Philosoraptor

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[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 28 points 9 hours ago

He's not just a president: he's a lifestyle.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's exactly my point. The choice of language is not an accident, nor is it organic. It's deliberate rhetorical propaganda that's primarily aimed at defusing any nascent class solidarity.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I think it's interesting that the media and Democratic party approved relief valve movement is using "no kings" instead of "no oligarchs." I know we all know that flattened-bernie and AyyyyyOC-big are also liberals who don't really want to address material conditions, but the "no oligarchs" branding was getting some traction with mainstream liberals. A well designed movement that actually wanted to generate some momentum could have capitalized on that to create unified messaging and cohesion. But the people who are designing this protest movement either are oligarchs or are trying to cozy up to them: that rhetoric is dangerous and needs to be quashed. So "no oligarchs" becomes "no kings," which can be spun as only applying to the Republicans instead of American politics across the board. This has the side benefit of bleeding some momentum off the more left-oriented "oligarch" rhetoric, which is probably just as (if not more) important to them.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No way. Eusocial insects are the ultimate self-organized emergent organization. Every bee or ant is just doing its thing, and the intelligent functioning of the whole emerges out of their interactions and how those interactions subtly shape individual behavior.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Mr Cruz is being held at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas, more than 800 miles (1,300km) from their home

sicko-wistful

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Assigned cop at birth

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Fully automated luxury space capitalism

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago

Control has been assumed by our most delicious military authorities

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Implosion: the most internal consequence you can face.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Outrageous

Pork-filled

Disgusting abomination

my-hero

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.

doubt

 
 

What happened is that one morning you woke up from a terrible dream about molluscs to find yourself gagging on something in the back of your throat. You retched for what felt like half an hour, until your face was slimy with sweat and spittle and tears. You thought you were dying but you couldn’t cry out past the thing in the back of your throat. Finally you managed to spit it out. It was covered in a thick coating of mucous and phlegm, but it was a small plastic spoon, containing all the microplastics that had accumulated in your brain. Tiny letters on the underside of the handle said THANK YOU FOR YOUR CUSTOM.

Something similar must have happened to everyone else, because from that day on the world started to change. The immigrants went home, or maybe they were forced out, or maybe they were rounded up and shot, but they’re all gone now. The schools stopped teaching critical race theory and started teaching stoic philosophy, Roman military history, tax avoidance, and crypto. The women all signed a statement acknowledging that they would lose 90% of their eggs by the age of 30 and agreeing to stop being so choosy about who they’d allow to fertilise them. Slowly the world began to glow with a golden and slightly hazy light. It started to resemble a perfect shining image. But ever since you spat out the spoon, written language has stopped making sense. Not all of it: the stop signs on the street still say STOP and the sign above the charming little public library says LIIBRARB which is almost right, but all the books inside are unreadable. They’re crowded with dense black shapes that really do resemble letters, just not any letters in particular. All of them faintly smudged into the page, like crushed insects. The message on the spoon was the last coherent sentence you read; the world is splattered with dead mosquitoes now. It’s amazing how little the disappearance of all written language actually changed your life.

 

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits

 

More than half of all fossil fuel carbon emissions came from just 36 companies in 2023, a new analysis has revealed.

These firms, including Saudi Aramco, Shell, ExxonMobil, Coal India, and several Chinese companies have been tied to more than 20 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2023.

The latest Carbon Majors report calculates emissions released by the burning of coal, oil and gas produced by 169 major fossil fuel companies in 2023. Of these firms, it found that 93 increased their total emissions compared to the previous year.

The report also includes historic data from 1854 to 2023, showing that since the Industrial Revolution, two thirds of carbon emissions have come from 180 companies - 11 of which no longer exist. Just 26 companies were linked to a third of these historic emissions.

 

Signing on to Hexbear this morning and seeing dozens of "I'm curious" posts across every comm, realizing that we must have really gotten a live one while I was gone, and tracking down the Patient Zero post. It's like a scavenger hunt for a dumb take. Good times, comrades, keep up the excellent work. rat-salute-2

 

Biggest surprised-pika ever.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the Journal reported.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” according to the Journal.

 

Brought to you by the guy who also monitors his son's overnight erection quality and compares it to his own.

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Things are getting bad to the point that ordinary people are not able to tune it out anymore, and the pundit class' answer of vote is looking less and less compelling. Regular people are looking for explanations and guidance. Talk to them. They want to know what has worked in the past, and what can work now. They're open to new ways of understanding the world, and we have that. Be accessible if you can.

 

Should have happened a long time ago, but good.

 

Death to America

 

New bootlicking world record dropped.

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Putting this in slop because melon-musk is really just providing context here.

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