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Black Lives Matter.
Header illustration is by Richard Powers. 🐰

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

Depressionanigans™: the bullshit you get up to when you're too depressed to get up

You're welcome

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

All rape is wrong

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

Yesterday, a Trump Supporter I was debating took off their mask and argued that CHILD RAPE wasn’t wrong, by incessantly asking me why it is.

They’re trying to normalize pedophilia. It’s not normal, it’s evil. How did we get here.

[🌊MforFreedom. #Resist @Cumberland, Mary @gamelin_m]

@davenewworld_2 RISE UP!

[Sissy SpaceX ⚫️⚪️ @thesissyspacex]

First, thank you for taking the time to write this.

I couldn’t agree with you more on all of this. Being forced to choose the lesser evil was always the plan. Political fatigue, and not knowing where you should align with lesser evils, pushes people away from politics, when it should be pulling them in. It should be making everyone get angry and involved.

I personally don’t keep friends or close company that will not engage in discourse on policies. I feel it’s an unacceptable level of privilege, the worst version of white privilege, and it’s perpetuating our failures as a society. Anyone who doesn’t care, because they don’t feel immediate impacts on their votes is too privileged for me.

Right now, I agree that we need a general strike. The boycotts work and the protests are heard, but it’s time to really hurt them financially.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

"I'm not into politics" is a very common phrase we hear in the US. That's why instead of us trying to get more people "into" politics, we're better off saying "good FUCK politics, this isn't about politics, it's about good vs. evil, heroes vs. villains, right vs. wrong, humanity vs. the systems that grind humans down."

To enact change, it was never necessary for the average person to know all the D-list politicians, bylaws, procedures, and arbitrary rules. It doesn't matter if all of us are "into" a social technology operated by elites. IMO, what matters a lot more is getting people "into" social technologies that are operated BY THE PEOPLE: nationwide strikes, boycotts, union drives, etc. That's where our power is, and that's how we counter evil, instead of the way it's been our entire lives, which is millions of us adapting to the whims and fancies of dangerous elites in an organized crime syndicate, and then doing them the courtesy of calling it politics, which is exactly what they want.

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[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

The evil urge to dominate people, commit genocide, monopolize surpluses, hoard land, prioritize money over human life, build armies, rewrite history, erase cultures, brainwash future generations, etc. is a core rot in humanity that predates our modern political systems. Politics, especially under our current system, is a "social technology" that's constructed out of that very rot JUST to sustain those evil urges, and it adapts constantly to protect and expand those evil urges.

The system of politics we currently have is a staged arena built BY evil people to protect THEIR power. So when lots of good, smart people shrug and say "oh well it's just politics" or "that's what politics means", then they are validating precisely why evil people construct complex political systems in the first place. Of course evil people and the ruling class want politics to be the catch-all term for what they do. Handwaving their actions as politics is a form of "common sense" the elites instill into us and it helps them get further away from facing justice.

What they DON'T want is for us to collectively shatter this "common sense" of "politics as usual" by defining them as an organized crime syndicate, or by framing them as a mafia that terrorizes the masses.

Acts like genocide or famine are so extremely evil that calling this "politics" makes it sound normal, or acceptable, or even inevitable to the general public. The term politics functions as a semantic anesthetic that blunts how horrifying their actions are and it helps absolve evil people of their crimes against humanity. I don't want to anesthetize anything, I don't want to downplay what they do, or absolve them, or make anything easy for them.

Reducing the evil urges of powerful people to "politics as usual" helps them evade accountability, and it consents to their "worst case scenario," which is to retire peacefully, disappear from the public eye, and walk away scot free (see: Biden, Cheney, Kissinger). I don't want that. I want them facing real consequences so I use the term for what they do "organized crime" because this is a term the average person takes serious, and it shatters any facade that politics can be a legitimate cover for their evil urges. It's language that the average person instinctively takes seriously and it strips away the illusion that politics is a legitimate cover for their brutality.

Politics is a rigged board game where the worst of humanity can get together and write the rules, start with more pieces, and change the rules anytime they start losing. It was never meant to be a neutral arena for the best of humanity to actually use to its fullest potential and act in the best interests of everyone. Sure, we can (and should) utilize politics to an extent, but at the end of the day, there will always be artificial constraints for anyone trying to do good through politics alone. This is why it mostly skewed toward evil for centuries and centuries by design, despite numerous attempts to "reform" it.

To actually counter evil in a lasting way, good people can't JUST focus on politics. There has to be parallel supplements in addition to their focus on politics. That's why I would suggest that as long as we are on this planet, we use our creativity and grit to construct and utilize our own "social technologies" that combine to have greater weight and greater influence than politics, instead of relying solely on politics. Examples include general strikes, union drives, mass boycotts, pamphleteering, direct action, etc., AND furthermore, there has to be a collective, long-term commitment to these social technologies backed with the same rigid discipline and persistence that the ruling class brings to their political institutions. The forces of good need their own infrastructure that's just as entrenched and durable as the infrastructure of evil.

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[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

Send me next plz

[Pulp Covers @PulpCovers]

Just uploaded a complete scan of this book:

https://t.co/70dU98NA5B

[delian @zebulgar]

just read this in an investor update

"older engineers who graduated from college pre-GPT are actually the best-suited for our purposes. They have fundamental programming ability that's lost amongst most of the current-gen."

the AI-induced thinking/skills decay has begun

wild

[Aaron Bady @zunguzungu]

@_Zeets (also, my kids are only three, but a remarkable thing about toddlers is that there really is nothing they love doing more than *working*; not to be all "the parents are the problem," but I've come to think *parents that don't read* are probably the most proximate cause)

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@theoluna007 @MLNow Massive understatement

[meg, one of the biggest stars out of daytona beach @mccahell]

“We can’t stop AI-“ yeah except we can and must

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@porkpiephat @katewillett Well your #1 choice is totally beefing it, hope you're proud of yourself

[Jerque Cousteau @neo_antiquarian]

@sfchronicle It’s crystal clear to anyone paying attention, that Lurie is not thoroughly vetting his team.

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@neo_antiquarian You make a great point tho, people should be more pissed about Altman

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@neo_antiquarian She's like 29 homie

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@berndlicious Those women are acting

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@nonconformant1 @gilduran76 @joni_askola Thiel is in those Epstein emails

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@BradIsTheShT @VICE You could start becoming a hot girl tomorrow babe, nobody is stopping you

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

Hey sister go sister

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

@DAKKADAKKA1 Huh, wonder what happened to him for holding these beliefs?

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@jjellisart @DAKKADAKKA1 I just love it when women

[non-tokeable funyun @fru1tp1e]

@blurgggg @MKatorin If you don't understand something you can just say so, you don't have to make up lies about everyone else