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irresponsible gun owning parents, who literally put firearms into the hands of their homicidal children, need to be held accountable for these tragedies.

dozens of mass shootings in recent years, especially school shootings, were absolutely preventable. if only these fucking lazy stupid ass adults would stop fetishizing guns for 2 seconds, long enough to store their weapons securely like a sane responsible person. or they could, idk, maybe steer their mentally disturbed crotch goblin towards a more pro-social, harmless activity?

firearm ownership is a responsibility too few take seriously.

“This is unacceptable. No one should ever resort to violence or vandalism to make a political point.” Hochul said in a statement in X.

craft supplies == vIoLeNcE

nice how he intentionally conflates vandalism with violence, to make the act of putting tape on a building sound like a level 4 code magenta terrorist attack. these fragile pathetic losers.

i think tik tok might be in a position where they must sell in order to continue serving content to American users

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-bytedance-social-media-tariffs-665e46fd5bb555e97c4d7301e07230df

The order was announced as White House officials believed they were nearing a deal for the app’s operations to be spun off into a new company based in the U.S. and owned and operated by a majority of American investors,

the extension only happened because after the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, threw a big party for right wing influencers during Trump’s record breaking $200M bribe acceptance party inauguration, Trump mysteriously halted the order (despite being signed into law) to ban the app.

from the article:

Top TikTok executives reportedly rubbed shoulders with American tech leaders and handed out business cards at an elite pre-inauguration donor event on Sunday featuring members of the Trump administration, as the app’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain.

Tiktok executives including CEO Shou Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman were reportedly on hand at the event, which President Donald and First Lady Melania Trump hosted at the National Building Museum in Washington. They joined a reported guestlist including Vice President JD Vance, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and conservative megadonor Miriam Adelson.

geeze, it’s almost like the tech oligarchs told Trump to pause the ban until they could negotiate a way to profit more from acquisition of TikTok (or a newly created US based subsidiary that Bezos is trying to invest in) than by outright banning users access to it, cold turkey.

here’s another great historical photo of a revolutionary. the sources have more details about Marina’s life, for those interested in Spanish Civil War history.

Marina Ginesta - photo by Hans Gutmann

source: rarehistoricalphotos.com

source2: Marina Ginestà, 94, the defiant militia girl with the gun

The photo was taken by the Irish photographer Colman Doyle. The original caption: “A woman IRA volunteer on active service in West Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle”.
The IRA regularly conducted “show of arms” displays, showing off their modern and numerous weapons.

source: rarehistoryphotos.com

interesting movie you should check out, God Bless America, directed by the inimitable Bobcat Goldthwait.

it’s a sort of dirtbag dark comedy blend of Falling Down meets Joe vs The Volcano. middle aged guy gets a terminal diagnosis and goes on a cross country rampage taking out right wing pundits. there’s a fair amount of poorly aged schlock and nostalgia fetishizing but the core premise is enough to make it worthwhile.

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great YT explainer for anyone unfamiliar with the Yarvin style techno authoritarianism to which Thiel and Musk subscribe: DARK GOTHIC MAGA How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America | Blonde Politics - YouTube

on April 19th there will be protests nationwide in every city.

I plan to be at the one where I live, with as many people as I can get to come with me. attending is the bare minimum i can do, but until we collectively get up enough courage for large scale civil disobedience, simple protests are a starting point to get you connected with local allies and movements.

~people aren’t doing anything~

literally millions of Americans organizing nationwide protests and resistance events, uniting with friends and co-workers to strategize, with larger and larger turnouts with each passing week…

🤔🤔🤔

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This isn’t about anyone but Trump.

💯 everything you said up to that last point…

I think Peter Thiel and Dark MAGA billionaires are also pretty interested in what’s going on… they literally installed JD Vance as VP to guarantee inside influence over policies which serve their long term anarcho-capitalist fantasies.

as others have said. it’s both. you don’t have to be an employee, you just need advance access to privileged knowledge that no one else has. an unfair advantage granted to you by proximity to the decision makers who cause the market to react.

if a Senator is on a committee that meets behind closed doors to vote on whether a bill will move forward or die in committee, and he tells his wife to go buy/sell certain stocks (before the vote is publicly announced)… pretty sure most people would call that insider trading.

whether Musktrump alerted their own wealth manager or their private equity and oligarch buddies about the exact timing of certain key decisions which would impact stock valuations or securities, is a matter to be investigated. but it seems pretty fucking likely.

besides, it’s irrelevant what the law defines at this point… no one in the administration will face an inquiry or be held accountable for this.