#governement

[meramyst18]

If you ever feel depressed about climate change (which I felt like that many many times), and you feel that no matter what you do it will not matter, so at the end, why should try? Just remember that that is exactly what big corporations want. If they don't have people speaking out and holding them accountable for what they're doing, then they're just gonna keep messing up the planet and fill their pockets even more.

Right now, more than ever, giving up is not something we can do. Not everything is lost, but the media doesn't show that because that will encourage people to actually do something.

It's easier to say "you know what, stop trying because the planet is gonna die anyways, duh" instead of saying "many governments are transitioning to clean energy, suing polluting companies, making more environmental advances, and cleaning up the oceans, so you should too!"

The media wants to discourage you, and if you are one of the influencers or people saying "give up", you are part of the problem too.

Keep fighting, keep recycling, keep thrifting, keep boycotting greed corporations, keep eating less meat, keep informing and most importantly, keep being hopeful! Hope, love and compassion are our stronger weapons, never forget that.

[vertigoartgore]

1999's The West Wing pilot episode turns 25 today. Feel old yet ?

[baerverteidiger]

Censorship by US Government

I cannot contact attorney's and I keep getting censored online!!!

This is REAL!!!!

[postcard-from-the-past]

Governement House in Bathurst , modern-day Banjul, Gambia

British vintage postcard, mailed to Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

[perrysoup]

Remember than when people say they want the government and services “run like a business”

1) business does not care about the workers

2) business does not care about the product

3) business does care making both of those as crappy as possible while making the most for their execs

You don’t want the world run like a business unless you think you’re on that executive team, and news flash buddy, the VAST majority of us aren’t. I mean like, LITERALLY 99-99.9%.

You aren’t some special case. You’re part of the world.

Act like it.

[op0ssumlord]

“Are you really gonna save the world like that? With your t!ts half out on instagram.”

I mean yeah motherfucker that was always the plan. I’m gonna wear this shit to congress man!

[socialdragonflytarot27]

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[meramyst18]

The fact that Luigi Mangione has been declared as a "terrorist" is BEYOND my fucking comprehension. So basically the fucking government wants to paint themselves as the good guys while at the same time prove that actually the only people they do care about are the ones who are wealthy and corrupt? Oh, got it. If they think they just solved their problems with this, they just don't know people are gonna be even more furious with the government, healthcare and all the corrupt people that are actual terrorists for striping the rights of millions of people every single fucking day.

[dmonet-macitan]

learned how to use blenders film making tools

[geminisee]

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[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.