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irresponsible gun owning parents, who literally put firearms into the hands of their homicidal children, need to be held accountable for these tragedies.

dozens of mass shootings in recent years, especially school shootings, were absolutely preventable. if only these fucking lazy stupid ass adults would stop fetishizing guns for 2 seconds, long enough to store their weapons securely like a sane responsible person. or they could, idk, maybe steer their mentally disturbed crotch goblin towards a more pro-social, harmless activity?

firearm ownership is a responsibility too few take seriously.

“This is unacceptable. No one should ever resort to violence or vandalism to make a political point.” Hochul said in a statement in X.

craft supplies == vIoLeNcE

nice how he intentionally conflates vandalism with violence, to make the act of putting tape on a building sound like a level 4 code magenta terrorist attack. these fragile pathetic losers.

i think tik tok might be in a position where they must sell in order to continue serving content to American users

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-bytedance-social-media-tariffs-665e46fd5bb555e97c4d7301e07230df

The order was announced as White House officials believed they were nearing a deal for the app’s operations to be spun off into a new company based in the U.S. and owned and operated by a majority of American investors,

the extension only happened because after the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, threw a big party for right wing influencers during Trump’s record breaking $200M bribe acceptance party inauguration, Trump mysteriously halted the order (despite being signed into law) to ban the app.

from the article:

Top TikTok executives reportedly rubbed shoulders with American tech leaders and handed out business cards at an elite pre-inauguration donor event on Sunday featuring members of the Trump administration, as the app’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain.

Tiktok executives including CEO Shou Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman were reportedly on hand at the event, which President Donald and First Lady Melania Trump hosted at the National Building Museum in Washington. They joined a reported guestlist including Vice President JD Vance, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and conservative megadonor Miriam Adelson.

geeze, it’s almost like the tech oligarchs told Trump to pause the ban until they could negotiate a way to profit more from acquisition of TikTok (or a newly created US based subsidiary that Bezos is trying to invest in) than by outright banning users access to it, cold turkey.

here’s another great historical photo of a revolutionary. the sources have more details about Marina’s life, for those interested in Spanish Civil War history.

Marina Ginesta - photo by Hans Gutmann

source: rarehistoricalphotos.com

source2: Marina Ginestà, 94, the defiant militia girl with the gun

The photo was taken by the Irish photographer Colman Doyle. The original caption: “A woman IRA volunteer on active service in West Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle”.
The IRA regularly conducted “show of arms” displays, showing off their modern and numerous weapons.

source: rarehistoryphotos.com

interesting movie you should check out, God Bless America, directed by the inimitable Bobcat Goldthwait.

it’s a sort of dirtbag dark comedy blend of Falling Down meets Joe vs The Volcano. middle aged guy gets a terminal diagnosis and goes on a cross country rampage taking out right wing pundits. there’s a fair amount of poorly aged schlock and nostalgia fetishizing but the core premise is enough to make it worthwhile.

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great YT explainer for anyone unfamiliar with the Yarvin style techno authoritarianism to which Thiel and Musk subscribe: DARK GOTHIC MAGA How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America | Blonde Politics - YouTube

on April 19th there will be protests nationwide in every city.

I plan to be at the one where I live, with as many people as I can get to come with me. attending is the bare minimum i can do, but until we collectively get up enough courage for large scale civil disobedience, simple protests are a starting point to get you connected with local allies and movements.

~people aren’t doing anything~

literally millions of Americans organizing nationwide protests and resistance events, uniting with friends and co-workers to strategize, with larger and larger turnouts with each passing week…

🤔🤔🤔

be warned this guy does almost nothing whatsoever on Lemmy except scream at Americans (on Lemmy, of all places, where virtually no one voted for or supports Trump and is actively engaged with resistance politics)

to him , it’s always the fault of Americans specifically for oligarchs capturing domestic and global politics and empowering dictators. meanwhile in his country, Canada, the exact same shit is happening, right wing radicals and corps taking over. but he blames Americans, regardless. it’s an easy excuse for him to think this is a uniquely US problem.

punching sideways is at least half the basis of why he has an account.

people keep using this ‘interrupting your enemy’ phrase incorrectly and it’s really tiresome.

it’s like, “hey, your enemy is destroying your country, do something!” and braindead meme junkies are like “well actually, don’t interrupt your enemy…” smh

ig it gives them permission to do nothing… it grants validation for passivity.

me missing your point doesn’t make your arguments correct. you are factually mistaken in your framing.

Life doesn’t give an F about balance

you speak with the confident wrongness of someone who has no scientific understanding of natural cycles, equilibriiums, self-limiting reproductive rates, ecology, or biology. have you heard of chemistry? equilibriums?

you are confusing a linguistic object , the word “balance” (like from an Oxford dictionary) with empirically observable, falsifiable hypotheses which are well established in environmental science. humans are late arrivals to the millennia of life systems on earth, and the first thing they did was begin destroying balanced ecosystems to grow surplus foods, exert population pressures on other species, reshape rivers and lakes, clearcut forests, and general terraform the shit out of everything, other creatures be damned.

your comment suggests a stunningly anthropocentric hubris and a total ignorance to eons of geological time preceding homo sapiens which humans came along and completely fucked by rapidly terra forming the planet. go tell a black rhino or a dodo that only humans care about balance.

humans cause imbalance in nature, it’s literally our whole thing we do. transform the environment by whatever means possible, dominate other life forms to extinction if we feel like it, overcome natural limits or push others to extreme boundaries.

I hear that, and respect it.

but the efficacy and true democratic representational nature of American elections has been, is, and will continue to be incredibly fucked up.

From Jim Crow, women’s suffrage, civil rights, electoral college distortions, superdelegates, gerrymandering, first past the post, Citizens United, dark money, super PACs, disenfranchising felons, purging voter rolls, intimidating poll workers and voters, corporate monopoly over journalism/media/news, celebrity worship, manufacturing of consent, ID laws, Bush v Gore election theft to the fact that election day isn’t a holiday and most people work…

are US elections even free and fair? have they ever been?

I can understand people not prioritizing it or even bothering with it at all… when was the last time the govt truly did anything to help the plurality of voters? the New Deal?

“The president golfed in Florida Saturday and planned to do so again Sunday, the White House said.”

that’s not entirely correct.

first, the rich are not a monolith. some will lose some will gain, even when stock markets crash. the key is having advance knowledge of what’s going to happen before anyone else does. ie, insider advantage. when certain oligarchs know what’s coming, they restructure their wealth to give them protection and make money both on the downturn and the upswing. it’s possible what we’re seeing now is cabals of certain ultra rich vying for long term control of markets. whoever comes out of the recession owning the most, wins.

second, stocks are just part of the economy, they aren’t the entire economy. wannabe millionaires think stocks are how you become ultra powerful rich (think Warren Buffett). however traditionally, S-tier capitalists (think Andrew Carnegie) become wealthy and stay wealthy forever by gaining ownership of productive real resources… they will use the downturn to purchase land and real estate and mines and factories, which must be sold by companies who are trying to regain profitability by selling off assets during a stock crash.

wealth is historically generated by making people pay you to use productive resources you own (factories, skyscrapers, mines, forests, agricultural land, real estate you rent/lease) - these are not as impacted long term by tumbles in stock prices. because people will always need minerals, always need food, always need factories to make things, and always need a roof over their heads. they won’t always need dividends from Apple stocks.

he deserves much much worse.