PugJesus

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'm so fucking tuned out to how I used to be just one short year ago. I know it's just a nonstop avalanche of fascism that I, as an individual, will not be better equipped to combat by following closer. I used to follow Congressional bills, debates, presidential speeches, etc.

Now my attention to national politics is utterly minimal and restricted to informing myself of only what I need to for the sake of local activism and keeping up with international politics (which I still follow fairly closely).

I'm still probably more tuned-in than most of the American electorate. But fuck, I can't just watch every individual step of fascism going forward here on out. I'm close enough to blowing my brains out without that additional inducement.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, thank goodness! I always wondered what happened. I wish him the best!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn, really removing all excuses for me not to edit the photo? Fine, I'll open up paint real quick, but this is basically slave-driving, I'll have you know

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just a meme scavenger, sir, doing my best to be entertaining!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I searched for a version with the text not cut off, but I couldn't find it, which meant my only alternative was to change it myself.

That sounded too much like work

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Honestly, even moderating ~10 comms is a bit much. I couldn't imagine doing 25, much less 125.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago (11 children)

"I feel the immense pain of how hard all victims are fighting for themselves because we know absolutely no one will fight for us. GOD BLESS ALL SURVIVORS."

Will she fight for them, or will her GOP affiliation win out?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. OnlyFans as-is struggles with accountability, appropriate age, and verifiable consent. Imagine that with a decentralized system of enforcement and accountability.

 
 
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism is simply a system where the ownership of capital is primarily by an investor class using limited liability corporations in a market system.

Given insufficient restraints, the investor class will act in their own interests - that is to say, calcifying their control over capital through the use of clientism and legal force, just as pre-capitalist aristocracies did, up to and including detachment from the market. Capitalist elites do not care about capitalism. Capitalism is the ladder (however unfair and cruel that ladder is, mind you) that they pull up behind them once they achieve success.

Elites always want to become an aristocracy, and given enough time and power, they will become an aristocracy in a society that refuses to confront them, and dismantle capitalism - again, itself not exactly a humane system - to implement an even more oppressive apparatus in its place.

Unfortunately, dismantling capitalism is easier than dismantling an aristocracy. If they succeed, the task of left-wing anticapitalists becomes harder rather than easier.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Me, a contractor, warily eyeing the skeleton next to me:

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, don't fucking come here. Not now, not in the future. We can't be trusted again for a very long time - longer than just an election or two.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fantastic idea, I hope it becomes mainstream. I've been meaning to try plant-based meat alternatives for a while, for environmental reasons.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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