You can't vote out paramilitary forces that don't consider themselves answerable to the civil authority. Praying to the DNC isn't gonna bring in the Guard to remove them. There's only one rational conclusion to reach.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2h ago

Texas police has arrested a city council candidate in Austin who participated in a protest against ICE: www.kvue.com/article/news...

Our job in the west is not to sit back comfotably and cast judgment on those revolutionaries of the past who tried and, to our minds, failed. Our job is to do everything wr can NOW to make sure that TODAY'S revolutionaries aren't crushed by our countrymen in the same ways again.

I'm so fucking sick of being advertised to. I want literally anything in the fucking world to just be what it is and not also a vehicle for selling me some shit I don't need.

Are they going to start ranting about Hanoi Jane next? Ffs.

Antifascism never took hold in America because the proletariat see themselves not as an oppressed class but as temporarily embarrassed occupiers

the extent to which online infrastructure is simultaneously 100% funded by taxpayer money and yet is 100% owned by private companies is an all-time world-historic civilization-defining lead-in-the-pipes level failure of every single apparatus of social engineering ever conceived by man.

The marketing division of the Meta Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Meta Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h ago

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

0)The US is the original fascist state, fascism is the default US political position, and US patriots are fascists.

Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️@lalegault.bsky.social · 12h ago

Fascism is possible and will continue in America largely because of two reasons: 1) a majority of people’s expressed principles are not enforced with their favourites or celebrities or even many within their socioeconomic demographic 2) money is their religion & nearly every person can be bought

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She's a white supremacist. So's whoever wrote this drivel, and everyone involved in its publication in any fashion. New York Magazine is a fascist publication.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 3d ago

Evan Barker quit the Democratic Party and voted for Trump. Now she’s telling (a few) stories about what she saw in a new book that mixes gossip and condemnations of ‘woke.’ Her old colleagues aren’t happy.

Another reminder that white people could shut all this shit down whenever they want. But they don't want to because they agree with what is happening.

Godivadark@godivadark.bsky.social · 11h ago

Structural racism

the people who organized the response to trayvon martin, michael brown, and george floyd WERE MURDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mainstream US political discourse is built entirely from absurd conspiracy theories these days. It's almost impossible to talk to people immersed in electoralism, because they all live in a constructed reality that bears no resemblance to the outside world.

Every single person blithering about chatbots being alive needs the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation treatment.

Science Magazine@science.org · yesterday

Can the new cutting-edge AI models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. The work, which has not been peer reviewed, has divided #AI researchers. https://scim.ag/4hHU6BA

People who whine about "purity tests" aren't leftists. This isn't a No True Scotsman thing, it's just that the phrase indicates someone who has no coherent politics of any sort, nor yet any ideology, philosophy, morals, or ethical code.

being proud of america or patriotic about it is no different than being a 'nationalist' about russia. you look at our wars of choice and conquest and tell yourself that was about 'freedom' but you're no different than anyone proud of russia's imperialist war in ukraine currently.

Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · yesterday

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An arrogant man is the American, so sure he knows everything he needs to know and everyone should merely get out of his way and shouldn't tell him shit, loud and rude and quick to offer his opinion when no one asked

I dont think the problem is social media i think that people in America lack humility and caution and respect for one another Quick to judge one another and quick to slobber and praise power rather than kindness and cleverness These problems existed prior to the internet

Apparently a hot take: US soldiers, police, and intelligence operatives can never, ever be in any position of leadership, authority, or responsibility in any leftist organization, party, or movement. Violation of this rule is direct surrender to fascism. Yes, even ones who quit or whatever.

Seriously, who gives a fuck? They're all nazi bullshitters, nothing they say means anything, what's the point of asking pointless questions and scribbling down their mouth noises? Blah blah on the record what the fuck nobody cares. Fascist apologists don't care, they're full of shit.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · yesterday

People keep screaming for almost two years now you have been couped and all 3 branches are compromised and corrupt. Expecting everything to be solved in a future election is yet again wasting precious time people should be organising and taking collective action to disrupt the system.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yup, this. Everyone trying to rehabilitate fascists of any stripe is, in fact, also a fascist, they just won't admit it yet. If there's nazis in your big tent, it's a nazi tent. If all that animates your politics is hating Trump, you're a fascist.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · yesterday

It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package

Then what? When they don't punish these fucks after they gain power, then what?

The entire history of the US could be explained through the perspective of the worst people imaginable not only escaping consequences but given the ability to cause mass harm over and over again. We have serial killers and pedophiles on legal tender.

✫✫LVN✫✫@urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Consequences for these people should be a non-negotiable.

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Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · yesterday

People are getting so mad at these dumb Top 10 lists but I just realized the real, secret way to make people mad would be to list all the shows you haven't seen a single episode of.

They aren't timid, or scared. They aren't being forced or bribed or blackmailed or coerced in any way whatsoever. They just like ICE and agree with what it's doing. That's all. People who oppose this shit need to stop making up fanfiction about the people who support it secretly opposeing it.

utopia deferred@utopia-defer.red · 2d ago

I interviewed a dem candidate yesterday and she was too timid to say ICE is a terrorist organization. Her opponent, a retired janitor, the libertarian, said that. Humiliating. Cindy Holscher is also still too scared to say it. Meanwhile, state GOP are scared shitless because they know ICE is hated.

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In this context "family" has always been a term of art for controlling women and children and making kinship into a miniature version of the top-down control of an autocratic state. When a politician says "family" they never mean anything else.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2w ago

Being anti-abortion was never about babies. Kicking women out of leadership in the military isn't about the military. "Family values" isn't about families. Making divorce harder isn't, either. It's about controlling women. It's about controlling women. It's about controlling women.