KelvarCherry [They/Them]

Good. No money for fascists.

Stop going to their parks (Disney’s main profit source) and stop watching their slop; and I trust Disney will burn its way to irrelevancy within a decade. Their TCG performs miserably and their cruises aren’t a profit source AFAIK; so it’s just their streaming service, movies, and the parks keeping them afloat.

being able to say stupid shit with a straight face is one of the core skills of being a business leader.

This is a perspective that I continually see dismissed in the wider political landscape. When we say “The American Medical System is fucked” we’re not just talking about getting hit with massive bills.

Ask folks with chronic conditions, who are seeking medical treatment, how they feel about doctors. These aren’t “tinfoil hat looneys” and they know the system well. I’d bet a good amount that the most plentiful opinion will be “fuck them”.

Women and folks of color are constantly neglected in our system. Nuerodiverse folks are constantly abused. Walk with an ADHD person trying to get diagnosed, or get meds refilled. Listen to a patient with chronic pain; with schizophrenia; with anything beyond the generic “anxiety and depression”. Sit with a pregnant woman of color on Medicaid going into labor.

Or look through the two centuries of medical malpractice against women and people of color. Have we forgotten the opioid epidemic? It wasn’t the CEOs handing those prescriptions out. Have we forgotten the horrors of lobotomies and mental wards? The latter still exist. Are we just going to brush over how the queerphobic “Lavender scare” was legitimized by the medical industry? Being trans still is 3 or so mental disorders; and any identity past that point was grounds to get violated before Trump’s reelection, and still is.

I don’t know where this fetishized view of the “ever-trustworthy doctor” comes from, but it’s as detached from reality as the Manosphere’s “happy 50s housewife”.

ICE Raids did lasting damage to the American psyche. Many will never forgive this country or feel safe in America ever again. So state fairs are going to be empty; in-person shopping is going to be more depressed than normal. The economy is a factor, as always; but having federal agents storming your streets and breaking into businesses is a new tier of bad.

This trauma is real and most are still unaware of how hard it has hit. I imagine the USA will see a stark increase in nEETs, shut-ins, and “hikikomori” in the coming decades; as well as a pervasive sense of apathy and nihilism. It will be a far better time to be an online business than an in-person one.

re-reading [support for the overthrow of the United States Government]… that could totally be used to prosecute the 2026 and 2028 Big Lie deniers… including those who intend to certify the election.

Hence why they abolished the Department of Education in 2025; and why Trump’s 2017 pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools. She also had that really awkward testimony with Senator Chris Murphy (representing Newtown) about how schools might need guns to protect kids from “grizzly [bears]”.

It’s not just ICE here. The Texas education system is 3-years into a takeover by governor Greg Abbott. Under his take-over, quality of education has been plummeting. Just about all day is spent on computers, with writing only graded by AI. The results on education have been devastating. Students are often 3 years behind grade level in all subjects.

Texas parents who care about their kids’ education, and who have the money to pull their kids out, will be sending their kids to private school. This is by design, to justify Greg Abbott’s school voucher program, wherein there are no public schools, and families are instead given a voucher from the state, and told to kick rocks if they can’t afford private school.

There’s more to the case than that. Sole presence in a market does not make you a de-facto monopoly.

What makes [Ticketmaster+Live Nation] a monopoly is its mass-acquisition of venues, which are rented out with contracts that stipulate that the event must sell admission through Ticketmaster. This is why performers like Taylor Swift call out Ticketmaster publicly, while still selling tickets through them. For most stadium events; if you don’t use Ticketmaster, you don’t have a place to perform.

I agree all of those are terrible, and I hope it’s clear I didn’t ever even remotely consider voting for the guy; but you realize why none of those things really matter to the average American who is struggling to get by every day, right?

Like: mocking leaders’ deaths, mocking people with disabilities, having affairs with porn stars… – those are all terrible, inhumane, and “un-professional” things for the person to do; but when you’re desperate for some change and lost faith in the other party, it makes sense that voters would be willing to ignore those. Perhaps these aspects are indicators of what the guy would do in office; but most people in this country don’t think that deep into anything.

The involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring is a powerful point because it hits just about every group with disgust. For the rest of this, I’d just focus more on Trump’s ties to Big Tech and Big Finance; because that’s the avenue that people feel the effect of. That and this country’s shitty Medical system.

This is a valid and essential role. Remember when the corporate media was spamming out all those articles on “quiet quitting”? This is exactly what they fear. If you show up to work, clock in, do nothing of value, and clock out, you’re costing your workplace money AND denying them that role.

If I could, I’d do the same. Apply to be some office grunt at Meta or Amazon, sweet talk my manager, do a bunch of meaningless work like configuring things on the PC and taking inventory of random shit, and then clock out. Gamify metrics. Plan stupid projects with the corpo chatbot. Burn money and time. It’s one of those “death by 1000 cuts” actions, and it benefits each individual person because you still get paid. Win-win.

ohhhh fuuuuck the “troubled teen industry”. This is a nightmare of a can to crack open and the more you learn about it, the more you’ll hate the medical and legal systems in this country. Reader beware.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/945530/Bohrdom/ <- This game was made by Cole Tomas Allen, if you want to support it.

Sounds like we have the same observations and feel the same frustrations about them. I look forward to being branded an agitator :')

Okay this is great that she’s free and all, but can we stop for a second and think about what happened here? A woman was grabbed off the street, beaten and brutalized (I’ve seen the arrest footage), and ripped out of her life, while being 100% peaceful and obedient.

I’m so sick of the one-sided violence, while we’re told to obey and be peaceful and whatever else.

A dozen will be an understatement. The tournament games span over a week. I think 100 is a closer figure, if FIFA doesn’t get their wish of ICE going on ‘vacation’.

I really hope fear of a terrorist attack shuts the event down. Not an actual terrorist attack—I don’t want ordinary civilians to die—but if Iran purposely “leaks” plans to bomb the stadium to the media, I hope that might wreck the World Cup attendance; or even better, get teams to pull out.

Probably 99% of the people who go to the World Cup will be fine.

Brazil has a huge Football (USA Soccer) scene and makes up a large percentage of World Cup tourism. Being dark-skinned Hispanics, they are exactly who ICE targets.

To be fair, a few teens rocked his shit. That aside, I’d copy your sentiment for every one of these murderous CEOs, politicians, and oligarchs. I’ll note that some brave souls do seem to be fighting back.

Yes. The forcing of Korean captives into Japanese soldiers’ “comfort women” is a common sore point in geopolitics between both Koreas and Japan. Japan has refused to give a real apology, and occasionally South Korea and Japan have visible clashes over the topic.

so there’s a lot of speculation that [Kick is] owned by one or multiple of the big gambling platforms and it’s operated as an advertisement for online gambling

It’s not speculation. Kick is backed by the online crypto gambling platform Stake, which you may know as the site that streamer BossmanJack loses all his money on in those viral clips.