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danilo, 2 months ago to random

as a person who supports student loan forgiveness

as a person who was subjected to predatory lending by a diploma mill that ballooned to, at its height, $101k in debt

"Joe Biden forgave a bunch of loans that aren't your loans and people should know about this achievement" is the most fundamentally unserious bit of centrist cheerleading I've ever fucking heard lmaooooooo

people will be excited by loan forgiveness when Biden forgives THEIR loans and if he can't deliver that they should not care

glynmoody, 4 months ago to random

‘A gift to Moscow’: dismay as #NYPD takes part in UAE #Swat games with #Chechnya and #Belarus - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/moscow-nypd-uae-swat-games-chechnya-chechen-unit-ukraine "Event has already been widely used as PR opportunity for notorious Chechen unit accused of war crimes in Ukraine" nypd is utterly clueless...

atomicpoet, 4 months ago to random

The best criticism I’ve seen of post-modernism, specifically Michel Foucault’s flavour of it, comes from Karl Rove—former U.S Presidential advisor to George W. Bush:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

In other words, by the time you analyze how power structures work, those in power change the reality of those power structures.

Which means by the time those who critique realize what’s happening, conditions change. It’s too late. With the time it took to analyze, you didn’t act fast enough to resist the “new reality”.

This is how the right wing hijacks postmodernism.

flexghost, 5 months ago to random

Frmr White House Communications Director Alyssa Griffin
frmr White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews
and frmr White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson:

"A second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy”

"We don't need to speculate what a second Trump term would like because we already saw it play out”

"This is a fundamental election to continue to safeguard our institutions and our constitutional republic."

Vote.

Or you will never have to worry about voting again.

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charlesbrooks, 6 months ago to classicalmusic

Inside a 250-year-old French Violin by Augustin Chappuy.

This violin was just brought to New Zealand and is about to be restored - so I thought I'd do this 'before' photo, and you can all check back in in about a year's time once it's been through the hands of Le Violon Rouge luthiers!

Photographed with a Medical Endoscope and a Lumix G9ii

Work in progress for my Architecture In Music series.
www.architectureinmusic.com

@classicalmusic #violin

sachee, 11 months ago to random

oh look a place where you’re not rate limited on reads