and no one will be held accountable

I blame all of us americans, equally. We’re all child murderers

Go ahead, defend yourself, tell me how hard you try to fight for human rights and justice and against fascism

We murdered a bunch of children. Again.

But, hey, no, tell me how this isn’t your fault, how placing blame isn’t helpful, how the oligarchs and the aristocrats and the fascists- it’s all their fault, not you - you voted for a different president

you just live here, and you try hard, you’re not responsible for how bad things have gotten, or for changing them. youre just one person. individuals arent responsible for such atrocities

I mean, everybody is or nobody is- this is a system the people control, or it isn’t- if we aren’t in control, well, when’s the revolution? and if we are? well, there’s 123 children that we murdered.

Just, you know, in case you need a heads up on just how effective your current level of effort is in keeping our government from murdering children. Whether or not you want to increase that level of effort is up to you. Surely paying attention every few years and voting for whoever has the right capital letter by their name is enough

Guess it depends on how many more children youre ok with our military murdering

No one will be held accountable, as if the murder of dozens of children is just an unavoidable byproduct of hundreds of millions of people trying as hard as we can to just live our lives, and, you know, not murder children

:(

ed: Im sorry if it hurts to read, I am. But I think we’d all be better off if hundreds of millions of people were less “out of sight, out of mind,” and took a little more ownership of the atrocities committed in our names. They arent abstractions in a far away land, theyre children who we killed by attacking a school

and I feel like Im the only one who gets so fucked up by these things. They were kids at school and we killed them and everyone kind of went eh, it happens and moved on and

What the fuck :(

If you cant find a way to have them in a govt building, they dont belong outside in my community, either

(this goes for guns, too)

The Dems need to

aww what’s it like to still have hope in the Democratic party!?

pro tip: they do not care about what you care about

it’s a waste to hope something will magically be different about them than the last 30 years

I dont disagree, I just think youre not paying attention if you think theyre actually trying to be what you want them to be

Should we as a people be holding the people in power accountable? Absolutely, but leveraging the democratic party to do so hasnt been effective, so maybe we should be looking to do it without them

Amazon ups the pittance it pays, purely for optics, and because it’s still lower than what it should be paying. Does this all while attempting to further vendor lock its employees in its massive monopoly with an attempt to bring back company stores as a “benefit”

A strike isnt a strike if you can force people back to work

Labor has a right NOT to work

Dont care how “essential” they are, a nurse or air traffic controller- the rest of the citizens do not have the right to force striking workers back to work, period

Collectively ignore them, force their hand

and fuck whoever ordered this from the government- they have chosen sides against the rest of us

and Im sometimes one of those adults! Im saying apply the same model, rather than going the other direction and adding turnstyles, which has recently been discussed :/

Do the buses and light rail next

nike bought converse, cheapened the build and materials for the chucks, and sells the original build as a premium, vintage model

Ill say it every time this comes up:

adding cameras and tracking and survelliance is what weak, lazy, bought-off-and-paid-for leaders do, to trade liberty and privacy for additional arrests

kicking the can down the road, spending money that could have gone towards any number of positive things, like supplies for kids in schools, or even just additional human employees to help the existing ones who claim they need cameras everywhere to do their job

real leaders push plans that address the problems that lead to crime in the first place

like massive income inequality

but people don’t want to hear “your system sucks and needs fundamental change,” for a myriad of reasons

and so here we are. a massive number of disorganized workers, argung and seething at each other over belief systems, ancestry, skin color, gender expression, where exactly on the planet you popped out of your mom

treating each other less than human

less than we would demand to be treated and repected

while, from their mansions and yachts and private planes, a tiny number of people pit us against each other so well, a majority of us can’t even decide what someone truly competent and representative of our collective needs looks like

until the people personally gaining from things like decades of corporate propoganda about climate change face any consequences, things like this will keep happening

but, sure, lets focus on making a bunch of lawyers rich by punishing a collection of capital on paper :shrug:

same- never finished the single player story.

GTA 5 was beautiful in the way Forza Horizon titles are- as a realistic looking arcade-driving game. Id enjoy hours of (modded in) old school taxi missions. And its a great world for MP servers.

But now I have BeamNG

none of this ending the price in 99 nonsense

yay someone else who despises normalized subtle manipulation

well i know what Im pasting in a feedback form next time a wikipedia popup asks me for money

they should hurry up with that secret ballot vote

COWARDS. lazy, spoiled cowards.

lazy, spoiled cowards who are complicit in Israel’s actions because they can’t be bothered to make the choices and demands necessary not to be.

Columbia university wont agree to your reasonable demand? Collectively stop providing labor for them.

or, maybe realize the students and the teachers dont run that school like they should- the people actually using the thing, as usual, have no real ownership of it. I say pack up the teachers, pack up the students, abandon the tainted, corrupt organization, start your own that isnt controlled by rich fucks

Thats C&H Sugar in case you were wondering who to add to your ever growing list of “not buying anything from you, or who you sell your product to, if I can at all help it” list

Also only takes a few minutes to click on any email address or feedback link at their site, and send a quick note telling them we see what they’re doing, we stand with the labor, and they can go fuck themselves - this helps more than you may think!

ed: im not sure why I bothered. of course c&h is owned by domino, which is owned by the descendants of a last century sugar empire, who own most of the sugar on american shelves, and give zero fucks about labor or customers, just maintaining the status quo of them having more than us.

just like most of the products owned by a private company youll find on a chain grocery store shelf

americans have a lot more work and a lot more sacrifices to make than just taking back all three branches of the government from oligarchs. without ownership of our companies and factories, we are nothing more than peasants. if we continue to choose luxury and convenience over choices that show producers we actually care how they do business, things will only get worse

“what am I supposed to do, not buy sugar if thats all they have at the store?” I dunno, would it fucking kill you? Or is “i cant be bothered to find sugar another way than the absolute cheapest and most convenient, or do without at least until the union busting stops” enough of an excuse for you to hand your money over to union busting assholes?

“but im just one person, and individual action-” just miss me with that obvious fucking propaganda, I dont have time to school you, go read a history book

im a broken record but we’re cooked if everyone doesnt stop being offended when they hear " whatever youre doing now OBVIOUSLY ISNT ENOUGH - sorry, try harder" like, nobody is going to do it for us

This time when one of them fails, let them.

“Too big to fail” breaks our current system where consequences are necessary to check certain behaviour. Take bad risks for profit that dont turn out? Go out of business, and more importantly, hopefully teach a lesson to every customer, investor and employee

Grandpa went from 40 years of GM cars to a toyota when the 00s bailout happened, and they were right. These ancient monolithic companies are horribly run, there’s very little if any ownership from the bottom up, and the more we bail them out, the worse their purely short term profit motivated decisions become

decisions that inevitably hurt those of us doing all the actual work, and never the rich who are running this place into the ground to line their pockets giving quarterly-profits-line-go-up presentations

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too little, too late

people need to stop waiting for a law to tell them whats good and bad and actually fucking make choices with the future in mind. the writings been on the wall for at least a decade or more with these tech companies, and people act like they just cant be bothered to consider the inevitable consequences of their choices, or scoff at the idea of giving up any convenience whatsoever when their neighbor hasn’t yet

If there’s not a majority willing to step up and do whats right, then we get what we deserve.

Im tired of the idea of legislating good behaviour

If people en masse want to try to blame other people for their choices, that’s on them. Bringing the legal system into it just tells everyone “hey, dont bother being responsible for your actions” without addressing the issue: people dont give a shit about making good choices

The simple solution is for people to choose wisely with their dollars. If they choose to support shitty producers thats the problem. No need to make being assholes illegal