It’s like having a roommate who keeps insisting that you should get rid of the fridge, we could use it to buy more beer and there’s a mini fridge in his room anyway so what’s the problem

American courts ARE a cartoon, and their role is Wile E. Coyote, whereas the Roadrunner is played by the 1%.

“Ooh, almost got him! Maybe next time.”

A rep from a Alaska introduced a bill that would attempt to make ranked choice voting illegal 🫠 just open tyranny

I’m so pleased to have brightened your day.

Yeah titanic like the ship

It actually is a classic fascist thing: it makes the target, Amazon in this case, culpable in maintaining the lie, which opens the door to bigger lies down the road.

AI images may may or may not be art, but it will never be YOUR art, any more than the art of artists I employ is my art. It just isn’t.

However, I think any AI argument that doesn’t mention capitalism as a factor is incapably reductive. As other commenters indicate, even very physically restricted individuals can and will create art.

Because they often have the means that many under capitalism do not: they often have time because they aren’t under full time employment. They have extra mental energy, the “spoons”.

Once again, the issue is ultimately a deflection from systemic issues that the upper class insist they aren’t intentionally worsening 🫠

This meme is mfw this meme because I saw it as the message of Russian propaganda last week

It’s weird that nobody even considers systemic change as a possibility anymore

I mean obviously we’ll need to hold another election before we can get somebody else in there and even see an opportunity, but if actual accountability were implemented that targets this, if citizens united would stop leaking billionaire influence into our groundwater, you COULD restore faith in America.

I guess the issue is, how possible is any kind of anti-oligarchism policy, when they hold the whole government? And once, IF, we get the chance, is there anyone with the competency to get it implemented? Or will we blow it like we have every time since the reconstruction?

What I hope happens is we oust him and do some serious work on our systems that prevents stuff like this.

Though the track record of our leaders is pretty depressing, maybe they’re starting to wake up now that we get to see Endgame Capitalism

All he has succeeded in doing is violently ripping the US away from its place at the center of the global hegemony.

Which is not great for those of us in the US, but honestly had to happen, the rest of the world clearly cannot depend on us. Our entire political system is built on honor systems and pinky promises, the rich can do whatever they please and never see accountability.

Right wingers consistently shoot and ram cars into peaceful protestors: I sleep

Random individuals destroy private property of random individuals: REAL SHIT

THIS is terrorism.

I think this might be why I got into competitive online games; it seems like one off the few ways to get everybody at least thinking about it in the same way