Taboos aren’t just intended to uphold individual moral integrity. They exist to prohibit social harm.

Famously, there is no relationship between the chief executives of big business and the politicians in high office

Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.

All the “Maduro cheated to win the election” stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.

Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.

Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?

Conservatives do love self-owning with the anti-Castro rhetoric

People care. That’s the truly bizarre thing.

They’re deeply invested in Evil Foreign Brown Man as someone they can hate and Wise Righteous Western Liberal is someone they can cheer for.

I mean, Admiral Ackbar, pretty much by definition

The perfect libertarian doesn’t exi-

needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders

What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

I wish we were oversimplifying things.

Han Solo was a Tankie

Heretical trigonometry has no place in God’s poop disposal system.

I see someone has found the LinkedIn joke accounts

wasted

Putting on the “They Live” glasses

deliberately paid out to those complicit in the imperial occupation

The thing about Anarchy is that, for many people, the cashless society where you own nothing and are fully removed from the machine of industry is already here. Its just called “poverty”.

The problem is that this kind of poverty isn’t equally distributed. You’ve still got this large, heavily armed occupying force that preserves money, capital, and the painful prodding of induced productivity for everyone else.

“Everyone and everything will end in my lifetime. I’ll be here to see it all crumble just before I am incinerated in the blast.”

is another popular escapist fantasy.

No one wants to believe they’ll just have to hobble through a slow and painful decline.

Deep rectal itch

I counter with Bigby’s Vibrating Finger

My company recently acquired another firm that tried to outsource the entire IT department and proceeded to shit itself to death.

Go ahead cowards. Replace me with a computer. I will become more powerful than you could ever imagine.

Nowadays they are maybe one tier above fast food workers.

:-/

Having worked both jobs, I could point to a few differences

Stop threatening me with a good time

Appropriate, given the context

Access to it is 100% a free speech issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_safety_on_Roblox

I grew up in the 80s, when we had these huge high profile congressional debates over everything from Mortal Kombat to Twisted Sister. It still stuns me to see modern game platforms become everything the hysterical Satanic Panic folks warned us about. But now that it really is a hothouse for scamming, grooming, and extremism, nobody seems to fucking care.

Nobody should be letting their kids play Roblox. This is probably the best thing the Russian Parliament has done since Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell it.