DessertStorms @ DessertStorms @kbin.social

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I couldn't care less how other people make their tea, but scientifically they are not the same

It's somehow both spikey and plumpy..

I used it for a while but then one update it completely reset not only all my (many) open tabs, but also my history, so I couldn't restore them. Not used it since..

Deliberately to get people like you to derail the conversation to something that isn't actually happening - babies being killed, to paint pro choice people as pro killing babies.

Well done, you've played along perfectly (or worse, know exactly what you're doing, either way, you're doing the forced birthers dirty work for them). 👏

The profit motive for war and conflict is unjustifiable.

War makes them money (and gains them power) now. That's all that matters to them.. They've made it clear they lack the will and/or ability to look ahead and consider the consequences of their actions, even if they detrimentally impact their own futures, that's why we still have capitalism..

I need an adjacent meme, a cat tagged "me getting my hopes up" getting slapped in the face by a hand tagged "life"

Right? They invoke the genocide of Native Americans to defend the idea of Japanese racial purity being threatened by a single beauty pageant contestant, and I'm the one whitewashing.... 🤦‍♀️

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make in reference to my reply..

Yes, the media want money, but they can't make money without maintaining a system that has commodified everything, including information, for profit. The rage bait would exist whether trump would have won or not, it's not like it's gone anywhere. It doesn't exist to serve trump, it exists to serve the status quo (hint: having the president/PM change from one party to another, when both serve capitalism and the ruling class, isn't a change to the status quo).

Ah yes, the futile desperation to maintain "racial purity", because that's never turned out badly for anyone ever... 🙄🙄🙄

Capitalism is decaying

Your mistake is thinking elections are, or ever were, about what the voters want.

In reality - the establishment decides how best to maintain their control, then create the illusion of choice (since both candidates who reach the point of running for president serve them, in very slightly different ways), then have the media bolster that illusion and get the public to fight with each other to make sure we don't stop to realise we're being played and point our justified rage and frustration where they actually belong (with the manipulators, not those they manipulate).

Sure, but then once you've got their attention, you have to say something.. No? I think it'd be rude not to.. 😹

Nothing like the taste of boot in the morning..

What do you mean, "why"?? How else would you communicate with a cat? 😂

The issue really is that these people don't like the reminder because they don't want to act because they are still comfortable and they know any meaningful action "threatens" their way of life (because they can only think within the box capitalism created for them, making them fear anything outside of it).

They'll tell you they do act until they're blue in the face, but it will come down to things like driving an EV and using a reusable cup at Starbucks. Because it's about making themselves feel better, not fighting the actual problem - same as framing the clock as fearmongering instead of the desperate call to action it has become..

Some people decided things are looking black based on things other people say. 🤷‍♂️

Is the same line used by climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers.. 🤷‍♀️

(I'm the last person to say blindly follow or even respect authority, but this isn't about authority, it's about knowledge, which the people who make these decisions have significantly more of than you, or me)

Also, you'd have to have your head reaaaaaal deep up your own ass to think things are going well on this planet, it's not as if they're even saying anything outlandish or far fetched.. 🤦‍♀️

This would only be valid for new-borns, since the implication is that no experience you had before year x, x being a number arbitrarily agreed on a couple thousand years ago by humans, exists. Which could potentially be great trauma-wise, but not really in any other sense.
All those decades of experience (and skills, and trauma..) are vital since they inform and shape the opportunities you not only have access to, but how you can or can't deal with them if you do.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index