Thanks! ♥

That’s what the journalist is reading from in the meme. You can find the interview online and you can find people discussing the contents of the accused shooter’s alleged message. Apparently it’s about 1000 words long and I haven’t found it in its entirety but that’s probably out there. Most folks are just discussing the part in the meme here and also the parts where he talks about who he considers a legitimate target (essentially just Trump admin officials and people who shoot at him; no one else).

¿TacoGatotaGocaT?

Double Matrix all the way, oooh my god. (It’s starting to look like a Triple Matrix!)

Vance had a visit with the last pope at the Vatican, right before he died. At the time, Francis was trying to get him to acknowledge biblical teachings to love your neighbour (and I think that ICE was the antithesis of this), and not the vaguely dystopian stuff Vance was pushing about only only offering respect/kindness/compassion to the people closest to you.

Here, these are the first links I can find (in place of the videos I heard it from). It’s about a meme Trump posted of himself (There’s also a difference between his version shown at the link and the original which I can’t find - his has a demonic figure up top where there were only shadowy images of soldiers)
And then this…
Trump Responds to Backlash Over Meme Depicting Him as Jesus: ‘I Thought It Was Me as a Doctor’ | Video

edit - posted this in a rush a few hours ago, but I’ve seen the before image again now and the original had the soldiers up top with angel wings and Trump’s version ditched the wings except new darker and higher-angled (more bat-like?) ones on the new demon-like figure that’s in the lead. Is somebody is doing this on purpose?

If you watch the video of this, Trump keeps emphasizing “Door Dash Granny’s” (on her shirt) husband needs cancer treatment. That could be scripted or she could be a real Dasher that got paid some (probably very small) payoff to do this. Either way it’s just a photo op where he tries to play up how his Big Bill throws pennies at poor people by not taxing tips (which from what I’ve heard have often been stolen not just by restaurant managers/owners but even through apps in some cases).

I have an older Aura that isn’t allowed library books. :/

Seems their AI lego music videos have also been gaining quite a following.

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…but morale can remain low as always?

I’m sure amateur and professional historians that specialize in that era of US history are interested, but definitely not as much as we all are in a certain other set of files.

I tried to set one (within size requirements) soon after I made my account, but it never took for some reason.

I get the reference on the one hand but I’m concerned what people who don’t follow the series might think that flag means. (I can think of other sorts of imagery from One Piece that might have been a lot better to reference, honestly, like either the

flag or all of the subtle

variants that appear throughout the series.) I appreciate the article providing other examples of young adult protests that made pop culture references. Nice to hear more about the different trends among young protesters abroad.

Also, professor Suyanto’s analysis:

“And I see it as effective … their voices became louder and many political elites have responded, though whether [their] response meets the public expectations is another matter.”

“They don’t need to take to the streets, confront authorities, or face police batons.”

I think you’re thinking of Karoline Leavitt. There are memes about that for her, I think.

Sounds like the start of Cory Doctorow’s book Radicalized.

More likely she grew up in an environment where this type of thinking was normalized, and to think otherwise was met with social consequences. Outside of a few breakout individuals, most have to be taught early not to take what they’re told for granted.

I was following this and was sad to hear about this happening despite excellent counterarguments from people like Zarah Sultana. These are scary times, but I was encouraged there was at least this response yesterday (just watch the first ~45 seconds): Invidious | _Youtube

2010 was too long ago. :')

(Rest in peace, Paul Vasquez. Thanks again for sharing the beautiful sight you saw that day.)

No social platform at all is a serious problem. I do think messaging should focus on economics first (since we have precious little mainstream discussion of actual consequences of economic policy in many places, and social issues are cynically exploited by free market-touting establishment types as a distraction), but a party that pretends systemic hierarchies and marginalization don’t exist is just mob/majority rule and not truly leftist.

Whatever a hypothetical person accepts happening to people they want to consider “beneath” them, they are also accepting for people they do consider to be like themself. Just a matter of time.