Proud dad, happy husband, bad singer, professional woodworker, and pompous armchair philosopher
North Carolina, USA
Joined March 2011
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I accept that this sounds a bit tin foil hatish but the media storm around this case isn’t about rap3 it’s about the midterms. It’s about getting a particular voting block riled up.
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Just a heads up, it's OK to be sad about Rob Reiner's death without letting everyone know that you "didn't agree with this politics". No one gives a fuck.
Reginald P Funk retweeted
Sheraton's flight, like so many other important foundations, has lost its USAID funding this is our response. We will fight. We will win.
sheratonsflight.org/articles…
Reginald P Funk retweeted
I never ask people to share anything but this is worth it. Last night on my call-in show a woman from Oakland, CA called in.
She and her 7 yo autistic son were forced out of their home by a slumlord who wouldn't fix a serious mold issue. She recently lost her daughter and her father. Her husband lost his job due to their inability to find adequate housing.
The county she lives in won't help her. No one will help her. She's an American and can't get the same resources afforded to her as non-citizens. She's never voted before in her life. But things are so bad she's voting for Donald Trump.
We raised $500 for her but that can only go so far. You hear stories about people like this but you rarely hear this story straight from them. I highly recommend giving this a listen and I'll post the entire segment below.
Reginald P Funk retweeted
This is an engagement farming post. Please engage with this post so I can finally finish paying off my dog Hershi’s ACL surgery.
Please and thank you 🙏
Reginald P Funk retweeted
Ah yes, the corporate welfare train. It remains to be seen how much longer a lot of these companies can keep coasting on IP and other foundational work last done in the 1940s, or by extension, just how much of the US economy is completely fake.
Reginald P Funk retweeted
I waited until the 20th to say this, because I didn't want to look like I was mocking people for celebrating Juneteenth. The end of slavery is a great thing to celebrate.
Unfortunately, it never ended.
First of all, chattel slavery continued for months after Juneteenth, in Union states like Delaware and Kentucky. But we don't talk about that, because they fought for the North in the Civil War.
But again, slavery never ended. The 13th Amendment legalized slavery, but only for the government.
And prison labor is not the government's only form of slavery. They reserve the 'right' to force every young man in this country to fight and die against their will. There is no worse slavery than forcing someone to face being killed.
And come to think of it, forcing you to pay taxes for every penny you earn, every penny you spend, and even for the home you live in, is a form of slavery: indentured servitude. They create debts in your name, and force you to pay them back, with interest, until the day you die.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
We can be the generation that ends slavery in our time, for good.
First, we have to be willing to admit that it's still happening.
Reginald P Funk retweeted
fucking extraordinary
J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy world is a medieval utopia with poverty and oppression airbrushed out of the picture. But Tolkien’s work also contains a romantic critique of industrial capitalism that is an important part of its vast popular appeal. jacobin.com/2023/01/jrr-tolk…
Reginald P Funk retweeted
Don't forget one key point: a major reason Democratic/liberal journalists and their followers will never think that it's a big deal that the US Security State and Big Tech are aggressively censoring the internet is because they *favor* this: they want more of it.👇
Reginald P Funk retweeted
The only more accurate metaphor for human existence I have seen is "They Live", but this gets it done in 2 minutes flat.
Reginald P Funk retweeted
I have never been convinced that the 2020 election was stolen through voter fraud. That said, if you use the phrase “big lie” you are brainwashed by the corporate press. WMDs, Russian collusion, pandemic of the unvaccinated, but challenging the election is the BIG lie? Fuck off.
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In 2016, Mearsheimer was asked what the biggest disaster in US foreign policy was. The panelist next to him said Iraq. Here’s his answer. In my business, this is called a crystal ball.
