wonderingwanderer

Beans are so underrated.

If the white house can’t afford a more elaborate meal than that, they’ll just take more money out of the SNAP budget so trump can have surf & turf with ketchup.

You know, cause “fuck the kids” is his favorite motto…

Obligatory “It’s a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, like, ten dollars?”

I want to see more discussion about volitional and motivational deficits.

But people who have never been depressed don’t want to hear people say “people with depression literally find it more challenging, at times insurmountably so, to make themselves get up and go do.”

They think it’s just making excuses. No, there’s science behind it.

People used to call me a creep whenever I raised concerns about mass surveillance. Like, obviously if I wasn’t okay with that then I must have been planning something nasty, right?

Well this is precisely the scenario I was trying to warn about, and it’s far nastier than anything I could have possibly done, even if that were my intention…

Look, I don’t trust the US or Israeli governments either, but I really feel for the Iranian protesters and many of them are already mourning. The faster this regime falls, the better.

The Iranian government is already shooting live ammunition at its people, just like they did during the last round of major protests. They’ve already killed hundreds on the past couple days, under the fog of an internet blackout. Protestors are asking for international help.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/10/iran-protesters-tell-of-brutal-police-response-deaths-and-forced-confessions

They figure as long as they’re the ones driving the bus, they won’t be the ones getting caked in the tire treads…

The thing is, they view it as a fair trade to support that in exchange for the opportunity to be a part of that system. They might not be the galactic emperor, but they don’t seem to mind being a stormtrooper. Everyone else is just peasants and rebel scum in their eyes.

To them, they’re high enough on the social hierarchy to have plenty of people to look down on, and that’s all they need to feel better about themselves.

Most of them are owned by people supporting this…

I’m pretty sure their SUVs have bulletproof windshields. I mean they only have a multi-billion dollar budget and access to all the military equipment they could possibly want.

I’m not aware of anyone testing this hypothesis, though…

Is there any credible reason to believe the US had anything to do with toppling Assad?

Or do you simply not believe an Islamic rebel group would be capable of a successful lightning offensive otherwise? Cause that’s pretty demeaning if so…

It would have been nice if they had published this before the election. It might have made a difference.

I kept trying to tell people Biden’s policies were intelligent, but it would take time to see the quantifiable result. It’s hard to cite sources that haven’t been published yet. Science moves too slow to keep up with a four-year electoral cycle.

And now all this progress will be undone and worse due to anti-intellectualism taking the helm. Typical…

The hitlerization of the United States Government accelerates…

Because they think it would allow them to do the same…

…while they work into their seventies because a full retirement is out of reach for most of the working class…

I like your optimism, but walls don’t extract oil…

I agree with you completely and I’ve been calling it out for years. People treated me like I was a crackpot for saying things like “infinite pursuit of growth is neither possible nor desirable.” Or “life isn’t a zero-sum game and a system that’s built to uplift everyone is better than a system designed to maximize gains for a few.”

Clearly there aren’t many leftists around me, or at least the ones who are hate me for different reasons. Maybe because I said MLs are authoritarians and no better than maga. I like democracy, it’s capitalism that needs to go. The Nordic model seemed to work just fine until right-wing propagandists invaded Scandinavia.

Oh, I also compared capitalists to cancerous growths, and that made the oligarchs feel so oppressed. Maybe that’s why billionaires these days are comparing themselves to holocaust victims. Those poor billionaires… won’t anyone think of the shareholders?

Greedy bastards will never be satisfied.

It would be profitable for them if they get the taxpayers to cover all their expenses while keeping the gains for themselves.

It would be evil, but capitalism doesn’t care about that. They only care about what’s profitable, even if everyone else suffers as a result.

Stealing from the poor to give to the rich…