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  • XD omg that last line lmao. That is my new go-to catch-all.

    “Hey fort_burp, where’s the ketchup?”

    “If you want ketchup it’s better to strive for joining an international communist organization, sure your pay is going to be shit and you’ll survive on eating acorns, but you can rest peacefully.”

    "Hey fort_burp, wanna go swimming?

    “If you wanna go swimming it’s better to strive for joining an international communist organization, sure your pay is going to be shit and you’ll survive on eating acorns, but you can rest peacefully.”








  • Yea, that’s right. To add: the argument that focuses on voters’ individual behavior ignores the system within which they make their choices i.e. gerrymandering, private political parties, FPTP, winner takes all, Citizens United, Super PACs etc. It is a very low-IQ take to place the blame solely on the voters, and those unelected, unaccountable people who design the rules of the system would like everyone to have that take.












  • I know this is probably not the conclusion you’re supposed to draw from this but after 9/11, bin Laden said that was the end of America and I was like dream on fuckwad we gonna build back better and all that but now that we have

    federal agents unleashed by President Donald Trump continued to terrorize communities across the country.

    it seems that I was the real fuckwad all along. (For those who don’t know, the DHS was created in like 2002 as a response to 9/11 and ICE is a department under them. Together they have sucked up hundreds of billions of dollars that could have, in theory only, gone to public services). Also, in 2002 if someone told me the future news of

    federal agents unleashed by President Donald Trump continued to terrorize communities across the country.

    I would be totally flabbergasted.



  • I wasn’t sure if this was a bit.

    Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is a 2023 memoir and political analysis by Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein. In it, Klein examines the current climate of political polarization and conspiracy thinking, by contrasting Klein’s worldview with that of Naomi Wolf, with whom Klein is often confused.[1]

    It was not a bit.




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    Swear to god, Americans are not literate and that is especially true of ICE thugs. I had some inclination before but after seeing the stats, oh boy.

    • On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024.
    • 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.
    • 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

    The explosive Daily Mail report found that the administration’s $50,000 signing bonus attracted droves of unqualified recruits — high school grads who can “barely read or write,” overweight candidates with doctor’s notes saying they’re unfit, and even applicants with pending criminal charges.

    The report exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement took a blowtorch to hiring standards, with one Department of Homeland Security official blasting: “We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English.”