is working splendidly

Is it?

Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to

Survival in a world that wants us dead is a revolutionary act and every day is another chance for you to make a new crack in their systems of oppression

A lot of “stupidity” you see in the world is a result of anxiety and exhaustion proximately caused by individual poverty and bad infrastructure* imo

*Infrastructure includes hard systems like transit and housing and soft systems like community organizations and government agencies imo

If some historian a hundred years from now or whatever wants to say this moment represented a real turning point, please don’t

Yeah, like less than a second after he says violence is a sudden and absurd amount of gore

I thought he saving a PNG image

Every time I have to do an after call/chat survey I try to add a comment along the lines of “Your representative was very helpful, but I had to deal with too much waiting and too many chatbots to reach them. Please hire more staff.”

And what does some random painter have to do with anything

Kind of off topic, but this just activated one of my trap card rants,

The problem is not that we’re a litigious society, the problem is we make litigation artificially costly and time consuming by restricting the number of lawyers and judges we create and only trying to address the bottleneck that creates by making courts harder to access (e.g. increasing filing fees, giving defendants more ability to force things into arbitration kangaroo courts, etc.).

Especially in light of how our courts have been just making up bullshit to let cops/soldiers/Republicans do whatever the fuck they since circa 1968/2001/2025, you can’t tell me that people need as many years of education to practice law as we require in this country.

Also, private bar associations are fucking weird, feudal era anti-democratic bullshit that ought to get replaced with proper public licensing agencies that are accountable to democratic systems and accessible to the public

/end rant

en masse

That sounds wonderful to me, I just want that mass of righteous people to write down all of their ideas so future generations can continue their work even after the fervor has died down. I call those ideas laws and regulations and the ongoing spirit of that mass of righteous people a government, but I’m not too attached to semantics.

Until they monopolize their industry, which is something they’re always going to be trying to do by their very nature as for profits and which has already essentially happened here

A government can be influenced if it is transparent and democratic, which can be ensured if they’ve got good bylaws that are being scrupulously enforced. Like, if you have decisionmakers a) accountable to free and fair elections (whether they’re elected directly or appointed by elected people) holding b) regular and public meetings where c) outside organizations can raise disputes and get them decided under d) neutral procedures that are published in advance and that every party has equal opportunity to understand and take advantage of, and e) if those decisions and the reasoning behind them are also published and cited as precedent to be reinforced or overturned in subsequent decisions, then I really think the rest takes care of itself.

And I think we had a lot of this figured out when we got done fighting totalitarian regimes in the 1940s and turned around and passed the Administrative Procedure Act, but conservatives keep adding loopholes and trying to drag all of us back to feudalism and monarchies.

I think it is possible to have a government that functions in this way on a long term basis. I don’t think the same can be said of for profit companies.

Yeah, payment processing is among the many many many industries that ought to be nationalized so they can be administered in a transparent and democratic manner (see also, healthcare education housing electricity internet etc.)

There’s just too much opportunity to use it to manipulate markets and oppress minority viewpoints for it to remain in private hands imo

Ah, I should’ve done some more research before sounding off

Ha, good point

He’s like the only major rock star from the 60s-80s period I can think of who I haven’t heard about sexually harassing or assaulting someone at some point

e; I stand corrected

The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would “beat the shit out of each other.” She has described herself as “a beaten woman” when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.

Yeah, like Andrea Manafort said, they just keep showing up and eating the lobster

That guy looks like he just had a rush of blood to the head