Oh good, soon we'll see a bunch of "experts on Venezuela" come out of the woodwork on social media

Here's what I learned from 2020:

Highly visible protest in public space: huge police presence, violent counter protesters, unable to build pressure to force change. Human Cost: 2,000 people brutalized, gassed, and doxxed.

Direct action by dedicated, anonymous covert operatives: inhibits, delays, and frustrates the state and it's ability to repress dissent. Human Cost: A couple of people throw away some incriminating clothes, lay low, then move on with their lives.

just wanna give a shout out to all the posters who made this 1000 comment weekly mega possible

The median home sales price in the United States is $417,700 as of the fourth quarter of 2023.

here's 1%, you're welcome

Suburban psychosis. People are cooler in cities. I was out on New Year's in a major American city and saw at least a dozen high school aged kids out and about unsupervised, doubling up on rental bikes, riding the bus, etc. By comparison, I work in a white, conservative suburb of the city, and the amount of coworkers who are absolutely terrified of stepping foot in town is sizeable. A younger coworker (gen z) is mortified at the thought and is constantly repeating crime stories she heard/read.

When I was 23, I moved to North Oakland after a lifetime in white suburbs hearing the same constant racist/phobic drivel from everyone I grew up around. It was rough around the edges, and you could get in trouble if you were looking for it, but mostly it was just working class people trying to get by. Everything since feels like Disneyland by comparison

It sucks for kids now, more than before, but it sucked back then, too. The media plays a huge role. It's a symptom of suburban whiteness and fear of outsiders.

I guess I owe tiktok an apology

"Cruel, born to command, militaristic"

What are 3 descriptors of fascism, Alex?

When teenagers express their individual choice and gender identity:

 STOP POLITICIZING CHILDREN

When teenagers are forcibly removed from their homes by state action:

 Those promiscuous thugs left their worthless trash behind for our peacekeepers to dispose of

Did five years in the Starbucks mines and another year on a pizza freighter. I'll serve burgers before I fold a graphic tee. The solidarity during/after a rush forges comrades

The fact that the invisible president even registers on the approval scale is an accomplishment

It's only corruption if it comes from the Corruptia region of a developing country, otherwise it's just Sparkling Graft

They spent so much money trying to cover this up/bury the picture