Notices by Kalshann (kalshann@mastodon.social)

One of the things I think about every few days is this:

0.39% of the US population is a cop. One out of every 300 people is a cop.

Despite that they only solve about 30% of the crimes they deal with. 1 in 300, with a 1/3rd success rate?

At a price tag of ~152 billion/year. 30% success. 0.39% of the population.

How? I mean, name a group other than politicians and the tech companies that have a 1/3rd success rate, yet still remain relevant? And are fed more & more resources as they go?

The vanishing mom & pop store is "due to market pressures" or an "inability to compete" - not Amazon, Walmart and their billionaires stealing wealth then leveraging it to buy out everything they can. Successful people being dangerous or evil? "That's unpossible"I hear imaginary people say, mimicing the new's talking heads.

We have thousands of examples of this but the powers that be let the delusion continue to protect donors or because they are part of the danger itself.
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Even then, Conner blames the cheat - the future tech and the scientests & engineers. Not the people who own the company, the military who funds it, the military-industrial-complex or the politicians pushing for it. Nope, just the lone techie who's "responsible" for it all.

Again, slight of hand. It's not an apocalypse if that one person dies. But that's a lie.

We hide the actual threats, because they sit on corporate boards or wear nice suits. We're trained, programmed, to accept it as ok.
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R.U.R (or Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti / Rossum's Universal Robots) has been described as marvelous 'Technological Dystopia' by many.

That term is so... misplaced. The dystopia of the play was caused by capitalism. By oppression. By people. Not the Roboti or their struggle for liberation.

We don't blame the people who built Skynet, we blame Skynet, it's an act of deception, a slight of hand, because Skynet didn't ask to exist! But only the extremist blames the generals & tech companies.
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The sentence "I am the sleepy charcuterie Eucharist of taco goodness, eat my tacos and be saved." has entered my reality and now it has entered yours.

President Carter was the best president of my lifetime.

Granted, 'best' here is doing a lot of work because most of those assholes are worthless fuckless conartists. But he has my respect because he tried (and often failed) to do the right thing. Hell, as anti-christian as I am, I'll even say he was probably a good Christian.

Rest with your god.

When people tell you that things are bad: pay the fuck attention.

When victims say they've been harmed: listen to them you wonder bread tasteless fucks!

When people are dying: ask who the fuck is profiting from it, not who the fuck you're told to hate!

Pay the fuck attention. Because I swear to every fucking god out there you will be on the chopping block as soon as the powers that be are done with the rest of us.

I'm so fucking tired of people pointing to things actually, actively, literally-fucking-happening; shit like prison slavery, immigrant slavery, or whatever shitheel thing the wealthy and powerful do to the poor, marginalized & minorities in this fucking nation - and they have the audacity to reply with "Yeah, I could see that happening" or "Yeah, things could go that way." Like it's only a theoretical question for them. Some fun "what if" like alternate history story or some sci-fi horror story.

So... did trump decide to threaten invasion of Panama (a close damn ally) because he'd been accused of tax evasion in the country?

The fuckery this kkklown does just to avoid paying a few hundred million. [rolls eyes]

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Biden never ~never~ respected personal space, especially women - from his "gaffs" to far worse. And it's inline with accusations from decades ago about harassment and assault.

"It doesn't really matter / What you've got to say;
They never fucking listen / To you any way.

So fuck the system / You can bring it down."

"My eyes are made of acid.
And my tongue is sharp with spite.
Attention whore with too much pride,
There's no one I wouldn't fight,"

"The world is spinning like nothing's wrong,
Hating every single day I'm taking on!
I'll cut you to pieces, I'll give it a go.
'Cause the point is clear:
Slay your enemies."

I saw a 'moderate' white fuck talk about how trumpians waving nazi flags is just trolling, like Borat. (if actually a moderate, and not a fucking nazi in sheep clothing!)

I don't find Borat funny for the most part, but I do appreciate the art it is. It's kind of beautiful.

I don't find nazis worth the shit I step in when I walk through a dog park.

Never let them tell you they are the same. One wants you to think, the other wants you dead.

Borat - Sacha Baron Cohen's character - is a troll and creates comedy by highjinks and miscommunication. It's done from a place of love & truth.

Trump supporters - aka nazis - flying a nazi flag but claiming it's trolling or to annoy the libs - that's not trolling. That's not comedy. That's terrorism being disguised by their claims of comedy. That's intimidation, and exuberant threats of violence and more,.

It's made "ok" only if you prefer civility over punching a motherfucking nazi.

Every time I see a Trump ally or appointee that's now shouting about him being a fascist or absolute criminal - my mind takes a trip to 4+ years ago when they talked about how he was perfectly fine. How they were proud to work with the criminal fascist and never doubted his dedication to (white) America!

If you're turncoating against the bloatedfuck at least apologize to the millions you helped oppress and the hundreds of thousands you helped kill before you give yourself a pat on the back.

There is nothing good about the US that hasn't been forced on it by progressives.

Liberation was won by war and violence. Voting rights were gained by riots and violence. Equality via sabotage, strikes & more violence.

I think about that alot, when I think about how to get real safety - not copaganda & surveillance-state - actual safety, like fighting white supremacy, climate change, corporate violence, or billionaire villainy.

Either state violence or revolutionary violence is needed.

Incompetent supervillains, aka billionaires, are going to be the thing that keeps us from surviving the future they've created. Not because of luck or happenstance, but because they have enough money to force politicians to not do the things needed to survive. [sighs]

Oh hey, those Jan6 anti-democracy rioters and terrorists are vowing to overthrow the government again! Like every one said they would on Jan7 if we didn't fucking nail them all to a gods damn wall.

Huh.

Who could of possibly predicted?

I mean aside from nearly half the fucking nation talking about a failed coup without consequences just being practice for the next one. But I mean aside from that 180 million people.. who could of known!

"So much for the tolerant left" and similar conservative snark is a psyop. They imagine it requires tolerance to be a progressive or leftist. We only tolerate diversity, justice & change, in their minds. But it makes their argument for them when it's used by others.

It sneaks in the idea that 'you're still a bigot, you just tolerate this nonsense' or 'you're just pretending to care, we see you'; it's cultural conditioning disguised as mockery.