Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺

No war but class war.

[mothman47 @mothman_47]

The internet might be over.

I am not talking about the corporate, ad-filled internet. I mean the real one. The one you use to talk with your friends, find niche communities, and freely share ideas. The way you access and interact with the digital world is about to change forever if we don't speak up right now.

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the KIDS Act. Do not let the well-intentioned name fool you. This massive legislative package is a wolf in sheep’s clothing that could potentially cause an unfathomable amount of damage to the privacy, security, and free speech of every single citizen in the United States.

Major civil liberties and digital rights organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) are sounding the alarm. This bill is a massive over-reach of legislation designed to curtail your freedoms, everyones.

Under this bill, websites and apps will be pressured to verify the age of all users to avoid massive legal liability. This creates a de facto age-verification mandate, meaning you could soon be forced to upload government IDs, passports, or hand over biometric facial scans just to use standard apps or browse everyday websites. Forcing every corner of the web to collect and store these massive databases of citizen identity documents is an absolute cybersecurity nightmare waiting to happen, creating a golden target for hackers and data leaks.

The bill also takes direct aim at standard privacy features like disappearing or ephemeral messaging, treating basic digital privacy tools like dangerous design tricks rather than the digital equivalent of a private, real-world conversation. By weaponizing broad, vague definitions of "harmful content," the package pressures tech platforms to heavily over-censor completely lawful speech out of fear of massive government lawsuits. It risks sanitizing the internet and shutting down vital spaces for free expression and open communication.

This won't stop at signing up for websites, or chat apps. It will extend to artwork websites, multimedia hubs like Newgrounds, Music sites, even Reddit and 4chan will be subjected to this, and while you might think it's well deserved, you won't be saying that when they start asking users to verify their age on Mangadex or doujinshi sites, or on Itch io. Going to websites outside the US would be scrutinized if it doesn't follow the same criteria.

VPNs? Forget it, they'll try to outlaw those, too.

We all want children to be safe, but turning the entire internet into an Orwellian surveillance state where you have to show papers just to log on is a terrifying overreach. The bill has passed the House, which means the battleground is officially moving to the Senate. We cannot afford to sit this one out. This is a slippery slope and we must not give them this power over all of us.

[Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @myinterwebname]

@Solidarity_Star @ComptonMadeMe I absolutely hated big bang theory. Nice to see what a piece of shit that woman is.

[Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @myinterwebname]

@zkwerrell @lhommedauphin A meme? Have another. For all you bootlickers

[Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @myinterwebname]

@vinnychase1764 @9mmballpoint

[Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @myinterwebname]

@ForeverLesbian2 @Ravious101 Well you can't tell a cop from a creep from 1 foot away either since there's no difference.

[Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @myinterwebname]

@AnecdocheEcho @YourAnonNews Who the fuck cares why they were called or why they were there at all. Useless comment. ACAB

[Richard @ricwe123]

"We are the only people in history who are expected to witness our own genocide,and then watch what we say so we don't hurt the feelings of the people who did this"

(Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian/US scientist and writer)

[Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @myinterwebname]

@ProudSocialist Seriously. 250 is a good number to end on.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?

It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."

It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."

It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."

It is not stupidity.

It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.

It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.

Not because the evidence is unclear.

But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.

Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.

The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.

[Dr.DV 🇵🇸🇨🇺 @myinterwebname]

@PDXFato @upholdreality That's the whole point, it's not "cost effective". Capitalism has melted people's brains to thinking the ultimate positive, raison d'être, is profit for the elites, rather than actual good for society. Because that is the purpose of capitalism.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

can we just point out the banner behind her—Thomas Sankara, Madiba, and Malcolm X beloved in Tehran. I suspect there are others on the other end that we can't see—maybe: Steve Biko, Patrice Lumumba, Robert Subukwe, Queen Nzinga, Assata Shakur...

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Adam Smith is the treasonous scumbag who joined with a Republican to craft a bill merging the American military with the IDF

Everyone must support Kshama Sawant who is running against him as an independent anti Zionist candidate

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's Not Okay To Join The Military

“If you live in the west and you join the military, at no point will you ever be acting in defense of your country; you will be murdering people who are trying to defend their country.”

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Dr. Sócrates describes his admiration for Fidel Castro:

“When I named one of my children Fidel, my mother said: ‘That’s a bit strong for a child.’ And I said: ‘Mother, look what you did to me.’”

