Diana L.

Does it matter?
No.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Jon Stewart on the disconnect between Trump excusing J6 protesters and MAGA condemning Renee Good

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

Kidnapping heads of state — Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro — in the name of democracy reveals what the “rules-based order” really is, and why we must resist it.

https://t.co/WVcepstNHd

[Diana L. @shui3]

Sad to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy leave Netflix today. Many good movies and shows getting removed for new content with dubious quality.

[“paula” @paularambles]

Consider, if you will, this peculiar Silicon Valley confession: “I worked for 36 hours with no sleep. Although I was dead, I also felt energized. I even fell asleep a few times while driving home in my Cybertruck, but fsd came in clutch. Happy thanksgiving.” People read this and say, “Wow, so crazy.” No. This is not crazy. This is ideology speaking in the first person.

Look at what he is really proud of. Not what he built, not the result. He is proud of his own exhaustion. He whips himself and calls it self-actualization. Before, the saint starved in the cave for God. Now, the engineer fasts from sleep for the billionaire.

And the best part, the truly obscene part, is the drive home. Here the machine steps in as what Lacan would call the big Other, the big adult in the room that keeps going while you collapse. You can be unconscious, half-dead, and still you are “productive,” because the car does the driving, the system does the watching. You close your eyes, the algorithm stays awake.

But notice the ideological twist: rather than confronting the absurdity of a society where one works until unconsciousness, the narrative is inverted. The same system that squeezes him until he is sleeping at the wheel also appears as his savior. This is pure capitalism. First it injures you, then it sells you the bandage, and you say thank you. You wreck yourself for one of the billionaire’s machines, then another one of his machines rescues your body on the drive home.

Which brings us to the “Happy Thanksgiving.” It is the final twist of the knife. Gratitude here is not for rest, or sanity, or enough sleep to drive safely. Gratitude is for the privilege of being exhausted in the right office, in the right hoodie, for the right man. You give thanks to the very structure that wears you down. It is like saying grace over your own burnout.

Thus the man who naps on the freeway is not a deviation. He is the ideal subject of our time. Half-alive, overworked to the point of being a public hazard, and then thanking the machine that keeps this madness just barely on the road. The system grinds him down, risks his life and the lives of everyone around him, and his reaction is not “this cannot go on,” but “I am so grateful.” In this one man in a Cybertruck you get the whole picture at once: exploitation, technology and holiday cheer condensed into a single, obedient “thank you.”

[Diana L. @shui3]

@FranciKek Cerkev je zmeraj želela strahospoštovanje ljudi in njihovo pokornost. Če izgubi ta nadzor in se človek zave svobode odločitve nad lastno usodo, izgubi cerkev svojo moč. Ni presenetljivo, da so se tomrat nenormalno aktivirali.

[Diana L. @shui3]

@AVA82615829 e-maribor je še en SDS prisesek... ni vreden pozornosti

[Diana L. @shui3]

Rewatching V for Vendetta really hits differently this year. It came out in 2005 and it captured a zeitgeist then but 20 years later it's even more relevant and sadly much closer to reality than we could ever imagine all those years ago.

[Diana L. @shui3]

@AdamParkhomenko Yeah, he's an idiot.

[JustTheFacts! ⚓️ 🇺🇸🦅 @JustTheFacts_68]

This… 👇👇👇👇👇

[Muntadhar al-Zaidi @muntazer_zaidi]

#CharlieKirk

[Diana L. @shui3]

You can really see how steeped into American influence we are on social media when some random person dies and suddenly it's an unsolicited political topic even outside of USA. And worse of all, opinions seem to reflect USA political views. *yawn*

[Diana L. @shui3]

I know this tweet will probably not even be seen by any living person but I just started watching s1 of Manifest and I'm absolutely hooked. Not my usual type of show but it's very solid.

[Viktória Serdült @viktoriaserdult]

Orban: Budapest Pride is banned.
Budapest Pride: Hold my beer. 🏳️‍🌈

The beginning of the crowd is already on the Buda side. The end hasn’t even started marching yet

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Where's all the free speech loving Republicans on this one?

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Remember when Vance came to Europe and lectured us about free speech? This is why people laughed at him:

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza.

Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

[𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒 @Antunes1]

9/11 was not an attack on America, it was an attack on two towers in NYC

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

It's a bit trickier when you're not fighting ambulances and child amputees is it?