As an American, my message to my friends in Europe is, to paraphrase Musk: “Whether you choose Trumpian right wing thuggery and nationalism, it is coming to you. You either fight back or you die.”

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We don’t have leaders right now? And we’re just going to act collectively and effectively as a whole? I’m sorry. Are we talking about the same species?

Probably the best collective action to hope for is that each of us pick the one thing here that we can do the most about, and go focus only on that thing.

You seem to like this word “collective” but trying to get everyone to do everything, as one, is an absolutely fantastic plan if your ultimate goal is failure.

It would honestly be better if some clear headed leaders proposed some prioritizes for the “all of us collectively” because “all of us collectively” have a bad track record of trying to agree on and decide anything.

It’s the bottom bitch of the big issues. But interestingly, we can’t really make progress on it without clearing the table of some of these joker politicians. That’s why, weirdly, I’d put the Epstein Files above environmental destruction on the prioritized list.

I had that thought about the Epstein Files.

That one at least has a clear action to take. How to make Nazis feel uncomfortable? Well that could mean 15 different things.

“In no particular order” is kind of a problem, because when you try to focus on everything, you can’t focus on anything. When everything’s a priority, nothing’s a priority.

“But everything IS a priority!!”

Everything is important but prioritized means in some kind of order. It isn’t better to get nowhere on 15 things than to get nowhere on 8 things. And neither of those is as good as getting somewhere on 2 or 3 things.

This is the kind of simplistic 1-2-3 logic they use all the time to destroy entire concepts like… human empathy. Troglodytes around the world will walk around with this phrase in their back pockets for years. Thanks, dead guy.

Instead of wondering why Kirk matters, we should be asking who put this notion forward. Kirk must have inspired some love from christo-fascists in Europe. Maybe we should be looking at them.

Why does it always look like someone photoshopped his face to 50% size?

Direct Democracy, perhaps? One way to not have these parties is to not have representatives at all.

I’m not sure there’s a name for thinking the parties shouldn’t exist. If you tell us what you think SHOULD exist we can probably tell you what labels apply to that.

We didn’t need two paragraphs to tell us religion has been divisive throughout history. However let’s not oversimplify. The black people terrorized by the KKK were also Christians. Fateh were also Muslims so Hamas didn’t steal their popular support just by being the right religion. Religion is a thing. Not the one and only thing going on.

Isn’t it weird how these white American fuckos have conglomerated Viking warriors, Jewish mystics, and Greek philosophers all into one pastiche identity, and then somehow laid claim to it, when their ancestors are more likely Dutch or English? The fetishization of Vikings… yeesh. We get it: you are a big warrior man. Yarrrgh.

Thank you

He didn’t actually DO anything, just gabbed in the internet. That kind of influence does not last. But there will always be some hateful asshole to take his place.

Weirdly, it is actually true that both the KKK and Hamas have bought support in their communities by doing good public works for people. It’s not what they are best known for, but I don’t think shadow organizations survive for long without building some support somehow.

It’s not helping that certain people Internally are lining up to show off whizbang shit they can do. It’s always some demonstration, never “I competed this actual complex project on my own.” But they gets pats on the head and the rest of us are whipped harder.

Two youts

They both got shot, apparently, is the link. He was their guy, and he got shot. Therefore, he’s just like MLK! /s

These hyperbolic statements are creating so much pain at my workplace. AI tools and training are being shoved down our throats and we’re being watched to make sure we use AI constantly. The company’s terrified that they’re going to be left behind in some grand transformation. It’s excruciating.