if one good thing can come from these senseless murders, let it be this. these services should not be allowed to operate without strict regulation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species

sending that money to states "to design their own rental assistance programs based on their unique needs and preferences

translation: the money will be funneled into dozens of lucrative privatization contracts and embezzlement schemes to enrich GOP loyalists and their businesses

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it is a good article. I appreciate when writers can talk not just about what a piece of technology is or can do, but also the impact it it has on people, their memories, and how it fits into the culture.

pickup trucks used to mean something to working class people, but these Deploreans are a gleaming manifestation of petulant man baby individualism born of conspicuous consumption and ostentatious self aggrandizement.

it’s the antithesis of what generations of working people associate with a “truck”.

tbf, there’s also a lot of immensely powerful corporations and political propagandists who invested heavily in Rogan over the years into him becoming a huge success.

it wasn’t all organic popularity, media platforms, Spotify, advertisers and a whole slew of griftosphere talking heads made sure his brand of braindead ‘just a regular guy asking questions’ shtick was beamed directly into the brains of males age 25-50 who self identity as ‘independent thinkers’.

it’s easy to manipulate marginally stupid/normal people when you know precisely what topics get them riled up and tuned in to your disinformation machine.

Stitching together 343 distinct photos, Rozells illuminates a growing problem. When Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched Starlink in 2019, 60 satellites filled the skies, with a race from other companies to follow. That number has now topped 10,000, with tens of thousands more in the works. SpaceX alone plans to launch 40,000 more.

Rozells’ composite visually echoes pleas from astronomers, who warn that although satellites collect essential data, the staggering amount filling our skies will only worsen light pollution and our ability to study what lies beyond. Because this industry has little regulation, the problem could go unchecked.

wow, 10k? and 40K more planned… I had no idea

“This is unacceptable. No one should ever resort to violence or vandalism to make a political point.” Hochul said in a statement in X.

craft supplies == vIoLeNcE

nice how he intentionally conflates vandalism with violence, to make the act of putting tape on a building sound like a level 4 code magenta terrorist attack. these fragile pathetic losers.

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the antidote to fascism is not going to come in the form of a singular day of resistance, no matter what people are promising online. even a worldwide general strike executed flawlessly will not upend the historical and cultural foundations that got us where we are today.

we need a living breathing nationwide MOVEMENT. movements are made of people, and today, the people who would be allies in this movement don’t know anything about one another and have no practice working in unison. protest actions help us exercise our collective organizing muscles, even when there is no one specific goal to be carried out by you (an individual) specifically.

yeah… when I first heard about the insurrection act theories, I wanted to dismiss them as conspiracy thinking.

but the more I read about it and consider what dark maga tech broligarchs (Thiel, Musk, Andressen, Horowitz particularly) are planning, we have to consider it a genuine possibility and warn people about it.

April 19th might be the last lawful opportunity to protest for a very long time (ever?). it sounds crazy to say out loud… god, I’m so sick of oligarchs ruining everything they touch. ah, to be born in simpler times, before late stage capitalism squeezed every drop of blood from our collective capacity for progress.

relevant link explaining Insurrection Act possibility: https://lemmy.ca/post/42004214

this makes me so fucking angry… and exhausted.

please, everyone reading this:

consider ways to protest what’s happening to biodiversity and climate right now as a result of the Musk/Trump administration.

even if you can’t participate in actions directly in person, find ways to materially support those who are putting themselves on the line. (eg, cover their shift at work, give them a ride, babysit their kids while they are involved in actions, etc). even a simple ‘thank you for fighting’ goes a long way.

we can’t let this constant string of bad news grind us down into apathy. consider participating in nationwide protest April 19th. hope to see you there.

This isn’t about anyone but Trump.

💯 everything you said up to that last point…

I think Peter Thiel and Dark MAGA billionaires are also pretty interested in what’s going on… they literally installed JD Vance as VP to guarantee inside influence over policies which serve their long term anarcho-capitalist fantasies.

as others have said. it’s both. you don’t have to be an employee, you just need advance access to privileged knowledge that no one else has. an unfair advantage granted to you by proximity to the decision makers who cause the market to react.

if a Senator is on a committee that meets behind closed doors to vote on whether a bill will move forward or die in committee, and he tells his wife to go buy/sell certain stocks (before the vote is publicly announced)… pretty sure most people would call that insider trading.

whether Musktrump alerted their own wealth manager or their private equity and oligarch buddies about the exact timing of certain key decisions which would impact stock valuations or securities, is a matter to be investigated. but it seems pretty fucking likely.

besides, it’s irrelevant what the law defines at this point… no one in the administration will face an inquiry or be held accountable for this.

an oversimplification of the world into “natural laws” that are poorly understood, usually surrounding a shallow understanding of survival of the fittest and hierarchical structures in animal behavior.

well put. this is why lobster discourse inexplicably drew national media coverage ~5-6 years ago.

for those dumb enough to fall hook line and sinker for the Naturalistic Fallacy and apply lobster behavior as prescriptions for how to organize human societies, it’s an easy jump to look at historical conquests/subjugation and proclaim “it’s natural for some groups to dominate others, see, it happened in the past so it must be an innate characteristic!”

for a succinct (and entertaining) analysis along these lines of pseudo-intellectual justifications for fascism, i highly recommend Some More News’ takedown of Canada’s stupidest pundit

noone actually wants the police and especially the army to ever have to use violence.

maybe no one on Lemmy wants this…

when I look around the world and it’s pretty clear that right wing political movements are ascendant and in our mainstream discourse. empathy is being redefined by fascists as ‘weakness’. police and military operations are ramping up across the planet, and certainly some of it is being cheered for by a non trivial number of people.

IDK what your experience has been but “restoring law and order” and “securing the borders against immigrants” and “maybe they deserve to die” rhetoric is more common nowadays than any time in my life.

but yeah I agree, no one - with functional values and ethics - wants this.

be warned this guy does almost nothing whatsoever on Lemmy except scream at Americans (on Lemmy, of all places, where virtually no one voted for or supports Trump and is actively engaged with resistance politics)

to him , it’s always the fault of Americans specifically for oligarchs capturing domestic and global politics and empowering dictators. meanwhile in his country, Canada, the exact same shit is happening, right wing radicals and corps taking over. but he blames Americans, regardless. it’s an easy excuse for him to think this is a uniquely US problem.

punching sideways is at least half the basis of why he has an account.

people keep using this ‘interrupting your enemy’ phrase incorrectly and it’s really tiresome.

it’s like, “hey, your enemy is destroying your country, do something!” and braindead meme junkies are like “well actually, don’t interrupt your enemy…” smh

ig it gives them permission to do nothing… it grants validation for passivity.