Well I think that comment is 100% spot on, for one

Which is fucking 2 brain cell, textbook senile xenophobic nonsense. I want fucking healthcare and I already live in a police state, I don’t know why anybody thinks gatekeeping migrants from living here is a magical fix to America’s problems- a giant wall across mexico just makes us all less free and I fully 100% believe these policies are all about giving the state more control at the end of the day.

Ahahaha no. Biden’s can’t deal with criticism from the left so he’s trying to win over the right, like he’s done anything but that in his time in office. This is a terrible idea and empowers trump as a person.

Nah RIP Craigslist personals, it was one of the only safeish places to advertise sex work -imo these services should be state-or-community-funded, free AND respecting of privacy, ideally. Maybe it did need more moderation; but even more so it needed less outrage about the useful connections and exchanges of services it enabled. We should always mourn the old web, sure it was flawed like anything else 20 years ago but it was still faaaaaaar better than the google-ravaged wasteland of today.

Google wants the internet simplified so they can get it under their control, what else is new? I started learning web design a few years back and this is the kind of shit that makes me suicidal. There’s almost no point when they have such a huge monopoly in the space.

Tax the rich and/or defund military or police just enough to pay for decent healthcare and mental health services in this country. Can’t have responsible citizens if you’re driving them to the brink of insanity- these conditions are intentional so the state can turn the mentally ill into free labor in prisons and maintain a military force against the people at large.

Well, as a american- everywhere I’ve ever worked has had a recycling bin but it’s always treated as another trash can. Just something that depresses the absolute fuck out of me.

The goalposts HAVE moved right with Biden. Everybody forgets that he was the token establishment white guy VP for obama- he hasn’t changed, he is not a progressive superstar. Dude is shitting the bed on a few key points; especially this and climate change.

I’m a millennial and I think it has been for most of my life. Ive seen two people become president who didn’t win the popular vote- and I long ago became convinced this system can’t be fixed. It’s working against the poor, for the rich as it was meant to. We need to tear it down and try again, we need drastic change. This said, police abolition and even the barest redistribution of funds from that to address the living conditions that cause crime in this country is one shortcut I fully believe in. Police organizations started as slave patrols and even today primarily criminalize poverty and hurt struggling individuals. They have no duty or obligation to prevent violent crime. Furthermore, in America it’s one of the most overbloated areas of federal spending and that money could easily give everyone a higher quality of life instead of being used to turn free-thinking citizenry into free labor and sustain the brutalist temples of inhumane evil called prisons.

Okay, well I’m ready to write a angry email now who’s with me? Anybody know the best address?

Dwarf fortress. It makes me want to forgo sleep in favor of weed lol

You’re a straight guy who likes getting fucked. This is way more common than you’d think and shouldn’t be a big deal in a healthy society.

You need drivers for your external USB most likely. Unfortunately, a lot of brands only support microsoft’s malware of a OS and use unnecessary proprietary firmware…

Yes, yes yes! The world needs more femboy dads. That said this happened the other way around for me. Just goes to show how much overlap there is among fringe internet cultures- I really wish we could all play nice more often.

Well chickpeas are underrated asf for one, fry em with oil and add a little salt and it’s like vegan bacon… Well, vegan bacon spheres. Hummus is a chickpea dip that is to die for, flavor-wise and it’s really easy to make fresh + keeps for weeks. Highly recommend mushrooms and nuts too for when you need something a little heartier.

Well obviously hope and optimism and nuance are important here, I can’t entirely disagree with that I’m just saying we need to support illegalist climate action uncritically (except in the case of complicated, shady organizations like PETA) and we can’t expect those in power to act sensibly as a general rule.

I’m not saying we need to write everything off as hopeless, I’m saying we need to recognize that a lot of current efforts amount to greenwashing and ARE hopeless or even pointless (carbon credits for one are a good scam that comes to mind). The best work is being done by people chaining themselves to trees and sabotaging oil pipelines, not those writing policy with pockets full of cash… and this honestly comes off as apologetic for the latter and more than a little naive to me.

Mindless optimism isn’t the answer either. We need real change immediately, the window to slam on the brakes as a species is already behind us arguably. The only answer is to be both realistic AND ambitious.

Science has came a long way this hasn’t been true for decades. Just gotta be fine with a surrogate carrying the baby and/or have the $$$

Dude, most dating apps place trans people in a entirely third category. Usually it’s a third box after male/female and I promise, nobody cares if you leave it unchecked. You’re missing out on wonderful, self-realized, adventurous individuals IMHO but nobody is calling you a transphobe simply because you prefer cis women, calm down. You’re exaggerating greatly and absolutely parroting anti-trans hysteria here. Shit like this is exactly why a trans person might not come out on the first date