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Its less about a food safety problem at taco bell and more of an extremely low quality food problem. Their meat is about 88% beef, binders and fillers and some seasonings.

Do you have any evidence that thats the case?

How so?

If you’re dealing with pain and trauma, therapy might be a good idea. Making dark self depreciating jokes online probably isnt going to actually help you deal with it.

Do everything you can to help the people affected by the policies that isn’t direct violent confrontation. Direct confrontation will be used as an excuse to crack down harder. Warn others of ICE presence, help people get out of an area quickly and safely, defend people being attacked, record the interactions, never be the aggressor against ICE. Its tragic but Alex Pretti and Nicole Goode have become rallying symbols and examples of the awful behavior of ICE. Yes there is a dedicated online effort to smear them, and there are still people countering the messaging. If you find that you’re in a position where simple sabotage is possible, do it.

Make peace with the fact that helping others is a dangerous proposition, and only you can decide what you are capable of doing and how much you’re willing to risk.

I’ve found self deprecating humor or telling stories about fucked up shit happening to you is rarely funny and usually elicits more of a awkward fake laugh and/or pity vibe than a belly laugh vibe.

Lmao it kinda does.

Exactly this too! Try to drown out the assholes with a chorus of positivity.

My actual response depends on the situation and how i’m feeling at any given moment. Usually its just ignore and move on, sometimes I’m feeling in a “be snarky online” mood.

What does it change? Eh maybe someone somewhere will see the pushback on the -ism/-phobia and rethink. I’m not saying it does, it probably doesn’t most of the time, but I’m forever realistically optimistic and recognize I need to put in the work to make real that optimism.

I already described my litmus test. You explained who your punchline is hitting. Punching up at the jerks is fine by me.

It doesnt take a brilliant tactician to use abuse baiting to provoke a retaliation from the abused to justify ramping up violence against the abused. Even the most pudding brained inbred moron can do that.

That’s not what a false flag operation is.

What Trump is doing is narcissistic abuse baiting. Keep abusing and harassing until the abused cant take it any more and snaps, reacting violently, and then claiming that the abuser is actually the victim. They’re baiting for the manufactured consent to crack down and take hostile control.

My litmus test is i ask “what is the joke?” If theres a clever turn of phrase or twist to expectations I chuckle to myself and move on. If I cant figure out what the clever turn of phrase or twist in expectation is, or the punchline being some kind of -ism or -phobia then yeah I’m gonna take it seriously. Unfortunately making jokes where the punchline is racism, sexism, homophoboa, transphobia, or any other kind of punching down gets a lot of engagement and responses.

Cards also need to take quite a bit of damage before they stop working too.

No. You need to freeze in in an insulated container with only one side exposed so it all freezes in 1 direction. Impurities get pushed to the opposite side and you are left with clear ice.

Huh, today I learned. Appreciated!

I mean, we do know at this point that /pol/ and Q on 4chan wre an actual psyop by Bannon and Epstein to spread half nonsense conspiracy theories. So much of the bs spread through Q had just enough “if you squint hard enough they’re just telling you what they are doing” to make all the conspiracy theory shit work as well as it did. Like how there are so many references in the ao far released files to “pizza parties” as their codewords for raping children coincides in theming with Q directing psychos toward the basement of a random 1 story pizza parlor as the epicenter of a Clinton sex trafficking ring.

I also do believe in some extent to the “every conspiracy theory is a psyop to distract from the real conspiracy.” Sort of like dead internet theory, there’s still live human beings online, just that there are also a ton of bots out there and its difficult to tell the difference between the bots and the genuine people.

Snapchat maybe? I have no clue.

The illuminati conspiracy theorists were looking for a complicated narrative with magical bullshit to justify their hatred of Jewish people. The rest of us can plainly see that its just ridiculously easy for the billionaire class to pay off politicians for favorable legislation without the need for shadow puppets, MKUltra brainwashing and Jewish blood libel to explain everything.