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Have to post this favorite of mine

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new facebook rules are looking GOOD fellas!

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In an interview released Monday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said his country's stand against Musk—the richest person on the planet worth $239 billion per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index—should be an example to the rest of the world.

“The world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Lula said in the interview with CNN Brasil.

It's a stance Lula has firmly taken previously. Last week he told local media, "Just because the guy has a lot of money doesn't mean he can disrespect this [country].

"He is a citizen of America, he is not a citizen of the world. He cannot keep offending the presidents, the deputies, the senate, the Supreme Court…he has to respect the decision of the Supreme Court."

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[…] “Qualitatively, yes: all billionaires are bad news in politics; all bought influence is undemocratic. But as billionaires line up behind a neofascist, you can see that this is a new phase in which they’re looking for more bang for their buck. They’re not trying to protect their commercial interests; they don’t need more money. They don’t even seek to shore up their own political influence – rather, to neuter any influence that may countervail it.”

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Puritanism is getting worse around the globe and conservatives and fascists will absolutely be first going harder against porn, then use that against queer people. You HAVE to realise this and oppose anti porn measures and laws, be in solidarity with sex workers, and listen to them when they call this shit out. It's going to be vitally important.

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like 99% of "men and women are soooo different!!!" comedy is literally just describing the experience of not understanding other people. like it's not that women never say what they mean talking to other people is just like that. it can be hard to understand what other people are thinking. bioessentialism really rots the brain

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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

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who else here thinking about chicken strisps

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HOW long?

Thank you Democrats and Joe Biden.

Voting matters. Republicans would NEVER have done this for people crushed by medical debt.

Now, we will have four years of pettiness and fascism.

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Honestly quite insane that Germany and France have had to issue warnings over this.

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Context on Zuckerberg going Nazi.

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Because we don’t fix an obviously fixable problem, we are not functioning well as a country. That much should be obvious. And it’s maddening that people are defending the American economy in 2024. This is a country where an EMT can become homeless as they strive to improve their qualifications so they can help people more! Something is very wrong. And the brokenness that affected D is just one small piece of a broken healthcare system. It makes me angry every time I think about how many people are getting rich off of the sick and off of those trying to help the sick. I am not surprised a lot of people were not sorry to see UnitedHealth’s CEO shot, and that the overwhelming majority of Americans blamed not just the perpetrator, but the healthcare system itself for the murder.

Every time I’m told that the economic statistics are good, that people’s discontent is based more on “vibes” than material reality, my reaction is the same: Go out and talk to people. And don’t just ask them superficial questions (“Are you happy?”) Get them to tell you about their lives. I don’t think D even really saw his situation as outrageous or exploitative; he seemed surprised when I told him that it sounded really fucked up, although he agreed that it was. There is something deeply wrong with many of our core institutions, which are mistreating people systemically. I did not happen to be sitting next to some strange statistical outlier with a rare kind of bad luck. D was experiencing the economic system as it functions regularly. We need to understand just how bad things out there are for people, so that we can commit ourselves to repairing them.