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They don't really want to live in the country these laws and rhetoric build, they just want to smear shit all over the walls in a tantrum because the world isn't giving them everything they want.

Putin wants to see Trump in power for exactly that reason. A barely coherent buffoon, rubbing his soiled diaper all over the walls of a bigger, nicer house full of people he hates.

This was so awkward I had to check if you were joking but nope, actual conservative who got his feelings hurt and retaliated with the two most generic right-wing insults there are.

I could teach your entire personality to a bird.

they can give millions in subsidies direct to corporations

That's exactly why they're fighting it -- every dollar they give to poor people is a dollar less they can give to rich people.

Their initial investigation into him lasted 13 months.

Epstein died in 2019. If there's any open cases it's because they're not making any effort to close them.

America can probably dodge fascists for a while yet but wealthy neoliberals have spent millions of hours and billions of dollars trying to ensure that anyone who might genuinely fix things never has the power to do so.

There's the giant media companies looking to maximise their profits through manipulation and cronyism, rather than anything resembling actual journalism.

The legal system that's reluctant to investigate, prosecute or punish corporations and the ultra wealthy at the head of them, but enthusiastic about throwing poor people in for profit prisons.

Tech companies that will platform any reprehensible views in exchange for a few dollars of ad impressions, pumping their users for pennies with an elaborate emotional slot machine.

Then of course the open political corruption. Gerrymandering, insider trading, disenfranchised voters, voting machines with no paper trail and a deeply flawed election system where any vote that isn't for one of the two neoliberal parties is functionally thrown in the bin.

When we can't stand it any more, we're fed bullshit non-solutions instead, written and published by the problems themselves and designed to make them even richer.

"The free market will fix it. Buying more guns will fix it. Electing a man with the communication skills and emotional regulation of a toddler will fix it. Murdering people based on the amount of melanin in their body will fix it".

Each one has already been tried and each one has failed to even dent the issue, because if they had any chance of succeeding then they would have banded together to undermine them in a bipartisan act of class solidarity.

And fuck, that's just the politics. The same insatiably greedy, neoliberal trash is also responsible for the impending climate breakdown, endless wars and unprecedented levels of unemoloyment and homelessness because no matter how much we give them, they just can't say "no" to profits.

We need to vote, but we also need so much more than voting. We need the entire world to unite in protest, demanding their governments either acknowledge the rights, freedoms and entitlements of every person on the planet, or be held accountable when they don't.

So it's not hard to see why people might get disillusioned when "maybe if we abuse minorities more, we'll be able to own homes again" still seems to be an idea people want to explore.

I also have to subscribe to and use Adobe software but suggesting it's less buggy and less expensive than other apps is delusional.

The moment you try and do anything outside of basic image editing, Photoshop immediately shits the bed.

It's riddled with features that were half developed or half removed. Tried using any of the 3D stuff? It pops up a box saying "We've abandoned this and it probably won't work, but go ahead and try because we haven't properly removed it". Using artboards? Probably not, since half the app seems to break with them, including their brand new features like Live Gradients that rearrange themselves when you save.

Looking for a filter? Well there's 2 places to look since they seem to have lost interest in the filter gallery half way through, then piled mediocre AI filters on top. It'll be a slow search, since for some reason some popup windows take fully 3 seconds to open, probably due to their 4 different UI systems in various states of abandoned.

Photoshop is widely used today because it was good 15 years ago. If someone hasn't already creating a leaner, more stable, better designed, more ambitious piece of software, it's only a matter of time until they do.

Yep. We need more headlines that end with "despite GOP opposition".

Libertarians are mostly just neoliberals who are upset they're not allowed to be more psycopathic.

Their new utopia will tear itself apart with greed, drugs and sex abuse just like all the old ones.

It doesn't seep in, it's cultivated by far-right groups that intentionally target children and openly groom them for extremism.

But he was naive thinking he could store that much data with a tech giant, his "life's work", risk free.

Google made a promise they didn't keep and articles like this are the consequence of that.

It's not ideal, but it still feels better than "let them lie and then blame their victims for believing it".

Pro-gun propaganda masqurading as life advice.

You openly admit that idiots and fascists have been armed, that you wouldn't win a fight against any of them even with your guns, and that an armed population has done absolutely nothing to stop a fascist running for president.

Yet rather than fixing any of that, your solution is "everybody buy more guns even though it doesn't work and funds fascists by proxy".

I haven't even gotten to ask what anti-drone measures they have.

The answer will be "none" because unless they're ex-military, their entire contribution to any militia is usually "gun".

Most of them wouldn't pass fitness requirements nor take orders. Few of them have other skills such as first aid, communication tech or drone piloting.

Even when contributing their gun, you can't assume they know how to safely and usefully handle a weapon, or that they're mentally fit for combat, because none of that is a requirement for buying a gun.

It's a hero fantasy they've literally never thought critically about, but it's supposed to make all the mass shootings worth it.

Sterile-ish

I've listened to songs with suicidal lyrics, I'm not suicidal

A song with "suicidal lyrics" is not even remotely comparable to the albums this site sells, which is why they don't need a dedicated pro-suicide website to sell them on.

Would you rush to defend an album put out by ISIS, that pushed the agenda of ISIS, with all profits going to ISIS?

It's getting exhausting seeing people become increasingly unhinged and justifying it because "well, they're baddies."

Then maybe you should explain your exhaustion to the group responsible for their overwhelming majority of mass shootings, who openly celebrate the killing of black and LGBT+ people, rather than someone you've decided isn't appropriately sad that neo-nazis got exposed for doing a thing they did.

You don't need to be a fascist to make excuses for fascists, but it's bizarre that you read my comment about all the apologists the decided "he just hasn't heard my brilliant apologise yet".

You can drop the "it could happen to you" act because it almost certainly won't. For this site and those albums, "I just didn't have time to unpick what the lyric 'until every kike is dead' meant" isn't even a remotely plausible excuse.

Stop defending them.

It's the neoliberal way.

A few hundred dead Palestinian kids isn't going to worry a wealthy neoliberal. Not their kids, not their country.

But "bombing targets going unbombed" fundamentally means "profits going unprofited" and that's an idea that brings a neoliberal out in a cold sweat.

Ultimately, Biden's statement is just his part in the pantomime. He's doing the "left-wing neoliberal" thing where he does exactly the same horrific shit as the right-wing neoliberals, but he frowns while he does it.

If he doesn't frown hard enough, he might lose the election, but it's not going to stop the children being blown up or the neoliberals profiting from it.

Music is an extremely important part of my life but there isn't a single band that would make me give money to neo-nazis.

I don't know why everyone is so eager to absolve them. If they have something to say in their defense, they can say it themselves.

He got off lightly considering he did so "despite previous threats by his son to harm himself and loved ones".

Of course it's rare for "responsible gun owners" to be held accountable when a family member uses their unsecured firearm to kill as many people as they can, so being punished at all is a start.

I suspect for many of these parents, they're just thrilled to see their right-wing opinions are blooming in their child.

They were Trump voters, so that's inherent. They seemed enthusiastic about their son's interest in guns because it's right-wing.

But America makes guns available to shitty parents and rarely requires them to be properly secured from children, no matter how many red flags that child shows.

Stories like this will happen over and over again until that changes.