#BigTech steals from news, but what it steals isn't content. Talking about the news isn't theft, and neither is linking to it, or excerpting it. But stealing money? That's definitely theft.
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77-year old guitarist from "America" is still putting it down - with a spine-tingling version of their 80's hit (which I didn't much care for TBH) "You Can Do Magic" - and it only has 24 likes???
@noondlyt for context, HERE is the original (a bit cringe) video
I really like his intro guitar here in the original but by about 14s seconds in, he's pretty much on mute.
He wrote the song. So it's not like "the rest of the band turned his guitar down". Bonus points for anyone who finds me some videos of him actually playing guitar, which he's doing "more than ever" apparently.
Hi, #European visitors to #America: there's a new rideshare service available here ... where the drivers are guaranteed to be carrying #guns. Enjoy your visit!
In #poor countries the rising #middleclass is discovering that the first thing they want to buy when they can afford to is a #car. From Johannesburg to São Paulo, Bengaluru to Jakarta, the car is increasingly dominant. The fastest-growing #cities all over the world look more like Houstons than like #Amsterdams. And far more people live in them than in #America or #Europe. That is why unless we deal with the car, #climatechange is going to prove unstoppable.
Carmageddon: how cars make life worse and what to do about it. By Daniel Knowles. Page 23.
“The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It’s moving #America to a #Fascist Theocracy and everything that has happened during the Reagan Administration is steering us right down that pipe.” – Frank Zappa
Crucial observation from Rachel Cohen over at the new place - and it points to a larger problem: In the mainstream political discourse, especially in mainstream media coverage, terms like “moderate” and “extreme” have absolutely no substantive definition, which makes it easy for conservatives to constantly drag their meaning rightward.
Only 8% of the world’s population actually lives in a full, functioning democracy, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Meanwhile, another 37% of people live in some type of “flawed democracy”, while 55% of the world does not live in democracy at all, based on the EIU’s latest Democracy Index Report.
I wonder if American society would de-polarize and actually get better if all the people addicted to the outrage machine that our media has become just... Stopped.
Stopped buying newspapers. Watching CNN, MSNBC and Fox. Effectively pulled the plug?
"The McMansion owner is unbothered by the cost of heating and cooling a four-thousand-square-foot mausoleum with fifteen-foot ceilings. They see no problem being dependent—from the cheap material choice of the house to the driving requirements of suburban life—on oil in all its forms, be it in extruded polystyrene columns or gas at the pump. The McMansion is American bourgeois life in all its improvidence."
On the face of it, it looks like the toxic influence of the #NRA but in the end from afar it does seem that surely the lack of politic will has deeper roots?
Whatever it is, the death toll from rampant #gunviolence continues to rise; elsewhere countries manage to stop this (indeed even some states - Massachusetts for instance - have reduced fatalities through some further regualtion)...
My American friends, elsewhere this is not normal!
“Proposed Texas Law Wants to Make School Children 'Battlefield' Ready
In response to school shootings, a new bill in Texas would require public schools to install "bleeding stations" and train kids as young as third grade in trauma care.”
@TonyStark@fsinn School children learning triage is nothing according to #gop compared to the #trauma of schoolchildren forced to wear masks during a #pandemic.
Was wondering the other day why Alaska is part of the US and not Canada, because Alaska is literally right next to Canada.
But then I discovered there is oil in Alaska and now everything makes sense. #america#fuckyeah#fuckyall#oil#deletefacebook
I learned from white evangelicals over ten years ago that they know exactly what porn is. Florida has a bigoted government banning books like the Nazis did. It has zero to do with children, zero to do w/ porn, but instead building up a white Christian supremacist gov’t. America’s people need to rebel while we can for our future. Organize, be patient, create, strategize, disrupt, get up and try again. Learn from our past. #America#climateCrisis#fascism#Florida#poverty#uspoli