Basic Glitch
I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: https://pimento-mori.ghost.io/
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Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
News@lemmy.world•Memphis anti-ICE protest draws hundreds, leads to tense encounter with state troopers
6·32 分钟前“Don’t block the road if you don’t want police to intentionally run you over with their cars?” Or is it “Don’t try to run people over with cars if you don’t want them to murder you?”
“People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil,” the Texas Republican told NewsNation. "And until we do that, I guess we’re going to have it this way. And the people that are staying in their homes or doing the right thing need to be protected.”
Motherfucker is your ass really trying to give people a stay at home order?
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News@lemmy.world•F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
221·9 小时前They’re doing it because murdering wine moms is the MAGA wet dream
Well if you can’t make them your mother-wives what else are you supposed to do? View them as autonomous individuals?
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News@lemmy.world•Heritage paper on families calls for 'marriage bootcamp,' more babies
3·9 小时前They really have no clue. I think it’s at least partially a consequence of the bizarre American tradition where wealthy people are given additional benefits for no reason other than the hope they’ll be more likely to spend more money over the long run. Like when people are offered a discount, reimbursement, or fees waived entirely for traveling or attending an event just because they also own a business or nonprofit.
I get that nobody wants to spend money if they don’t have to, but I get that because most people have a finite amount of money available and actually have to make ends meet each month. So it’s a bit irritating when you have all these weird random day to day transactions where financial aid seems to be offered only to the people who need it the least.
I can’t really blame people for taking it when it’s offered, but it definitely seems to add to this inability to comprehend the reality of finances for most people. Not to mention the very smug idea that when they take advantage of these discounts, they view it as no different than plebs clipping coupons. That then leads to this belief that being so money savvy is what makes them deserving of the luxuries they allow themselves vs. the idea that if you see a poor person eating anything other than gruel and wearing an off brand potato sack, that single luxury you witnessed them indulging in, is not something they worked to deserve. It’s just frivolous spending and an example of the reason poor people always stay poor.
Once they’re already at that level of removed from the reality of just living day to day for most people, it’s probably not that hard to just kind of brush aside the fact that somebody making the same amount of money you were making 30-50 years ago, is going to have much higher cost of living.
When somebody points out $2k/child you just shuffle back step to, well if one parent is staying home, they should be taking all that extra free time to be clipping more coupons. And if that’s not enough, maybe they can grow their own vegetables in a garden. If that’s not enough, maybe take up pickling and canning as a fun family hobby to help you all survive the winter.
And if that’s not enough maybe the kids can find jobs and labor after school. It might be good for them, and teach them the value of a dollar. If that’s not enough maybe they can labor during the day too. Do they really even need to go to school at all, when we’re banking on them joining the army the day they turn 18? They owe it to us for the $36,000 we invested in each of them.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
News@lemmy.world•Heritage paper on families calls for 'marriage bootcamp,' more babies
4·14 小时前Everybody knows the best chance at making a relationship work when you’re having problems is
A. Involving people who don’t know either of you to tell you what you should be doing to make it work, based on what sounds like (bootcamp) a standardized and identical plan for all couples that attend
B. Throwing a baby into the mix. Not because either of you want to or because you’re even in a position to afford to (or even prepared for everything else unrelated to finances that’s required to raise a child), but once again because strangers who know neither of you, are telling you that it’s what you need to do.
I can see why they pay themselves the big bucks.
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News@lemmy.world•Heritage paper on families calls for 'marriage bootcamp,' more babies
6·18 小时前I’m speaking as a guy, so my perspective isn’t the most relevant
It’s absolutely relevant when it comes to speaking out against this bullshit. They came to power because they relied on people believing them when they claimed to hold the “moral majority” in a cultural war boiled down to in-grouping and “us vs. them.” The way we will defeat them is by remembering who we really are and who they really are.
As of now, they hold the power of military, they hold the majority of the money, but there has never been anything moral about them, and they have never held the majority. They’re just really good at being manipulative little shit stains, liars, cheaters, and con artists.
