being in favor of the death penalty is a position of virtue signaling gone amok. it’s not a position anyone sets out in life to have, but one that’s come to be out of a process of institutions becoming so powerful that they are no longer human or humane. the idea of people so bad and wrong that they must die at the hands of the state in order to purify the state is a propaganda tool that once repeated enough times, people come to believe in.

consider, for a moment, that when Jaques-Ignace Guillotine proposed the invention of a machine that could automate the royal beheading in order to replace the common hanging, he was writing to present the inherent absurdity of capital punishment. however the process of the worship of power has become so entrenched in sedentary society that this point was missed, and his countrymen built his machine and beheaded 17,000 in one year.

tl;dr: the core issue is virtue signaling and team-based politics

it’s strongman politics. once a jury has condemned a prisoner to death, the whole dynamic surrounding their case shifts. no longer are they a person whose life carries value, even if that value is complicated by their actions. they become a shibboleth upon which every strongman politician must prove that they are not soft on crime. none of these appeals have taken into consideration the real facts of the case or the woman, but have been treated as an opportunity to prove to authoritarian supporters that this lawyer, this judge, this executive, whoever is able to step in, but doesn’t, to set things right is a big strong man that you should worship as a big strong man, and that they perform the role of big authoritarian daddy with aplomb.

just everything being expensive because we pay the monetary price of the colonial wars our oligarch overlords enact abroad to enrich themselves

Basically, yes, but also not quite no. Market products offer you an initial baseline experience. Aftermarket products offer you an enhanced “better than the average” experience. Postmarket (or postconsumer) products are a de-growth mechanism by which you extend the life of your initial purchase beyond its planned obsolescence. There used to be a really great paper on creating circular economies that accounted for how in the reduce-reuse-recycle cycle our capitalist society has placed all emphasis on recycle when that’s supposed to be the third order option behind reduce (consumption) and reuse (by extending the life of the products you already own) but I can’t seem to find it anymore, but that paper was where the PostmarketOS name came from

and they’ve been trying to deny which things made them do it ever since. the union won those concessions in blood in West Virginia, Colorado, and Philadelphia

100% yes absolutely

100%. Polyamorous people don’t fuck around with scheduling.

if a polycule invites you to play dungeons and dragons with them, be ready for whatever scheduling system they send you to to be both extremely robust and pretty intense

100%! I’ve seen so many people treat it as a travel opportunity and then go without any consideration for that you will only see what Israel wants you to see, and that it is only so cheap to go because they are paying to brainwash you.

Also the notion that a birthright trip is the defining aspect of Jewish life is INSANE! The whole thing with Jewishness is that our experiences with the experience are varied and diverse, yet there is a sense of community that ties us all together. To ignore that and focus on a state sponsored act of violence when for so many of us the point of our existence is to defy state violence is disgusting, vile, and infuriating.

The most horrifying to me has been how many former friends have come back from their trip and no longer eat unleavened bread for passover because “the exodus is over” like that was ever the fucking point

birthright trips are exactly this. they reframe the zionist occupation as:

1. fun
2. a moral obligation
3. an opportunity to meet hot singles to make soldiers for the future

israel uses sex and sexuality to both glorify a patriarchy and to pinkwash genocide both at the same time. it’s extremely gross

“GTA is getting another one. will this one recapture everything you liked about the 5th release, San Andreas? probably not! but here’s 16 dissapointing new features we’re going to convince you you’re excited about”

not anymore than any other dev stack per my understanding

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mailman/Stephen-Starring-Grant/9781668018057

yeah and i would describe the situation for the rank and file “nuanced”

and a pocket full of stolen emeralds worth approximately $5mil

well yeah. the slave catchers aren’t there to expand the economy for the people at the bottom of the ladder

ICE concentration camps are already death camps

there were add ons for the TRS-80, but Radio Shack assumed they’d never have to make an updated core system

very arguably radio shack assuming they had made the perfect computer (this) and no one would ever want more computer in the future is exactly why there’s still Apple and there’s not still Radio Shack

i don’t disagree. the american civil war is the tent pole event through which all other analysis of american history needs to be analyzed. certain lefty folks will tell you it’s the great depression but i think that’s fundamentally just examining american history through the lens of when the poverty of the southern tidewater finally reached the northern cities. yes, brown and black people were hit harder by the great depression, so the great depression is still a useful tent pole, however the missing context of why brown and black people didn’t have as many protections from poverty is very important, and that reason is that by not enforcing reckoning against the wealthy elites who enacted the civil war to continue owning people, every enforcement of poverty in the tidewater was allowed to repeat

the jerusalem cross on his chest is nearly exclusively got by either Georgian nationals or nazis.

i’ll let you figure out which he is