the lesson from Abu Ghraib wasn't "don't torture people," if anything it was "brag about the torture instead of hiding it," and honestly that's fair! the CIA torture report came out and nothing changed!

Du coup, l’Etat pourrait s’inspirer de cette bonne idée et, par exemple, mettre en place un système qui prélèverait de l’argent à ceux qui sont le plus en capacité de le supporter, par exemple les riches et les ultra riches qui « donneraient » plus que les autres.

Je sens que je tiens un truc.

Crypto killed the GPU market, AI kills the RAM market, now we just need something to kill the CPU and Power Supply markets and we can all be free from the tyranny of the computer

People seem to be totally incapable of delineating the difference between descriptive and prescriptive. Coates (and many others) are saying something rather simple: the occupation is in fact violent, violence breeds violent reactions, and we can't really act surprised by this if we're being serious.

Billionaires already live in a magical reality where they're exempt from consequences for fraud, criminality, antisocial behavior. But that's not enough. Everyone else must be forced to live according to their precepts and be at the mercy of their whims. Perverse!

American's raison d'être vis a vis MENA is essentially cyclical and therefore nonsensical, we must arm Israel to the hilt and back it no matter what, which in turn causes blowback, and therefore the blowback necessitates backing Israel to the hilt no matter what, which causes blowback, therefore

This drive towards means testing and surveilling people to make sure they're Truly Deserving comes from a place I empathise with. A feeling of injustice, of people taking what Isn't Theirs To Take. But the result is always, always that it just fucks over disabled people. You gotta let it go.

This would be funnier if bluesky had a lighter character limit and I could add more ways Karl Franz is better than Big E in every way