This is and should be a great way to turn off literally anyone who realizes who these people really are, who they always have been, and what they really mean when they talk about “making America great”
If you’re interested in how modern day Russia came to be modern day Russia (far right “Christian” Nationalism and a “free market” that entirely consists of state protected monopolies owned by Oligarchs) you might be interested in what members of the Heritage Foundation were doing in Moscow right around the time the Soviet Union collapsed: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/22863824
Tldr: The phrase “it’s a feature, not a bug” has been the disgusting truth about everything these people have been involved in since day 1.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
News@lemmy.world•Heritage paper on families calls for 'marriage bootcamp,' more babies
32·19 小时前argues that “climate change alarmism” demoralizes young people and dissuades them from having children.
Heritage casts the declining birth rate as a larger problem for the country that points to a more existential loss of national character, what the group calls “a profound cultural malaise in which a growing share of adults feel that they should not or cannot, and therefore do not, form families.”
Motherfuckers, please allow me to explain something to you as a cis white Christian woman who has been “dissuaded” from having more children:
“Climate change alarmism” is not to blame for fewer people buying homes and starting a family (sidenote: although, to be clear you are also almost entirely to blame for climate change thanks to your policies inserting the oil industry and other corporations directly into U.S. government. So if you give yourself credit where credit is due, maybe we can call this a half truth).
Over half a century of brilliant policies created by the Heritage Foundation (established in the early 70s as a direct fucking response to fears on the right following the civil rights movement) are to blame for absolutely destroying standard of living in the United States. Since re-invading the White House in 2025, you have somehow taken a broken system which never fully recovered from the assault of your first “intervention” that began on day 1 of Reagan’s administration over 40 fucking years ago, and made it so much fucking worse in just one year!
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Ken Jennings on Doomerism/NihilismEnglish
2·1 天前But honestly if you absolutely had to choose between putting your own life and the lives of the entire country in the hands of the host of jeopardy vs any other American game show or talk show host, or reality TV star, who would you assume is most likely to fuck things up the least?
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Ken Jennings on Doomerism/NihilismEnglish
3·2 天前True, I guess if it’s a prerequisite we only elect U.S. TV celebrities, Jeopardy is going to be the closest we could hope for to provide somebody remotely qualified. He may be humanities last hope.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can't give Peace Prize to TrumpEnglish
1·2 天前Maybe we should just have a rule like no billionaires or generational wealth will be recognized for doing something good with all that extra money they have but that might backfire and eliminate the bare minimum number of people that actually contribute something positive with the wealth they’ve accumulated but could never actually use it all in their lifetime even if they tried.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can't give Peace Prize to TrumpEnglish
7·2 天前Maybe that was the plan the whole time? He figured nobody would care if she had to give it to him?
Honestly I don’t give a fuck if he takes it from her. I’m just angry we’re living in this stupid fucking timeline.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
News@lemmy.world•Aldrich Ames, CIA officer convicted of spying for Moscow, dies at 84
13·2 天前So this quietly happened a few days ago, but so did a lot of other shit, and totally missed it.
Just happened to stumble across it because I was reading about the Inslaw/PROMIS scandal and the former FBI agent (who was also working for the KGB and died in federal prison a few years ago) who claimed to have given a copy of the software (which was allegedly used to spy on other countries) to his KGB handlers.
He was spying at the same time as Aldrich Ames in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their betrayal and were run by the same NKVD officer, Victor Cherkashin.[4] Hanssen also revealed a multimillion-dollar eavesdropping tunnel built by the FBI under the Soviet Embassy. After Ames’s arrest in 1994, some of these intelligence breaches remained unsolved, and the search for another spy continued. The FBI paid $7 million to a KGB agent to obtain a file on an anonymous mole, whom the FBI later identified as Hanssen through fingerprint and voice analysis.
Anyway happened to be looking into Ames out of curiosity and saw he died a few days ago.
