I’m familiar enough with right wing misinformation to know that immigrants being responsible for increased crime - and even that crime is increasing at all - is an entirely fabricated narrative in the US. I confess not being familiar with the situation in Sweden, but I can recognize the same false narrative reflected in your previous comment.

As long as you continue to blame all of your country’s problems on Muslims you will never have the understanding needed to actually fix them.

Were there not an Israel the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.

• Joe Biden, 1986

The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there’s people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they’re succeeding.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Numbering systems all essentially evolved from base 1. People started out keeping track of wheat/barley using tally marks representing a single stalk, then creating different tally marks representing bushels, baskets, etc. More intentionally designed number systems based on things like the number of fingers on our hands came later.

Said model contains gigabytes of a bunch of weights that can never go back to the exact words of the book.

And yet, the tech bros do have access to the exact words. The only difference is that they don’t share, instead choosing to extract value from it by training an LLM and (eventually, hypothetically) turn a profit. The product is created by processing the intellectual labor of billions of people into a formless amalgam of human creativity, which is then exploited for their private benefit.

If we’re pirates then they’re privateers, and I know which I respect less.

That’s just the imperialists telling on themselves. They don’t consider what is Taiwan’s as Taiwan’s, but as being made exclusively for the US’ benefit.

Private property is theft.

Those who do not have fat baby JD Vance memes in their gallery will be denied admission.

Uncharacteristically self-aware of you to post this in the shitpost community.

It’s a bad argument anyway, since street-blocking protest crowds almost always part to allow an ambulance through. If an ambulance is stopped, it’s usually the cops blocking it.

The placebo rage bait effect works even on those who are aware that it’s placebo rage bait.

You don’t have to believe me, I just found it amusing. I remember seeing it and I can also see the hammer and sickle in this one is sharper than the rest of the image, meaning it was pasted over something. Don’t know if OP edited it or found it already edited, but I know the original is out there somewhere.

I swear I saw the original version of this meme with the anarchy symbol instead of the hammer and sickle, though I can’t find it anymore. MLs don’t do anarchist erasure challenge: impossible.

Losing mine at 26. Yay!

The last image is likely referring to this. Contracting prisoners out to private companies is a common practice all across the US, but particularly in Alabama and other former chattel slave economies. Southern slave plantations continued operating during reconstruction by using prison labor. The reason we have the largest per capita prison population in the world is because slavery never truly ended, it just adapted.

Use your words please. I’m not going to sit here and try to interpret what message you intended to convey with a political cartoon made in an entirely different context.

Well they’re not having brunch now, are they? Take the opportunity and meet people where they’re at. I’ll take a radlib willing to take to the streets over a chronically online communist sitting in their basement complaining any day.

Show up to one of these and start singing the Internationale, you’ll discover a lot more comrades there than you would expect. Being embarassed to protest side by side with liberals just demonstrates insecurity about how powerless you feel, which is understandable, but the cure to that is taking action, even if it’s just joining the parade of the liberals. Like it or not that’s where the energy and will to resist is, and it will adjust its methods as the situation evolves.

It’s also the origin of some anti-semitic tropes. After Christianity rose to prominence in the Roman Empire, Christians considered lending money with interest to be a sin, so they were forbidden from working related jobs. This resulted in Jews, who were forbidden from owning land and many other professions, taking up the role of merchants, money lenders, and tax collectors. In the Christian view of the time, they were doing the “dirty work” because they were immoral and sinful, and the nature of the work made them easy scapegoats for many of society’s ills. The reputation has followed Jews into modernity.