Notices by Tofu Golem (tofugolem@mastodon.social)

Protests are growing, not that you would know about them if you made the mistake of consuming American media.

Zelenskyy wants one thing. He has never been shy about telling everyone what that one thing is.

Trump won't give him that one thing because Trump is bending the knee to Putin.

Now Trump is mad that Zelenskyy won't give him mineral wealth without getting the one thing first.

America is weak because Trump is dumb.

https://www.politicususa.com/p/zelenskyy-broke-donald-trump

@JessTheUnstill
The Secretary of Defense doesn't believe in germs. That disqualifies him from working in fast food, never mind running the Department of Defense.

Anti-DEI is all about giving jobs to less qualified white men over more qualified women and minorities.

Well, fuck. Windows finally released 24H2 despite all the controversy about Windows Recall.

If you have Windows 11, to see if you have it, go to

Settings >> Windows Update >> Update history

Look for an entry titled "Windows 11, version 24H2"

If you have it and want to see if it is enabled, start CMD as administrator and type in

DISM /online /Get-FeatureInfo /FeatureName:Recall

Theoretically, this should not be enabled by default except on CoPilot-branded computers, but who trusts MS?

Americans are frustrated and angry and cannot seem to find a place to put that energy. I would prefer that energy go to mass protests, but this is better than nothing.

17-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3HB8MZ9_AU

She raises great points about welcoming ex-MAGA.

They don't realize they were wrong because they voted to harm others. They only changed their minds because they also got hurt. They still want to harm others. Welcoming them back without demanding introspection can have serious consequences.

18-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veGq9gcmc2E

On average, Republican-run states get more in government spending than they pay in taxes. On average, Democratic states pay more in taxes than we get back in government spending.

On average, a lot of these government cuts are going to hurt red states more than blue states.

The American media lies to the public and makes it sound like government spending mostly goes to minorities living in big cities. We are about to find out otherwise.

5-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FEiNqKlHqs

@feld @hyc
Thanks for the correction, but even so, this illustrates that there are many positive things those billionaires could be doing with that money, and they choose not to.

At this point, they are wealthier than many countries. That kind of wealth concentration should not exist

Of all the things Elon Musk has done, please do not forget this one.

He deliberately chose not to end world hunger. Every person who died of hunger since then can be attributed to him. That is a mind-boggling number.

In this exchange, J.D. Vance is every Free Speech Warrior.

Since we all know that Republicans are really bad at grade-school arithmetic, you can help them out by creating a ratio:

140 ÷ 0.23 ≈ 608.695…

So we can say that at least if we go by police injuries per protest, Republicans are 609 times more violent than BLM and Antifa combined.

Ask them what they think should be done to BLM & Antifa in light of all their "violence," and insist that Republicans face 609 times that penalty.

3/4

According to police, there were some 2,000 police injuries over the course of 8,700 protests. That comes out to

2000 ÷ 8700 = 0.23 police injuries per protest

According to some reports, there are 140 police injuries on January 6. If you want to use a different number here, feel free to, but almost any number you use is going to produce pretty dramatic results.

January 6 counts as one protest, so that's 140 police injuries per protest.

Now: which is bigger? 0.23 or 140?

2/4

Long ago, the US military was organized mostly by branches, and they were set against each other so that none of them would challenge the civilian leadership (the founding fathers were paranoid about them taking over).

Some time ago, there was a major reorganization by region. Each command is responsible for a different region and is made up of all of the branches.

My father was stationed at MacDill AFB when the RDJTF became Centcomm (Middle East & North Africa).

1/4

Like most American tech giants, Google is a fascist company.

“De-googling” can sound daunting, but you don’t have to do it all at once. Step one should be abandoning the Google Chrome browser.

12½-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UInu03jZM

@br00t4c
Yes, they should be criticized for this, but this would not have happened had the Dems not embraced Israel right as world opinion was turning sharply against it and their genocidal machinations in Gaza.

If you cannot bring yourself to abandon an ally over genocide, you lose the right to complain about anything anyone else does politically.

An unelected billionaire and a handful of techs aged 19-25 have seized control of the US treasury. No one in the mainstream media is talking about this. None of the Democrats are talking about this.

We need 3%—5% of the nation protesting to stop this. The silence of Dems and the media is incredibly damaging.

24:19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbwGhrosGmg

I am getting so sick and tired of Republicans and the mainstream media acting surprised when Donald Trump deliberately enables corruption, fraud, and/or waste.

Does anyone actually fall for their feigned surprise?

@QasimRashid
DEI is code for “I am a mediocre white person who probably would not have a job without racism.”

@br00t4c
He killed children with his stupidity and delusions of adequacy.

Dear Cybertruck owners,
Nobody likes fascists except for other fascists.

Get used to this kind of treatment. Most of the world now sees you as a Nazi, and that is not going to change.

Heck, there's a good chance history will see **me** as a Nazi simply because I failed to stop you.

24-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te5tRp0od1A