing -- the world now an incrementally better place.
Go sit with every word of this conversation, today. Please.
re: the last post, there's an absolute desperation in the Western imagination to treat Hamas as out-of-control extremists on par with Netanyahu, but they've repeatedly offered everything from "return every hostages" to "two states with the '67 borders" to "fully leave Gaza and let the PLO take over"
20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
