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American courts ARE a cartoon, and their role is Wile E. Coyote, whereas the Roadrunner is played by the 1%.

"Ooh, almost got him! Maybe next time."

They'd put us in their gas tanks too, if they could.

A rep from a Alaska introduced a bill that would attempt to make ranked choice voting illegal 🫠 just open tyranny

I'm so pleased to have brightened your day.

Yeah titanic like the ship

It actually is a classic fascist thing: it makes the target, Amazon in this case, culpable in maintaining the lie, which opens the door to bigger lies down the road.

AI images may may or may not be art, but it will never be YOUR art, any more than the art of artists I employ is my art. It just isn't.

However, I think any AI argument that doesn't mention capitalism as a factor is incapably reductive. As other commenters indicate, even very physically restricted individuals can and will create art.

Because they often have the means that many under capitalism do not: they often have time because they aren't under full time employment. They have extra mental energy, the "spoons".

Once again, the issue is ultimately a deflection from systemic issues that the upper class insist they aren't intentionally worsening 🫠

This meme is mfw this meme because I saw it as the message of Russian propaganda last week

so happy for liberals on the internet to finally have their own thought terminating cliche in "tankies", the jealousy for "woke" must have been overwhelming

insomuch as USAID was a tool for exerting soft power by lifting up global communities and spreading goodwill for America through humanitarian effort, I support what it was, I didn't want to see it gutted. insomuch as China is exerting soft power by building infrastructure and investing in industry, it'd be nice to see the US exert a little soft power against us citizens from time to time.

In practice they have been pretty hands off as they develop the global south afaik.

They're also only doing it for its resources, I think you could realistically assume, but it can't be denied that their approach has brought much better results than America's so far.

It's weird that nobody even considers systemic change as a possibility anymore

I mean obviously we'll need to hold another election before we can get somebody else in there and even see an opportunity, but if actual accountability were implemented that targets this, if citizens united would stop leaking billionaire influence into our groundwater, you COULD restore faith in America.

I guess the issue is, how possible is any kind of anti-oligarchism policy, when they hold the whole government? And once, IF, we get the chance, is there anyone with the competency to get it implemented? Or will we blow it like we have every time since the reconstruction?

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