Thank you for sharng this. I really needed to see an example of being decent and growing today.

There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to a descent into fascism.

There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality.

If aiding genocide is our “lesser evil,” we don’t have a lesser evil.

But sometimes history comes along and says “too bad.” There is no historical precedent for fascism or extreme wealth inequality being corrected by electoral politics.

If you’re able to comfortably sit on the fence, recognize two facts: One, that’s a position of entitlement (Plenty of people are already having their lives destroyed by what’s happening). Two, being passive is choosing to allow authoritarianism to win.

To reiterate, I’m not a Tankie. I don’t whitewash the heinous history of revolutions, upheaval, and failed government systems. And I am positive that I’m screaming into the void. In every historical example I’ve studied, the comfortable middle class eventually sides with elite authority and not the peasants. And the peasants always lose. But the alternative is too awful to surrender to. Centralized techno-fascism and eventual catastrophic conflict with China are what’s in-store.

Thank you.

Because being a passive centrist while the world slides towards authoritarianism, global conflict, and environmental holocaust is not morally acceptable.

You don’t have to be a Tankie to want to fight these fascist fucks and their suicidal agenda.

In tennis, I’m pretty sure it’s a lime.

I have an inside line at the EPA that administrators are now tracking what websites employees visit on their work machines and wanted to know, specifically, if employees visited “standupforscience.org”.

“NOOOO… women can’t be Space Marines™️!” /s

When we’re still asking the question “why?” we’re stuck in disbelief and denial about the reality we’re in.

1/3 of the country is aware and cares, but is too atomized and disempowered to act meaningfully. 1/3 are too comfortable and attached to their slipping consumer entitlement to take risks for the sake of anyone else. 1/3 have channeled their entitlement and/or immiseration into enthusiastic support for what’s happening.

I’m with you, but the reality is that the majority of the country would shake their heads and go back to watching Netflix rather than do anything while you’re being dragged to the camps.

I visited Switzerland just after the vaccines dropped. The Swiss COVID response far surpassed the response in the United States. They rolled out a nation-wide app for vaccination attestation, and any museum, restaurant, etc. could scan a QR code on someone’s phone with a phone. But do they have a scary, socially reactionary subset of their population? Yes.

In some harmful ways they are fanatically culturally conservative. But they also care about community, sustainability, health, the well-being of children, environmental preservation, organization, and self-reliance. Being a small, rich, homogeneous, topographically-isolated country drives these characteristics.

Surveillance State developments are depressing but not surprising.

Yes, it’s literally a pointless cash-grab that they can bill to insurance.

Last time I was at my primary care, I was handed a survey as part of my pre-appointment paperwork. I started filling it out before I read the fine print at the end: It was optional. It would be billed to my insurance, and “most patients’” insurance covered the charge. I refused to complete it. Just one more tiny outrage as part of the massive scam that is the American medical system.

No just any shit, shit that helps everyday people living in their country.

I’m just thinking of the major cities in my U.S. state where the public transit map, before and after, looks like Chengdu in 2010. So as unfortunate as the circumstances are in Toronto, they can be even worse.

Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.

Russian propaganda?

The chest-beating confidence of people chiming in on Internet is appalling to me. Stop presuming you know more than other people and READ MORE BOOKS.

The strain of American Exceptionalism in the typical American historical outlook is depressing to me.

There were single battles on the Eastern Front which resulted in more casualties than the United States suffered throughout the entire war across all fronts. Look it up: Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kharkov…

The United States first seriously engaged with German forces in Tunisia in 1943. By that point, the USSR had been fighting with Germany on a massive scale for a year and a half. That was after the Battle of Stalingrad, arguably the most significant turning point in the entire war.

The Germans deployed roughly 50 divisions on the Western Front. Roughly 150 divisions were on the Eastern Front.

The United States contributed materiel and strategic bombing, but did not do the lion’s share of the fighting, killing, or dying.

#1 and #9 are the same dude: Saint Thomas Beckett, getting his brains stirred.

Dudes were ripped too.

A lot of people in here seem to support genocide.

If supporting genocide is your “lesser evil,” you need to reevaluate your moral compass.

This is an amusing art piece. Mr. Blue Shield is about to have a bad day.

Poofy pants and moat water seem like a poor combination.

Nah, if they were running, they wouldn’t be making a violent example out of Saint Luigi. They’re trying to cow the peasants but showing what happens if you try to stand up to them. I hope they fail, and I hope the optics of this completely backfire.