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It's entirely grievance based And the grievances aren't wrong exactly. In a more connected digital world, Rural America *does* suck and the people there *are* useless. MAGA exists to make a buck by preying on them by promising Nazi solutions to real problems. If Trump goes another grifter comes

It's not 100%. (Some I assume are good people.) But it's 0% either is it chief Look you have to treat people how they *want* to be treated. The same people who think Somalis eat dogs, I can call them trailer trash. Applying a stereotype is what they want so that's what they get.

All right, so the time has come to block this piece of shit, at which point his posts will vanish, so this is me preserving them.

Totally true. All those queer leftist organizers doing mutual aid in rural red states SUCK and are USELESS along with every other soul living in the geographic area. You are very smart.

Great reporting/analysis below. The flaw: MAGA is not based in reality. It's based on hatred of others (xenophobia), hatred of position (liberals are better educated), and racism. That's all. MAGA will stick with Trump even after all the life boats are gone.

"Rural America *does* suck and the people there *are* useless."

Wow, can't think why there's a perception of the Democratic Party being smug and superior.

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

et tu mamdani

Tweet from Abbas Araghchi reads: The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.

US-Israeli targets include schools, health care infrastructure, Tehran’s airport, and now, if what Iran’s foreign minister says is accurate, a desalination plant providing water to 30 villages.

What a precedent to set, hitting desalination plants around the Gulf which so heavily relies on them.

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte

Boy, 4, killed in hit-and-run tragedy — police launch manhunt for driver The NYPD is searching for the SUV driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old boy in Brooklyn on Thursday morning and took off.

Even if we're to believe that the kid "ran from his mom and into the street before he was hit," as the cops claim, we need streets that allow kids to be kids. As @sgoodyear.bsky.social says, children "dart." That's what they do. Lower speed limits enforced by design would prevent these tragedies.

An article describing how a Norwegian immigrant married a US citizen but ICE detailed her and refused her insulin, causing blindness and almost killed her. In between, an ad from the common sense leadership fund lauds the president's "understanding of the art of the deal" and boosts his alleged pro-business agenda

The contrast is ghoulish. A "pro-business" president nearly killing people because cruelty is the point.

bezos bought a prestigious national investigative newspaper so he could gut it and run "consider setting a monthly budget" and "pay off your credit cards" tier financial advice columns like those blogs with adsense spots on all 4 corners of the screen

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have “a clear head, strong hand… and great hea…

Another wonderful article by Jess DeCourcy Hinds and I am happy to see so many librarians that I’m honored to know, being recognized!

lithub.com/8-badass-lib...

It's the middle of the night in Chicago. Reporters and electeds are trying to figure out why a US citizen was detained by CBP, why her phone was inside an ICE detention center tonight, and where she is now.

Also unclear what happened to the other five people she was detained with at O'Hare airport.

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

38% of airline passengers vote to open plane door midflight because that bitch stewardess said not to

Incredible

"if the Hornet employed passive heat-seeking missiles (AIM-9), the F-15E pilots may not have known they were being engaged until the weapon detonated."

The F-15E costs $31M, because of its "advanced capabilities"

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yes I'm a naive idealistic communist who doesn't understand how the world works, so why are you focusing on that instead of easily destroying my supposedly stupid argument

Relevant xkcd
xkcd.com/3184/

every person in this is depraved, evil, needs to be put in prison for the rest of their lives and must suffer for these crimes against humanity

For socialists in the US it is so important right now to be building organizations capable of gumming up the cogs of the imperialist machine. Protesting is good but it is not stopping anything. We cannot confine ourselves to the same methods that don’t work

It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die

If the government dropped a bomb that took my kid from me, I wouldn’t be thinking about politics or strategy. I’d be thinking about who did it, and how far I’d have to go to make them feel what I felt. People act surprised when the world gets more dangerous, but this is exactly how it happens.

ICE killed another person in custody.

Abolish and prosecute every single person working for the agency.

hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
www.patreon.com/posts/152399...

The DC Dept of Education Building is hanging a banner of this guy next to MLK. Jr and Booker T. Washington 🙄

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

Ukrainian military personnel are expected to arrive in the Gulf soon to help countries there fend off Iranian drone attacks, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP on Friday.

Kissinger: It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal