Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are.

It's a decades long effort to turn most of the population into a money and power pump for a tiny elite class, all while grinding us into dust.

We're crazy and scared all the time, and have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world.

There's a reason dying of opiates seemed like a rational choice to a lot of people.

What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran

Sir Terry Pratchett.

It has been 11 years since death inexplicably refused to give you back.

You still remain the person who has had the biggest influence on me.

Nanny Ogg teaches me to enjoy life.
Granny Weatherwax teaches me to trust in myself, and not to treat people as things
Magrat teaches me that it is ok not to know exactly what I am doing all the time, but to do things I think are important, even if those older and allegedly wiser don't really agree.
Vimes teaches me about determination, family and justice.

There are so many more lessons I learnt from the world you created, and I would not be me without the Discworld.

#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld #Pratchett

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/116192434654015384

The only use case for AI is culpability laundering.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/mar/08/trump-democracy-oligarchy-policy

Please read this. It’s the most accurate, simple description I’ve seen of the #usa now.

Eating fantasy leaves one famished. I am fucking starving. I think you may be too. “And if your neighbors are not living in democracy, then neither are you.”

#uspol #trump #democrats #democracy #fascism #clinton #biden #obama #bush

"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”

Sahar Delijani

#iran

https://evergreenreview.com/read/an-interview-with-sahar-delijani/

Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

#GiftArticle

How America [The #US] Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

Our national project of #elite #impunity

By Adam Serwer

Around the world, powerful men are facing consequences for their actions. Former Brazilian President Jair #Bolsonaro was convicted of trying to overthrow the government in a #Jan6 style #coup, as was his South Korean counterpart, #YoonSukYuol.

#law #accountability #power #plutocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxYP6ztvC2RKlz2tQfl1JB90