The ruling class is PISSED that their Israel narrative was challenged. Thats why they're going hard against any sort of narrative they don't have complete and total control over. Even lukewarm shit like TikTok being considered a threat because the genocide of Palestinians got visible.

So here is an event that has given them a fucking gift-wrapped narrative for them. Clunky as it is for them to suddenly condemn all forms of violence while having a history of war and current genocide ties, they will push this "violent extremism is dividing our country" talk in order to excuse state violence against any form of protest of the status quo. It's going to be the 9/11 "security" increase on steroids. 9/11 was used as an excuse to normalise the end of privacy, since then we saw massive adoption of CCTV and mass servailence.

I dunno exactly what forms of oppression they're about to try and put forward, but I'm hoping the sheer hypocrisy of the Dems funding genocide and suddenly standing with Trump after calling him a threat to democracy will be enough to light a fire under people's asses. However history shows that Westerners are very quick to accept whatever their masters give them.

I’m going to die a very scary, traumatic death and so are a lot of the people who are closest to my heart—we’re all homeless, and we’re all drug addicts, and I have the special bonus of being (sort of) trans as well. I’m already seeing the ratcheting up of hatred for homeless drug users—I’ll be shot in the head and kicked into a pit, and my only hope is that I’ll be one of the very first so I won’t have to live with the pain of worrying about anyone I care about.

So yeah, while I agree that America’s collapse would be a W for humankind overall, it’s hard to fucking see that silver lining when things are that bleak.

I just want the rest of what’s likely to be a very short life to be chill. I just want things to be normal.

Fucking dumb shithead

Or they do but I feel like the gravity of the statement alone never really registers

Was recently reading a book written a long ass time ago by some Brit where he talked about how a lot of the value in currency (coins and paper of the time) came from the fact that they were all tangible

And now wealth/money is completely digital. Of course the fed still prints shit, but with the amount of people who use Apple Pay/venmo to exchange “money” from person to person?

Actually, does anyone know what I’m trying to say rn? Is money just a Trojan horse?

Just based on his first round of presidency, i figured it would be more rhetoric and tough guy talk, with maybe like, a token investigation into some dems or something. Obviously we're moving that direction, but I figured it would be someone after Trump, who actually has the, you know, plan for it.

But after this, I dunno, comrades. I don't think this is gonna go unchecked.

Extreme heat causing ginger syndrome in eucalypts

Shit, it doesn't even seem like we can end Israeli apartheid without fighting a world war over it

I literally never once heard the word "homeland" in a US nationalism context until a week after 9/11

god damn america

The capitalist class has already conditioned people to be traumatized by the idea of pandemic prevention methods by their handling of COVID

This new bird flu will not be contained and will be allowed to spread unchecked. It can be spread by the pigeons on your street, and the poorly prepared fast food chicken slop treats that capitalist countries love.

And COVID is still here killing people.

This is going to be the new normal for a capitalism dominated world. As the environment crumbles we are going to see pandemic after pandemic as animal populations succumb the the stress of environmental degradation and new diseases emerge.

And with each new variant of disease our bodies are left damaged and more susceptible.

Disease compounding on top of disease.

Welcome to your capitalist utopia.

I am cheering so fucking hard for cyber warfare at this point holy shit. Someone please blow up the internet already it has produced nothing of value

Imagine if we would’ve spent all the resources for computer processors into funding irl tools like high speed rail and efficient transportation systems. Like holy shit we really fucked up, I spent a few days unplugged and everything that people value about the internet can be boiled down to just another circus

I learned about it from a guy on Bluesky that posts stuff off Bloomberg - "MEXICO PATIENT DIED AFTER CATCHING NEW STRAIN OF BIRD FLU: WHO".

Full text...

WHO confirms first human case of avian influenza A(H5N2) in Mexico | Reuters

June 5 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it has confirmed a fatal case in the the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with avian influenza A(H5N2) in Mexico.

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WHO press release

Human infection caused by avian Influenza A(H5N2)- Mexico

A 59-year-old resident of the State of Mexico [was] hospitalized in Mexico City and had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals.

Just need to vent, I swear to god the revolutionary potential in America is just not there. So many people just have zero ideological conviction and because we're not subject to the worst of the empire's violence many feel no constant need to fight it, an encampment can end and so many people just go to brunch. The constant need to fight against the empire's propaganda, infiltrated orgs, and most of all the powerful combination of privilege and individualism is so incredibly exhausting. All that feels good to do is sit home, read theory and talk with my closest comrades, I can't be led into another unprepared police raid by people who had just collaborated with the kops, or in an org led ultimately by some undemocratically elected leader, or talk to another "ML" or anarchist white boy that can't even admit racism and imperialism still fuckin exists.

I advise everyone to really suck the marrow from the bone of life and maybe reconsider buying those green bananas

this is likely to kill you

[CW: Sarcastic comments about self harm]

FUUUUCK OOOOFF

I'm sorry? Does getting into debt so I can PAY FOR MY OWN TRAINING FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOT FUCKING COUNT? Of fucking course not.

Oh let me guess, all the extra things I need to do to "prove I'm worthy" to our almighty employers is all stuff that is near impossible for me as a permanently exhausted neurodivergent person with no money?

Will I guess it's my fault for being born poor and given a slew of traumas as a child. How dare I want to pursue something I'm interested in and good at? What a fair, free and just society! I guess I should just burn myself out completely for chump change or die quietly in the corner.

I'm tired of hearing about employers "Not wanting to risk training employees only to lose them" when hardly any employers even do real training anymore, and no one talks about the risk employees take into going into debt for a degree. Getting a degree is already hard as it is and I don't even know if I'll ever get a return on that, so why should I have to be a super human for an employer to even consider me? Where's their effort?

Oh right, because this is capitalism and employers have the power, not me.

I really fucking hate it here. I am actually hoping that this results in absolutely destroying the internet (because anything is better than the most lukewarm regulation I guess. I have yet to see one implementation of chatgpt that is not just stealing someone’s script on stackoverflow or some forum from decades ago and synthesizing it with some other information. Totally doesn’t violate any IP laws whatsoever though!

Where are the philosophers when you need them? All of this shit is a consequence of Zuckerberg and a host of other Silicon Valley sociopaths bypassing any semblance of learning about humanity and locking themselves in a dark room and feeding their fragile egos because they can’t interact with humans.

Humanity really did a great job allowing these guys to exist 👍

lol it’s honestly just going to get worse and worse. More and more people will be on the periphery of mass inequality with this garbage and just enough of them will have enough to afford the latest wire tap that brings them circuses.

There’s also the question of has there been ever been any radical media (I’d argue no), but I feel like civil war could have been so much better had they actually taken a side you know? And I feel like there is some value in being on the fence from an entertainment POV but I sort of expected art from A24

Like does anyone remember that one show (adult swim maybe) where they pushed boundaries so fucking much to the point of asking a child to ask people on Wall Street who they exploited? It really seems like the daily show on the street segments mocking people with no power other than who they choose to vote for has taken over. It’s so fucking ominous because I know some of those people sure and they should be subject to reeducation, but each and everyone got a lucky break tomaybe retire one day

Like when you think about it like that, what are we fucking doing