• apftwb@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    From 2024 but still relevant

    There’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. There’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. My rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themselves a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning the primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there’s no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen, it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    The USA bombs Iran 12 hours after Iran agrees to irreversibly dismantle its nuclear weapons program under full international supervision. Iran retaliates against US allies in the region hosting US military bases (since their weapons can’t reach the US themselves). And the leader of my country then condemns Iran for its “despotic” attacks, while pledging support for the US and emphasizing the importance of international law.

    We’re living in a clown world, and the west aren’t the good guys.

  • greenbit@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Not a single soul is exempt from this on the planet. Probably some remoye island tribes are detached enough not to mind it.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    It’s not bullshit. It’s the skyrocketing rent, and the ever-increasing price of groceries, and the medical bills, and ICE murdering and kidnapping people in the street… It’s all very real, very shitty things.

    And this government we’re dealing with has the largest military budget in the world, a larger budget than the next NINE COUNTRIES on the list.

  • darthinvidious@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    fr though, and I keep saying this, but we can literally end this shit show now if we all just fucking picked a day to not go to work for one lousy day when we know congress and dumbass are at DC and we just strike/protest en masse outside until they surrender. They have long abandoned doing anything meaningful for the people. Like if we can get all of DC to just stop for a day, bam.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      That’s precisely why organized labour has been systematically dismantled in the US. Back in the day there were strong unions, mutual support groups, and so on. These systems are key for workers to be able to take collective action like general strikes.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Let’s not forget that our leaders are WORSE than mere pedophiles. They are literally cooking & chewing up & eating & drinking some of those children after raping them. And even worse weird things. I felt it necessary to point that out right now because some old rabbit holes I’ve been down have been haunting me again lately.

    • Leg@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      Can you provide a source for the cannibalism? All I ever saw was speculation about a handful of possible code words, but never a smoking gun.

    • SpankyDoodle@eviltoast.org
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      2 days ago

      My gf has been needing to calm me down because I am NOT OKAY with that bullshit. It’s fucking demonic and sickening and they belong in the pits of hell feeling every bit of unimaginable pain possible for the lives they’ve ruined and destroyed. Fuck these people so god damn hard.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I feel you. Reminds me circa 2019 I was telling my (ex-) bf about these things and he just listened to me with a blank stare and said nothing. Of course not much was ever really in his brain anyway but those 6 years with him were eye-opening for me because

        (heads up: this is not just a rant about my ex-boyfriend, it ties back into the baby-eaters topic)

        that’s when I learned about people who have undeveloped prefrontal cortexes in their brain and I’m certain that’s what his glitch was. Sociopathic, no compassion, everything they do is for their own selfish gratification and they feel no remorse for manipulating & hurting others. They don’t do it on purpose, their brains are just missing the empathy parts. They’re also incapable of feeling embarrassment, shame, remorse, self- reflection, seeking self-improvement, because that part of their brain is missing, which comes across as extreme confidence & arrogance & they’re intimidating & powerful. (President Trump has this heinous birth defect too, undeveloped pre-frontal correx.)

        It’s terrifying because those are the types of people who end up in positions of authority because business structure & capitalism exploit everything a human can produce, exploiting us with no empathy. Businesses & capitalism are run by sociopaths & psychopaths because to them, money is more important than people. As long as the people on top end up with all the money. That’s how the brains of people with undeveloped prefrontal cortexes are wired.

        And these same types of people are the ones ritualistically abusing murdering & consuming children. My (ex-)bf probably hopefully never knew about such things before, at least he never alluded anything about it to me, but I’m certain if he had the opportunity he would join such groups. Because psychopathy/sociopathy, interest in religion & people but not the healthy aspects of religion & people, the power & structure & rituals & fellowship of religion. And the bonding opportunities & exploitability of humans. Devoid of feelings & compassion. Seeking only power & personal satisfaction & gain everywhere they go, in everything they do, from everyone they encounter.

  • BilSabab@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    but hey, you don’t have to be able to recognize drone type by their engine buzz coming from afar… yet.

  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Idk spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories lowkey exacerbates the problem. What else should money be but fake? That’s what money is. Your food and water is not being poisoned.

    What should we do, reintroduce the gold standard? Awful, impractical and counterproductive. We can hunt for a nondescript evil hooded figure pouring poison in our drinking water but we won’t find them.

    Our food is unhealthy because capitalism doesn’t reward production of healthy nutritious foods, it rewards maximizing profits and oligarchs lobby governments and design their own regulation. Banks are allowed to create money but governments refuse to because of neoliberal ideology being pushed by powerful elites. These structures are real, known and we can fight them.

    Disguising our problems as unsurmountable and untargetable evils makes us helpless. Identifying our problems specifically gives us actionable goals.

    Now the pedophile thing is true tho, so hard agree there lol

      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 day ago

        You make a good point. Maybe it’s the tone that put me off. I know too many people who go off on rants that sound similar, who don’t bother actually understanding what’s wrong with the word and as a result have no idea what capitalism even is. But that’s clearly not you

  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, that’s the playbook for any nation in any era. Debasement of currency until it’s mostly colored iron is normal. A bunch of deviants on the throne is a given. Bonus points for generations of incest. Bread and circus, jousting and all kinds of entertainment were always there as a distraction. And latrines leaked into the groundwater. Your mistake is thinking this time would be different. Every nation has its high point and decay.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary. It’s also not the goods and services themselves, but a pretty good way of exchanging goods and services. Better than barter, for example, where every little thing has to be negotiated and you might have to set up chains of barters ot make it work.

    Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit. Sounds like someone is scared of “chemicals”. Drinking too much water can kill you. Eating natural things can, too - cyanide is natural. Are there concerns about our food supply? Perhaps, but “poisoning you” is a bit much.

    And water? Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky. Where I live they put in too much chlorine from time to time which isn’t unhealthy or unsafe but makes it impossible to drink, so we keep bottled water for when that happens, which sucks, but the water is safe. Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

    Wars based on lies? Yeah, can give you that one.

    The country run by pedos? Yep, that one’s a go as well.

    Too distracted? Yeah, and that’s thanks to our oligarchs who control the media and the messaging. They weigh us down with everything that can, take as much money away as they can so we struggle to survive and feel like it’s all pointless. But if we could all get out on the street and shut everything the fuck down and demand change - specific change, pony up people to run for office - we could fix our problems, although it would be hard. We could extend the social safety nets that would make our lives easier. But it’s hard. Fighting the momentum they have is hard.

    But we have to keep trying. Keep talking about it - that leads to protests. Keep protesting - that leads to people taking action. Keep taking action - that will lead to actions that have a chance of changing where things are headed. Every part of that is important.

    Do what you can, whatever that is.