hunger is “fundamental to the working of the world’s economy”

I mean, he’s probably right, but that means we should work to change the system, not throw more orphans into the crushing machine

In recent years, rightsholders have made several attempts to shut the site down. Court orders have led to LibGen being blocked in several countries, but completely eliminating the threat has been extremely difficult. This is partly because the identities of those running it remains unknown.

In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages. However, both shadow libraries remained online and continue to operate to this day.

The lawsuit was stalled for months because LibGen’s anonymous operators didn’t respond. With no other viable options left, the publishers filed a motion for a default judgment in their favor.

Keep it up, LibGen

Yes. That’s why in “best of” type posts, the real original poster is the OOP

Voyager season 4 episode 17, Retrospect. Not a favorite.

Don’t worry, I’m sure she’s just remembering incorrectly again

I wanna know how to get that classically sculpted perfection while keeping the wine consumption at heroic levels

Except they were never a woman, they just weren’t out

And if there’s one thing that we know Mjolnir definitely is, it’s a conductor

I think that’s exactly what it means. Avoid entering caves with Magneto. There’s a lot of minerals dissolved in those drip drops

In addition to the fact that pointing out fascist rhetoric is important in general,

This fear campaign against Springfield’s Haitian immigrants contains echoes of some of the oldest xenophobic stereotypes.

Vance began to speak about Springfield in early July…

There, Vance mentioned Springfield as part of a line of questioning that sought to tie immigration to inflated housing costs across the country.

Vance ratcheted up his rhetoric the following day at the National Conservatism conference.

From a city official mentioned in the article

The sad thing is none of this was stirred up until JD Vance started publicizing it,” Ruby told TPM. “It was an internal thing that we were handling and handling well.

So they aren’t just spouting crazy shit, this is intentional and calculated, to divide and defeat a city that was already on the right path

It would be the right move for them to swap now, but I don’t think Trump will, because it’ll make him look weak, like he made a bad pick, and that’s all he (and many a Trump voter) cares about. The longer they leave it, the less likely it happens, and the more damage it does to their campaign

There were times when he didn’t pivot as well as he should have to move on to some of the points that he no doubt wanted to make…

Acting like he had any kind of plan going on is generous lol

He never makes any points

We heard so many of the old grievances that that we’d long thought that Trump had learned were not winners politically…

And that was exactly Harris’s goal. She was needling him on these points so he’d show he’s a hypocrite that just says whatever he thinks people want to hear at any given moment. I loved when the moderators highlighted the lie about the election being stolen, and made him answer the question

Reality has a left bias

There are two types of Republicans, con artists, and suckers. Yes, the suckers do believe there is actual voter fraud. But they believe that because the con artists, their party officials and political office holders, are telling them it’s true, while really just trying to suppress the vote because when voters turn out, Republicans lose

Every once in a while, you get a sucker that stumbles into a position of power, and then you see stuff like this, or like what happened to the MyPillow guy. Don’t know which side this one is on, but the effect is the same

The rationale is the tax companies want it this way, and pay politicians a lot of money to keep it this way

NASA is incredible.

X, spoken as a letter ecks

Or ex

It’s definitely true sometimes. The tortured revolutionary that took it too far is a very common trope. A lot of the time, it’s just very wishy-washy, as you’d expect from a mass produced cash machine like Marvel. When you’re making so many stories, they’re not all going to be winners, for any number of reasons. The people that think Marvel is making propaganda are just looking for it. The movies just aren’t that good, they’re not hiding some sinister motive

They call him your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man for a reason