Police are not a net good when they are used instead of taking care of basic human needs. Police enforce eviction but never kneecap a housing scalper… I mean landlord.

And to think Fiorina wanted to be President.

The memes live, no matter what platform we are on. #poopknife

There are lots of people who really need their privacy. If I can add my noise to the background and protect a journalist, whistleblower, etc… 👍

Where in the US? Think of the US as 50 countries In a trenchcoat. Socializing in Arizona is different from Washington or Georgia.

I think they are up to 14 eyes.

Gawdamn beholder in here.

Like the AI that blew up their controller in simulation to get more points.

But “Greed is bad” kinda is…

Capital doesn’t generate wealth. Labor generates wealth. Capital takes an oversized percentage of that wealth because the kind of financing that Capital provides requires Capital to be in charge.

Lemmy IS seizing the means of production, where production is “doing stuff in a reddit like fashion”.

The Ba’ath party was more nationalist, anti imperialist but also unify the Arab world, socialist but discriminatatory…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba'ath_Party_–_Iraq_Region

Now if only billionaires could be contained in real life.

Hans Reiser murdered his wife.

In Case You Missed It. Not totally germane to this situation, but it’s what came to mind…

A lot of folks don’t. Can’t do better if we don’t know better.

ICYMI, modern “lizard people among us” tropes are rooted in anti-Semitism.

Oh we suck for sure, but not doing the “right” thing because we also do the wrong thing seems like a shitty way to live.

If the objective was shortening the conflict, then we would have told them they were on their own. The objective is for a sovereign nation to remain so.