We have currently had 12 consecutive months of record breaking global temperatures, with an average of 1.63°C above the pre-industrial levels. Good times.

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Technically they operate with the same model of taking a profit from others’ activity.

People use them regardless, for many different types of content, they’re primary platforms. Patreon is a secondary one, pretty much nobody would just go to Patreon and pay for a random subscription to discover someone’s content. But with the primary ones if a certain person was banned from there, subscribers would still keep using them for all the other ones.

Anyway, I’m not really disagreeing, and it’s speculation either way. For all we know, States might straight up illegalize commie content online, moving all of it, including payments, underground.

The idea that corporations will allow free speech because it’s in their financial interest to do so just doesn’t conform with what we observe happening in reality.

There is a fundamental difference between a business selling a product and one that simply takes a part of profits from others’ activity. Creators don’t have to take money through Patreon, they can choose any other platform, and for the subscribers it doesn’t make a real difference. Quite the opposite, if a different service was to take a lower fee (and put more money in the pocket of creators), or be more explicitly in line with their content, then people would be even more eager to support them there instead.

And how long before those corporations drop them?

Do you mean Patreon and Substack? That’s almost definitely not happening. These platforms exist because they, to a good extent, allow for freedom of expression. Technologically they’re nothing to write home about (and Patreon video player is actual dogshit) and could easily be replicated and replaced. So it would be huge for them to lose chunks of creators’ revenues if those were to leave over political differences.

Crowds gathered on the square in front of the 14-story hotel to celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union. Now, Hotel Ukraine is up for auction as part of an effort to sell off some large state assets to help fund the military and bolster an economy

Fucking hell man. If this was a movie, you’d call it lazy writing. Literally 90s 2.0, and they’re even making communism the bad guy again somehow.

Originally it’s just a beach/surfing brand and, well, lifestyle. But pigs and military co-opted it as a kind of thin blue line symbol, since it’s word play on “assault life”.

One of the most destructive lies that was sold to the American public was that the stock market = economy. Line goes up means good. Even when you’re homeless, hungry, and sick.

I mean, the book of Genesis was essentially a collection of earlier Sumero-Babylonian, Canaanite, and Egyptian cultural materials. And it reflected the contemporary practices, laws, and customs of neighboring people in its narrative. The specific part I was referring to, the shift from the Mother-Goddess to God-the-Father, was also in line with it. It just happened to be that the cornerstone of western monotheistic religious thought was birthed in social setting and conditions that affirmed and reinforced patriarchy.

I guess my point is that what they shat on in the bible was what they were already shitting on as societies. And then they used it as a justification to keep doing just that.

Fun fact, Minoan snake-goddess was one of the many female goddesses from 4000BC onward that were worshipped as a source of fertility for vegetation, animals, and humans. Other great goddesses for millennia were depicted surrounded by snakes, goats, birds, often amidst pillars of trees. And then in the christian story of the Fall the tree has become the tree of forbidden fruit. The power to give life is represented by the bearded patriarchal God, the Father. And the snake, long associated with the goddess, now becomes the tempter, and the first command to the woman is that there shall be enmity between her and the snake.

“what he said” - USA

The Hague Invasion Act

“Nobody wants to work” while everyone has to work is a redundant argument in itself. But your analysis is also on point.