You cannot respect authority and respect yourself at the same time.

So they have money to brutalize children but not to teach them.

Or it disproportionately kills the most economically oppressed like always, spreads paranoia and destroys community trust, leading to another right wing surge.

Totally what happened. We now have a leftist president and congress. The right wing is all dead.

Being “canceled” often seems to benefit someone in the long run, if they can keep it together and not respond by making grievance their entire online identity. In a sense it’s just attention and an opportunity for greater exposure.

Either way, you’re going to die someday. If there’s something you would like to do before that, you shouldn’t let fear of disapproval stop you.

AI features are also Microsoft’s excuse for trying to force customers into a $100/yr subscription model.

Not knowing where you are, it’s hard to say. But you might as well start with whatever is most accessible to you. Getting involved will help you get to know who’s doing what and how in your area. I will say it’s usually easier to move from less to more radical groups than the other way around, so if you’re shopping around, you might want to start with a more mainstream group.

This article is quite bad.

I think things are getting worse faster because the people in power know the cat’s out of the bag. They’re trying to grab everything they can and to fortify themselves against the backlash they know is coming for them.

We have these midterms and then the Presidential election in a couple years. Unfortunately, things will get even worse before they get better. But if we aren’t building the power to actually seize opportunities when they arise, we’ll fail to recover at all. Organizing is the best thing we can do.

I just want to be unfettered.

Basically plagiarism at this point. Centrists tried to call Bernie Sanders an antisemite ffs. Just power through it, stay on message, don’t give them the time of day.

If only there were signs.

Did I miss something?

Haha got em. This will make a difference!

All this over punk art.

It’s not really student-led if the schools are making them go, is it.

Poor kids. They don’t deserve to be used as a means to an end like this.

People love to do activities where their efforts and rewards have a strong correlation to each other. Athletics are an activity where hard work pays off. That’s rare at a job.

Isn’t Israel supposed to be a bastion of freedom and democracy in the Middle East?

It’s entirely possible this is just attentional bias on your part. You noticed the more vibrant, active adults when you were younger because they were more interesting to you.

But generally, things are worse these days, too. I feel like people used to talk about the future optimistically when I was growing up. Maybe people still talk to kids that way now, but I don’t. And I don’t hear people doing it. So, maybe you’re on to something here.

It absolutely helps their goals well beyond pleasing their voter base. Census data is used to determine the distribution of House seats and the distribution of resources to communities. This will influence the actions not just of government agencies, but non-profits as well. It’s considered the most authoritative source on the US population.