Roman Pagans were famously awful for women’s rights. And the New Atheist movement is full of sex pests on both sides of the Atlantic.

Toxic Masculinity exists independently of religious doctrine

Unfortunately, we saw during the health care debate that they are not. You regularly had polls showing majority public discontent with the status quo, only to see every reform policy’s approval collapse after sustained negative media and marketing.

People will tell you they hate the system. But any attempted reform is shot down as “too extreme” and “bad for the economy”

Requires a fully funded and staffed public postal service in a county that’s dismantling, privatizing, and outsourcing core components of public sector package shipping

we elected the billionaire party

Hasn’t been anything resembling a free and fair election in this country since at least Bush v Gore.

You’re fooling yourself if you think “we got what we voted for” when Congress has approval ratings in the single digits

A recision is when your neighbors lose their jobs

A depression is when you lose yours.

sidewalks increase crime

Achieving levels of “out of touch” heretofore considered unimaginable

Seems like I touched a nerve

The Battle of Algiers

Going to gouge all the midstream businesses in the long run. Hardware retailers, PC assemblers, all those little companies selling custom cases and overclock kits and fancy cooling appliances.

The lack of cheap but crucial components will have some ugly coat tails for the rest of the industry.

I’ve heard “unrecoverable” for decades. I don’t see unsolvable problems, I see intractable people.

Protestors burned alive in their APC by the nefarious CCP Street Clothes division

the world of international relations established after the second world war crashed to a halt.

I would argue COVID did more damage to international trade, travel, and diplomacy than any '25 US foreign policy.

The pandemic era quarantines/economic contractions and their reactionary backlash polarized nations along the axis of preserving life versus growing the economy.

Modern Trumpism lives downstream of that crisis.

Jokes on that bird. Those lizards are poisonous

She deserves it, but how long until a Trump appointee lets her out anyway.

I’m more annoyed at how a mod ban removes your ability to “block community” on the current front end. So I’m forced to go into settings and add them to my block list manually.

I don’t particularly like a default policy that lets a community fill up your feed with content you’re not allowed to participate in.

I don’t think they actually care. It’s just something they can get mad at

It’s a vast improvement over the black box of Reddit. But a big stretch to claim its transparent in a material sense. Most people don’t have the time or background to figure out the what and why of a mod action. And once something is removed, it’s dead to time.