karashta

Boohoo, you get to be surrounded by mind blowing opulence and, depending on the time period, insane amounts of worldly and temporal power.

Cry me a fucking river.

I love this. Such a great use of an interesting piece of wood!

As well as making your daughters r*pist pay the father something like a donkey and some silver. Oh and forcing the woman to marry him.

Or maybe they mean the Bible they claim to follow like the part where Jesus’s followers sold all their possessions to live in a literal commune?

If fucking only…

The sad truth is that facts don’t work on them

I’m not sure why you’re getting down voted for stating a fact: money has to be created through direct spending or back stopping the creation of money by private banks via the reserve system before it can be taxed away.

You can’t tax back something that doesn’t exist yet.

Just because it’s not “our tax dollars” doesn’t mean is isn’t OUR public money.

The biggest thing I feel is rage and betrayal.

There are people in my immediate family who voted for those who think my disabled pansexual leftist ass should be literally murdered by the Gestapo.

That’s the betrayal.

The rage is that I’ve seen this collapse coming since I was a kid in the mid 90s. I was absolutely ready for this in my 20s. Now, I’m 40, disabled and can’t even stand white light for long or any loud sound along with a host of other issues.

And none of them listen despite telling me how smart I am my whole life. I take one baby step to show them a flaw in what they’re saying and suddenly I’m a naive idiot to them.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Is there an archive of this kind of data anywhere? I’d love to store this. I’ve already got a few wikis, including Wikipedia itself, but I’d love more

Congress has the power, they just refuse to use it. The legislative branch was given the most power in the constitution, which they’ve ceded by being unwilling to actually do their jobs. They could take all that power back whenever they wanted of they had spines and morals

That’s… not how tariffs work. No one externally is paying anything. The customer pays.

These people both need to sit down and have some empathy for each other.

They could be growing stronger together through their struggles rather than making it some competition about who is worse off. (Which, in this case, the guy has started by not empathizing at all)

My mental health struggles in no way invalidate someone else’s struggles.

I hate this kind of divisive bs.

And now that someone showed me that, I withdraw what I said. I’d never seen anyone write about it or talk about it. And just figured someone should look into it (they did)

Hadn’t seen this! Thanks! No one said anything about it for days afterwards and I never saw anything come of it.

This is all I wanted unless there was more concrete proof of tampering. Just seemed like someone, somewhere with some credentials should have looked into it. And now I know they did!

I never started screaming there was a stolen election. But after having read the piece, I see a reason for concern.

According to this infosec professional, they may very well have stolen the election

https://substack.com/inbox/post/151721941

The block function is heavily used. Whole block lists get passed around quite frequently. I’ve never really seen much hate on there unless I’m clicking into something obviously heated politically. Other people may have other experiences, but the current culture there is to not engage the hate farmers and just block people instead

I see them on BlueSky more than any Mastodon or Lemmy instance, sadly. But that could just be my experience.

Citizen Kane.

Yes it is circle jerked hard by film lovers… For good reason.

This is what I might consider the first movie shot in what would be recognized as a modern movie format.

It is told non sequentially, the composition of shots is absolutely incredible.

It’s a movie shot in 1941 that looks nothing like the other movies of the time. Literally decades ahead of its time. It looks like it could have been shot a few months ago as a period piece.

There’s good reason for it being one of the most acclaimed movies of all time.

Can we just grind this stupid fucker into sausage so he’ll at least provide someone a decent meal? I’m so tired of hearing what this moron thinks and I’m tired of seeing his stupid face