Burning Man is a festival of narcissism: The privileged who have so much privilege they can give up privilege for a few days and call that self-reliance. It is the paradox of narcissism: self-obsession is not self-awareness.
Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck | Moira Donegan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/06/burning-man-wealthy-attendees?CMP=share_btn_tw
A Republican got offended I called the founding U.S. citizens "colonizers,"—rebuking me that “the original 13 colonies were beacons of freedom.”
I asked him to repeat that part...slowly. Apparently "colonies" is respectful—but calling those who built colonies "colonizers" is not.🤔
Also, I'm sure the enslaved, Native Americans, women, and anyone not a WASP wealthy land owner would likely disagree with that whole "beacon of freedom" part.
See, this happened with Occupy too..
Watching someone talk about the 2020 uprisings and they literally say the protests petered out because the general public didn't take up the call.
First of all, the general public was all over it. Secondly, did you miss the part where every cop in America went to war with these folks and they were literally blinding journalists and shit on purpose?
They sent in the Pigs. Stop sanitizing history EVEN AS IT HAPPENS. The uprising ended because STATE VIOLENCE.
Republicans in Nashville are threatening to pull funding for Memphis area projects if they reappoint Justin Pearson (who they expelled yesterday).
The fear and racism is strong with them
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SethAWeitz/status/1644479674557378570
Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.
Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system
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