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Normalize telling warmongering gusanos to shut the fuck up. US regime change interventionism is evil regardless of wherever your family happens to come from. Your family fleeing Cuba in the sixties does not magically make siege warfare and mass murder acceptable. Shut up.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

may all of moral humanity adopt these vibes. this is how we win. this is how the Epstein class ruling our lives crawl back under their rocks and get crushed by the weight of our march for truth, universal dignity, and indigenous symbiotic ways of life.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Anti-imperialism is not a position you arrive at once and then possess.

This sentence needs to be tattooed somewhere visible to everyone who has read three books about empire and now speaks on it with authority.

Because the books were written in a language.

The language has assumptions.

The assumptions have politics.

Even the canon of anti-imperial thought, from Hồ Chí Minh to Césaire, Fanon, Malcolm X, Cabral, Che Guevara, and Said, was produced in specific historical moments, in specific political contexts, in response to specific imperial formations that have since evolved.

The empire does not stay still.

It adapts.

It adopted the language of human rights and used it to justify intervention.

It adopted the language of democracy and used it to justify regime change.

It adopted the language of anti-corruption and used it to discipline governments that were not sufficiently aligned.

It will adopt the language of anti-imperialism next, if it has to.

It is already happening.

The Washington think tank that publishes a report on American imperial overreach is not your ally.

It is the empire doing diagnostics on itself.

The excavation never ends because the thing you're excavating is alive and watching and learning from what you find.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s not impossible to solve our world’s problems, it only looks that way because we’ve created systems which cause human behavior to be driven by mindless mechanisms of our own making rather than by human interest.

We allow the blind pursuit of profit to govern the way the human species behaves on our planet. Corporations which are legally compelled to do whatever maximizes shareholder value are exerting more and more control over the state and its people. And now we’ve got AI being prepped to do whatever it’s going to do.

These are unthinking beasts of our own creation. And we let them rule our world.

Our lives are dominated by gods without brains. And we made the gods.

We are being driven to extinction by the headless horsemen of the apocalypse. And we built those headless horsemen, bolt by bolt, with our own hands.

War. Militarism. Ecocide. Exploitation. Imperialist extraction. These things happen because they are profitable, and we are led by systems and institutions which consistently cause the most profitable thing to happen. They continually slant all movement toward the most profitable outcome, regardless of the negative impact it can have on human beings and the other organisms with whom we share this planet.

That’s why the military-industrial complex exists. That’s why the rainforests and ice caps are vanishing while sprawling data centers spring up all over the place. That’s why ordinary people are getting poorer and more miserable while those who own and operate giant corporations get richer and more powerful.

These things aren’t happening because it’s the way things need to be. They’re not happening because of human nature or because of some immutable characteristic of the way human civilization has to unfold. They’re happening because the mindless forces we put in charge of our society made things that way.

We can dismantle capitalism and set up systems which center human interests instead of profit. We do have the power to unseat the plutocratic institutions which rule our nations and put the people in the throne of power. All we need is the will to do so — which is why so much propaganda indoctrination has gone into undermining our will to do so.

You can tell how unthinking and indoctrinated someone is by how willing they are to go along with the rule of the headless gods. People who reflexively defend the status quo, who defend police brutality and government warmongering, who make excuses for capitalist abuses and inequality. They’re just small reflections of the mindless gods they serve. They are as unthinking and unconscious as the corporations that are devouring our world. Mindless NPCs marching to the drumbeat of mindless corporate power.

Humans do this because it's easier to give over our power than accept responsibility for the outcome. We're scared of getting the blame, so we hand power upwards. We keep handing it up and handing it up until there's no one to hand it to, so we make empty automatons to hold our powef for us.

It is a grave sin for us to abdicate our authority in this way. Humanity does need to take responsibility for the self-destructive trajectory it has set itself on, and reverse course.

It is absolutely within our ability to transcend our propaganda indoctrination and force a dramatic change in the way human civilization occurs. It is absolutely within our ability to make peace, feed and clothe everyone, and move into a collaborative relationship with each other and with our biosphere. We only think it’s not possible because we’ve never done it before. But we’ve done lots of things we’d never done before until we did them.

We’ve just got to stop letting ourselves be whipped around by unthinking, unfeeling, amoral mechanisms of our own creation. We made them, so we can unmake them.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

The people should never forget that it was the Soviet Red Army that liberated Europe from the German Nazis...