I'm not a Third-Worldist, but that's pretty disappointing.

I'm imagining the shooter was a Manchurian candidate whose activation code was Biden's mumbling.

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

-Rosa Luxemburg, 1919

TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.

Lol the first time I contacted my representatives was because Failblog told me to in order to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act around 2009. Glad the tradition's being kept alive.

Remember all the smugness about how people in red states "had [bad thing] coming"? You think they wouldn't treat Muslims the same way?

the way your drivers rate their customers

They'll tell you Uber doesn't have drivers. Just independent contractors. The "public" in the public transportation you shunned includes accountability to the public, which Uber doesn't have. Not that anyone would take your complaint seriously anyway.

Will this lead to introspection about how much undue power we give to a few unaccountable plutocrats and how we can create a better system? Probably not.

We will not tolerate people taking advantage of those in the path of Hurricane Idalia

So you're taking on the disaster capitalists, right?

You're not just talking about brown people, right?

Cop budgets are through the roof and box stores are still openly calling for vigilantes. Fascism is so stupid.

But China and Russia don't care about Hawaii

Neither does the US

Liberals are learning to post walls of text? I'm scared.

Sounds like a perfectly healthy way to live