The USA has spent $13b aiding Israel's genocide of Palestinians, as of 28 May 2025. In that time, we spent LESS money on federal aid for our own education system. Which is more important, benefitting our children or killing Arab children?

I know comparing stuff to Orwell's 1984 is a cliche, but we can now check off the "War is peace" bit.

Trump wants totalitarian control down to our vocabulary, but in the dumbest way possible. His renamings feel like a humiliation ritual, meant for every American citizen all at once. MAGA's entire existent is humiliating enough for our nation

Department of Homeland Security thugs committed 5% of the murders in Minneapolis this year. "[ICE] views you as weak and stupid people. Flight back."

At least the original Schutzstaffel had the decency to keep their executions private

If they are collecting funds that they've sequestered and making any interest from it, a forensic accountant should be able to find that in financial disclosures. Would be a huge story for any journalist willing to investigate. I dunno how to investigate myself though

How could anyone earn interest from escrow? I don't think that's possible, given there's no investment. YouTube is definitely taking their 45% cut off adsense though, but they'd get that regardless

Wish I could figure out how to get as many people interested in local history museums as talking about alotta bunk. Sadly, people are less interested in history than they are in drama

1st, not how earnings sequestration works. 2nd; if anything, TeamYouTube would profit more by holding incorrect and malicious copyright claimants to account. 3rd; they lose money through this process and never gain anything extra by siding with illegal claimants

Never had the pleasure

Never heard of her, nor do i give such opinions

That they cut themselves off from much of the human experience

The Daily Wire wouldn't have the ability to make claims anymore (which would be glorious). It's fascinating that after all these years, TeamYouTube is still completely subservient to claimants and never offer any protection to their own creators who make their salaries

YouTube Studio is forcing their AI trash on creators with no way to disable it

It's re-monetized

Tacitus mocks anyone stupid enough to ban history books, "The punishment of writers exalts the credit of the writings: nor did ever foreign kings, or any else, reap other fruit from it, than infamy to themselves, and glory to the sufferers."

Do you mean Marxist? That's not materialism. That's dialectical materialism and the difference is a chasm as wide as the Grand Canyon

Who is "they." Even had a someone very much aligned with the history discipline and fairly left leaning say moralizing is what makes people better humans

Nope