Something is deeply wrong if we, as a society, cannot agree that an administration that snatches up children, uses them as bait to hunt down others, is morally repulsive.
yesterday's protests, at least, seem to agree
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I feel a small glimmer of humanity and hope because Liam’s go fund me is up to 265,000 https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring-5yearold-liam-home
gofundme being the metric for which people find glimmers of humanity is depressing the fuck out of me.
The funds set up for baddies like Jonathan Ross are even more depressing... Celebrations of evil.
I don’t understand how they left that up. It was a clear violation of their own rules. I do kinda think the world would be a better place with a lot less magat Nazis
Sorry but it's just another sign of polarization. Half of Americans donate in solidarity, the other half celebrates that another brown person was harmed.
Well maybe a civil war is inevitable then I don’t know either way Israel wins
Yet the guy who called Trump a pedo protector got more money way faster.
American priorities are fucking stupid shit.
https://phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/ford-worker-pauses-gofundme-campaign
Fundraising on his behalf collected $810,000 from Tuesday through Wednesday.
Seriously raised twice as much in half the time. What a fucking joke this shithole country is. Some guy in a good paying fucking union job gets money handed hand over fist and he didn't even lose his job he was just suspended and his union had his back. Yet a fucking innocent kid whose rights were viciously violated made half as much in twice the time.
I mean, fuck me, I'm so tired. I'm so tired of expecting better of people.
I guess the silver lining is that TJ Sabula isn't a selfish person and is giving away the money he got to charitable organizations.
Part of that has to be media attention. Can't support a cause you didn't hear about because your particular feed went with something else that gets more clicks.
Really isnt about Americans, and turning a tragic situation into mild xenophobia helps exactly nobody.
The internet works the way it does because it exploits humans attention and turns it into an economy.
Someone calling the self proclaimed world leader a pedophile turns more heads than a child being abducted. Especially given that said leader is a pedophile.
They dont like spiderman
The friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is a threat to them.
Spiderman is a much more interesting character than someone like Batman. An innocent ignorant kid that gets powers and thinks the only problem is petty crime and the random mutant villains. The character has room to develop and evolve in different adaptations.
Batman is basically what we'd have if Elon Musk decided to go around at night and beat the shit out of petty criminals for fun because the drugs alone just aren't enough anymore to get him off. The entire concept of a billionaire trying to defeat crime that his very existence causes through inequality is just laughable at this point. Maybe there is a modern adaptation of this in which he becomes a class traitor. That would be the only interesting arch left for Batman at this point. Would be interested if anyone knows a Batman arch like that actually.
Also, Spiderman doesn't have a beefy car. None, originally, and afaics they dropped the ad stunt in the movies.
Absolute Batman portrays Bruce Wayne as a civil engineer
Mexican joker.
It's only a matter of time.
Wrong comic book universe. More like El Doctor del Doom
Hang in there little one. It's a tough time but it'll be alright. I know he can't read this but fuck man. It's every movie quote... He's just a boy.
It won't be alright. The world watched as thousands upon thousands of children like that were slaughtered in Gaza. That was the testing ground that gave the rulers of our world the confidence to do it elsewhere.
From Sandy Hook to Gaza we all just said things that made us feel better but never enough to risk our own positions to change something. Like we were watching a movie were the words we said mattered.
Actions matter. Stop feeling bad and do something. PSL, DSA, any immigrant rights organizations local to you. We need your help not your sympathy.
The amount of people believing that and spreading it in that country is truly disheartening but it tracks with the vote. Tracks with the approval ratings.
I would like to take jd for a walk.
I wanted to make a Daily Bugle joke but J. Jonah Jameson wouldn't go this far