Epstein has always had close ties to MIT and there was a big scandal about them accepting donations.
It’s also been own for several years that Chomsky stayed at Epstein’s Paris home at least once, and publicly apologized for his association with Epstein iirc.
Do we know anything about why there was an announcement and then a reversal and everything?
I sort of agree with you but if liberals acknowledged and understood class alignment, they wouldn’t be liberals. I do think that the “opportunity for education” approach is more effective than outright hostility.
I find that online interactions about complicated topics can be quite frustrating, since snark and “dunking” trend to prevail. This is driven by corporate social media and spills over into other online interactions.
Just FYI to people that you can get remanufactured ink cartridges for a fraction of the price (around half) of OEM. They are sometimes modified to contain more ink in the same body. The company I purchased from included a prepaid bag to send used cartridges back for reuse.
Also while I’m in PSA mode “REDUCE, REUSE, and then recycle”. Sometimes we skip over the first two steps since reducing is not marketable and reusing rarely is (although reusing printer cartridges appears to be a sustainable business).
Just giving the app the CBS news treatment
“Acknowledge and move on” is an extremely bad take if you know the facts about the genocide of American Indians (and Canadian First Nations) and how it is essentially ongoing in 2026. “Dark past” is not an accurate view of the situation. It is also unique to being a settler-colonial project, not something that is common to all countries.
It leads to an extremely unstable state as we can see from the three most recent presidential elections. The state wants to colonize itself because it ran out of other countries to exploit. That’s what fascism is (ice raids and shit being a prominent symptom).
The entire concept of “for-profit news” is a conflict of interest.
The founding ideal of the United States is unlimited “westward expansion” (complete exploitation of the land and the genocide of indigenous people). The United States has been incredibly effective at achieving this. This is not a fringe interpretation of history, it is relayed in the first episode of the PBS Revolutionary War documentary that came out last year.
“Freedom, equality, and liberty” or whatever may be your values, but in practice they never were intended for people who weren’t part of the white, christian, landowning male class who founded the United States.
One of the main purposes (arguably the primary purpose?) of the “well regulated militia” was to ensure that settlers could attack and exterminate American Indian tribes during westward expansion.
They’re dabbing on us every day
“Yeah the “immigration enforcement” is blatantly my personal militia, it doesn’t have to male sense to you, you can’t do anything about it anyway. Watch me send them to Italy; see? it doesn’t matter!”
Technically all of these responses are political. I think we know what OP meant though, and the discussion is all the better for it!
Tbf Gold_E_Lox was being snarky in the first place
Nobody has mentioned mattermost yet. I haven’t stress tested it by any means, but I found it too be decent.
I see, unfortunately I think it’s necessary though since the local feed is provided by the instance.
The post feeds are delivered server side, but Voyager supports multiple accounts if you want to tap over and see posts from another instance’s local feed?
Given that you’re underage, I’m going to lock this thread before it gets weird.
I hope you can find the community and support you need, especially if it is offline.
The other hand of the issue is the Democrats have repeatedly failed to recognize and manage the necessary decline of capitalism. It’s “necessary” because capitalism had globalized and essentially run out of land and people too exploit.
Exploited countries will push (are pushing) back, and/or look for other options (China, etc). Because the Democratic party is a pro-capitalism party, they are unable to recognize this situation. Republicans recognize it and turn up the heat, both internally and externally. For a lot of (foolish) Americans, this looks like an appealing option.
The democrats could sweep 2028, but it means the snapback is going to be even more intense in 2032 when they fail to govern.
I think we are going to have another decade or two or that, with the way things are looking
Hell yeah! I think it’s incredibly important to understand the indigenous history of our local regions if we want to be good neighbors and allies to them. Same themes as always wherever you are in North America (disease wipes them out, genocide via killings and removals etc…), but being able to name names and dates helps bring it in close.
Maybe the mayor of your city was complicit ! Or maybe there was a town near you that had a good relationship with a local tribe! In my area there was a lake that was an important food source that was drained to become farmland. Fortunately it is now being restored.
From my reading, white settlers were not really even unwelcome, the people were excited to tap into the wealth and opportunity the settlers were bringing with them. The fact that they have been excluded from that since the beginning is disgusting. I don’t think it is too late to correct the exploitation of indigenous people and land, and if we can build a society/cultures capable of that, most other things (regarding economic equity) will fall into place alongside it.
Funny! I played it last year on mine lol