You know what sucks most about this? We could literally fix many of society’s issues by focussing on education. Hunger, crime, inequality, poverty, climate, population, everything. But that fucks the goals of billionaires, so we won’t.

So, fun and slightly unrelated story:

In the late 80s, when I was a teen, we were driving through the Arizona desert to Mexico and there was this big stretch where there was just nothing. No radio, no rest stops, literally nothing. And I had to pee really bad.

So we pulled over for me to do my business. It was an open desert with nothing to hide behind, so I went a bit from the road and found the biggest bush I could. It was dead and not full enough for much privacy, but far enough that I thought it gave enough cover. So I squatted and pulled down my shorts, and heard a really loud rattle. I didn’t even think. Just scrambled back towards the car, butt naked to the sky, scraping my knees in the dirt. Not even sure when or how I pulled up my shorts.

I’d nearly pissed on a rattlesnake. The adults reassured me that they rattle instead of bite, so I wasn’t in real danger. They thought it was hilarious. I did not.

Sometimes you don’t think, you just do what you can do.

Musk and his kind are the top picture. The US will not benefit from his company’s tech. Socialist systems might, eventually.

Musk is a robber baron on a massive scale.

Tbf, many of the densest countries on that map have been socialist for a while.

Like waaaaaaaay before this.

But, $$$$$$$, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ow, my back.

This is the most American thing I have read in my life. I have lived for more than half a century, some of it in several different US states.

Seriously, if anyone asks what the US is like, show them this post. It’s perfect.

Yeah, but where’s the fun in that?

All of the cost, none of the equity. Just as capitalism demands.

Distributed burden, with the profits for the few.

What did we do with the railroad barons again? And where’s their privatised cutting-edge tech??

Where I live, there used to be an Officer Gay in our police. He retired a while ago, but just imagine the possibilities. There was graffiti. Soo much graffiti.

Like, this was a legitimate word, once, used for names and such.

Totally expected.

Why would this play out differently? MAGA are paedophile and rape enablers, supporting sexual slavery.

Duh.

We’ve known this the whole time. Sorry you’re(traditional media) just catching up now.

Yeah, there be trolls about.

Why do you hate free speech now?

This is objectively true:

Ideological values are parametrically associated with empathy neural response to vicarious suffering 2023, PubMed

Maybe we should stop trying to convince them and start showing them.

That’s how you vote, not what you are. I was talking about what you are.

I’m a socialist, but I vote democrat because I understand how this works.

He has dipped his dick in multiple parties before he found the one degenerate enough to tolerate him. He was a Democrat for a while, then an independent, but those didn’t work for him because they had scruples.

Some people don’t know, but he ran for president under those parties and lost miserably.

There are many more choices.

I’d despise this sack of festering paedophilia if he was a socialist. He’d give socialism a bad name.

You can have my pickle. I don’t want it.

Fuck feeding times.
Fuck working instead of petting me.

Worship me as a god, like your ancestors did., peasant.