Amen. I am still trying to figure out if they even understand that healthcare is a great benefit to society. They act like the individuals on Medicaid are raking in thousands of dollars for themselves. Same with education, public transportation. We are so far behind other countries😔

Incredible that people would rather live in a higher-crime surveillance state than invest in government services that benefit people they dislike.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? Story via @newyorker.com

Least environmentally destructive AI fan

go ahead and pedant me to death abotu "who we truly are" ( agree anyway) but i simply do not believe the american myth and self conception is "i relate best to the boot standing on the neck" - i still think we consider ourselves freedom loving individualists

The shit on the mantel looks like someone dialed in a setting marked “R A N D O M” on a 3-D printer before feeding gold mush into it

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

Sir, Taylor Swift has a song called “Wood” on her new record. Is that about who I think it is?

I was just watching a comedy series and laughing, but at the same time so much of it was reminding me of all the dystopian stuff happening now that it also was prompting anxious feelings. Like my brain is now processing even light-hearted things in a damaged way bc everything’s seemingly so broken

I bet our brains will come out of this ordeal very cool and normal

I guess the person who did it was so tickled by the double entendre possibilities of that one that they got distracted and goofed the spelling

Yeah, not to mention that so many of the ppl grumbling about “illegals” or voting for trumpian immigration stuff are far too old to be running around tackling ppl or w/e

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Well, I’m just a five-year old child. I haven’t been around for that long.

I didn’t read it as saying the descent into fascism is solely attributable to attempts to distract from potential Epstein revelations — I thought the post was wondering at the sudden acceleration of crazy, desperate-seeming shit, and trying to connect it in part to the President being in panic mode.

While consuming more electricity than is needed to power all of the city’s homes

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

So well-said, and I think it is true of all these worms, from the President to the avg maga citizen. They’re flailing around in some effort to, I dunno, FEEL something, maybe? They are holding everyone hostage w their personal issues, and getting shit results for all, including themselves.

In my youth older Italians would tell you fondly about how when the fascists realized they were cooked, they began to slip away first in a trickle & then suddenly almost all went to ground or fled in a rush - often in disguise. Sometimes they were caught on the edge of town. They know they're hated.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The “pussy and/or dick…” bitter incel part is truly some chef’s kiss magic on top of the overall atrociously bad writing and sheer dumbassedness

A.I. Hague 🤔