So tumblr still exists in 2021 huh?

Turns out the problem is capitalism.

[unlimited-apathy]

Got banned off Twitter for a week for telling a pro war with Iran creep to kill himself so now I’m back here to scroll for a bit.

[thegothicalice]

Wore a couple modified shirts recently and someone asked “how?” so my illustrator background made me draw this because work was slow ✂️ Featuring examples at the end— drawn in Procreate.

[deluxe-distrait]

[thydungeongal]

It's weird how prevalent "oppression is bad, but you know what's also bad? Fighting for liberation" narratives were at one point, especially in video games. Just the weirdest obsession with the whole narrative of "the status quo may be bad, but we can't just go and change the status quo."

[m0thmancore]

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

[m0thmancore]

oh no! i dropped this screenshot that explains how to bypass this with a free adblocker! you shouldn’t reblog this or anything; it’d be terrible if people used this advice to watch ad-free youtube!!

[paxamericana]

[aritany]

[hunter-rodrigez]

[afloweroutofstone]

Representation matters

[snommelp]

[gaanata9]

[willgrahamscock]

the level of censorship around this man is ridiculous, what happened to free speech? It’s just his name.

[willgrahamscock]

calling her a “copy cat” when she didn’t do anything other than repeat 3 words is insane. her bail is set at 100,000.

[willgrahamscock]

as of now she’s facing 15 years in jail for ‘threatening’ the ceo of the insurance company that denied her claim. and isn’t that ironic? since women always get told that ‘threats don’t mean anything unless there’s action’ when it comes to reporting stalkers, ex and present partners who threaten abuse. but now a threat warrants this disproportionate action?

[willgrahamscock]

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[luidilovins]

They're gonna tighten their clutches before death makes them loosen their grip.

[magnetic-rose]

NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.

reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.

luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.

news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.

multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.

and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.

[holymagdalenes]

"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.

[ave-immaculata]

[letmetakeastabatit]

CS Lewis had something to say about this

[hollow-keys]

A shot/chaser long in the making

[syakesan]

America be like "you cant have free healthcare or easy access to disability but you can have a gun"

[syakesan]

no healing, no living, go KILL

[syakesan]

This post was really fucking funny in hindsight

[megafaunaknight]

[animentality]

they legitimately haven't got shit on the bicycle assassin who killed that healthcare CEO and I'm fucking living.

what an absolute badass and a legend.

I hope they never catch him, and CEOs everywhere remember that they are flesh and bone and no amount of money in the world can save you from the rot.

[depsidase]

[cobragardens]

Ok but you need to understand that if your business has shareholders, this is literally illegal.

In the U.S. it is federal law that a business must do everything within its power--including environmental damage and worker exploitation--to maximize investor profits every year, or those shareholders are entitled to sue the business and it will be dismantled to pay what they are legally owed.

[calcinator]

Shareholders have too many rights.

The system needs to be overhauled massively, but shareholders should be able to sue for less and should be able to be sued (and prosecuted) for more.

You want to invest? Fine. That's what you're doing, and that's all you're doing. If you don't like the business's plans or how they handle their money, you sell your stock and go someplace else. You take the dividend payout you're given, and you're the last person in line when handing out money.

Your investment doesn't work out? That's what gambling is. Better luck next time.

We also need a law that says that if a company is convicted of a crime, it's board of directors and CEO are automatically guilty of committing that crime via conspiracy, and subject to the "for humans" laws rather than the "for companies."

That means if Wal-Mart steals millions in worker wages, the CEOs and Board are prosecuted as if they'd robbed a bank of that same amount. If Hobby-Lobby smuggles artifacts, the people at the top are prosecuted as smugglers and thieves. If a company dumps toxic waste into a river against regulations, well, if any individual human did it, we'd call them a terrorist.

And we need a law that makes it so that companies that settle with the government cannot admit "no wrongdoing".

[quasi-normalcy]

This is also why enshittification begins almost immediately when a startup goes public.

[mirrorofliterature]

This is not true. Companies may say its true, shareholders may say its true, but under US law, companies are not legally required to maximise shareholder profits.

This is misinformation! If you buy into it, it only strengthens the myth that companies must prioritise investor profits above all else.

You can blame Milton Friedman, the inventor of neoliberalism, for this legal mythmaking.

Let's look at a US Supreme Court Judgement: 'modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else'.

There are also laws in over forty states explicitly allowing companies to consider non-shareholder interests!

Anyway. Shareholder primacy is an economic perspective, not law!

[balioc]

It would be at least slightly more possible to maintain any respect for big-name Republicans, when they talk big about making giant slashes to federal spending and doing away with whole offices/departments/agencies and valiantly defeating unnecessary government interference, if they ever said one single word about the TSA.