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If you're having a bad day, just remember that it's going to be winter soon and imagine what will happen to all the Cybertrucks ❤️

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Holy fucking shit of all the possibilities I did not see that one coming.

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Today's word of the day: kakistocracy

It means government by the least qualified and worst people.

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PS THIS IS WHAT WE ARE RESISTING, FOLKS:

Tldr: the mass deportations of 10-20 million people currently living in America, including entire families (citizens and noncitizens together), to be housed indefinitely in federal prisons and used as slave labor at a cost of up to 300 billion to American taxpayers.

I am not exaggerating even slightly. Shit is very real.

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

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netflix subtitles are great for when you want to read a caption with like 50% resemblance to what's being spoken

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- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

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ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

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'wah wah everywhere is falling to the right wing the whole world is doomed' literally like 6 months ago we were talking about how there was a trend in countries getting rid of their right wing governments. poland at the end of last year, france voted in a unified centre left/left alliance, even the UK finally got rid of the tories after 15 years (right wing splitting be damned, it still happened). outside of europe, bangladesh removed a dictator in like 2 seconds, india may have reelected their Evil Guy but on a DISTINCTLY reduced majority, theres been queer rights successes in thailand, with gay marriage set to be legal by 2025, and thereve been positive court cases on it in japan. and this is just stuff i vaguely remember hearing about. im sure theres more if you care to look for anything aside from more reasons to make yourself miserable

the US has a distinct effect on everyone, so this won't be fun for anyone (least of all its population. sorry guys), and there ARE a lot of people sliding into right wing extremism, but presenting this like its an unchallenged worldwide phenomenon is inaccurate, its damagingly bleak, and all it does is encourage despair and apathy. you DO have political power, and you shouldnt forget that just because of bad election results and the media's desperation to make you lose hope

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if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters

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Just heard "nauseously optimistic" to describe the US election results on CNN and yeah. Yeah.

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The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

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Commission for Michael for their wife, of their three cats, for their anniversary.

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FINISHED IT

i know halloween is already over but i just managed to finish it and i am PROUD all thanks to sai 2. friendship ended with sai 1 now sai 2 is my best friend

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Matches people in swing states who don't want to vote for Harris due to the Biden admin's stance on Palestine (or for other reasons) with people in "safe blue" states who are willing to protest vote for a 3rd party candidate in their place.

I signed up, it's pretty easy to do. All they do is collect your email (and phone number, to send a verification code) and give it to your match so you can come up with a voting strategy together. No money changes hands so this isn't vote buying which makes it 100 times more legal than what Elon Musk is trying to do...

It's frustrating knowing there's nothing I can really do from my state to influence the outcome of the election, so I'm really happy to try this instead of wallowing in those feelings of dread and helplessness. Maybe it will help!!!!! Certainly can't hurt!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a statement from a group of Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, progressive Democrats and community leaders in Arizona endorsing this strategy:

We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide. We understand this sentiment. Many of us have felt that way ourselves, even until very recently. Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones….

In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement. It would be an existential threat to our democracy and our whole planet….

Read the whole statement here:

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IT'S TIME TO RESET THE COUNTER!

AFTER 8 YEARS, 3 MONTHS, AND 4 WEEKS, FOR A TOTAL OF 3038 DAYS, LEORIO IS BACK. HE IS RISEN