Notices by they/them might be giants ☭ (babadookspinoza@mastodon.social)

“Healthcare provider” is such a bullshit euphemism. Health insurance companies aren’t the providers of care; they’re the obstacles, the parasitic middle-men leeching off the system to the point of widespread breakdown. Brian Thompson’s company didn’t provide shit except returns to investors.

Trump 2020: 74,223,975
Trump 2024: 71,353,267
Difference: -2,870,708

Biden 2020: 81,283,501
Harris 2024: 66,415,656
Difference: -14,867,845

Trump actually lost support since ‘20, but Harris’ courting of Republicans (95% of whom voted for Trump!) collapsed Biden’s ‘20 coalition.

Don’t despair—organize your communities! This is what would’ve been necessary either way. Both candidates were hugely unpopular among the general population; what looks like a Trump mandate is really just a damning indictment of the Democrats. We have the numbers and power to protect each other.

I don’t know how to explain it to people who don’t understand that something of all of us is buried in Gaza’s mass graves.

How many “once in a century” storms are we going to see this year?

Americans love to mock other countries’ news as propaganda while ours ought to come with a surgeon general’s warning for brainworms.

Peace to an imperialist is when the victim’s struggling ends and the heart stops beating.

Acting as if defining what’s being done to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is some tricky issue of balancing emotions with intellectual integrity is absurd when so many experts have identified it not only as genocide but a TEXTBOOK CASE! If this isn’t genocide, nothing is.

Hezbollah and Ansarallah are doing what the US and the West love claiming to do: military intervention for humanitarian reasons, to prevent genocide (as the Genocide Convention demands) at great cost and even greater risk. Solidarity is something the capitalist mind can’t fathom.

“Israel isn’t doing enough to protect civilians” is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer didn’t do enough to make sure his food was ethically sourced. The IOF has systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians—if you can’t admit they’re targeting them, you’re fucking shameless!

My friend is raising money for a generator to run a water purifier that will help about 750 families in Khan Younis get clean water—a real lifeline right now. Please donate whatever you can and share the link! Everything helps. 🇵🇸 https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-families-in-khan-younis-gaza-get-clean-water

The Harris campaign thinks it’s making a great argument that EVEN DICK CHENEY ENDORSES HER as if doing so is just so common-sense, but for every Republican ghoul she wins over she’s losing voters who ask the implied follow-up question: What does Dick Cheney like about her?

People bring up the trolley problem earnestly to advocate the most heinous things when in truth the thought experiment is most helpful in clarifying how viscerally repulsive and inhuman rigid utilitarianism is.

*trying to wriggle out of my restraints as the conveyor belt brings me ever closer to the whirring industrial saw blade ahead*

My captor, laughing maniacally: Ahh, so I see you want Trump to win????

Nonbinary like a quantum computer.

Call your representatives and tell them to go fuck themselves.

I just tried to get into the mind of someone who thinks Kamala Harris is far-left and the doctors say I’m lucky to be alive. You’ve got to train for that, it turns out.

When Che talked about revolutionaries being guided by a great feeling of love, how anyone who trembles with indignation at every injustice is his comrade, this is what he was getting at. This basic universalism. If the vast suffering in the world matters, everything must change.

Is the suffering and mistreatment of people who aren’t you or your friends or family, who aren’t white or living in the West, as real and important and urgent as your own? Your answer to that determines everything, and is obvious to those who see you acting in the world.

The political horserace shit the media loves is easy to get caught up in, but it’s all theater. We live under the dictatorship of the ruling class on a burning planet and increasingly we’re starting to know our own power—unstoppable if harnessed, organized so we can act as one.