Absolutely, no argument there

I’m getting more involved in that I’m discovering more open source projects that I can support.

Open source really gives me hope. Instead of a profit motive, communities form and work together out of passion and dedication to a project or idea.

That’s really invigorating to me. And, in many ways, can often be a big fuck you to our capitalist overlords. I’m working on presentations and such to teach my friends and spread the word about various projects and better op sec to make it all the harder to harvest our data.

Not the artist, and I don’t disagree with you. But the flag prominently features the Star of David, so I can see why the artist would have used it.

Arguably, the Israeli government is a major reason for growing antisemitism with how hard they’re working to blur the line between the government and ethnicity. A simpler person won’t draw the distinction.

Virginians, you officially have a cuck problem. Or a findom problem. Or both in your democratic representatives.

Don’t get me wrong, we all do, the democratic party would rather suckle the teat of billionaires than EVER do anything to help the working class.

At the point that you ignore the will of the people through the most democratic method, their votes, what is holding up the government besides the good will of said people?

Fuck the parasites. Fuck the billionaires. They want to cry that “tax the rich” is akin to a racial slur. They’re lucky that’s what most people are saying, it’s the moderate position. But making the rule of law worthless and leaving no methods to make change?

You’re fast tracking revolution.

Let me know when we’re ready.

Polls don’t change things.

Unrelated, how are pitchfork and torch sales doing?

That’s a start.

Why not have it be similar to how the pope is elected by having the circuit and district court judges vote to nominate and congress would vote to approve. Checks and balances and all that. Congress is feckless right now though, it needs its own reform to be held through RCV, abolish the Senate, expand the house based on the cubed root of the population, and fill seats based on proportional representation in the vote.

But fat chance that ever happens. We couldn’t dream of having black and brown people and women and working class people represented could we?

10 bucks says the studies were paid for by coffee and fruit industries.

Idiocracy was a prophecy.

Well, according to billionaires that are crying literal crocodile tears on the news, “tax the rich” is a racial slur.

They’re so deluded that they don’t even know what comes after tax the rich. That’s the moderate position.

The reason she’s anti-trump is because he wouldn’t support her campaign for Senate.

MTG is still a terrible, selfish person. She can be right for the wrong reasons.

And we can appreciate the hyenas eating themselves without supporting them. They’re simply stealing our talking points while not even taking them far enough.

“Being anti-trump is so brave! Like…Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens!” Yeah, not the entire left who were, once again, correct all along. Nah, instead they’ll grift each other and start supporting JD Vance from the looks of it, trying to paint him as the “sane one” or whatever bullshit they’re trying.

28% are part of politics and/or are capitalists that findom those in politics.

If there’s no point in voting, what’s the point in following the law at this point? That’s the only thing holding up this system of governance, the will of the people. Should the people feel the government has become tyrannical (aka consistently ignoring the direct democratic will of the people through their votes) then it is the duty of the people to alter or abolish it. The Declaration of Independence says as much.

Entirely fair, you’re right. It looks like Obama tried to move TARP funds to make it easier for small businesses and new programs to receive funding. I stand corrected on that point.

Accountability from parents being the elephant standing next to the mass surveillance elephant in the room.

How do you even scan a QR code if you’re browsing on your phone?

Welcome to the post-modern era of truth. Where objective reality doesn’t matter, only personal truth and reality. If what you’re saying doesn’t fit my personal truth, you’re using fake news or making it up. Even scientific research is fake news if it doesn’t fit my narrative. Just look at who funded the research.

Honestly, idk what we’re going to do. It feels like with all the age verification laws being pushed, the mass surveillance, and the quelling of dissenting opinions, the world admins are looking at 1984 as a guidebook. Are we going to get a Ministry of Truth established soon to “verify” what is accurate and what is not?

Afroman all over again. Snowflake white conservatives are mad they got called out.

I’m having no trouble on mine on CachyOS thankfully. Playin my games just fine. I’m sad I didn’t kick Microslop sooner, it’s been great honestly with all the tinkering and control I have. Not only did I get a performance lift, but my PC actually feels…like it’s mine I guess?

I get what you’re saying, but Americans, for whatever reason, paint Obama as the farthest left option when he was centrist at best.

The “they go low, we go high” mentality sounds nice but we’re seeing that directly play out where establishment Dems play by the rules and are too scared or too paid off to fight for the people while the Republicans break the rules all the time. And we choose to “move on” rather than hold them accountable. So, they learn that they can just fuck everyone over and no one will charge them with any crimes. Exactly what Obama campaigned on.

Not to mention that, rather than bail out the people who were suffering during 08, Bush bailed out the banks who caused the crisis. And what did the banks do with the money? Lay people off still and use that money to pay executive bonuses and for stock buybacks. Obama continued this oversight, and for what it’s worth he did attempt to send more funds to small businesses. But the fact still remains that the funds should’ve gone to the people affected and not the large banks that were deemed “too big to fail” similar to how AI is currently trying to position itself.

Also not to mention all the deportations and bombings across the world still. And the ACA being a right wing heritage foundation project that was adopted to provide more funding to private healthcare insurers. Which many just increased the prices of services to fleece taxpayers with so 🤷‍♂️

Obama is no comparison to Trump, of course, and I don’t hate Obama. But I also can’t forgive him for how ineffectual he actually was for the working class. We don’t need another “work across the aisle” “oh, let’s focus on the future, we don’t need to prosecute Trump or his administration” type candidate. We need one that will be an enemy of organized wealth and corporations so we can pull ourselves back out of authoritarian/billionaire control. The elite need to be held responsible. Otherwise, why would any citizen believe in the rule of law if it can be selectively applied?

I imagine many Virginians are feeling exactly that right now. They voted and approved a map and then their SC knocked it down because they felt like it. Meanwhile, the Republican maps are being forced through, held privately with no voter input, in some cases ongoing elections are even being halted with votes being thrown out to redistrict. All without any voter say to remove voter power. Why would anyone feel like their vote even matters anymore?

We need accountability. And I’m sorry, but a neoliberal Obama I don’t believe would hold any of them accountable.

I might recommend a game called 1000xResist

Sometimes, the whale is too big to fit in the backpack. You can’t take everything with you. Keep this in mind when you reach the ending.

While we want everyone to have decent lives we have to reckon with the fact that there are people, even if they are provided everything that they need to have a decent and happy life, they will still choose to harm others around them to get ahead.

We call them billionaires.

And I believe that when faced with complex problems and fears, studies have shown around 30% of people will flock to authoritarianism. They crave not having to face ambiguity and a simple answer to complex problems they wish to hide from. Even if those answers are lies.