Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"
Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"
This song feels incredibly relevant today.
It's a shame he has to pwotect the NYPD's feefees but "don't bother the tender little police officers, I on the other hand can take it" is a neat little trick
Sorry, which university courses did you pick when you earned a degree, you rancid silver-spooned loser?
here's a helpful explainer if you've heard something or other about wrestling fans chanting "Fuck ICE" defector.com/why-the-hott...
One thing you see in both the smug dope from the Plain Dealer and the Cruise/Pitt clip is profound resentment at the idea that creative work is a skill with human variables--experience, instinct, practice, imagination. There is real anger at the very idea that non-technological human talent matters.
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
social media in general needs aggressive regulation but the whole world would be markedly better off if Meta in particular were just nuked from orbit
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
The best part is how the admonishment came almost as an afterthought, as he was about to end the call:
In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors
Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids
Not to continuously relitigate the failed generation of Congress, but sitting idly by as tech companies destroyed any semblance of American privacy turned out to be a really nice gift to the worst people on earth. At least they got a few years of PAC donations out of it (what truly matters).
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong.
The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself.
We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.
Every single one of them is risking their lives against death squads to prove that the fascist vision of America, a country where we hate everyone different than ourselves, is a fucking lie
the thing is you can't have both of these, because parents shouldn't have the right to sentence their kids to exclusion from schools, sports teams, and other clubs and activities due to their own ignorance. that's child abuse
Brad² contorting himself in a desperate attempt to achieve higher office has been one of the saddest stories of Toronto politics. Nobody believes a word he says because its so obvious he'll say whatever to be the next Doug Dougford, but he has none of the (unfortunate) political savvy of a Ford.
There's also been a shift in character in activism.
In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact.
In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes
Shit like this is why it’s been fuck AI from day one. Always where it was heading.
guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
gentle reminder this christmas eve that we can ill afford another klendathu
There are lots of worse people in this golden age of monsters and freaks and lunatics, but there few better examples of the empty, vapid, soulless nihilism of the moment than Jimmy Fallon bsky.app/profile/more...
