Leavitt: “It’s only because of the United States of America that the French aren’t speaking German right now.” (continued)

@birrion: Hating Nazis should be the default position. ⁂

You are allowed to say, at any point, I cannot support this. Even if you did before. Even if you were unsure. You can at any point say, This has gone too far. And while the best time to say that was earlier, the second best time is now. ⁂

@aeirlys.bsky.social: Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later. Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner. ⁂

@NoLieWithBTC: The Pentagon is about to brief Elon Musk on the US military’s plan for a potential war with China. This means that Musk now has access to the country’s most important military secrets. ⁂

lolitalempicka: My favorite quote by Freud is definitely the one where he’s writing to his fiancée and he’s like, I’m gonna make you eat so much. You are just a little weak baby, and I’m a big cokehead. FOUND IT: Woe to you, my princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body, wrote Sigmund Freud to his future wife, Martha Bernays, on June 20. (continued)

tatanarchist: Is anyone else just, like, constantly filled with rage about their position under late capitalism and how we are expected to just keep playing this game that we know will literally kill us, is already killing people all over the world, and yet everyone around us is somehow fine with going about business as usual–pretending we are free by being able to choose between different ways of being exploited? There is nothing more dehumanizing than being forced to partake in a system that is actively detrimental to our survival as human beings, that is so physically, psychologically, and spiritually destructive. And I don’t know how to deal with this anger anymore. (continued)

@TetraspaceWest: The average voter doesn’t understand why criminals get trials. Giving innocent people trials, sure, then they get to prove their innocence. But criminals? That just sounds like an expensive process between them and their imprisonment, and gives them a chance to wriggle out of it. You can see the intuitive model of how criminal justice works in shows, where cops identify criminals, and then have to come up with a way to trick the legal system (which wants criminals to sometimes walk free) into imprisoning the criminal. (continued)

@beecycling@romancelandia.club: Corporations want you to think ‘red tape’ is a bunch of arbitrary rules to frustrate business. But most of it is regulations that protect people. That make water, food, drugs and buildings safe. That protect you in your workplace and your children in their school. That make sure your home is safe, your car is safe, the plane you take is safe. That’s why when you try to evacuate a burning building, there is a fire exit and it’s not locked. (continued)

@ColumbiaBDS: Breaking: Columbia University has just suspended, expelled, and revoked degrees from 22 students for protesting genocide in Palestine. ⁂

“It’s entirely possible to provide food, clothing, shelter, housing, education and medical care for every human being on the planet without fighting a war or ripping anybody off or handing over control of yourself to someone else.” ⁂

“God, grant me the patience to work with the unjust systems I cannot change today; the courage to strategically enact progress when I know I can; and the wisdom to know that, despite structural oppression, I still can make a difference. Amen.” ⁂

FDR, 1938: " … the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." ⁂

KenBob Creations: This pathetic moron [RFK Jr.] claims the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by flu vaccines. The first flu vaccine was introduced in the 1930s and they weren’t widely available until the 50s. This is the idiot the Orange Buffoon put in charge of HHS. ⁂

@qephatziel: “If you’re hiding a friend in your attic, and his mortal enemy comes to the door and asks if he’s there, the ‘question’ is a lie. They’re really asking ‘can I come in and kill your friend?’ ‘No’ is a completely truthful answer to that question. A lot of life works like this.” ⁂

Vomiting is the last true Zen state that a person can experience: a moment of complete worldly abandon and absolute, total thoughtless focus. Shitting is supposed to be that, too, but phones have ruined it. Nobody’s on their phone while they’re puking, and if they are, then God has truly lost. ⁂