Good Lord. We're Back Where We Were When I Got Into Anime-- Piracy, All The Way Down! And It's Like They

So much truth here! Among other things, they remove the gatekeeping of knowledge to those with a certain level of income, as well as removing barriers to access to all kinds of information and tools for learning more. How can that be anything but a public good? How can that be anything besides necessary for society?

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

That honestly sounds like the version of Quakerism that you make up to stir up everyone else against them.

The problem with studying Catholic heresies is that they litreally made a hobby out of inventing fully realised heretical theologies in order to accuse each other of subscribing to them. Basically every single one comes with a big asterisk noting that it's unclear whether anyone ever actually believed this, or whether some random theologian just made up a guy to get mad at – and the worst part is that you absolutely cannot tell just from looking at them, because the heresies we do have evidence of actual practice for are, if anything, even weirder. Like, the guys who thought Jesus was a hologram were 100% real, so you can't rule anything out!

It's a mixed bag, but I'm in.

some trends i am really down for

being nice to people working in customer service

girls in thigh-highs

receiving $400,000

pasta

Unfortunately true. We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, as painful as it can be.

But we also can't stop pushing. Don't be satisfied with just small victories. Keep going!

I think more leftists need to recognize the gap between “this should happen eventually” and “this would be feasible to achieve in the near future”

Like, I’m an anarchist. And I think an ideal world would have no nation states or borders. But that’s not going to happen tomorrow, or next year, or for a long time

So while I wait, instead of endlessly hemming and hawing over what the would should look like, I try to focus on what I can do right now to improve the world in material ways and to lessen the suffering of others

Hey, that's good stuff! Our lives touch each other in ways we don't expect!

Bolt

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

Good lord, yes, all of this.

But hey, those not-like-us people are SO very convenient to get people stirred up and angry... and NOT questioning why, say, the government lowered taxes on billionaires but raised it on everybody else.

THAT’S how low the threshold is!?

do you own enough books to be considered a library (500+)

Yes.

I'd happily donate blood!

Turns out, you get leukemia a couple of times, they start saying "Nah, thanks, bro, we're good."

Hey, GOTTA include the artwork!  A hero and an artist!