This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.
Police DO NOT prevent crime; they respond to it. Crime is prevented by higher wages, guaranteed health care, food security, high-quality child care, housing, good schools, and addiction treatment.
Fascinating to me that once women could control their reproductive choices, they opted for fewer (or no) kids, & once women had financial independence, fewer choose to marry, & men can't seem to figure it out. Instead they insist women were happy back then.
Andy Beshear is demonstrating why voters are pushing out incumbent democrats. What a pathetic response to covering up McConnell’s death. “I haven’t heard anything”. Dude get off your fucking ass and go down to the hospital. Cause a fucking scene. We’re tired of this shit.
the thing abt climate change is that the earth will be fine, it always has been. it used to be a ball of volcanic ash and primordial soup. we however will not be fine
I'm really starting to feel like we're living in a psychological experiment designed to study how far a dystopian society can be pushed before the working class begins reacting violently.
I miss when "Tech" made life simpler. Now, I need an app to park my car, a QR code to read a menu, and a 2-factor authentication code just to check my own bank balance. We are over-complicating ourselves into a collective nervous breakdown.
I hate how aggressive algorithms have become. You like one post and your entire timeline is flooded with similar posts in seconds, it’s so easy to build yourself an echo chamber.
The reason ICE was able to shoot and kill another unarmed person in broad daylight was because the last two times they shot innocent unarmed people this country did nothing about it...and didn't even properly investigate it.
Outrage is good.
But without action it's NOTHING.
friendly reminder:
you can start anytime.
you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.
An underdiscussed part of modern capitalism is how low-wage workers are often micromanaged every minute they’re on the clock, while many high-wage jobs come with hours of unstructured computer time where no one really cares what you’re doing as long as the work gets done.