I think it’s pretty naïve to think that oligarchs are benevolent, and at least we have a say on how government money gets spent.

What we have now is billionaires rigging the system in their favor; like I said, that kind of wealth disparity is inherently destabilizing to society, and they accumulated it through exploitation.

Finally, if the people could spend the money better than the government, why do we have taxes at all? It’s because there are things that we need to address as a society instead of relying on charity that may or may not come.

The change handed out by billionaires as philanthropy is PR to keep them from paying their fair share in taxes. Calling them a parasite class is completely accurate— they couldn’t have earned that much wealth without exploiting both the laborers who created it and the society that their extreme horde inherently destabilizes. If they paid their fair share in taxes, then their donations would be appreciated.

Which is why I said the media is lying for the Trump administration: this is the lie that the administration told, and the media repeats it for them.

The fact is that they didn’t give a fuck if they could deport him or not.

Saying he was “mistakenly deported” makes it sound like they cared one bit. There was no error; the judge issued an order asking for any evidence of that, and he got crickets back.

Then it seems that they should have left out “mistakenly” if they only report verifiable things that they can prove, including motives.

The media needs to not treat this as normal or blundering. MAGA know what they are doing: making this country intolerable to immigrants.

This isn’t a purity test, it’s criticism. That’s a perfectly fine thing to do.

The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media.

I really wish the media would stop lying for the Trump administration. It wasn’t a mistake, they deported him intentionally.

I bet he could cheer himself up with one of those brain chips he’s trying to get going.

The Oblivion score is so good.

Exactly. One glance at the list of countries by incarceration rates will confirm that the US has been a police state for a while now; it’s just who is being targeted that is changing.

I don’t listen to the show very much, but I was tempted out of masochistic curiosity.

Dude is like a boomer Joe Rogan— he buys into the dumbest bullshit because he thinks being a contrarian is a cheat code for the truth.

Bill Maher is a textbook reactionary centrist: he’d sell out any minority for the sake of his own influence and pocketbook.

From the constant digs on trans people to the time he was ready to scab (until it became clear that it would diminish his influence), he’d step on every person he views as beneath him to get powerful people to think he’s smart.

And he’s not half as smart as he thinks he is— he ends up platforming the absolute worst people and letting them run rhetorical circles around him.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk

I’ve got the flu, no time to talk

Muzak loud and samples warm, I’ve been coughing loud

Since this morn

And now it’s all right, it’s okay

And you may look the other way

But we can try to understand

This NyQuil dose effect on man

-Staggeringly High Fever

It was the inciting incident for the “moral majority.” The integration of schools really triggered the reactionaries.

Of course, having to teach science instead of their myth really upsets them too.

Also, showing kids different perspectives on history other than the manifest destiny of white men really offends them.

Oh, and treating every student with dignity really lights them up.

Turns out there’s a lot of reasons why reactionaries hate education, and they mostly reduce down to the fact that education makes one far less likely to be a backwards antisocial goon.

Good pick! I was so bummed when I heard that was cancelled.

I’d like to play around with whatever alpha build they made for the original concept of Team Fortress 2.

I love the one that came out (it’s probably my most played game of all time), but those first few screenshots before retooling were captivating when we’d already been waiting so long for the release.

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In February 2015, Ackerman published a series of articles in The Guardian describing the Homan Square facility as “an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.” Ackerman asserted that the Homan Square facility was the “scene of secretive work by special police units,” where the “basic constitutional rights” of “poor, black and brown” Chicago city residents were violated. Ackerman asserted that “Chicagoans who end up inside do not appear to have a public, searchable record entered into a database indicating where they are, as happens when someone is booked at a precinct. Lawyers and relatives insist there is no way of finding their whereabouts. Those lawyers who have attempted to gain access to Homan Square are most often turned away, even as their clients remain in custody inside.”

Not offshore, but still.

Remember when y’all banned the word “fascist” as mods on /conservative.ee?

God damn that was funny.

He’s only here to piss you off.

He needs the attention you’re giving him, because he never learned how to get it in a healthy way.

The argument is what he wants because it makes it look like there are two sides to the issue. There aren’t two sides. Stop giving him what he wants. He doesn’t care about facts or reality; he’ll say whatever gets a rise out of you because he’s a broken, seething husk of resentment who wants everyone to be as miserable as he is.

He loves wasting your time, because trolls are pathetic losers who have nothing better to do.

I can’t grab it either. It keeps telling me to log in when I’m already logged in.

Nobody feed the troll.

The worst thing you can do to him is leave him alone with his own thoughts.