“Hey you fuckin hear what happened to Jim down the road?”

Time brings acceptance, because you can only be freaked out by something for so long

Their safety over our privacy, their privacy over our safety

I hang out with drunk Chinese people for work and there is no friendlier bunch around. I also admire the Chinese cultural focus on gardening and growing plants

Idk it’s like I just wake up the next day

Normal is when you act like we have another few hundred years to solve the capitalist climate crisis instead of like, 10.

This is the exact opposite of the truth.

This is one of those moments where one could reflect on how right wing they actually are

Db0, welcome to the tankie troika 🤝

First order effects easy to see, second order causes harder to see

Do you have a source claiming anything at all you’re saying? Because every4hing you’ve said so far has just been “It is estimated, it is known”, trust me bro.

I can actually, and I mean like actually, rock a pair of circle lens sunglasses

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Honestly yes, the entire concept of an “extremist” is no different from “criminal” or “terrorist”: a word that describes somebody who stands against an existing power structure, typically deployed with scorn and used as a rhetorical club to keep people’s worldview in line.

According to the powers that be, you and I are “extremists” for wanting drinkable water and a liveable temperature, because those things threaten the unlimited expansion of profits, and the unlimited expansion of profits is the only rule that our society actually runs on. What could possibly be more extreme than deliberately following a course of action you know is causing a mass extinction? Nothing I can imagine.

But the people and corporations doing that are never called “extremists”, because it’s not a factual label but a political one: it’s purpose is not to accurately describe reality but to separate the rich people whose awful ideas we’re supposed to take seriously, because they own tv stations, from the unimportant masses whose ideas we’re supposed to respond to with scorn and ridicule, because they threaten profit.

There is no group of people more extreme in their actions, plans or rhetoric than the common sense, business-as-usual crowd. Their ideology has brought us to the absolute brink and may well kill the human species, but familiarity has blinded us to it’s insanity.

We all know that watching people makes them behave differently, so why does TechCrunch feel the need to remind me of that right now in particular?

“Nobody actually knows this if this thing that my entire argument hinges on is true, so i have no choice but to believe the most trustworthy source: the same people who levelled Korea with bombs in the first place, and who said Hamas beheaded 40 babies. Change my mind.”

WHAT ABOUT THE ALT LEFT, WHO CAME CHARGING OUT

Its very funny that these people have all the financial and institutional backing in the world to construct a pipeline, but they still managed to fuck up their own Stroggification process by being too annoying

Believe it or not they did for a bit around ~2015 or so, the “why are you sjws so sensitive, I’m just kidding” era. And I fully thought it was irony, I actually was kidding.

Then the election happened and they all pulled their faces off to reveal grinning skulls underneath, and i experienced that moment from Blade where the guy realizes he’s the only human in a vampire rave