The old tax and spend Republicans are at it again…

Yep - that’d fall squarely into the discussing the merits of drinking livestock products to save a few bucks bucket. Thanks for volunteering to demonstrate my point.

Everybody is just walking straight past the fact that capitalism has cucked us all badly enough that we’re discussing the merits of drinking livestock products to save a few bucks?

Because the genocide is the point.

Israeli leadership have admitted to funding Hamas’ displacement of the secular moderates with predictable results - the only credible explanation for this is that it was to manufacture the pretext for their current actions.

#justautocraticfascistethnostatethings

Probably a lot like the $80m porn filter that was cracked by a 13 year old within 20 minutes of being released - poorly.

What did science and medicine ever do for me?

If you paywall publication and peer-review, you suppress a huge amount of science that doesn’t have the kinds of checks that corporate sponsorship and review introduce. This means studies of things like the dangers of CFCs, smoking, microplastics, thalidomide, and countless other things that’ll kill you will never see the light of day.

He’s a silly sausage… and importantly, not a trigger man.

Everything about this is dumb.

Biden knows perfectly well… As does Netanyahu and the IDF. All should be in the Hague, but instead, we’ll make a mockery of the UN and the concept of international law - all in service of a range of cocktails of political expediency and hate.

The internet made photos of trump and putin kissing shirtless.

And is that OK?

I’m going to jump in on this one and say yes - it’s mostly fine.

I look at these things through the lens of the harm they do and the benefits they deliver - consequentialism and act utilitarianism.

The benefits are artistic, comedic and political.

The “harm” is that Putin and or Trump might feel bad, maaaaaaybe enough that they’d kill themselves. All that gets put back up under benefits as far as I’m concerned - they’re both extremely powerful monsters that have done and will continue to do incredible harm.

The real harm is that such works risk normalising this treatment of regular folk, which is genuinely harmful. I think that’s unlikely, but it’s impossible to rule out.

Similarly, the dissemination of the kinds of AI fakes under discussion is a negative because they do serious,measurable harm.

Damn lazy liberals kids conservative lawmakers just don’t want to work anymore - if they picked themselves up by the bootstraps and did their job of representing people, they’d be liked and wouldn’t need a taxpayer-funded armed security detail to protect their widdle feewings.

So much for personal responsibility.

It’s enough to make you begin to wonder if accelerationism is a viable strategy - things don’t seem set to meaningfully improve any time soon…

Reminder that owning shit isn’t work, nor is selling access to housing supply that you’ve removed from circulation.

He’s definitely a lawless murderer, and the types of cops that display his insignia certainly seem to lean fascist, but what makes the Punisher fascist?

If being against genocide is antisemitic, genocide is an inherent trait of Judaism - if that’s the case, there’s a pretty strong argument to be made that they should be wiped out. It’s an incredibly stupid, antisemitic claim to make.

Vetting of the app downloads should fall on the app stores.

Vetting of the platform usage should fall on the platform owners.

The app isn’t the problem any more than a web browser is - it’s a dumb front-end for the platform. The platform is the problem.

People with no political principles, that lurch from hating one individual/group to the next based on where they’re pointed by their pundits of choice, which typically leads to right-wing nonsense, criticising (generally non-specific) stuff Biden does they’d cheer on from Trump, fear of CRT, the border caravan, vaccines, trans people… The usual.

Reddit is dumping their reactionaries on us? Greaaaaaat.

…smart move though.