Notices by Tofu Golem (tofugolem@mastodon.social)

The Ford Pinto problems prompted big changes in regulation and industry.

This is because the American media was very different 5 decades ago. The modern American media is completely useless.

Americans, please get your information from foreign newspapers. Many of them have English language versions that are free on the Internet.

Funny how Republicans complain about people being selected for the color of their skin instead of their qualifications, then do exactly what they accuse everyone else of doing.

What's going on in Palestine is genocide. The IDF are Nazis. They show their atrocities on social media, they gloat about their atrocities, and the American mainstream media says nothing about any of it. The mainstream media only complains about anyone who dares criticize genocide.

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

I live in a red part of a blue state.

I'm eating breakfast at a fast food place listening to two elderly Republicans talk about the election. One of them said "We gotta kill them. Slit their throats."

Just in case you had any doubt about what white Republican voters are like or why they voted for Trump.

This is what America is.

The 4B movement is spreading from South Korea to America. Given that young men are increasingly right-wing and voting against women's rights, more young women are choosing celibacy. In South Korea, this resulted in the birth rate falling off a cliff.

Good.

16-minute video
https://youtu.be/AC0cyIlDMKg

Reagan set us on the path of neoliberalism, and Clinton followed him. For four decades, the wealth gap grew, and the public became increasingly desperate.

This is the inevitable result of Reagan's "Morning in America." The voting public is now desperate enough to cling to any demagogue promising to make everything better.

He won't of course. He will make everything worse. America will collapse because Reagan and Clinton wanted more billionaires.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-wins-2024-election-president-harris-loss.html

This. This this this this. So much this. I'm tired of incompetent, stupid, criminal white people getting a pass.

This is why the mainstream media has a far-right bias.

If you are not an American and can't understand why this election is so close, this is why.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/la-times-editorials-editor-resigns

Remember when everyone got mad about privacy issues, and Microsoft assured us that Recall would only be on ARM-based "copilot" computers?

Windows Recall will be mandatory on every Windows 11 computer after 24H2.

It might be time to switch to Linux.

5-minute video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G9FRadIkkE0&si=mqx7tmYyCRCqpiEr

Donald Trump failed to block the release of this movie.

Have you noticed that ZERO Free Speech Warriors are mad at him for trying to block the release of this movie? It's almost as if Free Speech Warriors don't actually give a damn about freedom of speech. Huh.

#FreeSpeechWarriors #Trump

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-fight-to-release-the-apprentice

That was fast. Vance gave the Harris campaign lots of ammunition and they are actually using it.

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-debate-harris-new-ad/

We are here because politicians and oil executives told us that it would be too expensive to avoid this.

I don't know about you, but not avoiding this is starting to look really fucking expensive to me.

3 times in one month, candidate Trump has suggested jailing people for using their First Amendment rights.

But sure, Cletus. Tell me about how liberals are "attacking freedom of speech" because we think advertisers should be allowed to choose who they advertise with, or because we think it's OK for copyright holders to decide which books to publish.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-backs-jail-burning-american-flags-1944742

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddow-blogg/trump-suggests-criticizingg-judges-illegal-record-rcna172633

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/trump-google-threat-criminal-charges

Best headline ever:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-guy-who-flew-a-confederate-flag-in-the-capitol-has-predictably-surrendered/

Succinct summary.

I think it's time to admit that conservatism is simply incompatible with civilization.

In case I get the usual objections, here are the statistics. Children are much more likely to be molested at church than by transsexuals or drag queens.

https://www.whoismakingnews.com/

If you want to protect children from pedophiles, instead of keeping them away from drag shows, how about keeping them away from church?

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2024/09/church-leader-charged-with-sexual-abuse-after-allegedly-giving-naked-massages-to-multiple-boys/

There was a mass shooting by police in a NY subway because NY police thought someone stole $2.90.

The American media did not report this as a police riot.

https://popularresistance.org/statement-on-nypd-mass-subway-shooting-over-2-90/

Trump is whiny and weak, just like his followers.