Middle class parents are the ones slapping Gps trackers on their kids wrists. Poor kids are the lucky ones as they may not yet have a digital leash due to cost? I’m sure googles next academic intrusion will move from Chromebooks to smart watches for PE.

I seriously can’t believe how common it is to see 9-y/os chatting on a voice call every 15 minutes with their parents. I’m on block a. I’m going to playground b. I’m with Johnny. JFC and their parents likely had exposure to “higher education”.

Weak and wriggling, just how capitalists want them.

Related: Marjoe, is a 1970s Oscar winner for best documentary about a child preacher, Baptist preaching, the money involved in the preaching/god industry, and to a degree clearly exposed the raw core of manipulation inherent. It’s a documentary so doesn’t come straight out and say it, so it could be interpreted differently perhaps by a strong religious conservative. It’s a fantastic exposé.

Honestly some of the Michael moore movies; Roger and me might hit different for some of those folks now that they’re suffering the continued effects of wealth concentration that is so flagrantly and unashamedly happening. Sicko will probaby hit many folks across the aisle as the issue is universal. Bowling for Columbine might be interesting depending on if they are a gun nut.

The atomic cafe is in my top 5 movies of any genre. It’s not just about arms proliferation, it pulls together a ton of cultural pieces and shows how naive, propagandized, and horrible a nascent fascist nation began post WWII.

TBH, and after reading some of the comments it seems to line up with this how Op post is “duh”, and low effort and thinking about it more makes me wonder if this is botception and that’s why it’s all ringing weird bells and bothering me? The post feels like a vague dissemination of generic information (read bot/LLM) linking a wikipedia article that reads like someone non-human smashed it together (read bot/LLM). I’ll leave what I started as a response before I arrived at this post. _-------------------------

I think this is the worst Wikipedia I’ve ever read and as a 30(?) year user that has maybe never time to criticize a wikipedia page (blatant bias or trolling aren’t worth the effort), it’s saying something.

It doesn’t list obvious things like sports or any other activity from bingo halls, board games that would probably be some of the most common activities in the world.

Their concept of the phrase seems almost like an opinion that isn’t really applied at anytjing more than an adolescent knowledge of a subject without any source material.

The one part of their writeup I (subjectively) had heard (alcohol being described as an social lubricant) was described as “negatively viewed” though that seems like a limited claim/opinion. Which feels weird and information without any synthesis.

We’ll just end the program and people will no longer have to contribute! Honestly the number of fuckwits who would be excited about this is the sad part. Then they’ll cry the leopards are their face when they are being forced into amazon labor camps at 83. Stupid people can’t keep nice things. They never understood their value and didn’t have to sacrifice for them. So the lesson will have to be learned again.

Fucking great visual.

Would be interesting to see it in a stacked bar graph with actual va. represented side by side to give scale to the disproportionism.

Not really the merger of corporate and state power in fascism buT what I noticed was the similarity in times with the fundamental decision between authoritarian rule and democracy and the crossroads Rome was taking going the other direction and how the US seems to be retreating from.

Thank you for the link, great to see that interview.

Good eye! So strange…it’s not like it’s hard to find a penguin image or if you’re doing something for business to pay for something not (likely already) copyrighted.

I’m watching Gladiator tonight for the first time in 20 years. It’s hardly new but so painful to watch again through the lens of the current state of America. It went from ominous historical warning 25 years ago of power, weakness and how men act in opportune moments to a primer on current affairs.

Don’t invest in these and if they make their way into your 401k sue your company administrator

And why do they have to protect themselves? Is it because they are knowingly throwing the legal rights and process out the window and committing vigilante, racist, perverse genocidal philosophies out that are against the law?

If you have to wear a mask to hide from the public to “enforce laws”, you are always a bad actor. Not that they care.

The fascist starter kit:

8th grade education ✅

Lied about having a high school education from Mollala until exposed and then said it was a “mistake”✅

Reality TV experience ✅

Bankruptcy from poor financial decisions leaving you extremely manipulable ✅

Travels in circles with B-list winners such Jean Claude Van Damme, one of her former 5 marriages, a washed-up, abusive winner who is being investigated for sex trafficking. ✅

Don’t be a bitch, use another service.

Paywall

Zucman puts it more emphatically. “I think democracy versus oligarchy is going to be the battle of the 21st century,” he says. “I don’t know how long it’s going to take for the Democratic Party to actually understand that.

What a terribly disappointing conclusion. The author is as naive as he’s under the impression the Democratic party is. Those in control of the Democratic party are absolutely aware where their largest financial backing comes from.

They know it dipshit, it’s why they submarined Bernie and refused to even mention mandamis name until he’d already won. It’s why AOC was passed over for party leadership appointment roles in Congress. They don’t want to win against oligarchy.

I’m sure police officers undergo similar social media reviews so any with white supremacist, fascist, bigoted, racist and sexist memes wouldn’t allowed to be officers right?

Props to Weinstein for standing up for his right not to have speech suppressed. Did the background investigation look for those who may have a bias toward the polices anti-constitutitonal violence, discrimination?

This is a demonstration in political power and how much of the city administration has been corrupted to want to protect police from the very accountability the public overwhelmingly demanded. Such. Deep. Rot.

Fuck a pledge, it’s the law! We have statue that makes driving while phoning illegal…what we would need is actual enforcement!

Or housing. Or medical care. Or education.

The library of Alexandria, burns again.