Pinned
The Russification of America.
First Felon built nothing, but he has inserted himself as a mob boss demanding tribute.
The oligarchs line up to stroke the ego, kiss the ring, and work out a corrupt deal.
The Republican Party owns all of this.
They could have impeached the criminal twice, but they could not expose a mediocre white man. They kept his tax returns private. They changed who they were to become First Felon.
The Right are groomed to love Putin and punish everyone who stands against Putin.
Let me imagine that they actually had the opportunity, will you?
Never drew a thing faster in my life.
Outraged by Elon Musk's devastating contributions to the Trump administration, tens of thousands worldwide held "Tesla Takedown" protests at over 200 locations on Saturday.
Protests began the day in front of Tesla showrooms in Australia and New Zealand. They then rippled across Europe, including Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK. In the US, protests occurred in nearly every state, including the northeast, south, midwest, and west coast.
"Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it," organizers wrote on Action Network, which has an interactive map of the protest sites. "We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup."
Organizers also have a message for people with ties to the company: "Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines."
Since Musk began dismantling the federal bureaucracy as chief of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), critics have protested at Tesla facilities and posted videos about selling their vehicles on social media.
3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)
Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.
Video transcription:
My fellow cis ladies, here's three transphobic arguments I want you to know now so you don't fall for them later because this is the hot topic gateway into conservatism for women.
Just to be clear, it's-it's-it's the Nazi kind of conservatism as well.
Remember "divide and conquer" is the name of the game, so don't be divided!
First thing transphobes are is they're gender essentialists, so they will tell you "men are inherently bad and evil and it's in their DNA, and women by contrast are good and fragile and precious." And it's the same logic as like "oh, women are more sensitive and nurturing, which is why they should stay at home." It's bullshit because women are not inherently anything, women are human beings with free will and idolization is just dehumanization with better PR [public relations]. I, as a woman, have capacity for evil, which makes my choice to be good that much more important.
Number two thing, and you will notice if you listen to TERFs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] long enough is that they hate being women, they have a lot of internalized misogyny, they think being a woman is about pain and suffering. The attitude that women are predestined to suffer and men are predestined to make us suffer is a very defeatist attitude, it means that you can never see a future without misogyny in it.
And the number three thing, and this is the stupidest argument: They will tell you that cis men are pretending to be trans women to go into women's bathrooms. Men just simply don't need to do all of that. This is stranger-danger rhetoric which is based around this fear of "oh, strangers are the most dangerous thing to your child or to you" when it's statistically not true. Abusers are more likely to be people that you already know, which is bleak, I'm sorry, but that is the truth. Abusive men simply don't need to go to that effort.
Trans women are our sisters, they're our allies, and a world where a trans women is free and safe to express herself and her gender presentation as she wants to is a world where all women get to do that.
if youre feeling suicidal that just means there are zero downsides to declaring yourself king and waging a campaign of conquest against the world you cannot bear to live in
Stay frosty out there, comrades.
Part of the reason my brain never shuts up is that I can “hear” echoes of my subconscious processing things constantly. And I do mean constantly.
There’s certain things I’m not supposed to know about up here in the conscious mind that the chemicals and the neurons are supposed to be quietly connecting together in the background but my neurons are yelling loudly in echoey hallways
I think the ADHD medication was supposed to quiet down my echoey hallways somewhat but it has done nothing of the sort. I can hear the little men working in the back room furiously trying to string concepts together like pieces from completely different puzzles and they are not subtle about it in the slightest.
Right now one of the things my mind is doing is storing away the information I learned in a video I watched recently about the Irish language. I know this because I can hear echoes of the speaker from that video in my head. I can feel the little gnomes back there attempting to extract concepts from it and stuff them into long term storage. This is also happening with at least a dozen other things all at once. This is why I am plagued by thoughts. The back room won’t shut up.
The back room never quiets, it's always echoing and it can be so exhausting.