"hes trying to distract from the epstein files"

he spent millions and millions of our tax dollars scrubbing those files, baby, do you really think hes worried about them now? we lost. we lost because no one wanted to play to win. we fucking lost, and a kid fucker and gang of nazis funded by south african fucking nazi super villains controls the entire government what do you think you're going to vote this away?!

WE FUCKING LOST AND IT IS BECAUSE WE DID NOT TRY.

I am in disbelief that the only argument I'm seeing mobilized against age verification laws (and their accompanying social media bans) is “It sucks for privacy!”, and not “why the fuck are we okay imposing a digital jail on every single child?”

Digital privacy matters and it's an important reason why these laws must be repealed at all costs, but let's also please humanize the issue here: social media bans for minors are just another massive chapter in the conservative's playbook to deprive any social class that's not ‘adult white males’ of their bodily and existential autonomy.

That same playbook has chapters we're already familiar with, including staples such as “let's force gay kids back into the closet”, “trans kids shouldn’t be able to decide anything for themselves”, “women shouldn't have a bank account”, and “abortion should be illegal”.

I have a few friends who, like me, are naturally impelled to know as fully as possible about things in the world many of which are of a deeply malevolent nature - war, dispossession, rapacity, torture, patriarchy, slavery, and so on. Then many of us have to talk or write about it in a serious non-memetic & unbubbled way. But of course acquiring knowledge of 'evil' when there is a deliberate amplification, a firehose of highvolume shit aimed at humanity and its communities (most often those of the tactically shunned) can lead even the most social people toward panic, exhaustion, isolation & withdrawal. We honor your need to heal but, when you can, stand again alongside us. And if you can't, that's okay too; we got you.

How To Heal When The World Is On Fire by Cait Johnstone
A followup to her earlier, 'Don’t Let The Empire Gaslight You Into Believing You Are Powerless'

> ...first we need to be clear that healing and feeling secure are two different things. Healing isn’t about getting away from uncomfortable feelings, it’s about moving right into them and feeling them fully. After we have done our work and healing has occurred we tend to notice that we feel better, but the actual work of healing begins in discomfort. That’s where the rubber meets the road on this path... Healing is when you find a part of yourself that has been acting out unconsciously over and over again throughout your life, by getting annoyed or upset or collapsing into helplessness, or by freezing up, freezing out, or freaking out. You start paying attention to how these unconscious behaviors play in yourself (either in your outward behavior or privately in your internal suffering), and you get real curious about how that is happening... Healing is when you track that defense mechanism back to its first instance, the very first time you felt this feeling, usually in childhood, where you were small and vulnerable and you came up with this way of defending yourself in that moment and have stuck with it ever since...

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-to-heal-when-the-world-is-on

it has been said that "AI" is proof of the failure of capitalism because 1.6 trillion dollars have been burned into it (that's like 5 Apollo programs, adjusting for inflation), at the same time as Gaza, Sudan, Syria are happening.

but this is just the natural consequence of what happens when literally 0.001% owns as much wealth as half the global population https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds

of course then the wealth will be allocated on whim and toys and the eternal mirage of even more wealth.

it is good in times like this to go material and forget about the fiction that is "money' and remember what it means, in the real world, the mythology of "private property". it means that these 0.001% have decision power over physical resources; unelected, unilateral, absolute decision power about what happens to buildings, to rivers, mountains, the air we breathe. what is built with the metal and wood and oil extracted at great cost. what kind of food is planted and how it's grown and prepared.

it's good to remember what it means, capitalism: that the 0,001% who have pieces of paper that grant them "ownership" of these things get to gatekeep and paywall access to a roof to sleep under and food on your table unless you work as a servant for them, in stark contrast to basically all non-State societies where access to food and shelter is a given.

it's good to remember what it means to "have wealth": that the instant you try to defy the decision power of that 0,001%, the instant you object that maybe all the resources we (workers) are extracting shouldn't be turned into expensive bullshit generators or bombs to throw into Arab homes, the instant you sleep inside an empty unused building so you don't freeze, you'll get punished violently by armed goons. it's good to remember what the State is: the enforcement agency of capital owners.

that imaginary abstraction of "ownership" and "wealth", all those papers and computer databases, are nothing more and nothing less than layers of obfuscation over the fact we all live under violent military occupation. a State is nothing more and nothing less than a mafia racket, a crime cartel who took over then painted itself as legitimate. it's good to remember this, because it points the way to the only solution, and I'm not talking about putting a *different* don at the head of the cartel.

good morning 

Harry Potter still being a real thing after that weirdo wench has done what she’s done and said what she’s said… lets me know no one really gives a shit about anything or anyone else. Very disheartening.

Reminds me of how I was forced to hear R. Kelly and Diddy for decades before people decided to care about the (long-known) truth. No one cares. Just here for the drama.