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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 2 days ago • 248 comments

Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath. To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Absolutely unacceptable that the UK government have forced this. You should all write to your MPs immediately, this is an absolute and brazen attack on our right to privacy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

weird, they get mad at you? usually when i tell jokes people laugh. skill issue i guess

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

% of U.S. adults who say the following is | isn't a dictator Volodymyr Zelensky 22% | 45% Donald Trump 41% | 45% Vladimir Putin 71% | 9% today.yougov.com/topics/polit... today.yougov.com/topics/polit... today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

I thought this was an Onion article for WAY TOO LONG.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

submitted 3 days ago • 395 comments

People in general don't seem quite as concerned as I'd have imagined they would be when the entire world order most of us were born into died a few days ago? Like, I was expecting 'fall of the USSR' style media coverage and.... It's too big for my brain to wrap itself around, I think.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

🛰️ Hi, I'm Matt and I'm LOOKING FOR WORK. I spent over 10 years working for Nerd³ doing video editing, streaming, thumbnails, community management, packaging logistics, PA work, and more! If anyone knows of anything, please send me a DM. Here's my editing portfolio: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Britain’s foreign policy reality has just shattered. Trump’s return, Ukraine and Atlanticism in crisis. What now? Keir Starmer has a unique chance to reset defence, rebuild the economy, and seize the moment. Will he? Chaos is a ladder. It’s time to climb. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

You spelled "ethnic cleansing and colonialism" wrong

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Now it’s Monday, I’d appreciate if people RT and share this quoted post around!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are trying to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

submitted 7 days ago • 527 comments

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

submitted 7 days ago • 153 comments

Oh my fucking GOD go and fuck yourself into the sun you authoritarian fascist bullies. Fuck Russia, and Fuck the US.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

🛰️ Hi, I'm Matt and I'm LOOKING FOR WORK. I spent over 10 years working for Nerd³ doing video editing, streaming, thumbnails, community management, packaging logistics, PA work, and more! If anyone knows of anything, please send me a DM. Here's my editing portfolio: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

He is, and we should be fucking sanctioning the US at this point.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 11 days ago • 390 comments

Sorry for the lack of streams this week, I’ve been really struggling with my mental health and finances and I’m so exhausted.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

Over the past few years I’ve managed to completely detach from all Google services aside from YouTube. I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo, iCal, iCloud Docs, Dropbox, Firefox, Safari, FastMail, and Apple Maps. Apple are far from perfect, but they seem to be the only big tech company resisting this shit.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month

submitted 12 days ago • 520 comments

The statements by JD Vance and Mike Lee about rejecting the separation of powers…. .....and therefore the constitution….. .....are evidence of the continual slide into authoritarianism. 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

I know correlation doesn’t equal causation; but the sheer amount of fatal and serious airline accidents that have happened in the US since Trump took office and tried to gut the FAA is insane.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

every Donald Trump cycle: TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies TRUMP: beheads the easter bunny NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

Once you really understand that the purpose of prisons is to provide corporations with slave labor the whole "what if we made being poor illegal" strategy of the American government becomes a lot more clear in its intentions. Like it's just slave labor 2.0. Always has been.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

This is pretty spot on by @labourlewis.bsky.social. As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social pointed out on LBC earlier, there is something very Trumpian, and just generally sickening, about effectively live streaming people in distress for the entertainment of racists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Elon Musk, who has $3.6 billion in Pentagon contracts, will look for waste in Pentagon contracts, Trump says. My bold prediction: Musk will decide that his $3.6 billion in Pentagon contracts is worth every penny. His competitors' contracts will not fare as well.

submitted 16 days ago • 36 comments

How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are ‘Illegal Migrants’ There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/h...

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

Good god Labour are a gaggle of cunts.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

NHS staff barred from workplace for considering Palestine demonstration

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

I want to emphasize that I am not an easy person to radicalize. It's not really in my nature. If I come across as strident and extreme, it's because I have been watching Elon Musk operate very closely for a decade now, and I am extremely worried that we are already out of formal tools to resist him.

submitted 14 days ago • 46 comments

They don't learn anything at all ever which is why nothing will ever fundamentally change but will constantly get worse

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Well yeah but at this point there’s effectively four separate VR ecosystems: - Meta Quest - PSVR - Apple Vision - PC There’s some overlap (Quests and PSVR2 work on PC), but all four are effectively walled gardens of a niche and I hate it.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

‘UN torture tsar attacks UK over ‘inhumane’ indefinite jail terms’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

submitted 16 days ago • 91 comments