Is the US a dystopia?

impossible. polls are limited to only 50 choices

maybe a poll to make the poll

a poll of polls? better update the list of lists

don't visit ILB if you don't enjoy a poll of polls

glad we got this settled

got it sordid

Is ILX a dystopia?

just look around

As of today, 50% of women in federal prisons are Indigenous.

This is genocide.

— martha paynter (@MarthPaynter) December 17, 2021

Is the fact that's about Canada the point you're making or a mistake?

At first assumed US then saw the link below and posted because

Kyle Rittenhouse takes the stage at TPUSA’s AmericaFest to thousands of cheering fans chanting his name. He even gets his own Kyle Rittenhouse-themed song to come out to. pic.twitter.com/PD7nkjpQ81

— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) December 21, 2021

Kyle has merely fulfilled every child's dream of running away to join the circus. Taking two lives in the process.

Who could have seen THIS coming

a really well-written explanation by patrick blanchfield of the current disaster pileup of american culture in terms of freud's death drive. (i will fp anyone who points out that freud is now widely discredited or whatever.)

https://late-light.com/issues/issue-1/death-drive-nation

https://fair.org/home/a-for-profit-company-is-trying-to-privatize-as-many-public-libraries-as-they-can/

i think it was around the time that i learned about ALEC, and realized it was clear and in the open what was happening and how the GOP was operating, and absolutely no one gave a fuck -- that was around 2 years after i realized the usa was a dystopia

GRETA
Yes, dead. An apt choice of words. Considering the public is convinced that cigarettes are poisonous. If we can't insist that they're not, I believe my most recent surveys have provided a solution.
(re report)
We can still suggest that cigarettes are "part of American life," or “Too good to give up,” and most appealing "an assertion of independence".

DON
So basically if you love danger, you'll love smoking?

SALVATORE
We could put a skull and crossbones on the label! I love it!

GRETA
Before the war, when I studied with Adler in Vienna, we postulated that what Freud called "the Death Wish" is as powerful a drive as those for sexual reproduction and physical sustenance.

DON: Freud, you say-- which agency is he with?

There's another covid outbreak on my prison unit. DOC has plenty of N95 masks now, but prisoners will get a disciplinary infraction if they're caught with one. Why? Because N95s also protect us from their tear gas, which they still freely use during a respiratory pandemic.

— ChristopherBlackwell (@ChrisWBlackwell) December 28, 2021

'The government and your boss put you in harms way. We took away paid sick days and unemployment supplements. Better get vaccinated so you don't starve.'

I'm not a health comms person so I can't evaluate how effective this message is. pic.twitter.com/rHtsD4McYP

— Justin Feldman (@jfeldman_epi) December 29, 2021

For the sake of my own sanity and well-being, I'd rather not immerse myself in a poisonous sea of ill-feeling for no discernible larger benefit aside from self-promotion. The world doesn't need another smug, self-satisfied pundit trying to brand-build off political collapse.

— Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) January 6, 2022

opened my fortune cookie and i have so few words pic.twitter.com/b5roOyRR1Z

— krista! (@madeup_artist) January 6, 2022

That seems like low pay for a hitman

but the 401k has a 5% company match

Reflecting on January 6, people are justifiably concerned about election subversion. But given the state of Biden’s presidency, the more likely scenario is a popularly elected, and therefore empowered, second Trump administration. https://t.co/ElodhslLPK

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) January 6, 2022

long on doomsaying, short on what to do about it

I believe Nero was an incredible fiddler and some people sang along

little known fact - the friction from him fiddling too fast is what caused the fire

nero fiddling 'everlong'

the drum part to everlong - ziggidiggidiggidiggiziggidiggidiggidiggi - on the fiddle

long on doomsaying, short on what to do about it

I can’t believe this one guy doesn’t have a plan to fix the entire economic and political system!!!

fascists hate this one simple trick

Trump winning outright is both totally possible and also a better scenario than losing outright and being installed by Congress anyway. Of course the end result would probably be the same, no more fair elections ever.

xxpost I think the point is "we endured people saying 'Trump is totally getting re-elected' as some defeatist foregone conclusion, and that doesn't exactly inspire people to take action." and then it didn't happen. and I reject that the reason it didn't happen was scaremongering by tweeters/bloggers/journalists, it's because the people who took action knew it wasn't a foregone conclusion and ignored all of that noise.

You didn’t have to endure that sentiment you had to go looking for it. Trump was incredibly unpopular his entire term and had half a million people die in an election year, it was always the Democrats’ election to lose.

Now Biden is the not-quite-as-unpopular incumbent with people dying. It’s not scaremongering to suggest that unless things change bigly it will be Republicans’ election to lose.

Republican, maybe, but I'm doubtful that Trump could get it done: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

2.9 years is a long time when you’re an ancient speed freak, Trump being dead is about as likely as either being elected or defeated.

nice placement for that fortune cookie btw

Trump winning outright is both totally possible and also a better scenario than losing outright and being installed by Congress anyway. Of course the end result would probably be the same, no more fair elections ever.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, January 7, 2022 5:55 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Republican, maybe, but I'm doubtful that Trump could get it done: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

― DJI, Friday, January 7, 2022 6:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

His ratings took a dive recently but seems like they average in the low/mid-40s. Considering their primary tactic is preventing black/poor people from voting, even low-40s approval rating overall could easily translate to a majority of likely voters in a few key swing states.

Long on doomsaying again yes. My best plan to address the issue would probably get me put on a list if I articulated it clearly, but suffice to say that if Manchin and Sinema were removed from the equation it would greatly improve the probability of preserving some semblance of American democracy.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvndja/amazon-paid-for-a-high-school-course-heres-what-they-teach

well fuck

Questions for an Amazon Pathways class called Business Management and Entrepreneurship asks students ... “What can Uber do to ensure its competitors are not chipping away at its dominant market share as a result of such bad press?”

62 percent of Amazon employees in the greater Los Angeles region rely on some sort of government assistance.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/02/national-butterfly-center-conspiracy-threats/

A South Texas butterfly sanctuary has closed after it was the target of conspiracy theories that escalated into credible threats.

The National Butterfly Center, along the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, has long been the target of QAnon conspiracy theories falsely tying the organization to human trafficking.

The center is a 20-year-old nature conservatory for wild butterflies. There are no law enforcement investigations into the organization or its staff for human trafficking.

Meanwhile in Techtopia (motto: “Don’t be a dystopia”):

In a Jan. 27 memo, Woodside’s planning director wrote, "Given that Woodside – in its entirety – is habitat for a candidate species (to go on the endangered list), no parcel within Woodside is currently eligible for an SB 9 project."

The species in question is the mountain lion. Each year, Bay Area residents come face-to-face with the mercurial cats. Numerous pets have been attacked and killed in encounters.

Woodside leaders say duplexes can’t be built as long as mountain lions could go on the state’s endangered species list.

Good job, CEQA

rename thread "prove the US is a dystopia" now i guess

I think that's been settled already

This is still a question?