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Liberals who think the rules and regulations will save us from fascism constantly receive L’s and yet keep going. Bruh this is the county in which the Trail of Tears was determined to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and all Andrew Jackson had to say was “they’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.”

Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump understand American power far more than their liberal detractors. Liberals can’t do more than appeal to the rules, when the ruling class wrote those rules not for itself but for their subjects. It is military force that determines political outcomes, not some words in a book. Andrew Jackson essentially taunted the Supreme Court, stating their decisions are invalid because they don’t have the military on their side.

There’s a reason Trump admires Jackson. Trump isn’t an aberration, he’s the realization of America’s already existing racist, nationalist and antidemocratic tendencies. He’s not a deviation from American history, he’s part of a continuous line of tyrants.

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Today, 2/26 is the anniversary of when George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old Black boy in 2012.

Much love to Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, his parents and to the rest of his family. You all are hurting far more. Never forget this day.

This should always fill you with outrage knowing that Black children are viewed as inherently dangerous, that anyone can freely murder Black people as they see fit and will view Black children as adults.

It should be enraging that not only is this allowed of citizens it's expected and supported by the state. We've only had increased spending on policing since 2012.

It should be blood boiling that within that, police target Black trans and Black disabled people at even higher rates and both are routinely ignored or downplayed.

Black trans and disabled communities are consistently abandoned. Black trans people often get misgendered and deadnamed even in coverage discussing them.

It is so exhausting.

For Black Lives to Matter, that means all Black lives. It includes Black trans lives, Black disabled lives, Black unhoused lives, Black Sex Worker's lives, Black women, Black children, everyone.

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Super Mario Galaxy contains an unused model for a test character named "DummyNPC" in its files, who has the word NPC floating above it and the Japanese word ダミー ("dummy") as a reflection texture on its body.

It has recently been discovered that lower-quality models for it also exist. The images provided are the original high-quality model in the top left, the mid-quality model in the top right, and the lowest-quality model on the bottom.

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the david zwirner gallery and the felix gonzalez torres foundation in the smithsonian removed the descriptive plaque for portrait of ross in la by felix gonzalez-torres. the old plaque explained portrait for ross' origins as the artist's partner's aids related death, and replaced it with a plaque with absolutely no information about the piece itself, who ross was, or who gonzalez-torres was either. portrait of ross was also reeranged to lay on the floor long ways instead of in a pile as it typically is situated, and the plaque outside the exhibition FOR GONZALEZ-TORRES omits his sexuality, as well as his aids related death. i'm in utter disbelief

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My anxiety has improved drastically ever since I started treating that part of myself as a loving messenger urgently trying to keep me safe but not really knowing what to do. When I listen to what it's telling me and consider that yes this has happened before/is a possibility and talk myself through a solution until we find something that feels good and right, I am no longer immobilized with the terror of the absolute worst case scenario

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In an ironic, bitter way, gentrification makes me laugh. I'm looking at places in my city for a wedding and one of the places is located in a place that was historically the Hood hood. And no amount of putting up pretty lights and luring the whites in will stop me from remembering how I used to run in those streets with the recognition that this was the Hood lmao.

I mean they just be la-di-daing in. These are the same people who would flinch if some of my male friends passed them in a hoodie and a neutral face expression, minding their business, and just... Prancing around! Y'all didn't even wanna be down here before 😭 y'all couldn't give the Black people already living here the money to do better, but sure toss up your craft beers and your facades and say it's better now that you've kicked us out. Incredible.

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borders between countries aren't real btw we just made them up. there's no such thing as an "immigrant" we're all just people moving around on the same planet that we've always moved around on

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I love Hamas

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The “Green Revolution” is the name given to a wholescale transformation of global food production led primarily by the United States that began in the 1940s and accelerated from the ’60s through the ’80s. It used collaborative research, public subsidies, chemical fertilizers, and genetic modifications to increase global food production, but it also led to greater carbon emissions from agriculture, soil erosion, increased diffusion of toxic chemicals, and other environmental degradations. There were also profoundly negative social consequences, as large agricultural production was emphasized without any accompanying focus on inequalities in land distribution or gendered labor. Overall food instability as a result in fact increased in countries where the Green Revolution took place, even as it decreased globally. How did that happen? The food writer and historian Mark Bittman notes that the massive decrease in global hunger in these years happened almost exclusively in China, where there was no Green Revolution. Instead, Chinese leaders focused on state support for independent farmers, and the goal was to reduce poverty, not just increase crop yields. Having more crops available does not mean they will be properly distributed, after all. Much of the world’s explosion of new corn products during the Green Revolution in other countries, for example, went to ethanol and high-fructose corn syrup. China’s more direct if still imperfect approach achieved more of what the Green Revolution promised: “Production tripled post-Mao, but, more important, the world’s most dramatic decrease in poverty ever took place.” That didn’t happen because of technological change alone, but because of the combination of technology, investment in ordinary people, and economic regulation.

Avram Alpert, The Good-Enough Life

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well. in AI news, it seems like a Chinese company has managed to match OpenAI's most advanced models in efficacy and is taking it to market for 3% of what OpenAI charges.

which may be the first tolling of the bell for the ai bubble to finally pop

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ICE Van Set on Fire - Philadelphia, PA 2/18/25

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It sort of slipped by among all the other outrages. But I want to point that not only did the Vice President of the US say that his boss should intentionally violate court orders, he did it by quoting Andrew Jackson.

The context of that quote? The thing the Supreme Court told Jackson was unconstitutional, but he did it anyway? It was a Georgia state law granting the state legal control over Cherokee lands. The Supreme Court ruled that the United States only has exclusive negotiating rights with Indian nations, not political dominion over them.

Both Georgia and Jackson disregarded this ruling and continued the illegal takeover of Cherokee lands. Eventually culminating in the Cherokee removal, part of the infamous Trail of Tears.

So take it very seriously when Vance quotes this (most likely fictitious) saying. Or when Trump says Jackson is his favorite president. Especially when they're talking about mass deportation, ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and the annexation of other countries.

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PSA DO NOT initiate any new passport applications changing your gender.

when they say that the application will be "suspended" it may involve seizing your submitted documents (birth certificate and other proofs of identity) and holding them in limbo indefinitely - we do not know what they're going to do.

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the whole 'start a community garden', 'no buy a gun' thing is just ketamine vs steven universe flavours of individualism

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teach in's, political education events, organizing meetings, street org parties/social events

education of the people and for the people should be among the people