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@Lobster When psychological manipulation is amplified through carefully orchestrated propaganda in order to achieve goals defined by the cold hard calculus of power and greed then it becomes obvious that someone has realized it is an exacting science.

But, alas, this is just my humble opinion based on observation.

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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

- Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace

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The only thing I have to say about corrupt criminal organisation #FIFA is

Well, fuck FIFA :fuck_face:

The mafia is less corrupt then those fuckers

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Republicans continue to align themselves with Russia, a brutal dictatorship surviving on an extraction economy that’s impoverishing its residents.

#uspol
mastodon.social/@rvps2001/1156

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If corporations make more money from the infraction than the fine, they will always choose the infraction.

Regulations and regulators need to make fines an actual deterrent.

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@StillIRise1963

We have passed the event horizon, and are now at war with our own goddamned ‘government’.

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Because this isn't about immigration. It is about race. Wake up and cover the racism.
The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown washingtonpost.com/immigration

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Hello dear mastodon friends, wishing you joy and calm today! 💛

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Uh, I didn’t see this coming:

Someone uses AI to create an image of a damaged bridge, and posts it on social media.

Rail operators have to stop their trains until someone can go out and check on bridge, confirming that it’s perfectly fine.

bbc.com/news/articles/cwygqqll

(via @tferrer)

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@StillIRise1963

Fully agree. They imagine a country that never existed, and are hell bent to ‘recreate’ that myth = malignant insanity

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Child is doing their homework and angrily shouting at Microsoft apps, so there is some preparation for The Real World happening, at least.

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The strategy is a vivid example of how Trump’s second term is much more beholden to the isolationist, morally ambivalent wing of MAGA.

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Across 33 pages, the strategy makes zero demands of Russia; it only makes demands of American allies to acquiesce, to forget this whole lame business of invasion and looting – and to embrace Russia wholeheartedly and immediately.

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My niece bought a crocheted bee on a small local christmas market. There was an elderly lady selling handmade plushies, socks, scarfs and hats :blobbee_heart:

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@oldguy52 @StillIRise1963 We should make sure that when they're out of power, we recreate for them the world they envisioned for us. ([smile/curtsey] -- or in Southern, "bless their hearts")

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