#civil today

[contemplatingoutlander]

BERNIE SANDERS | Welcome to the world of oligarchy. | 12-20-24

After Elon Musk interfered with a bipartisan spending bill in late Dec. by threatening to spend money to primary any Republican who voted for the bill, Bernie Sanders felt it was time to acknowledge the U.S. has now become an oligarchy. Here is a partial transcript:

Take a deep breath and appreciate what’s going on here. The wealthiest person in the world, who spent at least $277 million to elect Donald Trump and a Republican Congress, has now claimed complete ownership of that party. And what he’s saying is, hey Republicans, forget your constituents. Forget your constitutional responsibilities. If you don’t do what I, Elon Musk, want you to do, you’re out of office. And I have the money to do just that. My friends, what we are looking at here has nothing to do with democracy. What we are looking at here is oligarchy. This is up and up government by the billionaire class for the billionaire class. And by the way, Musk...is trying to inject himself into the Democratic Party as well. He is threatening to target Democrats who are standing up to him and his agenda. Further and very dangerously--and this is the guy, you know, who owns Twitter...Musk has been spreading an enormous amount of disinformation and outright lies about what is in the bill. [...] What we are dealing with right now is that the billionaire class, which owns so much of our economy, which owns so much of our media, they are now moving aggressively to own our political system as well. So we got a lot of work in front of us. We’ve got to educate. We’ve got to organize and we have got to stop them.

It is worth watching the entire video. A complete transcript of the video can be found here:

[vsthepomegranate]

Born in Flames (1983)

by Lizzie Borden

[cheese-n-crack]

hello killerbunnies nation. take a doodle ^-^

[tibby-art]

I feel so behind, what’s parkour life?????

hahah it’s just in reference to this tweet, it’s a faked screenshot & a joke, not the real next life series

[thebreakfastgenie]

I think protests can be extremely effective but I think the reason more of them aren't is a lot of them are fundamentally emotional expressions and not highly disciplined actions with clear strategy and specific goals.

[mcmuppet]

lando blanking on smthing, looking to oscar for help, and osc filling in the missing info

fork found in kitchen

[elbiotipo]

Machu Pichu is younger than most castles in Europe. It was built while Leonardo da Vinci was alive. Just so that you know next time you read someone talking about the "ancient" Inca.

[musubiki]

danmarch 🐉💎

[croudjay]

Just learned that EMF's cubito actually belongs to TaiMC, an actual minecraft youtuber

So I guess technically we have a name for EMF now??

Edit: just wanna say that the previous statement was a joke and not to be taken seriously 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[puzzlefaggot]

Weeeeeell, Battleeeerrr, Will you make the one block jump for the chicken, or the one block vertical jump for the beef...?

H-huh...? But that's... Going for the beef is too risky, but if I take the chicken I won't gain enough hunger to ever be able to rank up past a parkour noob....! Aaaah, It's useless, it's all useless...! Why does she even want to see me parkour anyway? Think, spin the chessboard around! This must be the key to this whole game, somehow...!

Hoh..! Battler, you still haven't figured it out? The "single element"...?

Eh? "Single element"...?

Yes, the single element that makes up the entirety of our world. It is said that in ancient times, the Greeks tried explaining the world with the four elements of wind, fire, water, and earth. But they were never able to describe the one sole truth that exists, the "single element"... However, a single man appeared by guidance of a star, and explained the single element to the world... Know what it iiiiis?

It's "Parkour"!!

*cackle* *cackle* *cackle* Aaaahaahahahahaa, Kiyahahahahahaaa!!

Wh- what are you talking about? How can "parkour" be the single element? Aah, I don't understand, I don't understand at all!

*cackle* EVERYTHING is made of parkour, Battler! We jump for food, we jump for housing, we jump for knowledge! without parkour, the "truth" cannot be seen!

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Equal rights for all. Special privileges for none." Thomas Jefferson.

[deepixeriii]

New upload got me fucked up

[i-love-tony-stark]

“He’s my friend.”

“So was I.”

Bitch, since when? I’ve literally only ever seen you resent him for shit your father did and make fun of his PTSD.

[marzipanandminutiae]

two Bad History Takes don't make a Good History Take

right: throughout history, many non-European civilizations have had impressive technologies for their time periods, and this is often minimized by white supremacist interpretations of the past. just like their counterparts in Europe, they had a complex range of advancements and limitations given the materials around them, their worldviews, and the areas of technology on which their society placed a high priority

wrong: the Aztecs had FLYING CARS and the British were EATING FRIED SHIT AS A DELICACY

(and before anyone says "um but Europe WAS disgusting!" the whole point of this post is that that was also mostly a myth. come on, people)

[themoonstonechronicler]

before

during

after

[hayatheauthor]

"people ask hijabis if they were forced to wear that but not nuns because (Christian) clothing was never forced upon women" how many history classes have you skipped?! (considering your country's heavy censorship of actual history that doesn't depict them as great heroes I'd be surprised if your classes even covered it).