SGGeorwell

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 hours ago (13 children)

The Trumpist members of my family are proud to be recalcitrant about it all. It’s at least three parts: first there’s the gulf between us, and then the knowledge of the breadth of it, and lastly the pride of standing so far away from everyone. It’s not just that they’re way past the orbit of Pluto. It’s also the fact that they’re so proud to be so far out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Kellyanne Conway

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A civilization that uses these weapons isn’t worth defending.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If businesses cant tell the difference between employees and slaves, then we all have a major fucking problem.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 days ago (28 children)

The tail is wagging the dog. Not a good position for US to be in. Makes us look weak. This is not how friends treat each other.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just europe?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think “very young women” are actually called “girls.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Sounds like real live, actual fascism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Reminds me of Martin Wolf.

MAGA is eating out the new College of Florida from inside, just as the larva of the spider wasp eats out the host in which it has been laid.

It also applies to the GOP. Hopefully it doesn’t apply to the whole USA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Corporate-funded obsequious lackeys are de-civilizing our society. They’re forcing us into survival mode so we’re unable to marshal any kind of response to their tyranny.

For those of you who think AI and related technologies will be a force for good, you might refresh your understanding of the millennia of slavery that preceded our short-lived liberal era. My personal fear is that the ruling class will use technology to enslave us again.

Look how they’re behaving already, in the cold light of day, in a time when we have HD video and instant communication. In the face of super-powerful tech, we’re doomed. Even this comment I’m writing now will be scooped up by machines and used against me in the future in ways I can scarcely imagine now.

I know it’s a stretch, but the fact of dehumanizing our pregnant mothers, newborn babies, and hopeful fathers cannot be separated from the ancient propensity of the ruling class to enslave.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Everything about amazon sucks.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is related to the falling college enrollment for young men. I’m just speculating.

 

Are we supposed to slip onto the tracks and just grab onto the train? Is it safe for us to ride to work clutching the windshield wipers? How much does salt cost? What’s Dorval Carter’s salary again? Will dignity ever return to the CTA? Should we use one of the hollowed-out insane screaming passengers as a sled? Who has salt? When does accountability happen?

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