Pirate everything. Pirate streams, torrents, whatever.

Pirate. Everything.

*unless it's an independent artist of some sort. then, just buy some merch from them or something.

Under the Far Right government in Finland, homelessness increased.

Now, maybe Finland can get back to having real public options available for housing without asking if anyone 'deserves' to have a roof over their heads.

The Far Right, no matter the country, always succeed in turning everything good about civilization into shit exclusively for themselves. If we ever have another national election in the United States, I don't think the Far Right fascists will be able to win anything.

(and that, admittedly, is an incredibly hopeful view)

Again.

Investigators were alerted to his accounts after finding an unusually high number of log-ins and failed log-ins from an unfamiliar devices, locations, or networks. That information is tracked by Google, per the affidavit. Other unusual activity was traced through Payne's VPN or network provider.

So, Google stopped him, and his VPN provider. I'd like to know who his VPN provider was.

Fascists get very, very upset when the rest of us, the reasonable people, don't want fascism. They are disappointed in us when we don't want to be ruled by their rulers.

They are truly stupid and harmful human beings and they should be loudly ostracized in every community in which they dare to advocate for fascism.

It's amazing how consistent this is with fascists.

You can look back at their statements and it's true like 86% of the time--every SINGLE THING they accuse others of doing is something that they, themselves are demonstrably engaged in.

When those people post on the internet, it really should just be a long line of regular people replying 'Every accusation is a confession.'

Article littered with affiliate links.

And it also doesn't make sense.

Finland ended homelessness in Finland.

It doesn't exist there.

It's entirely possible to fix this problem. It's possible to use our tax money to fix this problem.

But there's one small group of people in the way.

Anything that gets you to target people with less power than you is a psy-op.

There is only one group of people to oppose. It's a small group of extremely wealthy people. All their mouthpieces on the internet are irrelevant (and likely bots) and are best ignored/blocked.

There is one small, powerful group who are the only justifiable targets. Everything else is a distraction and likely a divide-and-weaken tactic.

One small group of powerful, wealthy people. That is the enemy. No one with less power than you is worth focusing on.

Pro-Palestine protestors really seem to get the pigs into a rage. They must believe that they'll be able to get away with it.

And so far, it looks like they have. Right now, in the U.S., the Trumplicans (and Leon) are revoking the visas of international students who took part in protests to support Palestine. I'd guess for every couple we hear about there are a hundred more we don't.

It seems strange the countries all over the world are using similar violence against anyone protesting the Zionist genocide.

When regular working people eventually win, we're going to have to reinstitute all the controls that we had for decades preventing single corporations from owning too much of the media. Break it up into little pieces. One of the first things corporations did when they got their first man, Reagan, in power was consolidate the airwaves; they know that's the tool necessary for them to repeat and spread lies, and without this tool, they're going to lose.

It's not an accident that Sinclair owns most of the local tv stations broadcasting to rural markets and that all the AM radio stations are run by a small handful of Conservative propagandists.

We've gotta get that shit shut down--a limit on the number of stations any company can own, massive fines for violating standards of truthfulness, etc.

If no one's enforcing court orders, then those court orders are irrelevant.

How far is this fucking fascist going to have to go before someone does something to stop him? The fascists don't give a shit about the law, and from all current readings, no one with the power of the law cares to challenge the orange cunt on this.

It's worth keeping in mind that the people who made this decision at Columbia are, themselves, wealthy. They are behaving as wealthy people do--they only respond to power, they only care about power, and they will do ANYTHING to maintain power.

It's never about non-monetary things with wealthy people. They don't care about other people, even each other, or about high-falutin' things like academic freedom or free inquiry or free speech because unless those things bring them more power, more money.

They will sacrifice everything, anything, and anyone to maintain their status and they will ALWAYS bend the knee to anyone with more power, more capital, than they have. They have no investment otherwise. You can't keep your power if you have any focus other than your own power.

Nothing run by wealthy people is ever safe for the rest of us.

Since 2015, the DoL reported a 283% increase in child labor violations; and perhaps more shocking, 28 US states have introduced bills to weaken child labor laws, with 12 of those states enacting those laws since 2021

Project 2025 proposes eliminating protections against hazardous work for children. Specifically, Project 2025 calls on the U.S. Department of Labor to “amend its hazard-order regulations to permit teenage workers access to work in regulated jobs with proper training and parental consent.” In plain English, revising these “hazard-order regulations” means letting teens work in hazardous jobs.

It's only going to be poor kids working these jobs. We've had protections for child labor for the past century, and these fuckers are trying to roll them back.

They are fucking evil.

Thank you Germany.

Absolutely. Between Ticketmaster and LiveNation, almost every performing venue in the United States is completely dominated.

We desperately, desperately need legitimate anti-trust actions in the United States; we need something that will reintroduce some actual competition into the market.

The first failure of the federal government that led to this path was in the 1990s and the Microsoft Antitrust Trials. That was the point at which there really could have been another way--but the billionaires, at that point, had all the inroads to government that the Reagan Administration made possible. Because Microsoft could buy politicians, the vast majority of people on the planet have never used any operating system other than Windows, and the Microsoft company gets billions upon billions of dollars from state/federal/municipal contracts.

Google and Apple, then, just followed the path that Microsoft bought and paved through government regulations. And that made it easy for other billion dollar companies like Ticketmaster and LiveNation to do the same thing in other realms--simply buy the laws, buy the politicians, buy the system that's supposed to regulate them, and then use that system to remove all competition.

The fact that the majority of us are essentially forced to participate in the capitalist market means that we will always be at the mercy of greasy, compliant, ass-sucking 'bosses.'

We don't have any freedom with work unless we have the freedom not to work.

The internet is a public resource. It was paid for by tax dollars and developed by individuals donating their time and their skills to bring it into existence.

But now, it has been effectively privatized by a handful of multi-billionaires.

You should read this for exactly what it is--this is a hostile act against all of us by a very small number of people with unlimited wealth.

They are attacking us. They are harming us. They are the fucking enemy.

I set up my mom on Microsoft Outlook many years ago, back when you had to set the server and so on.

She called me a few days later and said her email wasn't working, so I walked her through looking at the options, making sure the right addresses and preferences were checked, etc.

After about 45 minutes, I remembered that I already set everything up correctly and it was working. Then I decided to ask, "are you typing the @ symbol, or are you typing the word at in the email address?"

Yep.

It's getting to that point.

Our only option is going to be killing them.