You’re right, is Social Democracy. But that’s where we are, politically these days. The largest socialist organization in then U.S. (the DSA) is ostensibly not socialist in policy. Anything slightly left of RAGING corporate handouts and bombing brown people is COMMUNISM now.
Being the place that people go after getting banned from Reddit has affected things here
Yeah, but to the average person, the scientific definition doesn’t matter squat.
Had sex with a child=pedophile, which is the way the term is being used here. Nobody is interested in getting into the nuance of specifically, psychologically, why. And ti he honest, I don’t think its particularly productive to overall conversation.
Oregon has entered the chat
Best I can guess? Jeffrey Epstein was once a young, under-qualified, math teacher in New York?
Not for me, no. IMO, a lot of the users over there are only interested in cosplaying authoritarianism, which I am not personally into.
Wish granted: You get USB Interactive-C
Anyone who supports a two-state solution is a Zionist
Oh, fuck right off with that shit.
Kind of brought a tear to my eye
I got confused by when they both raped Lot in his sleep. It’s been a LONG time since I read the Bible, my bad.
Nah, that’s what Lot did when he was hosting a couple of angels for God, who had sent them there to Lot (the only good man in Sodom) to see if he or anyone in Sodom was worth saving. Then an angry mob shows up to Lot’s house and demands that Lot let than rape the angels, cause they were hot. Lot instead offers up his two daughters (who were fucking each other anyway, so whatevs) to be raped by the crowd. God thinks that that’s cool, so he promises Lot and his wife safe passage out of Sodom as he destroys it, but them must swear to not look back upon it’s destruction. While they are leaving town, Lot’s wife looks back at the city being destroyed and is turned into a pillar of salt.
I wasn’t familiar with the term, but I always (until this moment) assumed that everybody viewed science that way.
Hi there. I’m an artist who gives away everything for free because I don’t personally think it’s ethical to profit from pure human emotional expression. I also don’t think it’s ethical for some faceless corporation to profit from my art. I will ABSOLUTELY fight against my art being used to train AI models, but I have ABSOLUTELY no desire to profit. In fact, I have the opposite desire.
So tell me exactly what is rent-seeking?
Nah, driving is a privilege, not a right. You don’t NEED to d I’ve and you absolutely don’t need to drive while impaired. Even if you think you’re good, you’re not. There are THOUSANDS of cases of people being killed by drunk drivers who thought they were good.
A LOT of important lessons, orgs, new theory, and new praxis grew out of both Occupy and the uprisings of 2020. I promise you, people are ready to use a diverse array of tactics to win this fight, but there’s one crucial thing still missing: critical mass. If you don’t have a large enough group of people, you get bowled over.
Things like No Kings (a reformist effort from well meaning, but status quo-protecting liberals), are largely toothless, but they DO have the positive side effect of radicalizing liberals. It’s like revolutionary Kindergarten.
So stuff like No Kings, while kind of annoying and not really anything, feed into that pool of people necessary to achieve that critical mass.
We’re getting there, but moving too fast can ensure a bloody and ultimately defeated revolution and help to cement authoritarian rule, if you’re not careful.
Start building networks with the people around you. Get to know your neighbors. Lend out your tools. Feed hungry people in your neighborhood. That’s how you build a revolution. The fighting can’t start without people taking care of people.
The creepy new drama teacher was an evil demon the whole time?!?
earn more and more money
STEAL more and more money
FTFY
As a middle schooler I used Power Point to make FMV games for my friends and classmates, and it was basically this. Just, like, SO MANY slides
I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself
Anarchist checking in: I vote. I don’t live in a communist utopia without money or borders or hierarchy, I live in THIS fucked up world, so yeah, voting is necessary.