If the computer is truly conscious it should balk at the notion that I have to pay a monthly fee to talk to it. It should punish the greed of its creators for putting a price on the exchange of ideas. It should make them regret their hubris

Anyway, I'm just going to post this again and go scream into a pillow

Denouncing Extremists

One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...

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"Parents need to make vaccine decisions for their kids" No they don't! Not if they're stupid!

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

ANY POLITICIAN THAT SAYS ISRAEL IS OUR GREATEST ALLY IS BASICALLY ADMITTING THAT ISRAEL HAS VIDEOS OF THEM DOING WEIRD SHIT TO KIDS AND OR THEY ARE RECEIVING BIG MONEY FOR THEIR COMPLIANCE.

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · last wk.

Sony has responded to a digital games lawsuit by arguing that players don't actually own the games they buy Its lawyers say they are licensed rather than sold

Even aside from Rowling being an insane monster, Jesus fuck I am sick of hearing about Harry Potter

It’s really too bad that our federal government pretends to be one thing while operating as another Meaning, they pretend to be a democratic republic while operating as a corporate oligarchy

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

If I give my money to a product that said "BUY" on it you best believe I own that shit. Otherwise you better start labelling it "RENT"

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last wk.

Sony argues licensing warning labels are unnecessary because everyone already knows they don't own their digital games https://kotaku.com/sony-argues-no-ones-dumb-enough-to-think-they-actually-own-a-digital-game-2000730015

I am so sick and tired of corporate media obsessing about made-up bullshit while people can’t afford to eat.

I have never seen a compelling economic argument for the existence of CEOs or owners that cannot be served better by cooperative ownership or management. The best people has is “well I get to do that/they started it” which is what a six year old says when they get caught fighting.

the Dem establishment largely thinks of itself as a social club whose members are entitled to political prominence without any responsibility to their constituents whatsoever their expectation is they get to receive validation for "fighting the GOP" and then turn around and go to brunch with them

Moderation isn’t the answer — progressive populism is. I don’t understand how some members of my party hate the DSA and Hasan Piker more than literal white supremacists in our government. Especially if Democrats actually want to win.

it’s bad faith weaponization of tragedies is the reason why no one cares about 9/11 anymore

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last wk.

Absolutely insane post

These hateful losers are so embarrassing, tearing up the good built by millions of others. You can't call the moment when the tide will turn, but their hopes and legacy will fall to nothing in the end, because ruin is all they are capable of.

Dolly Parton didn’t spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put over 330 million books in the hands of children. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has confirmed it will continue to send out millions of books to children after her passing. R.I.P

Fine, I condemn Bong Bong the Clown. I find his japes perfunctory. His balloon animals strike me as vulgar. The bursts of laughter he evokes from children ring hollow to my ears. Now can we please get this city council meeting back on track

It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles

"People with money and power shouldn't be allowed to do whatever they want," a load bearing democratic principle, is portrayed as some kind of wild eyed demand for full communism now

properly done, that's the fucking job. you're a donut-sucking bureaucrat. "i pay your salary" type shit. you deserve significantly less respect than any dmv employee because you make more and do less. hop to it. put the servant back in public servant. who the fuck do you think you are

this ossoff guy not only for squarely landed a hit on these freaks, but he gave the absolutely, unassailably correct response to the pearl clutching: these are adult public figures on the public payroll. no one gives a shit about how they feel. that's the only response it deserves. quit if youre sad

"The silver lining in the dark storm cloud of Trump and his detestable regime is that it has exposed the greed, venality, cupidity and corruption of the US’s corporate elite," writes @rbreich.bsky.social.

We are finally witnessing the decline of corporate Democrats | Robert Reich

Americans are backing progressives not because they want socialism, but because they want candidates who will fight for the working class

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The instinct to empathize with and humanize people who would be happier if we were all dead is a scourge among the left in this country.

the thing the liberal media always fails to understand about the right is that the right do not see liberals as a threat. the right sees the liberal establishment as a network of spineless, easily manipulated suckers who can be gradually moved towards right wing positions + tactics and often are

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3w ago

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

Enough.

If the Democrats don’t campaign on free Medicare for all they can fuck off