who? name names. who are these resistance leaders aiding in genocide. and don’t say joe biden. if you say joe biden you don’t understand what we’re talking about.

this is a decentralized movement of care. any weakness we have is that we’re uncoordinated because we lack any leadership

the point is to wake us up to that our resistance coalitions needn’t be small

god the number of people around hwre who said they were sitting out the 2024 election because they voted in 2020 and not everything got fixed…

the AP has some weird style guides where they’re supposed to put the newest info first and context last. it’s good for reporting certain fast developing major stories, but for the intricate and mundane stuff that actually moves the world, they’re kind of a disaster

just frothing up their base who itsn’t informed enough to know what’s really up

out in these streets. cops make the streets more dangerous by far

you just confirmed what the other poster was saying. you have co-opted the word woke, and expanded the set of things it applies to. it is a label you use rather than the descriptive signifier it represented in the circles you weren’t really aware of before the word entered your lexicon. you don’t understand its word origins because you think you and your crowd own it. the people you’re saying don’t know what it means are who you appropriated it from

and the interplay of race and our carceral system of torture were absolutely things to be voting on and about. de-emphasizing the importance of these things is a form of conservative propaganda, one that our media outlets engage with constantly. while i think this poster sucks for some other reasons, i do think they’ve found at least part of a truffle here. our media outlets don’t say enough that our prison system is horrible, that our legal system is more effective at hurting black people than it is at helping anyone, and that everything is both political and propaganda. figuring out why is easy. it’s profitable for them

the closest we get to a hero in the currently operative adventurers are niteowl ii and silk spectre, both of whom are aware they operate in the moral gray area of relativism and are constantly haunted by the question of whether or not what they do is right. as if to drive home that no, no it is not, they can’t engage sexually until they engage in violence. they try to justify their actions as being the best thing they can do in the moment given the constraints of the scenarios they find themselves in, but ultimately their actions are selfish and self serving. in many ways, this is why the comedian laughs. this contradictory form of nihilism is the joke all the adventurers must grapple with. they each respond differently. silk spectre chooses not to analyze or engage with the joke, preferring not to get it. niteowl ii and rorschach are different versions of understanding the joke, and choosing to carry on as if it wasn’t even the truth of their reality, choosing instead to lean into the philosophies they represent: relativism and objectivism, respectively. in walter kovacs telling mr manhatten to kill him, we see the failure of objectivism: objectivism leaves no room for making the best of a bad situation, de-emphasizing harm reduction and harm prevention in the name of righteousness. in niteowl ii’s inaction, we see the failure of moral relativism. niteowl ii is driven to inaction by his inability to take any real kind of a moral stance.

watchmen is such a misunderstood comic…

Red Onion is hell on earth, and they justify its existence and hellishness by saying “these are Virginia’s most violent criminals”

but they justify this based on most of who’s there, their heinous act of violence that got them there was reflexively defending themselves when a guard at a lower security prison started wailing on them. what’s more, is that its location is meant to stimulate fear and terror in its mostly urban general population, whereas the prison is in a rural area with wildlife the inmates have never seen before.

Red Onion isn’t a detention center. it’s a torture facility. i even wonder how long between sustaining these burns and them being treated passed.

the whole world could become a little safer if us queer folk in the United States and Russia got some momentum going

if you think rfk is gonna make us all healthier with the powers of raw milk and no vaccines, i have a bridge i’d like to sell you. it goes to teribithia

yup!

my view is this isn’t about territory, this is about terror and hate

this is gonna sound crazy, but oolite. seeing all the other starships leaves me wondering what they’re up to, and you know what? it’s because the graphics are so simple that the game can simulate more things going on in an area even on crap hardware. playing it really feels like you exist in a space and are interacting with a world that really keeps moving without you.

um. no? it’s their regional monopolies

that shit makes me question the value of this platform. my Ukrainian friends don’t take shit like that kindly, and i love them too much not to also be like, “hey. fuck off”

“oh, so we stopped being weird and y’all still made anti planet governments in charge? okay. then we’re going back to being weird and violent. fuck you”

the thing is… geopolitics are just highschool cliques expanded out. if you had a bad time in highschool (hint, everyone did, even the popular kids) congrats, you understand how the world works. that’s all it ever has ever actually been. our most poorly adjusted people become in charge of countries and enact what’s been done to them to everyone else out of a sense of being wronged even if they were rich and popular in school because their daddy never loved them

this is what the “the victims can be who de-escalate first” crowd are actually advocating. they may not realize it but their words mean the victim should just lay down and get genocided