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  • Nobody@lemmy.worldtoComics@lemmy.mlNo place for political violence in America!!!
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    2 months ago

    Fred Hampton. They got his head of security to drug him, then came in on him with his pregnant girlfriend asleep next to him and murdered him. His tombstone is all shot up, because cops go there to shoot at it.

    He was the Illinois chairman of the black panther party, and his focus was bringing all races together to fight economic injustice. That, and educating everyone about the class warfare being waged by the extraction class.

    Edit: typo








  • Maybe it’s methane release. Maybe it’s gasses from the sea floor we knew nothing about. We have no fucking clue what climate change is going to look like. PR firms told scientists to put the lowest projections in press releases for the last decade. The real numbers are both grim and proving to be optimistic.

    As it turns out, the math was all wrong. Who knows why? Maybe all the Earth’s various systems are interrelated, and when one system collapses it causes dozens of other systems to collapse. Maybe Earth and the delicate balance that enabled life to grow on this planet is a little more sensitive to sudden, radical change than we thought.

    Maybe all the people who lied about climate change since the 1970s lied about more shit we’re going to find out about shortly now that we can’t stop it from happening. But they’ll still make their profits and get their taxpayer-funded subsidies, so capitalism is working as intended.







  • Nobody@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml"I want to live forever in AI"
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    5 months ago

    You see, with Effective Altruism, we’ll destroy the world around us to serve a small cadre of ubermensch tech bros, who will then somehow in the next few centuries go into space and put supercomputers on other planets that run simulations of people. You might actually be in one of those simulations right now, so be grateful.

    We are very smart and not just reckless, over-indulged douchebags who jerk off to the smell of our own farts.



  • Nobody@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzEvery generation has different challenges
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    5 months ago

    The water is poison. The air is poison. The food is poison. You’ll work all your life likely in a debt trap you’ll never get out of no matter what you do. We’re all sick and miserable. Cogs in the machine. Replaceable, expendable cogs.

    But on the plus side, our wealthy elites are the richest, most privileged human beings who have ever lived, and they get richer every day. Oh, and the planet itself is not going to be able to sustain human life soon. Did I forget to mention that?



  • Just a few weeks ago, Taiwan held historic elections without any major cross-Strait incident, in part because all sides — Washington, Beijing, and Taipei — worked to reduce miscommunication and misperception about their respective intentions. That is an outcome few may have foreseen in August of 2022, when most expected the cross-Strait situation to grow more tense, not less. But it’s no guarantee of future trends, and the risk remains real.

    This approach has been the hallmark of Biden’s foreign policy. They’re working behind the scenes subtly and competently, making progress in ways that doesn’t really track with the 24-hour news cycle and clickbait journalism. It’s good to see the efforts paying off, but they really, REALLY need to work on their messaging.