It’s not primarily about covid or health, it’s about Palestine and free speech. Supporters of these recent efforts are trying to criminalize masked protest and give the state more authority to target resistance activity.

From Forbes

Under the new bill, anyone wearing a mask or a face covering would violate the law and could be charged with a misdemeanor. The only exemptions would be individuals who wear masks or face coverings for health or religious reasons.

How do you think authorities will regularly utilize the health exemption for wearing a mask in public? I’d imagine, given the history of police proclivities and their own comments, they will use it to selectively target the usual suspects and anyone raising a fuss about genocide, about war, police brutality etc.

He probably doesn’t understand fascism is one election away from winning. Can’t blame him, though, his people are having genocide conducted on them, bet he’s distracted.

Cool that he used this as an opportunity to educate about the integration of nazis into leadership of West Germany, nato, amerika, anti-communist terror groups etc., and, among great powers, the Soviet Union was the only entity to denazify European territory after victory.

I think one of the elements you’re missing here is that not even “liberals” expect any meaningful condemnation of violence from the right. It is specifically the democrats who veil themselves in progressive language and claim to support human rights and oppose war all the while committing genocide. This meme correctly identifies the chauvinistic hypocrisy of the democrats.

Wow. I am shocked the Yemeni military were not able to sink a US aircraft carrier moving with a group of military ships but were able to strike and cause fires on singular trade ships, shocked.

In both cases they were acting in opposition to genocide, so I hope they have better luck in the future.

Definitely worth checking out.

My condolences, I said goodbye to my canine friend this year. It’s so hard. She looks like a very good girl. I hope you have some good photos and video. They’re still hard to watch for me but they help me remember all the good times and adorable personality she had, and not just the pain of losing her.

It’s the most american thing ever. A psychopathic murderer praised as a hero lies about killing desperate poor people from atop a temple of capitalism during a crises largely ignored by the government.

Yeah they made a really great game in the end. I bought it a couple years after release and loved it. I will be drooling over this one too but will be waiting for post release reviews.

Hmmmm… a very tempting pre-order 🤔

Wake me up when my pay has caught up to the last few decades of inflation.

A player in my most recent session accepted an offer to become a vampire. I was settling in for a couple sessions of drama as I stacked more reasons for accepting the offer, nah, about 5 seconds in and they’re ready for undeath.

Seeking to ease one’s conscience by means of spending excess money is hyper-individualistic and conforms with a self-interested worldview.

The perverse thing is how neoliberalism has left people with the idea that they can meaningfully impact the world through deciding where they spend the pittance left them after their bosses and government warmongers have taken their cut.

If you give a shit about the environment stop believing the propaganda that market forces will be swayed by your hobby of guilt spending. It will be the hard work of organizing people and uprooting the financial interest who direct national and global policy.