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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • The willful ignorance displayed by the pro-capitalist political groups (eg liberals, conservatives, most libertarians, and some anarchists) make it clear to me that bothering w the mask of “international law” is meaningless now as exemplified by statements like “quit talking about Gaza” or “Ukraine didn’t provoke Russia” being embraced wholesale despite proof to the contrary easily available w a single 30 second Google search away.

    People make up their minds based on repetition of talking points that they get from both legacy and social media and the people who take any efforts to investigate beyond these taking points are labeled as malcontents at best and tankies at worst and doomed to watch society repeat history.

    this leaves trump to do as he pleases with venezuel, gaza, iran, etc. and only the people who pay attention; whether through personal interest or a desire to dig beyond the talking points; will be the only ones aware of what’s actually happening and willfully ignored by a huge majority of people, including international bodies like the UN.

    this part from the article probably says it better:

    Joe Biden justified bombing Yemen to the public by saying it needed to preserve “product shipping times.” Trump justifies bombing Venezuela because “300 million people died of drug overdoses last year,” a number that no one finds credible, but it’s just as well, a blatantly false claim no one is perturbed by any longer.





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    5 days ago

    i used to answer honestly like because this and i never understood; and still don’t (i’m on the spectrum); why some people got angry/frustrated and it almost always eventually germinated into a full blown fire-this-asshole-already movement in the places i worked at until my therapist made me aware that people don’t really expect a true answer and will only accept certain responses.

    i call it the social handshake now and i allot an extra 10 minutes every single time i schedule a work meeting an wait to hear certain key words/phrases before continuing on for the actual reason why i scheduled the meeting. lol






  • can vary a lot city to city

    trying to do something like this in phoenix & new york during the bush jr era (as greens) and then again with trump 1.0 era in san francisco & austin (as psl) was mind blowing for me in how different each city is.

    our stall was vandalized and one of us got sucker punched in san francisco; we got verbally threatened by a few wackos in new york; people were entirely uninterested in phoenix; and they clearly intentionally ignored us in austin.

    and now being welcomed in chicago for trump 2.0 has taught me that american liberals are have a wide spectrum of hostility towards 3rd party proselytizers in democrat-dominated demonstrations/marches.