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The United States is the great Satan.

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you ever think about how we used to be able to eradicate diseases

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"I'm not skilled at gardening and i don't have the time/energy to learn, but i really want a pretty garden, so i hired a gardener"

That makes a lot of sense, it's nice to experience that beauty!

"I love writing music, and I can play a few instruments, but my playing skills don't cover the breadth or depth of what I want my songs to sound like, and none of my usual partners were available for recording this month, so I hired someone who's good on sax and another musician who plays an upright bass to help me record my new stuff, and they added a lot of depth to the experience!"

Good call, when you really want the right sound right now it makes sense to bring in people who are available and talented!

"I'm a decent cook and my friends love the food i make, but sometimes I enjoy a really high-quality meal in a carefully curated atmosphere or i don't want to do dishes, so i go to a restaurant and pay a chef and cooks and waitstaff and dish washers to make me a fantastic meal in a nice setting without any of the chores."

Of course, we all love a good time without the usual work sometimes!

"I love music and I play the piano really well, but sometimes I want to hear it played by someone who's really dedicated their career to it, or who plays in a style I'm not experienced with, so I go to a concert and pay a musician for their music, or I buy their albums so I can listen to it at home."

Yes, getting to experience an expert in their craft is a real treat!

"I've been way too busy to take care of myself or my living space lately and it's been taking a toll on my mental health, so i hired someone to help me tidy up this week and then went to a salon to get spiffed up so I could feel better about myself, and i paid those professionals for their work and education and experience and skill."

Good on you, self care is so important!

"I'm not very experienced with sex and and would like someone else to show me what it can feel like, or I want to enjoy sex at a time when I don't have anyone available, or I enjoy sex and am pretty good at it but I want to experience it a dedicated atmosphere with someone who takes it seriously, or I want to see what all is possible when someone is really an expert at it and treats it like a set of skills they've spent a long time working to master, or sex makes me feel good and i could really use that good experience in my life right now, so I paid a sex worker to help me achieve that goal."

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If you think the last one is somehow fundamentally different from the others, that hiring a professional to provide a service that you want or need for any reason is suddenly immoral because it involves sex, you should probably reflect on why. Because really, at the end of the day, it's not.

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The world will pay for our failure to stop what's happening in Gaza

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The sooner yall remember that Hollywood is the propaganda arm of the US military, the sooner yall will stop fangirling over a bunch of your White boy faves making war criminals look good becos that's strategic too.

Also, lmao at these tweets:

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USAmerican convention artists handwringing about their businesses getting hurt because of how heavily they rely on imports from China and other foreign manufacturers I'm going to be super real with you i do not think your blorbo-based-economy was worth exploiting cheap labor for in the first place

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hate how the moderate liberal position is "trans people can play sports as long as they don't ever win"

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US media really likes to try make Putin out to be a neo-Soviet and downplay the whole thing where he was the hand picked successor of Yeltsin who was heavily assisted by Americans in the 1996 elections to stave off a resurgent Communist Party.

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"Palestinian trade unions and workers have made clear demands: halt arms production and disrupt the supply of military goods to Israel. This toolkit equips movements, trade unions, and organisers with the knowledge needed to take effective action—targeting arms manufacturers, pressuring governments to cut military ties, and mobilising workers along supply chains."

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April 1, 2025 - Antifascist Brazilians protested to commemorate 61 years since the US-backed military coup of 1964. The march is an annual event to remember the atrocities committed during Brazil's military dictatorship and to denounce ongoing state violence. [video]

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this comic by raven lyn clemens.... Yeah

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watching fascists lie baldly and thoughtlessly about what is happening in Palestine is a very unpleasant callback to the many, many years I spent arguing with fascists about the war in Iraq. it took about a decade for the government to admit that they lied about the WMDs that go-around in oder to manufacture consent, and to label the entire Iraqi population terrorists on the basis of their religion. it's also a bit depressing to me to realize there are people my age who were simply not paying attention to anything that happened because as children they didn't know or care. they don't remember the "free speech zones" because they were not protesting. I spent the entire GW Bush presidency protesting while underage, and I voted for Obama because he campaigned on closing Gitmo. the fact that he pardoned the previous administration on his first day in office basically disillusioned me with the American political process and the fact that Gitmo remains open to this day is, of course, an unforgivable insult to human life

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The President of Tufts University put out a Declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk

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Still frame from WikiLeaks "Collateral Murder" video, captured moments before U.S. helicopter pilots would go on to kill civilians and journalists in Iraq in 2007 while casually joking about it. Whistleblower Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, none of the perpetrators were charged

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March 31, 2025 - Eid Mubarak from the Palestine Action activists who disrupted the Dean Group factory in Manchester today. Dean Group is a company that provides parts to Israel's arms company Elbit, which manufactures some of the drones that slaughter innocent Palestinian children every single day. [video]