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then I think they need to improve their media literacy.

Cool, another pithy new buzzword from the wonk-net. Gonna place this on my shelf next to “disinformation” and throw them at anyone who disagrees with my views.

What’s up with white supremacists constantly bitching and whining about black ppl while actively seeking out places that are majority black? Same thing happened with Epstein: he was apparently so racist that he refused to hire anyone black, was always complaining about how they ruined NYC for him—and then he turns around and buys a whole-ass island in…the Virgin Islands (80% black for those that don’t know). I get that these types are cynical capitalists at the end of the day, and that a lot of poor vassal states are non-white because of racism, but I mean can’t they just go to fucking Ukraine??? Jesus Christ.

A lot of the Chinese international students at my college were like that. Might be a biased sample size, though. People who move to different countries are more likely to be partial to said countries.

Pretty soon it’ll be illegal to sue corporations. I give it five years, maybe less given how reactionary the Supreme Court is.

Except they already do that now. Companies have abused the legal system to go after negative Yelp and Glassdoor reviews.

B U T A T W H A T C O S T ?

Never realized how affected I was by my environment until I got to live in Peru for a bit. Being in a walkable town was 100% a better antidepressant than my actual antidepressants.

I feel bad for the workers tho. Really hope they’re able to ban together to get provisions because the rich people defo aren’t sharing shit.

Covid was a patriotism-killer. Not really that surprising. Can’t just normalize a deadly widespread pandemic and then seriously expect your citizens to mourn something that happened over twenty years ago.

because it shouldn’t be traumatizing for most people besides the handful who had family or friends that died and it’s hilarious that so many other people with 0 relationship to the people who died were/are traumatized by it.

“Um ackshuuually, it’s bad to care about people you don’t have a personal, one-on-one relationship with.” Jesus, what a take.

Neocons 100% reduced 9/11 into a goofy good-versus-evil narrative to justify indefinite bloodshed, but I wouldn’t go as far as to demonize people solely for empathizing with the victims. There’s nothing jingoistic about feeling horror witnessing everyday people tumble to their deaths on live television.

as has been pointed out elsewhere, no one talks about where they were when Timothy McVeigh and the CIA blew up that building in OKC, and from someone who remembers both I can tell you I’m far more leery about the context behind that one

The OKC bombing was HUGE news when it happened. 168 dying in a major American city was a big deal back then because there wasn’t a mass shooting happening every other day. However, 9/11 was the largest attack on US soil, almost 3,000. It overshadowed OKC and now its status as an unspeakable tragedy has begun to wane too—such is the life of an American tragedy.