If someone tells you not to vote, suggests that not voting is a meaningful protest, or posts about the uselessness of voting, they are engaging in voter suppression, and they are not your friend.
We think of voter suppression as a set of partisan policies, and in large part it is, but it is a very big toolbox, with more in it than that. I've already blocked one person I agree with on a lot of things today, because I won't sit and watch folks do the worst people's work for them.
Even if you're disillusioned with electoral politics, I implore all people in the US eligible to vote: please vote. You may think things can't get worse if Trump wins again, but they absolutely can - for everyone in the world.
In all the dystopian sci-fi movies where the world falls apart, the cause is always something advanced, like a space invasion, or the rise of an evil AI army.
I have yet to see a sci-fi movie, where the world crumbles because a charlatan wearing thick orange makeup convinces 81 million voters, that mentally ill migrants are coming to eat their pets; and then they vote for him, and he destroys NATO and the international world order while eating chicken out of a bucket and drinking diet coke.
Elon Musk said he’s going to “Need a lot of security” When he starts taking away programs that help the poor and middle class “Because they aren’t going to like that” Remind me again What office is Musk running for?
Illegal immigrants have to pay taxes, including social security, which they're never allowed to claim. So they basically end up funding American's retirements for them. Meanwhile Elon Musk is spending taxpayer money aggressively suppressing free speech and being the single largest contributor to climate change in the hope that he can one day go on vacation to another planet. People hate the former and worship the latter. Make it make sense.
“But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.”
“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy.”
So, thanks Jeff Bezos, now we see it all very clearly if we didn't see it before...
This election is The Billionaires vs. The People
And the billionaires are trying to hoodwink, lie, bride, cheat and steal enough votes to get over the line, and then end democracy for good. Screw them. We are not giving them our country.
Them: We're forcing you to go back into the office because we believe work is more meaningful when employees are together and have a shared sense of comradery.
Try as I may (and I'm not trying very hard), I can't shake the notion that most of the insane and unforeseen gains in the stock market this past year are due to tech stocks, and more specifically to investor exuberance over anything AI.
But it doesn't take a genius to figure out that we're currently the midst of another giant tech bubble, the likes of which we haven't seen for more than 20 years.
What happens when investors start expecting a return on all their investments in all the AI hype?
I feel like Threads is by far the most cursed social network because it's based on the Facebook/Instagram backend. Threads seems good at taking something 40 of your friends got a chuckle out of, and beaming that to someone on the other side of the country that doesn't know who you are or what your deal is and is super fucking pissed off about it.
Share the comics or the links. It's hugely appreciated! The big social media companies use algorithms to bury material like this. We're making these comics so ordinary people can help get the word out.
Walz: "They found him an apron his size and put it on him...He looks much more like Ronald McDonald than the clown he actually is....And Ronald wears less makeup....I'm going to talk about his running mate--Elon Musk.... Elon's on that stage, jumpin' around, like a dipshit."
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"He crossed a line that, I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I would have never imagined... Donald Trump... was talking about using the U.S. Army against people who disagree with him. Just so you’re clear about that, that’s you... This is not some mythical thing out there. He called it “the enemy within.” And to Donald Trump, anybody who doesn’t agree with him is the enemy."
"Hacktivists" attacking the Internet Archive does absolutely nothing to help Palestinians. This is so astonishingly stupid, it has to be some kind of disinfo op.
Today in TLD shenanigans: dot io is being killed off.
Wishing a very pleasant rebranding to all techbros who squatted their web site in an unrelated nation because it made a good pun. On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving... https://jwz.org/b/ykab
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