silicon valley really is just like what if operation paper clip was every single business deal

Maybe you didn’t personally drop bombs on innocent Yemenis, but the guy whose plane you performed maintenance on did. Maybe you didn’t shoot that 14 year old Iraqi kid who got too close to wire, but the guy you provided medical care did. Maybe you didn’t sexually assault that woman in Okinawa, but the guy who ate in your mess hall did. The vast majority of military service roles are non-combat. Their only purpose is to enable the combatants who carry out the crimes of the American empire.

how does anyone think this shit is “apolitical”

what the fuck is this supposed to mean beyond “these countries are ones rhat we like”

here are some numbers i put on a dot that represent the goodness values(not biased to any one class or ideology) of this country. please treat this as scientific proof capitalism is Good

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Something something so-called "religion respecters" when Mormonism enters the chat-- whatever I'm not committed to this stupid joke. I don't respect any religion invented by Americans

I'm an annoying atheist or whatever but also I do think that if God were real he would simply not whisper prophetic words into the ears of an American. He might whisper other things but mostly I think it would be stuff like "I need you to stop what you're doing"

Also, FULLY acknowledging that law =/= morality and many significant religious figures had trouble with the law of their times. I shrimply don't think I'd trust a guy with multiple fraud charges to be telling me divine truths. I guess that's like, the point of faith or whatever. But again, atheist

Christianity (much like Buddhism) thrives because it's able to mold itself into the shape of whatever the dominant culture that takes hold of it demands, and it's also true for when it comes to the USA. It's no surprise that Mormonism came about around the same time as the rise of Industrialization in the USA, wherein the contradictions in proto-capitalism (Adam Smith and John Locke's hideous, mpreg baby), started its conflict-filled adolescence as it started the process of maturing into capitalism as we understand it today.

Protestantism, after all, is a child of opportunism and "of-time" justification for power-grab. John Calvin wrote Institutio Christianae Religionis, and the sixteenth century Protestants, eager to differentiate themselves, created out of this text the monster of the Christian religion, a deviating from religio as a personal virtue to the start of the systemic categorization of religion. God spoke to these people as much as God spoke to the economic and political capitals of the petty lords and burghers of the Holy Roman Empire and other parts of Europe, from which we soon see the breakdown of the HRE's systems of internal peace in a spetacular display of uniquely European cruelty against their neighbors in the form of Thirty Years' War (or, if you prefer, the European Sengoku Jidai).

It's, then, also no surprise that Mormonism is the most successful form of Protestantism borne out of the USA, no matter how much both non-Mormon Protestants and Mormons want to deny this fact. There's a reason why Mormonism was borne out of Western New York in 820, wherein we saw one of the "major victories" of industrial projects of the time in the shape of Eeric Canal. It's a child of a still-adolescent proto-capitalism of the USA and the ability of this disgusting, far-reaching, creeping hands of Protestantism, in which the voice of God demands, scriptually, the spiritual obliteration of the NDNs, spiritual (and physical) inferiority of black people, and the accumulation of wealth from the bottom of the organization to the top. Mormonism speaks as a message from God to the residents of the United States because, at the center of the ethos of the United States, it's a republic founded by slavers and smugglers looking to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone around them, even if it meant potentially dying in a trial for treason. Just like that, Joseph Smith risked his life to create a religious order that reflects the United States' inglorious, ugly birth that should have been aborted before it had the chance to disgrace the world with its visage.

if you want to know what the situation is for gay people in portland oregon my friend got comradezoned last week

I doubt this will get much traction but a Canadian company is trying to build a mine on lake superior in Michigan that could completely destroy and contaminate 21% of the worlds freshwater supply if their proposed dam breaks. Please sign this petition if you're in the US to stop the whole project.

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The proposed Copperwood Mine is a Canadian company's plan to mine next to and underneath the most beautiful section of Porcupine Mountains State Park, ship the copper out of country with no promise of return, board up shop in 10.7 years, and leave behind over 30 million tons of mine waste in the closest metallic sulfide waste facility to Lake Superior in history.

the cozy hopepunk cottagecore reputation people have given ghibli is insane. every ghibli movie is about some combination of: 1) the (often violent) loss of innocence, 2) world war II, 3) the screaming, bloody, inevitable death of the natural world, and 4) airplane

It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy

I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate

I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry

what I think will happen if I message my mutuals

the image was making me really sad so i drew the little guy being taken care of

Being like. Post-suicidal is so strange. Like hiiiii everybody im new I spent a good chunk of my life languishing and have like 3 or 4 lived experiences. But now I'm ready to fuck and party or whatever. Can we be friends. Im so happy to be here. Can we be friends

she lets me hit because i *remembers i have nothing and no one* actually lets just stop talking for a little while

Imagine having been born in 1905... And all your life it doesn't fucking stop. The Great War, the Spanish Flu, and then you go out of your mind for 7 years. Everyone is traumatised and nothing matters. Then another crash. And then the rise of fascism, and the War to end all Wars didn't and it's 1945 and you're just about still there. You may have fought or ferried the boys from Dunkirk or sabotaged the Nazi occupiers or worked in the factories and put out fires during the Blitz and you're lucky to be alive, because not all your friends made it. But you are and finally, fucking finally, it stops. It stops. You are tough as nails and you can put that strength to work into building something and you do, and people have cars and can buy icecream and you have a pension fund and the kids have money of their own and no nightmares.

I want that for us. I so want that for us. I want to be the generation that has seen fucking everything and is like a MRSA bug and unfazed and when that Cheeto finally dies, I want us to. Plant the gardens and clean the seas because we can and we want to and we remember some joy, some time of trust even when it got broken and we can say to the 20 somethings "let us show you what we can build, how it can feel."

And maybe Gen beta will take it all for granted like the boomers did, but we can give Gen Z and Alpha some peace because we, and Gen Z and Alpha have seen the Dark Times and fuck that noise.

This is such a horrible, willfully ignorant, privileged 1st worlder take that i must comment on it.

So the first half of the last century is bad, and then it stops?

It stops??

IT STOPS!?

IT STOPS, EH?!!

Like it's genuinely insane to me that when the imperial apparatus grew strong enough to push out all the violence necessary to maintain it out of the view of the average western (white and well off) person, you considered that the it had stopped. You don't even say "got less bad" or "moved". Stopped.

"The people had cars and ice creams, and the kids had no nightmares"

"I want that for us. I so want that for us."

I promise, and this is in no way hyperbole, I will die trying to stop you having that. From having in the same way again, at least, which is the only way this system will allow you to have it.

Like the blindness of the liberals thinking that their system can ever be fixed while still being preserved, that it can work, that it did work once, requires not just willful ignorance; it requires the complete dehumanization of everyone far away enough that your kid can't be kept awake by the bombs and that it's not your friends and family being blown up and shot.