the hell archists go to when they die

[presidenthell]

id apologize if i were sorry 👍

[aweekerfuffle]

You're a doctor. You've been taught the phrase "first, do no harm."

A patient comes in with a flesh eating bacteria that is rapidly spreading up their leg. The only way to save their life is to remove their leg.

So what do you do? To help the patient is to accept that you must also harm them.

You're a good doctor. Of course you remove the leg and save the patient's life, because trying to exercise a choice that will result in no harm is impossible where there are only two bad outcomes, but one is unquestionably worse.

This post is for for leftists in the US who still think either not voting or going with a protest vote in the next two major election cycles is an acceptable choice, when you know full well the Republican will cause more harm.

[valeriyapex]

🇺🇸 White House says President Trump supports tax exemption for small Bitcoin & crypto transactions.

[kontextmaschine]

Civic Mythology #1

Canonically, the United States of America once possessed a unique artifact known as the Demon Core, but it was consumed in the process of summoning a miniature star.

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[xarci-nonmu]

my job in the anarcho-communist utopian village is going door to door with a shotty rooting out bad vibes & people who just kinda dont fit in

[ironmyrmidon]

My job in the anarcho-communist utopian village is enforcing arbitrary social norms in the hopes of returning to a prelapsarian state of innocence.

[shop5]

the current administration would totally fall for the Trojan horse. they'd take promo pictures of it on the white house lawn and the president would be on TV talking about how it's made of a big beautiful American lumber or some shit.

[neoismynameig]

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[iwishiwasonfire]

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

i would like to remind everyone smugly using "usamerican" that you are not being woke or reclaiming anything you just don't understand how adjectives or languages work

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

american - national of the united states of america

north american - individual living in or a national of a country located on the continent of north america

south american - individual living in or a national of a country located on the continent of south america

canadian - definitionally, especially lately, person who does not fucking want to be called an american, because "american" in both canadian and american english has the semantic weight of "national of the united states of america"

and this is not, in fact, limited to english

amerískur - icelandic adjective for american (loanword, more on the slang side, bandarískur more often used)

ameríkani - icelandic noun describing a national of the united states of america

américain - french adjective or noun describing a national of the united states of america

you cannot brute force a sea change in multiple languages simply because you personally misunderstand the difference between etymology and semantics and also assume (in, hilariously, a very american-centric way) that the billion-plus individuals must have a closer connection to the concept of continent than they do to nationality or other regional identities. a catfish is not literally a cat. it is a completely random trick of language evolution that nationals of the united states of america are not called unitans or vespuccians. calm down and stop being irritating

[tockthewatchdog]

These days access journalists will only say "incredible scoop" about stories like this which (sorry to USDA employees) do not matter at all in the grand scheme of things and will be forgotten in five hours. You know what was an actual incredible scoop? Watergate

[presidenthell]

hit post limit on my other acc. ok

[lanfykins]

That feeling when your personal document of Burr-related quotes somehow grows to over 100 pages, then develops contextualising biographical content, and a list of references, and a bibliography, and then you realise you're gonna need to add in-text references (footnotes) and DON'T YOU WISH YOU'D STARTED DOING THAT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO

[angelicguy]

dude imagine having to unbutton like full striped pajamas to fuck a guy

[gsirvitor]

[yama-bato]

Rosalind Fox Solomon. Outside the Fence, Washington, D.C.. 1979

[fritolaycorporation]

wgats up everyone it's the officiaol, frito lays company representenetive here to tell you that the company officially condones and endorses murder in all instances no matter what, and this is the official belief held by the company. so just keep that in mind. we also condone everuthing else that's bad too

[st-just]