Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻

Tilting at windmills since 2013. (He/Him) BLM

[Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻 @Disord87]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

[thatonemaddy.bsky.social @thatonemaddy]

Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/

[Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻 @Disord87]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

[rim 𓂆🇩🇿🇸🇳🇫🇷🇧🇷🇲🇽 @thesentrim]

If ur shithole of a country didn’t act like the world’s police we wouldn’t give a damn fuck about your fuck ass presidents.

[kaela | franchaela nation 🏰 @kaekaecurtis]

please keep the “we survived him once, we will do it again” tweets in the drafts or better yet delete them. millions of people did not in fact survive him, and millions more will not survive him again.

[Clint Murphy @IAmClintMurphy]

Microsoft Excel is used by 99.99% of the world’s businesses, and

most people still don't know how to use it.

Here are 10 basics everyone should know:

[Stepan Hlinka @stepanhlinka]

13 free websites that are so useful they feel illegal to know:

[savannah @savbrads]

I’ve seen a lot of people talk about the Hervé Léger bandage dress recently, and I think there are two big reasons why it still feels so nonpareil in clubwear — (a) because of how much clubwear sucks now and (b) because it looks amazing on every single woman who wears it 🧵

[Gaijin Mommy @GaijinMommy]

Wait for it. I’m begging you.

[Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻 @Disord87]

@amandadeibert Same. I would never go back to the hell i had to escape. I’m living my best life now, except… let’s just say I don’t have a money management problem, I just don’t have enough money to manage.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The Big Problem is that we sort all the psychopaths to the top.

Under-regulated capitalism has allowed a strain of raging psychopathy to take control of key sectors of life, including business and politics.

At the root of this dynamic is that our system rewards people who don’t care about others because they have an array of options that people with empathy don’t have. It’s hard to be competitive when your competition is willing to do inhumane things you would never be willing to do. So the people who are willing usually win.

In this way, we sort all the high-functioning sociopaths and psychopaths to the top of the pyramid—and reward them lavishly for it. And once they get there, those people want to surround themselves with others who have no interest in empathy either—so they replace anyone who won’t behave like a sociopath with someone who will.

That’s how you get Robert Mercer, David Koch, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Donald Trump and the entire GOP cult.

Now is the part it gets weird.

Since the goal of these psychopaths is to make people behave in ways that are counter to their own interests—so they can steal people’s money for themselves—they have devised systems to turn “normies” into empathy-free zombies.

Large swaths of our digital and media existence have been captured by psychopaths who intentionally created platforms and methodologies for brainwashing people into their own cruel worldviews.

Look around. Social media and disinformation has converted a large percentage of our citizens into people who do not care about anyone but themselves and their cult leaders. The sinking feeling we have is driven in large part by people we know behaving in ways that seem sadistic and alien. We see cruelty, chaos and hate—and it feels wrong.

It is wrong. At least a third of the country has joined or been influenced by a fascist death cult. The world is, in fact, going crazy. You, dear reader, are not.

We have given the keys to our future to psychopathic white men who have proven that they want nothing but our destruction so they can pick up the pieces for themselves. Worse, those same people have not only sold their own souls, they are trying to sell us to our enemies.

Vladimir Putin, a psychopathic sadist with KGB training, is the perfect ally in their project. They are not scared of Putin. They want him to ruin the world. They want World War III. They want the End Times.

Why? Because they believe it benefits them. And that’s all that matters.

The fact is that psychopathy, cruelty and chaos is not what the vast majority of humanity wants. Most of us want to raise our kids in a world that cares about human beings, that cares about equality, that wants to move towards peace, not violence.

The key thing we have to address is the control that psychopaths have over information people bathe in. Until we do that, we will continue to lose people to this indoctrination system. Rupert Murdoch, the Kochs, the Mercers, Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. are creating hundreds of millions more of themselves—except their clones are under control.

These men do not deserve our trust. They deserve nothing but prison. They have intentionally poisoned us—think tobacco industry but 100 times larger—to benefit themselves and our enemies.

Fascism is fundamentally psychopathic, it is not ideological. It cannot be negotiated with. It must be defeated.

[David Mimno @dmimno]

This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.

[Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻 @Disord87]

@amandadeibert Never again. I would never want to go through my own nightmare again.

[Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻 @Disord87]

@lizgross144 I was suspended for disclosing my depression. Was told to appeal after a year.

In the meantime, I didn’t apply to other sch, or pivot my career because I was waiting to return.

It took 5 whole years of dragging their feet before they “wished me the best in my future endeavors”.

[Jamil F. Khan @JamilFarouk]

Boys are not easier to raise, you just neglect them and their social development because you know the world bends over backwards to accommodate, protect and explain the behaviour of the men they will become.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

This is actually a part of American history and how the music industry works.

A thread:

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! These 2 teachers conducted an AMA with their 4th graders — and it's actually hilarious. 🤣

Djuka Potkonjak posted the footage of herself and coworker Monique Hill to TikTok this month. As of May 8, the footage has more than 17M views.

[Pitchfork Economics @PitchforkEcon]

You may have read that Instant Brands, the company behind the Instant Pot and Pyrex filed for bankruptcy.

How can a business that manufactures two of the most successful cooking brands in the world fail so badly that it winds up going bankrupt? (THREAD)

[Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻 @Disord87]

@FCBalestier Lapsed S League fan here. Would love to support the team by grabbing a few of these jerseys. Can’t seem to find them online. Please advise. Thank you.

[Darth Bader Ginsburg 🇺🇦🌻 @Disord87]

@amandadeibert Pro-wrestling. Been fascinated with it as a means of long-term storytelling. Especially recently where things seem to be hitting a really rich vein of creativity.