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[milliefink]

This Is Fine

Too true. It’s getting more than a bit insulting that we’re considered too stupid to understand the game they’re playing. Some of their moves are more obvious than others, but they also brag about most as accomplishments. Controlling people through underemployment and low wages while increasing their cost of living isn’t new. Remember all of the media reports about the average worker being two paychecks away from homelessness? Next came the rise of payday lenders and repealed/relaxed usury…

[smulder]

Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day!

[IMG_0475] I hit this rock a few years back while biking to work. It flattened both tires. I took it home. It was on the mantle for awhile, but I don’t see it anywhere. Now I’m worried. I don’t trust it. I don’t trust it at all.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Odd Stuff (Part 3)

Suddenly jet packs and taco trucks become synonymous with the future.

[Murgatroyd]

Fuck Today, Continued

…and then keep running as best you can at 90 degrees to the wind direction if you are even a bit downwind. When there’s H₂S in play, “up” is a good idea too… …that stuff settles. Edit: PSA/TIL Now available for free as a handy Android or Apple app.

[Sally_Mahoney]

The concepts of freedom, liberty, and equality were developed by enslaved people and women, not the elite

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

[Akimbo_NOT]

Odd Stuff (Part 4)

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[Mindysan33]

Bizarre Arkansas senator gets personal with witness and asks, "Do you have a penis?"

Partly. The fascist playbook also needs to create group adhesion by finding a powerless outside group to demonize. Nazi Germany wouldn’t have flown, politically, without scapegoats, and Europe was already a mostly anti-Semitic place. Forty years ago, publicly reviling gay people was cool, and could be used as a rallying point. The fascists have lost that group as a target, and need others. This is where trans people come in. Lawrence Britt’s “14 Characteristics of Fascism” is an opinion and, …

[MerelyGifted]

Fourth thingy shot down entering U.S. airspace

The Galactic Tourism Board has warned travelers that Earth can no longer be considered a safe place to visit. “Over the years, many of us have enjoyed our visits to Earth, with its unique opportunities to marvel at their primitive politics, technology, and social habits,” said a spokesbeing for the Board. “Unfortunately, during the past few rotations of the planet, the Earthlings have become unaccountably aggressive. While the reasons for this change of attitude have yet to be determined, it is …

[nosaj]

More than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism

Absolutely this. Yeah, they have lots of experience in doing that, like those versions given to enslaved people: https://www.history.com/news/slave-bible-redacted-old-testament

[MerelyGifted]

Musk manipulates Twitter to ensure the world sees his tweets at the top of their feed

It’s good to hear that those on the inside are saying it though - instead of just accepting their new lives of fear, surprise, ruthless “efficiency”, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Dope.

[Immutable_Mike]

Came here to post this and very pleased to see I was beaten to it!

[Sally_Mahoney]

CNN's Don Lemon says women in their 50s are past their prime

People are no longer in their prime at 50 but then they are again at 53 and 59. This is very basic mathematics.

[chenille]

I think that has plenty of likes for a dumb pun, but thank you.

[smulder]

[smulder]

@Shuck

I think he pretends to be dumb, but is also actually dumb

[MerelyGifted]

Far from dumb, Darling, I assure you,

[smulder]

@ClutchLinkey

@ghostbloke

Tesla’s response really shouldn’t be called a recall.

Tesla’s Full Self Driving mode really shouldn’t be called full self driving mode

[anon52120741]

Just put them all there after reading the posts being responded to

The song that’s stuck in your head right now

         

[Sally_Mahoney]

High-dose ivermectin doesn't help with Covid, new study finds

It’s pretty fucking stupid your political alliance effects if you list to doctors or not. And for anyone who complained about the CDC or Fauci or whatever I would say, “Pretend you have cancer, or some other serious disease. You can go to any hospital for treatment. Mayo Clinic? Cleveland Clinic? Johns-Hopkins? Wherever you would go, go their site and follow their Covid guidelines. If you would trust them with your life then, why wouldn’t you do that now?”

[milliefink]

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 2)

I say it in front of people. In Texas. Whenever I have the opportunity. I do believe (because I see this around me) that there are more and more people–especially the younger generations–who believe in solidarity, equity and historical facts living among us than we realize. I thank the public school systems in our country for helping to create this reality. It’s one reason why the GOP (esp in Texas but certainly nationwide) seek to disrupt, defund, destroy K-12 public education. Many allies …