Zombiepirate @ Zombiepirate @lemmy.world

Proud anti-fascist & bird-person

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I think it's pretty naïve to think that oligarchs are benevolent, and at least we have a say on how government money gets spent.

What we have now is billionaires rigging the system in their favor; like I said, that kind of wealth disparity is inherently destabilizing to society, and they accumulated it through exploitation.

Finally, if the people could spend the money better than the government, why do we have taxes at all? It's because there are things that we need to address as a society instead of relying on charity that may or may not come.

The change handed out by billionaires as philanthropy is PR to keep them from paying their fair share in taxes. Calling them a parasite class is completely accurate— they couldn't have earned that much wealth without exploiting both the laborers who created it and the society that their extreme horde inherently destabilizes. If they paid their fair share in taxes, then their donations would be appreciated.

Which is why I said the media is lying for the Trump administration: this is the lie that the administration told, and the media repeats it for them.

The fact is that they didn't give a fuck if they could deport him or not.

Saying he was "mistakenly deported" makes it sound like they cared one bit. There was no error; the judge issued an order asking for any evidence of that, and he got crickets back.

Then it seems that they should have left out "mistakenly" if they only report verifiable things that they can prove, including motives.

The media needs to not treat this as normal or blundering. MAGA know what they are doing: making this country intolerable to immigrants.

This isn't a purity test, it's criticism. That's a perfectly fine thing to do.

The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media.

I really wish the media would stop lying for the Trump administration. It wasn't a mistake, they deported him intentionally.

He only means his own.

I bet he could cheer himself up with one of those brain chips he's trying to get going.

Come on down to Crazy Pete's intel emporium! We're practically giving this intel away!

The Oblivion score is so good.

Exactly. One glance at the list of countries by incarceration rates will confirm that the US has been a police state for a while now; it's just who is being targeted that is changing.

I don't listen to the show very much, but I was tempted out of masochistic curiosity.

Dude is like a boomer Joe Rogan— he buys into the dumbest bullshit because he thinks being a contrarian is a cheat code for the truth.

Bill Maher is a textbook reactionary centrist: he'd sell out any minority for the sake of his own influence and pocketbook.

From the constant digs on trans people to the time he was ready to scab (until it became clear that it would diminish his influence), he'd step on every person he views as beneath him to get powerful people to think he's smart.

And he's not half as smart as he thinks he is— he ends up platforming the absolute worst people and letting them run rhetorical circles around him.

Hilarious how they throw the bootlickers under the bus to protect the POS sheriff.

But think of the freedom we'll experience when insurance companies have even less responsibility to their clients.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk

I've got the flu, no time to talk

Muzak loud and samples warm, I've been coughing loud

Since this morn

And now it's all right, it's okay

And you may look the other way

But we can try to understand

This NyQuil dose effect on man

-Staggeringly High Fever

It was the inciting incident for the "moral majority." The integration of schools really triggered the reactionaries.

Of course, having to teach science instead of their myth really upsets them too.

Also, showing kids different perspectives on history other than the manifest destiny of white men really offends them.

Oh, and treating every student with dignity really lights them up.

Turns out there's a lot of reasons why reactionaries hate education, and they mostly reduce down to the fact that education makes one far less likely to be a backwards antisocial goon.

Amazing portrait. That's one of my favorite movies!

I'm reading a book at the moment that gets into this site a bit:

Archaeology also shows that patterns of seasonal variation lie behind the monuments of Göbekli Tepe. Activities around the stone temples correspond with periods of annual superabundance, between midsummer and autumn, when large herds of gazelle descended on to the Harran Plain. At such times, people also gathered at the site to process massive quantities of nuts and wild cereal grasses, making these into festive foods, which presumably fuelled the work of construction. There is some evidence to suggest that each of these great structures had a relatively short lifespan, culminating in an enormous feast, after which its walls were rapidly filled in with leftovers and other refuse: hierarchies raised to the sky, only to be swiftly torn down again. Ongoing research is likely to complicate this picture, but the overall pattern of seasonal congregation for festive labour seems well established.

The Dawn of Everything- a New History of Humanity

I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.

I think that deep of bass is also one of those things that you really need a subwoofer to emulate anyway. You feel it in your chest as much as your ears.