Please believe me when I say I spent a lot of time watching young men fantasize about becoming terrorists in Nazi chats and Luigi is absolutely living their dream right now. And cops are basically willing stagehands for that show.
Fun fact: thanks to Bluesky I discovered that I can carry my cat in our old Baby K'tan and now that is what I put him in when he tries to eat chicken off the hot stove
"fuck you, we will platform Jesse Singal and make you pay for the privilege of sharing space with him" -these business geniuses
Okay this is the first wet blanket thing I will say about the Luigi love, it does freak me out a little to see sainthood killer jokes just because that's SUCH a trope of the terrorist incel and terrorist neo-Nazi far right
Here's the thing: You are correct that INDIVIDUALIZED consumer choices are not going to make or break corporate policy. But organized, COLLECTIVE consumer choices-- like boycotts-- can and do impact corporate decisionmaking.
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Yeah this definitely won't make people think he's even more of a badass. Stellar optics work, agents of capital
I am heartened by this. Not by the crisis we face, obviously, but by reading stories of people putting on their oxygen masks in preparation and doing the work of survival and perseverance in concrete ways. Survival is resistance. We need to remember that.
Weird, it's almost as if we live in a world so deeply in denial about a continuing and unaddressed respiratory symptom-linked pandemic that we will latch on to just about anything we can to explain the symptoms
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