I think that is what made Trump decide to highjack the fascist movement in American that had been being cultivated for years. Who knows how ‘16 would’ve gone with Paul Ryan or whoever they trotted out against Hilary

Anybody ever see Battleship Potemkin?

At this point I seem to get sick once a month from having to go into the damned office

I pretty much have to leave any conversation when people younger than 50 are talking about retirement. I was at a small QA with a recently semi successful congressional primary candidate on how she was able to get as many votes away from the DNC candidate. There was a guy there that couldn’t have been more than 20-22 who asked her about what she thought a good investment strategy was for young people that want to save for retirement.

It broke my heart, both because that young man and everyone else like him is absolutely fucking cooked AND that far too many people do not or cannot realize, that in the future that is coming for us, survival will be the biggest barrier to retirement.

Goes to show you how much he actually reads and knows about the Bible, I assumed all of us with access to a Bible looked up Ezekiel 25:17 after the first time we watched Pulp Fiction to see if Sam Jackson’s “cold blooded shit to say to a motherfucker” was a real verse.

Ultimately I think it’s deeper but simpler than that, they are all very very very afraid of the reality of our existence, and additionally intimidated by how much they don’t actually know about the nature of reality. They get an explanation and stick to it like superglue, any suggestion that explanation is wrong bring the fear of the unknown and their own powerlessness back to their conscious minds and lash out violently to protect their simple and easy to understand worldview

I’m similarly inclined from experience but before my favorite sports team won back to back championships they let me down and broke my heart for 30 years. I guess I’m a glutton for disappointment but I want to be hopwful

They don’t even need to do that, does anyone actually know how much gold they have? Not to mention precious stones and the vast number of antiquities, they literally have god tier money

I’ve seen a bunch of reports, none were live streamed so they haven’t broken through. Some are probably actually accidental but I doubt they all are, additionally the Molotovs thrown at Sam Altman house and a Tesla dealership. I believe I heard something about one at a Raytheon office.

There’s a lot of chaff I haven’t completely sorted through but again im hopeful

I’d say the majority of equipment and devices in the POS sector of IT make this version of the bill wildly impractical and doomed from the start. They’ll either have to redraft it to specifically be about consumer devices or the retail, restaurant, and c-stores sectors will be up shits creek.

Generally you’re correct, but the string of warehouse fires over the past week all across the country has me hopeful that folks are finally hitting the long long long long long overdue breaking point.

Anyone that got a MMR before 1989 absolutely should get their immunities tested, they changed the vaccine regiment that year, I went and got checked shortly after the idiots we’re sworn in and my immunity to mumps had lapsed and my doctor insisted I get the first round that day.

That this is the big issue it is across the US is why I have no hope for any of us. It’s exemplary of everything wrong with our society. We all deeply distrust one another and most don’t even want to make connections with anyone outside their typical circle. We can’t be bothered to care about anyone else or be happy that someone’s life might get better if ours doesn’t proportionally. I don’t know if it’s resource fears or just we’ve been programmed to never trust anyone else.

It breaks my heart that we’ve all fallen into the trap they set for us all. Solidarity is the only way out and we don’t even have a granule of it

Trump kneecapping Vance and his technocratic backers is probably the best thing he could for the world as a whole. I hope his spiteful nature makes it happen.

Luigi made the rich more fearful than this dude but I think his acts have more potential for virality because his act was much more simple and not straight up killing another human(well at least human on paper). Person to person violence is not something most humans want to participate in unless they absolutely must to survive, destruction of property, especially property they likely dread going to for their jobs, is a far more palatable action for the average person to engage in.

In Minecraft obviously

Keeps believing that chief

Edit: I’m not a consequentialist, this system is harmful to humanity from its core and should be destroyed

It was still overall good that the French had a revolution. The status quo at the time was unacceptable, the status quo now is unacceptable, and no one in power is willing to change it. It’s gonna be fucking messy but this system needs to die if the species is to survive

Correct, Israel wants this war and not just because of Bibi needing to stay out of jail, they want Greater Israel which from a colonial history perspective is just the United States 2.0 An oligarchical capitalist ethnostate built on stolen land

Not all hero’s wear capes

Do you happen to remember where you got it? I’ve got a Mac and while the idea of going through all the media files on my servers to convert them I twitch a little bit, but would also love to cut down space without giving up some of my files