Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

I want to make this crystal clear for all you MAGA weirdos out there.

✨I DO NOT WANT TO UNITE WITH YOU.✨

I don't want a slice of pizza from you. I don't want to visit your car wash. I don't want to support your kids' softball team. I don't want your food, your clothes, your electronics, your applicances, your houses, your cars, trucks, planes, or hoverboats. I don't want anything you make, sell, import, export, teach, manage, grow, build, or finance. I don't want a single fruit of your labor anywhere in my home, or a single dollar of yours in my pocket. Here is why:

• You have white supremacists in your party, and you don't care.
• You have KKK in your party, and you don't care.
• You have Nazis in your party, and you don't care.
• You have Proud Boys in your party, and you don't care.
• You have traitors and insurrectionists in your party, and you don't care.

So no. I don't want anything to do with you. Here's what I do want:

I want you to keep wearing your stupid little red hats and put your Trump2024 stickers on your businesses. I want to see you. I want to know exactly who to avoid. I will happily go spend an extra ten dollars halfway across town rather than walk next door to give you one penny of my money.

No unity with racists, homophobes, sexists, and insurrectionists. Not now. Not ever.

There are currently almost 65,000 women and girls pregnant as a result of rape in US states that ban abortion even for rape. That’s a hell of a lot of raping going on. A hell of a lot of ruined lives. The US is a sick, violent, basket case.

genius marketing because they know that for every couple that shows up, there will shortly thereafter be a divorced guy looking to buy cheap furniture

From The Gutenberg Parenthesis. The era of content is over.
https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/

Business elites in Germany fatuously believed they could control Hitler after helping him to power. They quickly found that Hitler had the controlling hand as a crazed autocrat.

As that played out, business leaders elsewhere stood by in total silence.

We cannot expect the super-rich and their corporations to save us. They are not in the business of saving. Quite the opposite….

#Trump #dictator #corporations #EconomicElites #fascism
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Why limit it to Senators? Bring back dueling for everyone. My only complaint about dueling is that "pistols at dawn" is very early in the morning and I demand satisfaction closer to the afternoon.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/26/missouri-republican-dueling-statehouse

Personally I think that, despite the $83 million verdict, Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba did a great job representing Trump and he should use her in more of his cases.

Who did this?!? 😂

Oh hey, remember when those wacky ranchers had a week long standoff with the feds over grazing fees, or they seized a ranger station and declared it theirs?
Do you remember the nazi cosplayers were coming out to every BLM and Defund protest to cause havoc and hurt people? Including killing protesters?

I wonder why half the fucking governors and the chief nazi are calling for armed open conflict with the fucking federal government?

It's almost like that other stuff was practice. [tired sigh]

"We really need the engineers to be living on the line. This is not sort of an off-the-shelf 'it-just-works' type of thing," Musk told investors.

"That will be a challenging production ramp," Musk said. "We'll be sleeping on the line, practically. Not practically, we will be."

"I am shit at my job and cannot sustainably manage a workforce" - Elongated Muskrat

#elonmusk #tesla

83.3 million is a hell of a lot of money.
I give it 10 minutes before that pos starts defaming E Jean Carroll again.

Republicans offer a surprising perspective on gender. There are three!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/26/its-a-start-3/

Estimated 64,000 women, girls became pregnant from rape in abortion-ban states

States with bans logged 10 or fewer legal abortions per month, despite rape exceptions.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/estimated-64000-women-girls-became-pregnant-from-rape-in-abortion-ban-states/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The plan is working!

Same as it ever was

“Mr. Trump had lost Johnson County, home of the University of Iowa, by a single vote. The regional political director who had overseen the area was not given a seat on the plane. The next morning, according to two people familiar with the matter, she was informed by a terse email from her supervisor that her contract with the Trump campaign was not being renewed.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/trump-iowa-new-hampshire.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

This is sadly the truth.

But I'm tired of it. Tired of moving countries, moving jobs, losing connections with people and feeling like I'd never be able to set down roots.

There's another way... 👉Mass global game industry unionisation.

Get involved in organising a local union.

#GameDev #Ireland #JoinAUnion #Microsoft #ActivisionBlizzard #Layoffs

Eagle Pass is today's Fort Sumter. Biden must federalize the Texas National Guard. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/texas-border-abbott-biden-national-guard-20240125.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240125/p59#a240125p59

This could be me and you if the US government allowed disabled people to get married without losing their benefits...

#Disabled

#SiliconValley lore.
This floppy just showed up in an IA software upload.
Bobby Curtis and his partner Ivan had "Surplus Stuff" in Milpitas at one of Richard Anderson's former locations. They shut the place down just before Y2K because they were convinced society was going to collapse and split for Oregon.
You can't make this stuff up...