RRB @rrb@social.cleverlibre.org

Quite possibly the most telling opening to a news article I’ve seen recently…

“Sitting onstage in front of a crowd of 2,000 evangelical Christians, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law Friday immediately banning the vast majority of abortions in Iowa.”

Mind you, these are people would be horrified if they were forced to live under Muslim or Jewish theocratic law (and would call it an affront to the constitution.). I cannot emphasize how much I despise these people.

https://apple.news/AROWlpG2bQeCFB9cAa6ZYZA

With Hacker Summer Camp FOMO creeping in, I decided to proactively combat it with my own cool event 😂​

In his pre-mutiny rant, Prigozhin did say that part of the motivation for the war was greed - Russians wanting to steal Ukrainian companies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/masked-gunmen-and-a-stolen-toilet-how-russia-seized-a-ukrainian-citys-businesses-7e745668?mod=e2tw

@gwynnion "women will definitely respect you if you shower less and yell more and also take away their rights"

Please! Before it's far too late!

#atheism
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@Radical_EgoCom @rrb as a matter of fact Johnson was born in the US…… 😳

@Radical_EgoCom @rrb @jaycee the USA is some strange form of dirigism, not actual capitalism. It’s closer to the economic subsystem of fascism, that everyone always pretends didn’t exist.

Without the constant injections of huge amounts of money into the military industrial complex, prison systems, and research the entire system would collapse completely.

They briefly cut military spending in the 80s and STEM salaries crashed nationwide, because the whole system is propped up by artificially inflated Raytheon and Boeing salaries

Prior to WWII the crashes were way more frequent than the “10-15 years” that we have now, cause It was actual capitalism back then

He has his problems, but Chomsky has a good explanation of the whole thing in “understanding power” that’s well cited and pretty compelling, tracing how the entire world stopped being capitalist nearly 100 years ago.

It’s a huge part of why we have such a hard time combatting the system, the left is still acting like we’re fighting 1800s systems, we keep reading stuff aimed at that long dead system and trying to pull a battle plan from “theory” but it won’t work cause capitalism is long dead and we’re chasing its ghost around.

We’re in the age of propaganda and direct economic injection now, and it’s a different beast entirely.

@quadrivial @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom

The people on the Mayflower were not "escaping persecution". They were banned from persecuting people in England so they went somewhere else to carry on persecuting people.

When the political climate in England changed thanks to the Civil War many of them came back to England as persecution was ok again here.

@rrb @Radical_EgoCom And yet he's still forced birth.

Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court

The exclusive Horatio Alger Association brought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported V.I.P. treatment. He, in turn, offered another kind of access.

"Justice Thomas has received benefits from a broader cohort of wealthy and powerful friends. They have included major donors to conservative causes with broad policy and political interests and much at stake in Supreme Court decisions"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html?unlocked_article_code=ymAk6FqZ5DNFhKECs98TecOsnt8Mykc45pYwaBFljMlSwC03xWfRRXf1XeTcRyf1fqKzejcyl-n12Uxk16rgFyvVL1Ur30dn_GjVAVYMP3_BkIzsvuIHVqcOwVYz871FTTasCXW73FiblfrPad3BrZ-EiURLfDGzKA95514lc--0idtdOD3j7MDjIQlTXxBo8ojSSk0p_Tddvc_QCIW4dkwUF8ng5G48_zTBi9oIRel2Y_I-monwyMSl0HrgN7_ub8U0E49RuV_byzZq01_7pz6usIEpaLoryXkfw-AKQegfsZM50NUiktfB6H2NVshlKXolP_eJxMrAV5T96HMXBrv-JW6Wj_3Hlkr_S4YRqQ&smid=url-share

I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cars in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.

Pretty crazy that conservative freshmen go to university fully expecting to educate their professors not the other way around, and conservatives adults think it is the professors who are being elitist and arrogant in that scenario.

Weird how mental illness hardly shoots anyone in Canada.

So here’s my new thing: I’ve been screenshotting great toots and posting them on every other platform: instagram, Twitter, Facebook, BlueSky, Imgur, Reddit, etc. I’ve been including enough in the screenshot to show that it’s from #Mastodon as well as the activity on the toot if there are loads of retoots and likes. My goal is to subliminally show the folks outside the #Fediverse that Mastodon is a vibrant community with great content and lots of engagement. #twittermigration #mastodonmigration

Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think.
-- Noam Chomsky

#anarchism #quote #bot

I suppose I’m in the minority but I always lick my knife when I’m done.
None of the other surgeons seem to do it.

Thank you @stevesilberman for sharing this.