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This is just insane.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

put that execrable NYT ethicist column another way, if you're living a moral life in an immoral world you're going to feel bad all the fucking time. if an ethics column is out there trying to make you feel good instead, they aren't going ethics, but hosting a confessional.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Same person by the way

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Ya remember kids, I know our parents told us to never talk to strangers or get into unmarked vehicles with men with masks and guns, but all that’s changed now. America’s new message to kids is to get into vehicles with strangers with guns and masks.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

If the non-negotiable position is “obviously racist wingnuts with horrifying opinions on the use of massive violence against civilians, are a cruelly persecuted minority, and anti-war protestors are an extremist Hitlerian menace” - and it is that - then this is going to happen again and again.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

No one who argues "The genocide is Hamas's fault because they refuse to capitulate" would argue "It's ok to genocide Israelis until Likud capitulates".

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

And thanks to a generation of reactionary centrists, feckless Dems, autocratic GOPers, and a TV culture of non-stop crime shows and bleeds-it-leads news, we spent TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of declining and low crime rates building out that police-state style police system at EVERY level of government.

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

It's genuinely funny that Zionists can't resist trying to use their hatred of Arabs as a defence of Zionism. "Sure Israel is bad, but are you aware Arabs are much worse? You should hate Arabs like I do!"

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

“Fund the police” was a whole applause line for the people best situated to prevent this.

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

The thing about class is that it is a useful tool to understand society but (as with everything) has some ambiguity and people who really don't want you to understand how society works will try to use that ambiguity to wildly represent what class is.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

To be fair it's easy to be vindicated when your commitment is "the border Gestapo are evil and should not exist" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

This is obviously clown show evil. So the question is, why is the NYT printing this? What objective does printing this serve, what aspect of the Overton Window are they hoping to move?

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

look one of the things im annoying about is my insistence most people aren't serious about ethics, particularly if they never take moral stances that make them uncomfortable this is... not one of those cases! it's not even asking about your responsibility to pro-actively resist!

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

When police in similar assault armor cleared anti-genocide protests camps, liberals argued that Dem mayors do not control their police forces at all. Then did nothing to address that very worrying claim. Will we see similar claims Mayor Bass doesn't have any influence over the LAPD?

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

submitted 9 hours ago • 26 comments

Every Dem-controlled city in the US is a cesspool of neoliberalism. You cannot reform this by voting.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Starmer grew up solidly middle class and Farage went to public school ffs.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

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submitted 5 hours ago • 16 comments

It's hurricane season. Own a real flashlight.

submitted 22 hours ago • 37 comments

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submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Ellie Clowns and Adrian Transphobe. Sensible, Grown Up politics approved by Bloomberg.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I think this has tipped me over the edge into joining the Greens and supporting Polanski. I swore off electoralism because it was so much effort to so little positive outcome last time. But the Greens could do something positive so stuff like this has to be opposed.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

LAPD officer and wannabe tough guy Zachary Adler is completely unhinged right now. He was putting his hands on people all night and now he’s walking up to people threatening to shoot point blank. Fuck these pigs.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

Zionists: "No, we absolutely are an extension of white supremacism."

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Israel has committed genocide for 20 months and this is the absolute strongest consequence Europe is willing to impose upon their colony.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

The way chatbots innately prey on people's basic need for connection and intimacy is immensely sad to me. I can't actually think about it much without feeling on the verge of tears because it's so bleak

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Being a Young Boozer has ruined my life. I'm 31 years old!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"Prove you matter"= eugenics.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Having spoken to an MP myself as a result of one of the letters sent after the SC ruling, I can attest to the impact that these letters make. MPs, for all their faults, care when hundreds or thousands of letters pour in on an issue. Our last letters had an impact. These will too. Get signing!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment