GOOD

It’s not perfect, but it would be a good start.

There’s far, far too much evidence of negative impacts to children and young adults from social media, particularly in terms of mental health.

Every military, in every country, in every empire, in all of human history has used rape as a weapon of imperialism.

It’s a feature of our species. (A shitty one, let’s not be unclear, but a feature.)

This just tells me that Israel has pedo videos of the decision makers at Google.

there are a lot of us that want to help.

I get that. I mean on a macro level.

Gavin Newsom, presumably one of the front runners for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, is enthusiastically criminalizing homelessness in California right now. People are lionizing him and ignoring it for his dank memes.

I don’t think a lot of people think that homeless people should be jailed or imprisoned, but when you’re content to vote for politicians helping to make that happen as a collective, what you believe as an individual doesn’t matter much.

This was in the plan

It’s also generally where our government operates. Under Clinton we watched the social safety net get cut. Under Dubya it was cut further. When the poors tried to revolt Obama stood by and let the NYPD brutalize them and let the banks con and rob them. Biden and Trump I also got in on the fun of making life harder for the poors, by standing by and doing nothing as the cost of living has doubled and tripled while wages stayed stagnant. (And for added fun, Biden and Trump have done nothing while homelessness is increasingly criminalized.)

It’s who we are at a cultural level. We ARE a cruel people.

We’re not dumbfounded by this.

Over the last 40 years our Federal Government has always been very intentionally and deliberately cruel to the poor. Democrats have done it. Republicans have done it. In our culture poverty is viewed as a personal moral failing, so it’s a-okay if you’re thrust out into the street to starve.

(Not saying I agree with it. It’s just silly to pretend that Americans really give a shit about poverty.)

Barf.

Literal ghouls.

I’m pretty sure Cuba’s unforgivable crime wasn’t Communism, but successfully resisting American imperialism.

Oh yeah. Now THAT is a creep.

Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

I’ll tell you.

This shit was already happening. Yes, it’s taken another step under Trump, but the incrementalism occurred with Democratic fascists as well. What Trump is able to do now would be impossible if Democrats hadn’t seized on the illegal powers dreamed up by Clinton and Dubya and ran with them.

Clinton, while fucking his interns, invented ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ and did nothing about persecution of gay people, and in fact, he was the one who signed DOMA. He invented “peacekeeping actions” so he could make war without calling it that, and he did just that. He cut the social safety net wholesale, making Americans poorer, and doubled down on poverty with his ‘free trade’ policies that helped usher in the era of companies moving offshore and killing US jobs. Oh, and he was a regular on Epstein’s island and the Lolita Express.

Obama let police run roughshod in Ferguson and New York City, brutalizing victims of police violence and people who lost their homes and decided to participate in Occupy. He appointed Tom Homan and put kids in cages. He made torture explicitly extra-legal. He walked into Flint and performatively drank a glass of water. He dropped 26,000 bombs in the last year of his presidency and left office with American wars brewing in seven countries. We also learned under Obama that police departments in the US have black sites and his presidency was kidnapping renditioning people to black sites in foreign countries. He also ordered drone bombings that killed American citizens.

We knew Biden was going to be shit when, in a time people wanted federal police reform, he mocked the change people wanted in his State of the Union address by calling for greater police militarization, and his presidency gave rise to ‘cop cities’. Even worse, it’s now possible for cops to hang out in a school that’s getting shot up, on camera, with zero consequences. After January 6 he did nothing meaningful to slow the evident rise of domestic fascism, showing a greater interest in keeping his scumbag son out of prison. He deported undocumented immigrants by the millions and continued the policy of caging kids. Biden earned the moniker ‘Genocide Joe’ for aiding and abetting the genocide in Israel, even when Israel escalated it into a manufactured famine, which is a war crime. Then he ran for president knowing he had dementia, paving the way for Trump’s second term, prioritizing his own ego over the country’s well-being.

This isn’t a ‘Democrats are better’ scenario. Most people just haven’t really paid attention to what Democrats do or have the short-term memory of a goldfish.

And before you try to argue they were powerless, consider that all three of these men had the presidency and control of Congress, just like Trump. They had all the power they needed to make real change. They just didn’t care.

And yet, still true.

Yeah, it’s interesting having lived in the time when friendships actually just poofed.

I run an online D&D game with people I don’t know IRL, and I just kinda accept that one day I’m probably going to have a heart attack and disappear, and that’s okay.

I haven’t heard it called ‘military murders’ but that’s horribly appropriate.

This is just to distract from the Epstein Files.

Pedophile Prince 100% tried to get dirt on Giuffre.

No doubt in my mind.

Duh.

This whole charade was just to get Donald some headlines and covers. Until the US calls up Bibi and tells him the spigot of infinite free weapons has stopped, there will always be war in Gaza.

You could build your own spreadsheet using LibreOffice Spreadsheets.

I’ve been meaning to do it because my diet doesn’t change much, and it would just be easier to track it myself.

So pathetic that this headline feels like some kind of win.

the fact Israel isn’t stupid

That’s not a fact.