otatma @otatma@fediverse.xavin.net

do ppl just not realize that there has never been a period of american history in which there wasn't a massive population of racial prisoners in concentration camps, prisons, or enslaved? the state's practice of racialized violence literally has not changed on a fundamental, structural level in 400 years. detention camps, internment camps, the prison industrial complex. these are all the "afterlives of slavery" (saidiya hartman)

Gonna stop referring to them as the police and start calling them “forces loyal to the Trump regime” instead

it’d be cool if anyone else was allowed to commit the regular and senseless violence white people do,

because if so i’d be fucking dismantling anyone that refuses to wear a goddamn mask.

French intellectuals: There is simply not a rational reason that a population which is subject to extreme systematic discrimination would react angrily to insult and hate speech. The only way we can discuss this is to repeat the insult and hate speech over and over again.

I can't see why these fighting words which don't effect me would cause a fight. I am very smart.

Ahhhh, yes, citizens of so-called Western states always think their billionaires only screw them over... It's not like there are two and 3/4ths continents in perpetual turmoil because of the meddling of the West on behalf of its billionaires, oh no /s

@sophie All code […] should be open sourced. Manufacturers should be forced to do so […].

anyone who says a six figure income isn't a lot is welcome to give me that money since it apparently isn't very valuable to them and i can likely put it to better use

any system that requires people to always, or even usually, act optimally is a bad system. people just dont work that way.

I wish the united states would cease to exist

The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough food, it’s that the food isn’t being distributed properly and that we have the audacity to accept that poorer people don’t deserve food that’s as healthy, fresh, enjoyable, or culturally-appropriate as what we (folks who are middle-class and above) eat. So much food gets wasted each year. So much food gets thrown out in this shelter each week!! For the folks in the back: THE PROBLEM ISNT HUNGER