@benroyce These ICE thugs must be charged with negligent homicide. Truly shocking. She could have still been alive. But they needed to control the cover-up.

@benroyce @grumble209 @eswag @Pepijn I'm still laughing at the thought that anyone believes in top down reform of the DNC (or GOP).Just ten seconds thought: the donors are getting what they want and the "DNC" is just made up of humans. Unless there are new donors, and/or a massive influx of progressive people, it is not going to change.Fortunately, the MAGA assault on the senses is waking up a lot of people and engaging them. I pray there is time.

What is the meaning of life?This is the meaning of life:#Panda #Pandas

@feike Yup. Meanwhile multi-party Europe has elected avowedly fascist Russia and Hungary and has rising fascists multi-party groups in most of the rest. The fascist Reform UK is surging in local polls overtaking the Tories and Labor. As is true of the narrow-sighted, you believe that one single election system change is the magic bullet. This leads to naive somnolence and allows the fascist populist, nativist, xenophobic, racist, misogynist parties to band together and march in. The selfish refusal of left and center left parties to band together is another glaring failure in the multi-party system to fight fascism. @energisch_ @benroyce

The #USA appears to be bombing #Caracas #VenezuelaWhy?So people stop talking about #Epstein?"Drugs" they say but #Trump just pardoned the ex-President of Honduras for drug offensesIt's so fucking stupidPeople didn't vote in 2024 because "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe"Can we please show up in 2026 in the primaries and the general election and shut this stupid shit down?*Please*You're not going to get perfect. The Democrats suckBut now look. Look at why we vote anyways, toxic idealists:

34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thingNot liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialismAnyone who has a problem with my sentiment:Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrellaWe must defeat #plutocracy in the WestThe Soviet way is not the wayHappy #SovietUnionCollapseDay

This topic came up talking with relatives over Christmas and I couldn't figure it out. Maybe the Fediverse knows1. There was an era in the past where if anyone posted a vertical video they would be teased, mocked, ridiculed2. Today, the status quo, every video is vertical orientation and no one even remotely considers it strangeRoughly when did this happen?