Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t go to yours.

It’s the same data Amazon and most e-tailers collect. The difference between Temu and Amazon is Jeff Bezos attended Trump’s inauguration, while Temu is a competitor based in China, which the US considers its greatest enemy.

Now what I saw next was completely unexpected: my email is sent out in plain text.

Yeah, that’s how email has always worked. Even if you go out of your way to use Proton, PGP, or S/MIME, your metadata is still in plaintext.

This is a category error. You’re confusing the US for a democracy when it’s a dictatorship of the Epstein class, of the capitalist class. The elections are largely kayfabe.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Thread [sic] to safety

I think it’s pretty straightforward. If the health care system worked, or if they weren’t poor, they would have had a battery backup.

What the fuck is Laura Ullrich smoking?

She contracted COVID-19 twice, and then developed long COVID, needing to rely on the iron lung around the clock.

She’d been using an iron lung since the age of 5, since 1953, but what ultimately did her in was the combination of long COVID and a failing iron lung.

Lillard struggled with access to healthcare, and last year, a tornado knocked out power to her iron lung. Her husband, Baha Seleh, gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until help arrived.

If the the health care system worked, or if they were wealthy, she wouldn’t have been done in by a dilapidating iron lung.

That’s good but it won’t end the cochlea dentata nightmares.

Propaganda of the deed.

I’ve only been impatiently anticipating this for the last twenty years, though I didn’t anticipate it would come from China back then.

Have they run afoul of their CIA handlers?

Languages with negative concord are incapable of Hegelian negation of the negation.

You don’t value travel. It’s a waste of money to you. But regardless of individual tastes, anyone’s quality of life is degraded by poverty, and this population shift indicates increasing poverty.

Read the room, namely the ballooning proportion of impoverished US residents.

These are only the ones the US has admitted to losing.

These kinds of outbreaks are the inevitable result of dismantling federal institutions for our common welfare.

Few are cartoon villains; few are thinking of externalities. But the people pushing for this change know what they’re doing. They are actively plotting wealth transfer from the working class to the capitalist class.

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.

— Michael Parenti

That’s an over-simplification of the mechanics of wealth transfer, but yes, wealth transfer is their goal here, and they know what they’re doing, so it will work if they get their way, which they may given how captured our government is by the Epstein class.