It was always clear this was the anti-woke goal, it’s just depressing how much they were allowed to cloud it in high minded free speech misdirection.

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

cool, you seem wrong

Revelations in the Spycops inquiry today that the spycops' top priority in the early 90s was the infiltration and monitoring of the Lawrence family after their son was murdered by racists.

The president is clearly insane, is on a white supremacist government purging spree, has masked men in the streets abducting people based on their race, is trying to start a war with Venezuela, and is tanking the economy, and none of that would be apparent just going by most corporate news outlets
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Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

when you and all your pals are definitely not in the epstein files

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

The thing is, billionaires like Bezos aren't interested in owning newspapers because they want a big circulation to sell lots of ads. That's the 20th century model. They want to own newspapers because they bring proximity to political power via their outsize influence on discourse.

Yeah, let's all share the picture of the world's most famous news magazine hailing "his triumph", that'll show him. He'll never recover from that sick burn

It's never been more obvious how utterly subservient Britain is to the US. Even in the Bush/Blair days there was a pretence of independence. We didn't elect a Prime Minister, we elected a branch manager who reports to the real boss.

Worm.

Seems like a good time for a can of this collab beer between Palestinian brewery Taybeh & Brewgooder, proceeds to Palestinian communities & available in the Co-Op

It's a race. What will happen first:

1. Global collapse of Capitalism (so we can solve this)

2. Total irreversible apocalyptic climate collapse

My guess is 1 happens only when 2 is already deep underway, or, hopefully when it is very very imminent and obvious but not too late, say tomorrow.

If I were to formulate a general theory of the Literacy Problem, it'd be this: people can learn to simulate comprehension without comprehending a text, and can learn to simulate communication without saying anything, and that behavior needs to be identified at a young age and stamped out

Guide to writing every article:

1. Pretend that AI works

2. Pick an arbitrary timeline for when that happens (don't try too hard with this one, "soon" or "inevitably" is good enough)

3. Convince yourself that this isn't just Sam Altman fanfiction

4. Rake in big bucks from every publication

think I'd be risking a blood pressure incident if I actually read this book. but good that it's out there I guess, not that the perpetrators are ever going to suffer the consequences they deserve

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

This is how we know all his colleagues despise him

real quick and dirty

If I shared this as a shitpost version of what Trump said at the Netanyahu celebration people would chuckle and say "you've done it again, Sooz" but it's just what he literally said.