Learning that white people in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars, to make ICE waste their time pulling them over (instead of migrants.)
This is a very cool thing, and precisely the kind of "total oppositional" thinking people need to be doing right now to meaningfully disrupt the fascist project in whatever ways they can. Obviously you're not toppling Hitler by putting a flag on your car, but we need to be thinking about ways to make doing fascism COST more, everywhere.
❝It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”❞
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/
My sister is visiting New Zealand with a tour group comprising mostly US citizens. One of the tour leaders asked “Is everyone here American?” My sister responded that she and her husband were Canadian, and some MAGA woman nearby snorted “Not for long!”
Earlier, my sister had met another couple on the trip who, upon learning she was Canadian, said that she must be so thrilled that Canada was getting the exciting opportunity to join the USA. They were sincere and happy for her. They were honestly shocked to discover that Canadians have no desire to lose their sovereignty. (Or their health care).
These examples (heartless callousness in the first, egocentric cluelessness in the second) really sum up MAGA.
To my many American friends and family — I can assure you that Canadians understand that it is the current administration and their cult-like supporters that have betrayed our long friendship, not Americans in general. But we are hella pissed right now.
Imagine taking a win-win situation like our long partnership, and turning it into a lose-lose situation like a tariff war. That takes a special kind of stupid.
Anyway don't fucking read AI summaries of news. Read the actual news. This is one of the most important things you cannot leave to AI.
Caddy Confusion: Trying to answer a complicated question for myself, as a computer user during the multimedia era: Why did the CD-ROM caddy exist, and why didn’t I have one? https://tedium.co/2021/03/12/cd-rom-caddy-history/
(via @tedium)
if you voted for trump, or you excuse those who did, people in your orbit know you’re not safe. When the chips are down, you’ll sell out your loved ones and then retreat to your self-exonerating excuses. Of course you will; you did it when the chips weren’t down.
You’re unsafe, and dangerous times are coming. Bye.
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."
Historians study their motives, but there is a broad understanding: their motives don’t exonerate them.
May be a fixed link (it's broken for me): https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college
Honestly, if you’re in the US, please vote. Don’t let a fascist take control. Don’t think that it can’t possibly happen there. This might be your last chance to vote. Don’t waste it. Sitting it out won’t help your cause but it will definitely endanger a lot of lives. That’s my take on it.
Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.
It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.
Yesterday, I watched an interview with an auto worker who claims this time he is voting republican for president.
The man says he is desperate. He needs to put his finances in order and support his family. He is is angry with Democrats because of the EV push.
I confess, I cannot comprehend this. Either I lack the intellect to penetrate this kind of reasoning, or I cannot decrease my intellect to a sufficient level to assimilate that kind of conclusion.
The man is voting republican because he thinks the guy with "concepts of a plan" will improve his life. He is angry about the EV push, which is worldwide, perhaps because the best solution is to do nothing and continue with fossil fuels. Indeed computers should be banned, since computers ruined the typewriter industry.
The auto industry worker supports a man who thinks he, the auto industry worker, is inferior because of his skin color, and the republican man would be very happy to have the likes of the auto worker work for free based on his skin color and country of origin. republicans want to deport immigrants because they cannot force immigrants to work for free. As in slavery.
But, to the auto worker, none of that is of consequence. Does he not understand, does he not see that far, or does he not care. I cannot discern.
We will have this country destroyed and all of us go through dark pain because of people like him.
https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-new-york-apartment-vehicle-georgia-election-workers-1974128 ColludyRudy fucked around; he’s now finding out!!! Good. Karma.
@WarnerCrocker @blogdiva @GottaLaff
Shocking but at the same time exactly what one would expect from this racist orange shitstain
It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!
Gift link
(Not my gift link, I just saw it on another network)
@sean_ae It's tricky.
Frank Zappa had a few studio albums which were actually from live performances with additions made in the studio.
Sheik Yerbouti is one such album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Yerbouti
X “unfit” for banking because of complicity in Saudi spying, lawyers argue | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/x-unfit-for-banking-because-of-complicity-in-saudi-spying-lawyers-argue/
@aaj I'm on disc 1 of this and so far it's excellent. I'm amazed that new compositions that are not in circulation can be unearthed 30 years after the maestro's death.
I've read that the vinyl release only has the Zappa mixes, but it's not clear if these mixes are unique to the vinyl release. They don't appear to be…
