metaphoricalkidney.bsky.social
Became isolated during the pandemic, realized I was an asexual aromantic, now I read fan-fiction all day.
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Progressive populism is one answer. What we see today is the unsustainability of capitalism, we produce more than enough for everyone yet people starve, therefore riots.
Breaking up big businesses and instituting UBI would be two steps towards stability.
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that George Washington may very well have been wearing his "dentures made from his slaves' teeth" when he sat for the portrait that would eventually end up on the $1 dollar bill is so on the nose it should cause all of space-time to glitch out
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RWBY fanfiction where the team discovers Weiss is actually a faunus, abused and forced to live in the closet.
Prepare to cry.
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I'm going to post more book recommendations here.
Like this, Spiderman dies at the end of of Infinity War, but in another universe, the Lazarus pits of Gotham have a different plan for him.
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Lots of new accounts in this thread pretending climate change is not established science, mysterious 🤔
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Especially considering your taxes are what paid for the utilities to be built and operated in the first place. All they have over us is our willingness to bend over for them.
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Which not unprecedented, much like with the tobacco industry there are many ways of handling that accountability.
If you smoke cigarettes, for example, you are paying for the ads that tell people to stop smoking, you are losing a little lawsuit every day and paying up.
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That is kind of what happened with cigarettes. If you buy tobacco right now some of that money goes to the fight against tobacco, it's like every smoker is being sued a little for how they choose to hurt others.
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Those defenses did not work for tobacco companies in the long run, it's definitely worth litigating. Nobody demanded to die in a heat wave, but these companies knowingly provided that outcome.
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Besides all the infrastructure exists and is at this point paid for many times over. The electrical and water systems should belong to the city built on top of them, not mysterious distant businessmen who claim ownership. If they are making a profit then WE are the ones paying for it all.
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Once your friends and kids stop talking to you there is not much else left but to double down and join a cult of some sort.
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Everyone knows the real cause of heartburn, having a throat!
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Sounds like you would be a happy customer of Extremely Moral Inventions LLC.
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In my opinion, a major cause of this surge of fascism in the US is the fact that we did protect a batch of Nazis from that trial, and even gave them positions of power in the US business and tech sectors. We wanted Nazi driven tech and business, we got it.
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That's what makes terrorists such a great enemy for imperialists, killing them just makes more terrorists, so you can fight forever.
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The US is the only country in the world not to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and it’s because the US insists on treating children as the property of their parents
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This is why so many people are quiet quitting. They don't see it as a paradox, they see that employers hate their employees.
Companies will hire advisors to lower turnover, only to refuse even basic advice because of "company culture". This is not your fault.
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You can't fight a war if it ends right?
Which is why our solution to these problems is to lower the quality of life for the average citizen. Not only is it the cheapest option, it also pushes birth rates up and leads to larger numbers of desperate uneducated soldiers, who will be sacrificed.
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Being a skilled dowser isn't about finding water, but about convincing people to pay you to look for water. Like a priest or a chiropractor, the coincidental results are just icing on the cake, useful for convincing more people to pay up later.
So he might be an even better dowser in AZ.
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No, I don't even advocate for violence myself. I suppose I must have misunderstood the intent of your original comment.
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All I can comment on this is that it will never feel like that time has come, it never came for most Germans. Your neighbor's children may have already been dissapeared, never to be seen again. This is normal in the US, like with native boarding schools, it's just more visible now.
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I'm not denigrating your effort, I'm just saying the parents mourning their dead kids won't buy those excuses. I am not above this either, even now I am choosing comfort over progress, I would rather keep my day job and eat frozen pizza than burn cop cars and stop killing kids. It could stop now.
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It's ironically the Nazi's that give the idea of race so much power. Races are made up, go to a different country and your race changes, because they define it different there.
Nazis are the one's who accuse you of being a certain race and say that means certain things about you.
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"We" allowed Republicans to do this, just as we allowed all sorts of horrific things in the name of tolerating the intolerant.
Beating Donald Trump is just a return to the status-quo that put him in power. Our elections must change, our businesses must change, and our churches must change.
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I'm not an accelerationist and I will always vote against Trump, but I can't deny a sense of vindication in the world finally seeing who we are. We chose to 'fuck around' for decades and now we are deep into the 'find out' phase. If we wanted voters to show up, we shouldn't have suppressed them.
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Give it time, with the US Treasury funding Nuralink we'll all have Employee Optimization features soon!
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That's the problem with being reactionary and rediculous, it's really hard to pretend you are not those things.
Whoever was in charge of that facility must have felt like a king in that moment.
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Voting may look at lot like it has in times past as well, it won't be as easy as just casting a ballot. Any asshole in a MAGA hat can cause trouble and the cops will choose to not respond, unless it's to firehose voters.
Rising community action groups will be vital for future elections.
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The US was on the side of germany in every way except our ties with england and france.
There were nazi rallies in the US up until we officially declared a side.
Our industrialists were helping the nazis the entire time.
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If anything we are being placed in crisis specifically so that blame can be cast and concentration camps can be filled.
Racists are trying to make the rest of us racist by making our lives worse and blaming other races.
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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, just let evil do it's thing while you focus on making more kids, we need workers.
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Every piece of history you don't learn will come back to bite you.
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We really failed to learn from WW2, demonizing the enemy is usually counterproductive.
A giant fucking mirror was held up to the world and we were like "What's wrong with Germany? So weird 🤷♂️"
The US sent black soldiers to die at Normandy with Jim Crowe laws still active.
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This was all from 2018, time to deep dive and see if things have gotten better since then.
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The American dream! A priest convinced your parents to marry you off to a rich patron!
Your new Spouse is also your Guardian, so when you run away the police take you right back!
Plus, no divorce until you're 18 and shelters will just call your Dad-Husband to come get you.
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Let's just stay here and create super earth, develop organic levels of technology, build god, eventually convert our solar system into a Stellar Engine that travels through space under it's own power, then scoot about seeding microscopic life in strange environments like stocking fish in ponds.
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It's because being rich is not a personal quality, but part of one's involvement in a system of oppression.
Going through the processes of being a good person results in you no longer being a rich person. Inversely, to become or remain rich requires the exploitation of other people.