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Long term space colonization

Stopping climate collapse

Complete restructuring of our social and legal systems

A few little things here and there, really

The question of whether the text of the proposed constitution should form a base for a future constitution was put to a non-binding referendum, where it won the approval of 67% of voters.[3][4] However, the government's term finished before the reform bill could be passed, and following governments have not acted upon it.

Wait. So does Iceland have an official Constitution now or nah?

regardless of beliefs,

What about Nazis?

I have no idea.

The biggest lie I've seen all day

Well, in your delusion you were kind enough to give Dr. Manhattan some undies, so there's that.

A lot of them are like that and that's actually a good thing.

It'll be a little while before people can generate photographs that are indistinguishable from the real thing, completely destroying our ability to critically evaluate anything.

So we still have time to stop it.

They were. Most of the history we were taught was nothing more than pro-America propaganda.

Like for example, the true horrors of slavery aren't actually commonly known, nor is the true extent of the effects of post-Civil War racist policies like redlining. Or that "crimes" like loitering and trespassing are actually holdovers from fucking Jim Crow laws. Or that American Mixed people originated as the rape babies of slaves.

Or even colonization. Did you know the stupid fucking goddamn Belgian government was the root cause of the Rwandan genocide? They purposefully pitted the Hutus and the Tutsis against each other by giving the Tutsis special privileges and land and shit decades beforehand, playing on their flimsy understanding of the cultural order Hutus and Tutsis already had, enraging the Hutus. And the Belgian government never owned up or took responsibility for it. It wasn't just France. Macron legit did apologize for the French government's role but Belgium never did.

Who here was taught about how the U.S. overthrew legit governments in South America and replaced them with dictators?

Or that Libya was bombed to hell and back not because their dictator was a dictator but because he wanted to start selling oil in gold and not U.S. dollars?

Who is ever taught the true nature of any of this shit?

A lot of their knowledge was from the Sumerians and other ancient civilizations anyway. Sumerians were doing trig thousands of years before the Greeks did; the Greeks' records were just the ones that were preserved.

See, I am 100% on Ukraine's side on this to the point where I think the U.S. should use nuclear weapons to defend it when we inevitably run out of shit. I think we should have put U.S. troops on the ground as soon as the trouble started and prevented all of this from happening in the first place.

That being said, evil actually does win most of the time in life. It's why most people are evil -- because it works.

So when I see this pattern of Ukrainian cities getting leveled and Russia seemingly never running out of troops or equipment, but now at least one Ukraine ally has, the writing on the wall looks pretty clear.

I am not advocating we pull out and let Ukraine get ass-plundered. I'm saying we should fight to the last but that Russia will probably win in the end. And that is sad.

Make your Congresscritter come up with one.

Then don't make them pay. Have corporations foot the bill and ban them from passing the prices along to the consumer.

So I guess Russia is going to end up getting what it wants by bleeding all of the opposing countries out economically.

I'm just trying to figure out how Russia isn't running out of equipment. Everyone keeps saying they are yet they keep pushing and pushing, and they're clearly not stopping. 🤔

Being right-wing has evolved pretty much into straight fascism these days. There is no real middle ground for moderates anymore.

Didn't a little kid draw the first one and that's why it won?

Fund a grassroots media campaign advocating to make corporations pay to fix the environment and for price control laws to stop them passing on costs to the consumer.

At some point, people are going to have to accept their legal systems have been completely broken by regulatory capture and that they're going to have to go to war to implement new governments that actually will do what the people want them to do. That's the real talk that needs to happen

I fucking despise Rogue One and would rather sit through Jar-Jar Binks singing Bohemian Rhapsody through the duration of the entire song than to have to sit and watch that monstrosity of a movie again.

I do not want to watch some poor girl get told off, put down, and kicked down by everyone else around her simply because she was a sacrificial lamb for the overarching plot and everyone else knew it but her. And that's all Rogue One was.

I liked it too but it is very obviously a bad BAD BAD movie.

His face is so incredibly punchable

🤔 What system should we make, then? No system we've ever made so far has worked. There's always endless suffering no matter what we do or how hard we try politically.