Mark G

@markedward17.bsky.social

Sommelier, artist & essayist.

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Anywho, I've yet to find a job that makes me healthier. It's more like "this job affords me access to health-enabling resources to offset the health-harming effects of the work I do." The nature of work under capitalism means that someone else always benefits from my work more than I do.

Fundamental to movement conservatism today is the idea that anything liberal or "woke" is a part of a nefarious, top-down, alien program of ideas that normal people don't want, rather than the slowly shifting, popular cultural pseudo-consensus that it is. Don't feed that!

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I hope El-Sayed wins tomorrow and it is looking hopeful. Regardless, I hope (likely in vain) that the party comes to understand that this isn’t a “takeover” by DSA. This is Democrat voters telling the party what they want. This is the future. Come to terms with this reality now.

When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.

Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan

The patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.

nytimes.com

Yes, stupid immoral assholes have done far too well for basically forever, but right now, it feels like being a stupid immoral asshole has become the ONLY way to do well. That is a problem.

I'm going to alienate some people now. Abortion is a critical part of gynecological care. Full stop. Hormonal birth control is used by many individuals simply to regulate difficult menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand the minutiae of reproductive biology should SHUT THE FUCK UP.

“The Court finds in favor of the defendant and further affirms that plaintiff is in fact a, I want to get this correct, ‘Fraggle Rock faced douche-canoe fucknoodle’ who ‘could not poor piss out a boot if the directions were on the heel’. So ordered.”

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The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d ago

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/oZwZMR9