"Gay best friend"?

You are mistaken. I am your queer worst enemy. Born in the 90s so yall know I'm an adult, babes

[yumyumcult]

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[dogpuppy]

He is my princess diana

[patrickbatemanamericanpsycho]

When the group chat arguing and bro starts messaging you privately

[momoboyds]

white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass

[boringkate]

Be careful not to buy a Chinese toaster! It may be SPYING ON YOUR TOASTING HABITS and sharing your valuable tada (toast data) with the Chinese government!!!

This post has been sponsored by Door Snitch! It's a camera you put on your door that snitches on you (to the local cops that can kidnap you)!

[fieldbears]

Two things are true at once.

If your hypothetical toaster (or more likely fridge, washer, dryer) is part of the internet of things, that means it's connected to your network. It's not an issue of your toast data, it's an issue of any and all data on your network. Your computer is on your network. Your phone is likely on your network.

The idea that Chinese companies could be spying via their products isn't a hypothetical. It has happened and continues to happen. Huawei is a well-known example; they famously got caught selling wireless networking equipment with backdoors and other capabilities they weren't supposed to have and didn't declare. (1, 2) Two years after they got caught on the backdoor thing, they tried to pull some weird shit in a project in a strategic location in DC before they got caught again.

The surveillance state problem is not an either/or issue, and I strongly recommend everyone be wary of whataboutism in relation to issues with China. There is ALWAYS something wrong with America that we can point to, and that wrong thing will be wrong and it will be American, but when those problems are used to imply Americans can't criticize issues happening in other countries, or like we should only be concerned with what our own country is lying to us about, ask yourself what that whataboutism is for. There is more than one fucked up government affecting your life.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

[onlytiktoks]

[piedude]

[covid-safer-hotties]

[bonefarm]

Get rid of your fucking Ring cameras holy shit. That was one of the most chilling ads I’ve ever seen

[creekfiend]

😰😰😰😰😰

[knitmeapony]

[sistersorrow]

People: Ring is using their cameras to spy on people

Other people: You're being dramatic

Ring: No, we're definitely doing that, which is why it's in our ads

[errorschacha]

“You can’t note that there’s dissent among local police or especially that local police in a particular area are for any reason(s) broadly opposed to ICE’s presence there, because police are bad, and because anyone whose any action or belief is similar to mine, however briefly, in whatever context, can’t be bad. It’s clearly an incorrect observation. Moreover, in an obviously impossible scenario in which our universe’s physical constants of good and bad no longer applied, that is, were it to become a possibly correct observation, and I had to choose between ‘my neighbors die’ and ‘collective action to prevent that, except cops might in some manner support or be involved in it’ I would choose ‘my neighbors die.’”

— Wise, Moral and Brave Anime Blogger

[fittingoutjane]

"Cops are sometimes assholes" is a sentiment that can and should coexist with "local law enforcement has rules it's supposed to follow and many MANY cops are outraged to watch feds acting like fucking gangsters with badges, breaking things and hurting people for no reason."

A lot of representatives of state and city law enforcement are refusing to cooperate with ICE raids, or even actively opposing them when they get particularly lawless. This is good and we should be happy about it.

[errorschacha]

Imagine for a moment a parallel dimension in which cops themselves are gangsters with badges who by and large object to ICE for a mix of territorial reasons and finding their conduct unbecoming of state-sponsored gang officers. Now imagine that’s where I am saying this from: it’s still good when cops object to ICE and want them out.

[hyperions-fate]

The evil in Minnesota is entirely American. It needs no propagandistic comparison to 'oriental' regimes abroad or whoever happens to be the 'barbaric' enemy of the day. ICE's inhumanity and cowardice is that of a state born out of slave plantations and the indian-hater's rifle.

[tomhoppusdelonge]

[elbiotipo]

"the US will run Venezuela directly until there's a 'transition'"

there we go.

[elbiotipo]

in the words and candence of Trump:

"WE are going to run the country. (untilthereisasafeandjudicioustransition) ... We are going to run it basically. And as you know the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust for years now... the best oil companies in the United States will invest on its infrastructure."

Just if there is any ambiguity. The oil part was immediately afterwards by the way. I'm almost transcribing it live, you will find the transcript soon. Say what you want about Trump but he is completely transparent.

[elbiotipo]

"we built the Venezuelan oil industry with American money and talent and the socialist regime ROBBED it from us, it was the largest theft of American property in history"

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD

[elbiotipo]

IT'S LITERALLY LIKE IF US CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM MATERIALIZED INTO A PERSON. IT'S LIKE HISTORY IS SPITTING ON MY FACE. I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING INSANE.

[ssmashingtime]

[nitewrighter]

[haildiscordia]

[zombieofdrake]

Here’s dril’s candles on a graph for reference.

[dogpuppy]