they elected oz in the very next session; using a filibuster to prevent his confirmation is how you use a filibuster effectively.

this is where a filibuster would be useful instead of performative

search for the term: “collateral arrests”

so basically the equivalent of the 1.5 bouts of cancer under american healthcare pricing.

there were more than two choices and everyone predicted that repeatedly choosing the lesser evil will lead to this and here we are.

Mexico & Sheinbaum prove that this is not true

It’s wild that they’re angry at people for not wanting to be complicit w a genocide rather than the people who forced us to choose between 2 genociders or even the genociders themselves.

they also used to say this same thing about going third party in mexico, but almo & sheinbaum are 2 pieces of real world living, breathing proof that it’s only a matter of taking the first step & recognizing that this type of political “common sense” is nothing more than self-fulfilling propaganda.

i joined seiu and my inner pessimist is telling me that they’re not prepared for what’s coming from trump.

by “oligarchs” he’s means the ones behind trump and not the ones behind the democrats; so it’s a half of a class war of sorts.

meanwhile my last landlord completely took my $2500 deposit for “cleaning” despite the fact that i hired a professional cleaning crew after i moved out and both my city & state housing authority didn’t bother to respond; i wish i could move to ireland.

easier said than done when you keep having to put up with continuous streams of snarkiness from an overwhelming majority

i wonder if it’ll save any time/space if you make iso images from your bluray’s with something like dd and mount them when you want to play them, instead of ripping their contents.

covid26 is going to change the world, but significantly more than covid19 did

nice.

would it be more fitting in the italian flag’s colors?

that makes sense from a hegemonic perspective, but it doesn’t from any practical one.

russia proved that it wasn’t able to dominate ukraine like the propaganda had suggested it could; yet they’re somehow going to dominate europe.

the europeans have literal colonies within their borders in the form of american military bases and the americans have inflicted the same kind of political violence that it inflicted on latin america (and now the americans are turning on them); yet the russians are still the problem, somehow.

we’ve started arrested native americans & american citizens for the crime of not being in the country legally; nothing is absurd anymore.

i struggle to convince myself that the knowledge is useful when it’s so widely & willfully ignored.

this is rich considering that the economist helped manufacture this narrative themselves.

it’s like the chair shooting meme, but in article form.

even more recent examples from the past that are still in living memory, like littlefeather, prove that the academy will always continue side with the ruling class and i wish i could understand what the creators of “no other land” were expecting to happen since there’s no way that they couldn’t have already known, as described in the article.