remember when Iowa caucus results were "delayed for quality control" and it was immediately clear on the very first day of the primaries that there would be no actual election
Love watching Americans see their democracy being fake in real time and still somehow revert to assuming it's not fake afterwards. Propaganda game strong.
only a steady diet of mostly corn products could produce a level of object permanency this powerful
Anyone want to try and build a list of fucked up shit the US has done to muslims/MENA countries?
- 70+ year propping up of the Israeli apartheid state, dispossessing and killing countless Palestinians
- 1953 overthrow of Iranian government resulting in decades of repression
- Operation Desert Storm, featuring such war crimes as the Highway of Death
- ringleader of worldwide sanctions for decades on Iraq and Iran resulting in untold human suffering and death
- funding of endless sectarian violence across the Arab world
- twenty year indefinite occupation of Afghanistan, killing thousands
- invasion and occupation of Iraq, utterly destroying one of the largest states in the Arab world and killing a million people, leading to the rise of ISIS and incalculable human suffering
- transformation of Libya from the most successful nation on the continent of Africa to a failed state hellscape
- decades of extraordinary rendition and torture of thousands of people, whose crime usually turned out to be “being Muslim in the wrong place at the wrong time”
Anybody got stuff to add?
They also provided significant aid and directions for a hideous-scale politicide in the world's most populous Muslim country (Indonesia), though that wasn't about being Muslim, but rather about being on the left.
Ya, I was thinking about adding that. I mean, half the shit on my list was done in the name of “stopping the commies”
I'm pretty sure if Trump set up concentration camps for muslims probably a third of americans would approve of it
The way it just blew up all of a sudden is just so nakedly synthetic too. With a bit of critical thought it's obvious it's a work. It just seems to be the outrage flavor of the week. If the media/gov stops banging the war drums for a couple days, people will immediately forget all about it.
Been thinking a lot about this community and its future lately. Maybe I'm just naive, but damn I'm excited to build it with you all <3
You've earned it, you've been doing a fantastic job Rena! Just know your work is appreciated by us <3
You've earned it, you've been doing a fantastic job Rena! Just know your work is appreciated by us <3
aww sheit I did a double tap
The people at the top of the pyramid in the USA have become so bloated and stupid they have forgotten that a pyramid will collapse if you hollow out the entire support structure.
This analogy doesnt work because pyramids were hollow cos they put the pharaohs and crystal alien skulls and shit in them you fucking idiot.
I mean it depends on the structure, and pyramids weren't totally hollow anyway, they just had like special chambers for sarcophagi and ancient alien artifacts.
Come on guys, the Isu weren't aliens, they were a pre-existing hominid species.
Sometimes when my dog makes me happy by doing dog stuff my brain ruins it by thinking "someday she's gonna die" and then I get sad
I wish I wasn't like this
The same thing happens to me too, more with envisioning a future pet tho. Sometimes I start planning having a dog or cat in the future in my head then my brain just starts being like “ok but do you want to have to go through it dying?” and I’m just like uhhh
I think the general plan is to wring more enjoyment out of their existence than grief over their death but who can tell when you have the big sad
Yeah I take the happy brain chemical pills for the big sad and it makes it more like the big meh so that’s better than nothing but still have those intrusive thoughts. I do think ultimately I will get one, prolly a cat, that’ll just nag at me tho
Right on, I have too much big sad to be able to reliably renew a prescription so drugs ain't great for me
Cats are pretty cool tho
I’ve only ever had a dog, and don’t really know much about cats, but I’ve sorta always wanted one. Even just because they’re not so high maintenance lol
"The Circle of Life" from The Lion King plus the fact that dedicated cat people can look back on a series of former feline comrades fondly. Yes, it hurts when it happens, but overall, worth the pain.
I like it too. I don't know if it'll reach the same numbers the subreddit did, but I hope it grows.
Imagine the sort of person who would obsessively hate-view some new, tiny place like this. Then start feeling a little sorry for them
On one hand that sounds dope as fuck but on the other hand why would you do anything to delay the sweet release of death
Have you ever read Worm? There's a character in that who's made out of metal, his name is Weld.
Mods, we need a purge, this person is clearly an entryist from the Church of the Broken God.
But yes, down with the Tyranny of Nature.
Imagine having mechanical parts. This meme brought to you by the consciousness upload nanobot clouds.
no rest for the wicked until we can ascend into our necron forms and lose our souls
Cause we are living in a dialectical materialism world
And I am a dialectical materialism girlanother night of police brutality brought to you by the Portland Police Bureau
B-but the feds left?....surely the violence left with them?!
Holy shit I’m listening to the rev left episode on Stalin and just realized the Holodomor never happened lol
There was a famine, but all attempts to paint it as a deliberate genocide are literally propaganda by butthurt fascists who wanted to paint the USSR as equivalent to Nazi Germany.
Only according to the consensus of modern historians I get all my takes straight from the Victims of Communism memorial
That is fucking wild.
Kind of makes me wish I'd had a government job in middle America at some point. Just... to see.
THE TRACTOR PAINT HAS FALLEN I REPEAT THE TRACTOR PAINT HAS FALLEN
I wouldn't mind some Rosa Luxemburg thrown in the tips, she is also pretty good and insightful. "Reform or Revolution" helps a lot with getting a grip of irl organizing.
Got you fam: https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
I would like to add that I think that The Mass Strike is great analysis of the 1905 Russian Revolution and really shows the nature in which revolutionary situations are built up to as a historical process and burst into spontaneous action that resembles nothing of the well ordered nature of best laid plans. But you don't need to flood the links with Rosa
Live sorting. We haven't figured out if we love it or hate it, but it definitely has issues.
Do votes from other people also move stuff on the screen?
They do, it's kinda annoying.
It makes things feel more alive, I kind of dig that. Sure is annoying/jarring when a bunch change at once in a massive comment tree though haha
It'd be cool to have animations, and it shouldn't move posts you're responding to. Also there's a bug that deletes the text in the reply box if there's an update while you're editing the comment.
yeah thats why I always go to the context before replying. Which, I suppose, is good in a way, cuts down on potential miscommunication :)
Something to do with the display automatically reloading or some shit I think
The framework the frontend of the site is built on uses a paradigm called “reactive design”
Literally reactionary 😤
they noticed your presence and immediately want to go somewhere else
the same thing happens to me :(
Is it okay here to say that fascists should be shot in the streets?
Because they should be.
