Just responding to the last part: I’d say anti-colonial basically is anti-corporate. Look at the Dutch East India Company.

I was wondering if those are places where they wanted to control suppress the vote, too, like in Minneapolis.

I think you missed the point of that part of the performance. Bb was not waving the flag for statehood, he was waving the light blue flag for an independent Puerto Rico… Just after Ricky Martin sang a song about how Hawaii got screwed by statehood and they don’t want that to happen in Puerto Rico (from DTmF).

It’s not about statehood. It’s about separating from the United States. Totally anti-colonial with all that sugar cane, too.

He was waving the pro-independence Puerto Rican flag (light blue) and Ricky Martin was singing a song about the shit that happened in Hawaii after they got statehood… Is that naughty? Mm I liked it.

(There was also a lot of twerking, but somehow I don’t think that’s the actual source of the complaints.)

Screen sharing is a big deal for games.

Have you listened to DTmF? Bad bunny is excellent, no opposition required at all.

I didn’t have civics in my school. This may also be why we are doomed.

… I don’t mean to be that person, but isn’t the second one an AI image?

Practically, there’s no way I’m gonna ask my old arthritic dad to take his shoes off when he comes into my house. Even though he somehow always has the muddiest shoes of anyone I know 😂

Any idea how polling protection groups will work this time around? I’m not really sure what it means to nationalize voting, nor the extent of what it means to have ICE outside of polling locations.

Edit: I’m looking into joining up with a group to protect the polls this midterm.

Right now? “Democranz and republicrats” gets me.

the CEO’s are shredding files
And the democrins and the republicrats
Are flashing their toothy smiles

And uncle Tom is posing for a photo op with the oval office clan
And uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the promised land

*Ani Difranco, “Serpentine” *

I actually think everyone should have to do two things before they hit their mid-20s in order to fix most of the problems of the world:

The first is to take a hallucinogen. Get out of your own head for a minute and see the world from a different perspective. Too many of us can’t do this.

The second is to work as a server in a restaurant. Nuff said.

Curious as to why Common Dreams and others aren’t using the term “Internment Camp”? I’m not trying to whitewash the present, but it does seem to me that a large number of people might feel that term “concentration camp” is a dramatization of the current situation. “Internment” is also awful but less loaded, and might get more people on board and thinking about this seriously. Thoughts?

Edit: Upon looking it up, I have a few thoughts. One, some say “internment camp” was white washing in the first place. Two, “internment camps” might specifically refer to U.S. Army run concentration camps during wartime. I’m still not really clear, though, and would love some additional insight.

Not for everybody, but you might check out the enneagram. If only because it’s a relief to see yourself, contextualize your personal bs, and see how different the bs of other people can be. I think that framework made me more self-accepting.

https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ you don’t need to take a test. You can just read about the types and see what resonates with you.

This link needs more prominence. Thank you for sharing. Spot on SNL.

I thought the best conclusion was the haj. All the details lined up.

Thank you dearly and sincerely for saving the text. I thought it was gone forever after OP deleted their post (internet terrorism imo). Last i saw the comment section was still kicking around, but without being able to see the question.

Should be in a best of archive and saved for posterity. The set up was important, but the comment section was the best sleuthing around. Would love to know if it actually was the haj.

I also did just now. The big yellow button said “Buy it for free” hah!

I think it’s more like NOOOO.

Unions AKA organized labor often call for strikes. Our unions have been systematically undercut in the US, and as such, we have a very limited ability to organize ourselves in collective action.