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Please explain your reasoning in the tags and may the Force be with you.

"I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life." - Che Guevara, As quoted in The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics (1983) by Paul Hollander, p. 224

I don't think I've seen anyone talk about this at all on Tumblr, which is very lax of us all, so I suppose I shall do it myself.

Last week Elon Musk broke European law so badly that the lawyers who will finally put the case to rest have yet to be born.

I'm not exaggerating. Here's the thing: America has terrible data privacy laws. A solid technique for an American website owner in times of financial hardship, such as accidentally buying a loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol, is to take all the data harvested from users and to sell it to third parties for lots of money. It is fun and breezy and lets you pay off at least one lawyer for the month. What a lark.

However, the European Union has an even more fun and breezy law called GDPR.

And the thing is, the EU really, really care about GDPR. Like... they really care. This is not one of those grey area laws like jaywalking where it's basically ignored unless you do it in front of a police officer who is having a midlife crisis because his wife left him and the dishes are piling up and he's down to his third day of wearing the same pants and yesterday a man in the pub laughed at him for getting a football term wrong. This is the sort of law that, if you break it, grey men in grey suits with worryingly little humour will get in touch and unroll terrifyingly long scrolls of legal text and then you are in gaol for the rest of your life. This is a big law. The big one. Big boy law. Do not break.

So, if you're going to be a website owner in times of financial hardship who needs some quick money to cover your many billions of dollars of debt who decides to sell the private data you harvested from the user base, the most important thing you absolutely MUST remember is, you can only use the American data, and never the European.

But.

I mean.

Hypothetically.

If someone were to own an American website in times of financial hardship, such as an accidentally bought loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol... but that someone didn't know the difference between American and European law.

Well then. That person would sell the wrong data.

And if that were to happen, on the scale of a global social media platform, with users ranging from the megalomaniacal Uber Rich to literal world governments...

The ensuing court cases would last for decades, as lawyers began the lawsuits at the richest end of the list, and worked their way down.

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Also he posted a Twitter poll today about whether he should stay in charge of Twitter and he lost lol

Avatar AU where Aang stays in the iceberg and Katara is mistakenly believed to be the Avatar after she “earthbends” a rock by moving the ice inside it.

Instead of telling the truth and letting everyone down, she and Sokka pull on an elaborate charade and go on a journey to convince the world that the Avatar is back.

idk where “monkeys like bananas” came from but im so glad its a thing because its so fucking funny for no reason at all

If the people of Forks made memes:

Edit: yes there is a typo here, pls stop mentioning it

This took so fucking long to make, but please do enjoy

Tis the season

group f reunion<3

you've been hit by

you've been struck by

a roman senator ₍ₓ₂₃₎

It's the 15th in Germany... y'know what that means.....?

Julius Caesar has been dead for 2064 slutty slutty years!!!!

POUPAAAS

BIG BIRD IS TALKING ABOUT HIS COUSINS ON TWITTER THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I wanna be a cowboy baaaaby

fascinating how a bunch of white neckbeards coming at you doesn’t make any of those cops fear for their lives but a black man with their back to them make them unload 7 shots into his back

so black people cant walk somewhere without being killed but white people can storm the actual capitol and take selfies with the police? i’m furious beyond belief and you should be too

How it started: How it's going:

AND UPSET WHEN THEY WERE FORCED OUT OF THE CAPITOL, like it's their right

The fact that kids had to go and protest with first aid kits, umbrellas, masks and the general fear of NOT coming home in one piece and these people are strolling through capitol hill taking furniture and selfies.....

And only 52 yesterday....

*for PEACEFUL protests

Unlike the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a terrorist attack against the USA. These are racist extremists. They are not fighting for equality or for their rights. They are fighting to keep a fascist in power. 

Resist. 

This is what treason looks like

You are a disgrace to everything this country is and will be. 

I hope all the people who are storming the capital burn in hell where they belong. You are no American, you are a terrorist. 

fuck donald trump