I had never heard of it until recently, but the software that was allegedly used to spy on governments in other countries back in the 80s, (PROMIS), is really interesting to me, because it was advertised as an automation/easy button for court and police data, that was allegedly sold as even having the potential to someday predict crime before it even happened…
It’s kinda weird we don’t talk about that more. Seems kinda relevant in 2026 🤷♀️
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can't give Peace Prize to TrumpEnglish
12·2 天前Oh, it’s easy, they’re psychotic predators who have no empathy.
That’s why it’s so easy for them to lie, and it’s why they were selected by the billionaires who hired them to hammer in the final nail in democracy’s coffin. They feel no guilt. There’s nothing going on behind their vacant eyes except how do I make the people that pay me the real money, (not the tax payer dollars that pay their six figure salaries, that’s pocket change by comparison.) happy.
The author of Friendly Fascism predicted this and tried to warn us over 40 years ago, but nobody really paid attention.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Ken Jennings on Doomerism/NihilismEnglish
83·2 天前Shit give Ken Jennings a position in the next administration. I have no idea what he’s qualified for, but I do know for a fact he’s good at trivia so he knows some things, and going by this tweet he believes in the rule of law.
Bam, yuh hired. Based on those 2 qualifications alone he’s already more qualified for the highest office than 100% of the Nazis in the current administration.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can't give Peace Prize to TrumpEnglish
11·2 天前
No, this is what they’ve always looked like. We promise.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can't give Peace Prize to TrumpEnglish
46·2 天前Maybe I’ve read dumber headlines at some point, but at this moment, I feel like shit, the world feels like shit, I still haven’t had any coffee, and I had scrolled past the headlines below before even coming across this one on APs front page.


I didn’t even really consciously put the absolute ridiculousness of ALL of these things happening at once together until afterwards, but I guess on some level I intuitively knew because I immediately groaned in disgust and said out loud “this is the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever had to read.”
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
News@lemmy.world•Federal immigration officers pull out of Louisiana to head to Minneapolis
3·2 天前Just a an accurate descriptor/nickname to honor the illiterate fascist feddies
murderingkeeping Americans safe
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
News@lemmy.world•Federal immigration officers pull out of Louisiana to head to Minneapolis
121·2 天前The facade is broken. The goal of the Trump administration is to tear down the last scraps of democracy standing in their way. He’s escalating and we are so close to an all out war, but there’s also a reason this entire thing has been dragged out for as long as it has. There’s a reason he hasn’t just sent the military and Palantir drones into cities (yet). He needs at least some corporate support to survive and corporations still need people to continue to buy their shit. This is literally why he is starting a war in Venezuela, and taking over the Venezuelan state run oil company that until now was collecting 61% of Chevron’s profits.
He has tanked the economy, and he is hemorrhaging support like he slashed his own wrists in a warm bathtub. For a civil war to break out, one “side” of the country turning on the other is kind of a necessity. Right now, there is no “side” for Americans to really fight. There’s just Trump and his illiterate group of SS soldiers who are losing more and more support from his base by the day. Encouraging people to help him out by officially kicking off the “civil war” for him and attacking the fucking military police, is giving him exactly what he wants, and is about as shitty and transparent as encouraging somebody to go ahead and leave their finger prints on the gun you know will be used to frame them.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto
News@lemmy.world•Federal immigration officers pull out of Louisiana to head to Minneapolis
411·2 天前Come rain, or shine, hail, sleet, or snow, fascist feddy is always at the ready to be everywhere you don’t need or want them to be.
No constitutional right will ever go unviolated and wild gangs of unarmed women and children will no longer roam freely through their own neighborhoods terrorizing the streets of America.
As long as team fedduccini foreskin is on the job, occupying cities, keeping America safe, and making America great again by murdering civilians and holding Americans in psychological captivity (or possibly even in physical captiity if you look at them the wrong way) Americans can rest easy.


















I truly appreciate the words of concern and advising people to pull over somewhere safe, but it would be much more helpful if city officials across the U.S. could stop helping Nazis normalize their occupation by pretending their goal is to make anyone safer.