ICE concentration camps are already death camps

the meme at the top of this is about labor laws and unions. you are responding to it already being brought up. maybe if you learn about the context you live in you’ll learn to see past “the republicans were abolitionists in the 1860s” because they sure as shit weren’t ever since the 1920s, and DEFINITELY weren’t after the ideological flip of the democrats abandoning the southern strategy and the republicans adopting it.

your mistake is treating two right wing parties as if either of them is representative of the left, or like the UMWA, USW, UAW, and IWW that brought us weekends were strictly represented in the 1920s and 30s by the democrats or republicans. 10,000 miners don’t march up a mountain with rifles in hand because their needs are represented on a ballot. They got their weekends by demonstrating that could shut down industry if they weren’t listened to. and do you know what all those unions have in common? you have to denounce the Klan to join.

so get the fuck out of the bullshit left vs right fake binary your high school civics teacher taught you and go learn some real labor history

and that he carries a lot of weight in as the chairperson of one of the main actors?

not everyone you dont like is a Nazi

they are when what i don’t like about them is they’re a nazi, which is the case with DHH

I can’t find any legitimate sources that quantify her total charitable expenditures

And you probably never will. I can speak anecdotally on that she gave us $3500 to get our truck fixed for our mutual aid project to keep delivering water to the southern coal fields of West Virginia. She didn’t publicize it, and she didn’t ask us to do anything one way or the other in terms of saying where they money came from. She just saw that we were helping people and helped us do it.

I think we can, and should, be critical of that the charity model she chose was less helpful than mutual aid models, but I certainly can’t find it in my heart to say that she built her empire and put her money towards what she put it toward out of pure selfish greed. To my eyes she got enough money to always protect herself forever from the horrifying traumatic poverty she grew up in, and then looked around her lifeboat, saw other people drowning, and got to work not just pulling people into her lifeboat but helping others build their own.

Again. There are definite critiques to be made about how she went about doing that since I think she overshot her protection mark by a margin and didn’t create durable mechanisms to survive her death, thus potentially creating a vacuum now that she’s gone. But I don’t think being a scold will help. I think trying to train the next abjectly impoverished person with some talent how to build out better than Dolly did will go a lot farther.

When you scold Dolly Parton, all the people who really got helped see is you saying that the person who inspired them to get to helping isn’t worth drawing inspiration from. It’s disheartening, and that’s why that other poster is getting downvoted so hard I think. Instead of virtue signaling that we hate rich people, let’s instead model that we help people, and use opportunities like Dolly’s shortcomings as a dedicated helper to educate the next generation of helpers to be more robust, resilient, and daring than any of us ever dreamed was possible when we were struggling with poverty.

I was intentionally over-exaggerating for the bit of the comedy. The important thing of what I was trying to call attention to was that republican policy is not about fiscal stewardship, it is about abject cruelty.

“i know this one rich nice lady already paid for all of it but… fuck you”

first saint in agnostic heaven. we don’t have rules so we can make them up

i think the concern is that half of Dollywood is owned by a charity foundation that Dolly set up to direct funds to people in need throughout Appalachia and the south, people Dolly saw their governments failing and knew first hand how awful it was to be that poor. You think Dollywood’s commercial, just wait until you’ve experienced Busch Gardens or Disney World where environmental exploitation is done in the name of making a quick buck and performing brand synergies. Or what I’m scared of for Dollywood, private equity coming and squeezing all the value out like what happened to the nearby Great Wolf where all of the value to the people who benefitted from Dolly’s stewardship of her brand get cut out entirely.

as good as what she tried to build was, she unfortunately followed an empire builder model. i fear her estate won’t be as surehanded as she was, and the inheritor of her crown will squander all that was there and that it will all be left in ruins in 10 years

A lot of people from that modernist movement were real awful. In addition to being a Nazi collaborator, Stein was also big time into Zionism and spoke fondly of the illegal kibbutzes in Palestine. I’m a lot more interested in the post modern responses to modernism in Surrealism and Dadaism. Of the two I lean way harder into Dadaism.

Also before you go diving into any of those movements, please note: Salvador Dali was a fake ass phony and is not all that representative of surrealism.

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i would even say with enough time and deprogramming we can make them suck a lot less than they do. perhaps it’s true though that there can never be full recovery. but i think part of achieving class consciousness is having the faith to put in the effort in believing that better things are possible and that humans are neither inherently good nor inherently evil, but rather products of their environment

legal systems in the British tradition have this tendency…

https://powerpantsrock.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-ice

which is why i wish they wouldn’t label one paradigm “natural”

it’s become the default on mac, windows, and gnome, much to my dismay. i even had to install a gnome plugin to get sanity back

One point of order, you lost slrpnk.net’s defederation of hexbear.net

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there’s a long history of cops making petty abuses of the power over others they’re granted, and of those additional powers not making their communities any safer. to me this headline reads as “most predictable thing imaginable has come to pass”

here’s my advice:

1. dismantle the surveillance state
2. abolish the institution of prison
3. abolish the police