This was always the way it was going to go. All industry in the US is ultimately downstream of the business of war. This is the strategic culmination of all those stupid Ghibli photos, the creep of that awful writing style into every corner of our lives, all of it was for this
it’s easy to tell people to “have empathy” when you don’t belong to a demographic that he spent his whole life slandering calling for violence against even with his last breath. fuck you, and fuck liberals.
@cszabla This is so transparently an attempt to build on the existing AI hype for investors so people get FOMO and worry that if they don't get in now they'll be out-maneuvered. I mean come on, authors and political scientists? What world do these people live in
americans memefying world war 3 as if they don’t belong to the most lethal and cruel nation state, one that shields them from the very violence it unleashes on the world, says everything about the level of apathy ordinary people have toward humanity.
as an anthropologist, one of my specialisations is authoritarianism & revolutionist practice in response to it
one of my research foci for is the social processes of a society's descent into authoritarianism
a historian once told me:
it happens slowly, then all at once.
american on xiaohongshu: Hello China! I come from America. This is baseball in Pittsburgh in America
top comment: 本·切灵顿是棒球界最愚蠢的总经理之一。他愿意用任何东西换取一名击球能力较弱的游击手🤣
the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us
New story about the Haitians in Springfield, OH, where the cat hoax originated. CEO of McGregor Metal: “I wish I had 30 more. Our Haitians come to work every day. They don’t have a drug problem. They’ll stay at their machine. That’s a stark difference from what we’re used to.”
NEW: There have been over 100 Gaza solidarity encampments at colleges this week in US and abroad 🧵:
Arizona
ASU
Auraria
Barnard
Berkelee Music
Berkeley
Brown
Cal Poly Humboldt
Columbia
Columbia Chicago
Cornell
CU Denver
CUNY
Delaware
Drexel
Duke
Emerson
Emory
Evergreen
FIT
FIU
@punishedpope i have to scroll past those replies becuase theyll seriously ruin my day i dont know why they make me so angry but its the first time ive felt like i need to kill someome with my bare hands