biden deserves worse. i hope every day like this is torturous and that he lives another 50 years like this
biden deserves worse. i hope every day like this is torturous and that he lives another 50 years like this
there’s a really good port of dodonpachi daioujou on the iphone app store, idk about android. sorcery is another good one, based on an old steve jackson gamebook
grow a fucking spine
It seems unlikely to me that they’d use covid as the excuse considering how hard they try to pretend that the pandemic is over and that Biden defeated it
This article doesn’t contradict what I said so I don’t really understand why you linked it? I didn’t say memes have no social impact. I said that voters cannot be disenfranchised by a meme.
Anyways, I don’t really care to keep arguing about this tangent with you, so feel free to reply with whatever inane drivel first comes to mind so you can go back to defending the people committing genocide.
you can’t “disenfranchise” voters with a fucking meme holy shit. words have meaning. i know you’ve got a brain in your head somewhere, try using it some time
Not killing an animal in the first place seems like the most effective way of minimizing egregious pain and suffering within practicality to me
Aside from buying the disposable masks in bulk, you could probably save a lot of money with a reusable respirator. Then you only need to worry about replacing the filters. My partner picked up a 3M 7502 recently and loves it. I’ve been looking at getting the Envo Pro as well. It’s definitely not as effective as the 7502, but if you’re like me and can’t get away with something like the 7502 at work, it may be worth looking at.
Because trans people are way more likely to be the victims of prison rape than cis people.
In its Policy Review and Development Guide: LGBTI Persons in Custodial Settings, the National Institute of Corrections reported that incarcerated transgender people are 13 times more likely than their cisgender peers to experience sexual assault, making up 59 percent of sexual assault cases in prisons and having the highest reports of multiple trauma.
Furthermore, trans people are more likely to be incarcerated than cis people. 16 percent of trans adults have been incarcerated, compared to 2.7 percent of cis adults.
In any case, caring about trans victims of prison rape obviously does not disqualify you from caring about every other victim of prison rape.
whose only flaw right now is supporting one wrong nation
you can’t seriously believe this is true right
How about we break the necks of Germans instead, they’re a much bigger problem than the pigeons are
it didn’t work
hold him accountable how
I am not in contact with disabled or immunocompromised people
Do you think immunocompromised people walk around with a big sign on their neck that reads “IMMUNOCOMPROMISED” or something? When you go out to the grocery store or to do whatever occasional chore, how do you know that none of the people around you are disabled or immunocompromised?
I stay inside when I’m sick, which is rarely ever.
The majority of COVID cases are asymptomatic.
I looked it up and found two books with this title, are you talking about the one by Martin Empson or Ted Reese?
Traveling across Cuba in 1959, immediately after the overthrow of the U.S.-supported right-wing Batista dictatorship, Mike Faulkner witnessed “a spectacle of almost unrelieved poverty.” The rural population lived in makeshift shacks without minimal sanitation. Malnourished children went barefoot in the dirt and suffered “the familiar plague of parasites common to the Third World.” There were almost no doctors or schools. And through much of the year, families that depended solely on the seasonal sugar harvest lived close to starvation (Monthly Review, 3/96). How does that victimization in prerevolutionary Cuba measure against the much more widely publicized repression that came after the revolution, when Castro’s communists executed a few hundred of the previous regime’s police assassins and torturers, drove assorted upper-class moneybags into exile, and intimidated various other opponents of radical reforms into silence?
Today, Cuba is a different place. For all its mistakes and abuses, the Cuban Revolution brought sanitation, schools, health clinics, jobs, housing, and human services to a level not found throughout most of the Third World and in many parts of the First World. Infant mortality in Cuba has dropped from 60 per 1000 in 1960 to 9.7 per 1000 by 1991, while life expectancy rose from 55 to 75 in that same period. Smallpox, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, polio, and numerous other diseases have been wiped out by improved living standards and public health programs. Cuba has enjoyed a level of literacy higher than in the United States and a life expectancy that compares well with advanced industrial nations (NACLA Report on the Americas, September/October 1995). Other peoples besides the Cubans have benefited. As Fidel Castro tells it:
The [Cuban] revolution has sent teachers, doctors, and workers to dozens of Third World countries without charging a penny. It shed its own blood fighting colonialism, fighting apartheid, and fascism. . . . At one point we had 25,000 Third World students studying on scholarships. We still have many scholarship students from Africa and other countries. In addition, our country has treated more children [13,000] who were victims of the Chernobyl tragedy than all other countries put together. They don’t talk about that, and that’s why they blockade us-the country with the most teachers per capita of all countries in the world, including developed countries. The country with the most doctors per capita of all countries [one for every 214 inhabitants]. The country with the most art instructors per capita of all countries in the world. The country with the most sports instructors in the world. That gives you an idea of the effort involved. A country where life expectancy is more than 75 years. Why are they blockading Cuba? Because no other country has done more for its people. It’s the hatred of the ideas that Cuba represents. (Monthly Review, 6/95).
Cuba’s sin in the eyes of global capitalists is not its “lack of democracy.” Most Third World capitalist regimes are far more repressive. Cuba’s real sin is that it has tried to develop an alternative to the global capitalist system, an egalitarian socio-economic order that placed corporate property under public ownership, abolished capitalist investors as a class entity, and put people before profits and national independence before IMF servitude.
Excerpt from Blackshirts and Reds, since Parenti and Castro himself put it better than I could.
This post reminded me that I had opened !roguelikes and forgotten about it lol. It’s pretty much the exact sort of community you were talking about, a niche audience that’s not really relevant to the site-wide culture, and that has no posts and little chance of growth. I was going to try to post there myself to help the community grow but I couldn’t think of anything worth posting.
Anyways, +1 to cleaning up the dead communities.
Seems a lot more likely that the IDF would kill me if I were in Gaza, actually