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BrotherL0v3

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  • The two are not in equal positions when it comes to keeping "cool heads". Pretty hard to keep cool when you've grown up being shot at and starved and driven from your home. It's easy to sit in a safe place and condemn someone else's reaction to having their home conquered and their people slaughtered, but it's another thing entirely to actually go through it.

    Of course, targeting civilians and committing war crimes is bad. No contest. But people are going to fight like cornered animals when you try to genocide them. Let's not pretend like Hamas came out of nowhere.

    People are a product of their environment, and people who grow up while being exterminated become radical and violent. The way to stop that from happening is not to keep dropping bombs and blocking humanitarian aid and sniping children.

  • that rock...

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  • Simple solution: make the moon farther away.

  • ICE Barbie Is Now Accusing Dems of ‘Felonies’ Over Detention Center Clash

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  • Representatives “punched” and “body-slammed” the ICE agents, she added.

    LMAO. Super soldier democratic elected officials, defeating heavily militarized police units using unarmed combat. I believe it!

    As usual, Republicans accuse Democrats of being much cooler than they really are.

  • RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day

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  • Love that podcast! That's how I learned about the corpse thing.

  • RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day

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  • The obsession with animal corpses. The myriad bizarre diseases and conditions. The desperate attempt to bring back measles. The reckless disregard for public health. The unnerving face that dips into the uncanny valley.

    Folks, I think RFK jr may be Pestilence.

  • So uh, this is just allowed on tumblr (kinda gruesome tbh)

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  • Folks.

    If you ever catch yourself describing how you want to torture someone to death, I want you to stop and take inventory of your priorities.

    Look. I am not a pacifist. Some motherfuckers need to be removed from positions of power by any means necessary, up to and including violence.

    That being said, should we not focus on restorative justice and rehabilitation? Why create unnecessary suffering in the process? The argument that things like the death penalty act as a deterrent doesn't seem to be borne out in the evidence. What good is served by torturing someone, even if they're the nastiest son of a bitch in existence?

    It is important to make sure we don't let killing for sport seep into our ideology. Using violence against people is not something we should take pleasure in, let alone fantasize about. History has given us plenty of examples to draw from here; once you make a policy out of sadism, the group of people you use violence against only grows.

    Also, porn is fine in moderation (like everything else) and can be made totally consensually, you terminally online freaks.

  • Misinformation

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  • I feel like there's this explot in human psychology:

    1. People are pretty bad at matching causes to effects.
    2. Doing something novel / outside your usual routine can feel pretty good, regardless of what it is you're doing.

    Therefore: People who try weird diets, snake oils, or letting the sun shine on their asshole really do feel better afterwards, at least for a while. That must mean it works!

  • so fun

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  • Hey folks, I've been asleep for the past few hundred years. Can't wait to see how the profit motive has universally overlapped with providing the most utility to society! Such a neat little hack.

    ...

    Uh oh. Uhhhh... Oh no...

  • Memes are usually about humor, but sometimes about hope

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  • You bring up a good point, but I don't think religion necessarily involves the kind of unreality I have in mind.

    A lot of religious claims deal with things that are unfalsifiable. Invisible forces, unreachable gods, consciousness after death, things like that. Not the most rational stuff in the world, but not obviously false on the face of it either.

    Now, though, we've got folks believing things that are easily disproven. Climate change denial, anti-vaccine bullshit, the never-ending parade of moral panics churned out by the above mentioned propaganda machine, Jewish space lasers, pet eating immigrants, etc.

    I won't go so far as to say that religion never causes people to deny observable reality; it surely does. But I think the right wing media empire we have now does so intentionally and on a scale greater than any religious movement I can think of.

  • Memes are usually about humor, but sometimes about hope

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  • The bad news: The most evil people in the world spend billions every year on the largest propaganda machine in the history of man, and it enthralls a large minority of us.

    The good news: That's what it takes to maintain this! This many people living in a bubble of unreality is not natural! It is the product of a machine built by man, and all machines built by man are destined to eventually fail. Maybe the right person dies at the right time. Maybe the conflict between their narrative and reality eventually becomes too much. Maybe they lose control of the story and the movement splinters into hundreds of contradictory conspiracy theories that no longer move in lockstep. Maybe the magic just wears off one day.

  • Elon Musk calls for 'arrests' after woman points her finger at a Cybertruck

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  • He also loves money and has no principles. People doing something because they have values is just not something he understands.

  • Guide to software developer job advertisements

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  • I keep getting recruiters sending me in-office jobs on the other side of the country and not even telling me the salary range. You're asking me to break my lease, uproot my family, and leave behind all my local friends. If your salary is low enough that you don't want to advertise it up front, why would I ever even consider doing all that?

  • CNN Poll: Public remains negative on Trump ahead of address to Congress

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  • The media is gonna spin things no matter what. Dems should not let that stop them.

  • Thoughts about Direct Democracy?

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  • I like the idea! I feel like there are a ton of policies that have been really popular for a long time (legal weed, single payer healthcare, abortion protections) that elected officials have failed to sufficiently act on. I'm also pissed about politicians getting elected and suddenly changing their politics (looking at you, Fetterman). Don't get me started on the electoral college or gerrymandering.

    Folks in this thread seem to complain that the average voters is too disengaged / ignorant for this to work, but I don't see how representative democracy is any better with that. I cannot imagine any form of democracy that can do better than garbage in, garbage out.

  • Elon Musk Pushes for ISS Deorbiting by 2025

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  • With all the junior devs he surrounds himself with, I'd expect him to be sick of XSS by now.

  • ADHD meds, depression, and sertraline

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  • Not in an emotional way, but like digesting news from around the world and seeing logically we are fucked so may as well just quit?

    I would challenge that belief.

    Things are bad, sure. Climate is gonna change, people are gonna fight and die over the dumbest shit, and billionaires are going to loot any public good they can get their hands on.

    But good people are still fighting. It's a lot less top-down and much less visible, but it's happening. Lives can still be saved, the damage can still be mitigated, and the bad guys can still be meaningfully opposed. Things can change quickly!

    We have to keep in mind that the news is never gonna be good. Even when it isn't a glorified right-wing propaganda machine, it's a business that thrives on attention. And things that make you sad or scared or angry are always gonna grab your attention more than anything else.

    We're not getting hit by a giant meteor. We're not all irrecoverably fucked. It's better to prepare for an uncertain better future than give up preemptively!

  • I’m a Federal Worker. You Have No Idea the Irreversible Damage Elon Musk Is Doing.

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  • It burns my ass that some folks actually bought the whole "Trump doesn't support Project 2025" bullshit. I cannot imagine being such a gullible, credulous moron.

  • if u can create something from nothing what it would be? (u can create something once)

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  • I would create a device that could locate any missing object. Go treasure hunting to make a living, and help find missing people / pets when I can.

  • The Presidential policy we need

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  • Put the man who envisioned a stateless and currency-less society on a state-issued currency? Still a better pick than Jackson.