Ben
@bendon82.bsky.social
He/Him ACE Unapologetic communist. Unrepentant atheist. No masters. No gods. Just community.
"What if you pointed out to me that I have spent all my time talking about the perspective of my father, who is choking my brother to death, but haven’t said anything about the perspective of my brother, who is being choked?" www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
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Considering this whole system requires that you take on debt to establish your credit history, this would include the entire adult population.
The Jerusalem Post argues indebted Americans should be conscripted into the Iran War.
That's because they use the same method to fundraise during election season.
still can't get over how everyone in public office just decided that letting spammers make all cellphones unusable is just how life has to be
Watching Stargate SG1 for the first time and there's full frontal nudity in episode 1? Ok I'm sold
I was today years old when I found out that the Mandarin that the American English expression "gung ho" is based off of literally means "industrial cooperative". I am passing this information along in the hopes that someone will write the thinkpiece that this deserves en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho
Gung ho - Wikipedia
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So a year ago I was randomly getting waves of nausea and vomiting after meals. Lost 30 pounds simply because I couldn't keep food down. Got an endoscopy and the official diagnosis was "*shrug* maybe acid?" Gave me prescription antacids. Seemed to help for a while, but now it's happening again. Cool.
This is coming just a few months after a Robin Hood movie where the character famous for robbing from the rich to help the poor was The Bad Guy, Actually. You might think studio execs are awful at reading the room, but this is actually happening because at this point they only talk to other CEOs.
The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...
the national democratic party continues to demonstrate its clear preference for white supremacist led fascism over the smallest chance of the smallest morsel of diet socialism
The CIA literally admitted the Uyiguer genocide was bullshit and they still insist on it
Damn, this is so good
The Conquest of the Holy Land story has done untold damage over the centuries-- including now, as it's used to justify the intensification of the West Bank's ethnic cleansing. But what if we've been reading it wrong all along? Proud to share a brilliant new take from @ddelgadovive.bsky.social:
Every time I hear a boomer talk about how millennials have no work ethic, I'm reminded that at 14 years old, I was employed by Boulder County to dig roads and ditches by hand, high in the Rocky Mountains for $4.25 per hour.
Was it another underlying illness that killed doctor Oz or the bullet that ripped through his skull? Who can say?
Dr Oz: "I don't want anyone in America concerned inappropriately. We don't know exactly what happened in PAG yet. We don't know if the children died from measles or had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time. We lived this during covid."
Look, these interviews are important, so Trump just wants to make sure they're asking all the white questions.
Trump administration issues pause on visa appointments for applicants worldwide reut.rs/45NtKHO
Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?
Blame robocalls and scammers blowing up our phones all day.
millennial 911 operator that lets it ring and then texts back
Starting to suspect that, contra the dominant mainstream narrative, what motivates the conservative movement is not a desire to reduce antisemitism.
NEWS: GOP candidate in NY-19 posted a photo of his grandfather in a full Nazi uniform, swastikas and all, on Veterans Day w/ the caption "I salute all who served." Oberacker sat on the GOP's antisemitism working group and already had to fire his campaign manager over the "I love Hitler" group chat.
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center *literally blessed* Donald Trump while he was ushering Nazis into the government. The organization condemned anti-fascist Jews for using a Yiddish anti-fascist slogan. To pretend they represent anything but a fascist fringe is absurd.
It's always the people you'd expect. Lawrence Krauss, Steven Pinker, Bryan Caplan, Garrett Jones...
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
I live in Hell I'm in a tremendous amount of physical and psychological pain I'm completely isolated and alone But sometimes there's full-frontal nudity, so it's not all bad.
Lmao ok but if Justin became a MLB pitcher instead of an astronaut this literally happened to me.
The guy who picked on me in high school and then became an astronaut just came into KFC and I overcharged him for his chicken. Checkmate Justin, you fucking loser
So far the only vegetable that hasn't been recalled is Mitch