This is a way to shut down political discourse so it can be managed more centrally. We’re seeing it on YT, as well as FB. The goal is to effectively shut down any kind of “un-managed” discourse from emerging by effectively de-monetizing any kind of political news or information. The online news industry is literally collapsing and there seems to be a ‘collapsing towards corporate news only’ effort being made. Advertisers don’t want their brands next to “problematic” content; but this is a both-sidings of an issue, as if lgbtq+ rights are somehow contemporaneous with right-wing conspiracy bullshit. It goes more broadly to any socially good, motivated effort to educate people about their rights being equivocated with some of the worst aspect of human nature we see being promoted from right-wing sources.

I think we all as a broader community have to address the question of costs of what it takes to get people to become politically informed versus the reality of bad faith actors, state agent propaganda, and misinformation.

Oof. Much feels.

Also, old cats yaoll like a mfer and develop incontinence. Give them the best last days you can, but when its time to let them go, let them go.

Depending on which head you get bit by, some are sinister, some are auspicious, but all seem to have a will other than your own.

chonk

New cat just dropped

Looks like a dog.

“pss pss pss…”^{*(bubblesrise)*}

brown

Yeah she’s very pretty, if a bit weird and with a permanently shocked expression on her face.

They got all the brain-cells that the orange cats are missing, but not enough brain-cells to fully comprehend what is happening.

ouch oof my lower back

I saw this and immediately thought about all the different poltiical trials going on.

New meme format possible?

y u do dis

Hey I called this the other day.

You can really blame brexit for this, which means, you can really blame Russia.

We really need journalists on this planet to do their jobs

Maybe. But western governments, specifically the US, has hamstrung Ukraine’s ability to win.

They’ve made incredible progress, and anything but continuing to make progress is a significant set back.

They’re a bit desperate.

Should this be considered an act of war?

I’m still not sure what the Democrats think their strategy of Republican/ Russian appeasement is going to accomplish.

Mucho libre. Its Spanish for ‘very free’, you know “bastions of freedom” and all that.