all these libs/Dem party people on here are all as guilty

True

Advanced enough dialectics is indistinguishable from a curse and a blessing.

Look, you’re 100% right about the US, but the person you’re arguing with is obviously not representative of the average USian. Don’t take it all out on them. Also Europe is shit too, maybe slightly less so, but still.

telling them any Democrat that runs is going to be the same

No, not the same. Any Democrat will make things even worse than they are now. The speed of worsening will just be slower than under Trump. Vote for them if you want, sure, but don’t lie to people. False hope in the Democrats is what really kills any hope for the revolutionary change that is so badly needed and that is the only thing that can save us (I mean the whole world, not just the US).

Found more than I’d hoped on Wikipedia:

So in the thirteenth century, Antonio of Padua was fed up with how unimpressed his (supposedly heretic) audience was with his preaching. So he literally went to preach to the fishes instead who, surprisingly, stuck their heads out and listened. This then impressed the heretics so much, they too started to listen.

Anyway, 1654 or about 450 years later, on the feast day of Antonio, his namesake António Vieira, a Jesuit Monk in Brazil, gave the “Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish”. In it, he argued against the cruelty of the colonizers against the natives and condemned slavery. (Also he includes a list of good fishes and bad fishes)

Accordingly, three days later, Vieira secretly set sail for Lisbon to plead the cause of the Indians, and in April 1655 he obtained from King John IV a series of decrees which placed the missions under the Society of Jesus, with Vieira himself as their superior, and prohibited the enslavement of the natives, except in certain specific cases.

Conflicts between the settlers and the Jesuits in Brazil went back as far as 1549, and were to last until the latter were banished in 1760.

This is not the full story and the Jesuits probably wanted the natives alive and un-enslaved mostly for the sake of more easily converting them to Christianity, but it still sounds cool, that they opposed the settlers for so long.

This is the best image I’ve seen all week!

That goes for the piping. But it’s it true for the pumps? Are they using pumps that adhere to strict drinking water standards?

Yes! It’s so annoying! Saying “USians” sounds weird, but it’s the USians own fault for having a stupidly named country on stolen land.

I feel like only having a choice between dementia, Alzheimer’s and brain worms in the next election is not enough. The US needs more plurality in the democratic process. People should be free to cast their vote for any number of degenerative neurological diseases. What if voters want to stand up for Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis? More and more people look at US society and feel like terminal brain tumors are clearly best suited to represent it in office.

Thanks for checking!

I feel you! Great recommendations, thanks

Yes, and it worked. Those avenues were used to murder the people of the Paris commune.

Why has no one mentioned Foucault yet? I don’t really know much about him (and don’t like the post-structuralism and doomerist tendencies) but he did set out to answer the question "Why does everything look like a prison?" In his book “Discipline and Punish”. E.g. Schools, barracks, offices all tend to have long straight, easy to surveil hallways and so on. He said it’s all part of something he calls the “carceral system” dominating society.

Also, there are some actually beautiful schools in Germany with nice round hallways, organic design, lots of greenery, open spaces, gardens with flowers and vegetables etc. but they cost lots of money for tuition, and are lead by a weird anti science sect with Nazi tendencies (Waldorf).

You could start here and here.

If you try to take a picture of it, the photo plate overexposes.

The same Germany, that tried to ban their nazi party (NPD) 2001 and failed because so many high party officials were funded by the intelligence agencies that the court couldn’t distinguish between genuine party and state project. Then the head of that agency went on to found his own nazi party (die Heimat).

Panpsychist breakfast

I’m going to predict the future exactly as it will happen: either the US empire is ended and humanity survives it’s inevitable fall or the empire drags us all down with it in a nuclear fireball. Pick one.

*freedom fighters