What detractors of free online archives like the Internet Archive don't get is that it's not about getting things for free instead of having to pay for them, it's about the kinds of things that only exist if they are free.

Because they don't care about what happens to the bottom 40pct of the population

Well Macron just did a soft coup by naming a right wing anti immigration establishment guy as the next French PM, completely ignoring the election results.

A lot of Michael Parentis works are out of print and I was only able to read them on the internet archive 😔

Try telling your working class parents you want to do anything that isn’t offered at a 9 month trade school. Best of luck to you. Lmao

I actually think this is more important than we think. People who make dating their hobby inevitably get sucked into fascist discourse, I believe it’s the reason young men are swayed further right than young women

Middle class parents: you will go to college and find yourself like we did. It is tradition. My mother: you will be a cocktail waitress like the rest of us.

After the Left won the elections in France, neoliberal darling Macron blocked them from power and has instead appointed a right wing conservative as Prime Minister.

You can admit to crime publicly as long as the crime you’re committing is a violation of labor law

Gabriel on a long success streak 😍 🌹

i feel like we’re inching closer and closer to normalizing company towns. “we won’t pay you a livable wage, but we can somehow afford to invest in a housing unit where you’ll be surveilled by us and live amongst your coworkers 🤪”

Thread: One of America’s largest psychiatric hospital chains is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts and reap huge profits. Here's how Acadia Healthcare traps patients physically and financially.

One of the scariest adult things is when a new company buys your apartment complex and starts sending those “new updates” emails

You’ll just be chilling and some 36 year old tech bro will buy your apartment and charge you to put your car in the same spot it’s been in for 3 years

I’m gonna be honest, I can’t think of anyone whose endorsement matters less to me than the CEO of any company

I bet 2006 was pretty chill though, a couple years before they all realized they were unemployable and would be paying debt until they died

Homeless rates coincide perfectly with rent increases - Las Vegas workers cannot keep up with the rising rents