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liberals criticizing communism: the commies are going to do exactly the same as what capitalism already does but with them in power instead of people who deserve it (source: CIA encyclopedia of goodism and freedom)

liberals criticizing fascism: now the nazis may look very cool and sexy and they make some good points and make the trains run on time (source: the nazis) and... sorry i got distracted uhhhhhhhh you can't vote i guess :(

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Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

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half a year of unrelenting genocide in Gaza, please don’t stop caring. they are so tired, they cannot be the only ones participating in their own liberation. we have to keep caring

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

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Don't let antisemitic grifters worm their way into the pro-Palestine movement. Stay vigilant.

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Look. Politicians. I’m gonna be real with you. If you want people to make more babies you need to make the work week shorter and minimum wage higher.

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Just finished listening to blowback season 2 and can’t recommend it enough to folks on the left who’ve alway had the vague idea that America has been fucking over Cuba, but also still hold some of the common assumptions about the Cuban revolution, leadership, and ussr involvement. The recordings of the American leadership from the missile crisis are shocking in just how psychopathic everyone sounds. I feel like the common narrative is JFK was this incredible statesman for preventing nuclear war…when really he was just the only one in the room who wasn’t a full on psychopath. Like he was capable of summoning an ounce of empathy, and that was truly unique in that war room. Anyway, 10/10 recommend.

See you back here in a few weeks when I finish season 3 and want to gush about how good it was as well

#blowback podcast #anti capitalism #capitalism #october crisis #cuban missile crisis #america is a dystopia #communism

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Hot take of the day: “Hash brown, egg yolk, I will always love you” is both absolutely deranged and one of the greatest lines of poetry in modern history.

Change my mind.

#harry's house album #harry styles #just keep driving #crazed music lyrics

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the bodycam footage is insane

"WE'RE GETTING THEM OUT. MAKE THEM STOP" as if "them" isn't a bunch of kids playing prescheduled marching band music in a football stadium

band director confirmed chad for calmly telling the cops to get out of his face and continuing to conduct though I hope there are school music-based protests as a result of this

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the new normal that should have arised from the current covid pandemic was a fully vaccinated populus, masks as common usage, huge amounts of industry restructured for remote work, single payer healthcare, elimination of the landlord class and massive public health awareness

but the minute we approached any of that capitalism screeched on the brakes. this state will never be out for your interests.

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"Interstate 55 carries 10s of thousands of abortion seekers out of southern states to Illinois, where abortion is legal. I-55 is covered with horrific, shaming billboards. Shout Your Abortion put up 6 good ones, to show love & affirmation to those making the journey." x

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as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds

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every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon