as time goes on it becomes increasingly clear that the reason the star trek future puts starfleet headquarters in san francisco is because a major socialist military presence was desperately needed to civilize the local technoyakubian population
The guy who bailed out his Wall Street donors as they threw 10 million families out of their homes is now chiding “the left” for making materialist arguments about improving people’s economic situation rather than telling morality stories. Truly unreal.
Even if we dismantled every police department and instead had Peace Intervention Squads made up of clergy and social workers, no amount of reform could ever kill the Cop that is inside the average American mind
I feel like Debbie Downer cos I’m constantly making jokes (to cope) about our food safety situation:
“I could go for some popsicles right about now… if they weren’t full of glass shards.”
it'd be really cool if even just a fraction of the people who see videos like this in the west bank start realizing that this is probably what the settlement of the americas looked like instead of the deranged fables we tell ourselves
James Cameron says there’s a reason why the villain T‑1000 is a cop in Terminator 2.
“Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak and evil. They dehumanize people they are sworn to protect, desensitize themselves in order to do the job