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You should have had that nervous eye twitch for the last 40 years, the U.S. was doing plenty of fucked up shit even when we were projecting calm security. The first Trump presidency was the wake-up call to the rest of the world to start cutting ties with us, it actually blows my mind how little there was in place internationally for when he won again. Sanctions should have been placed on us, trade agreements dissolved, we should be getting isolated right now. I’m sure we’ll get there eventually, but it might be too late by then.

Nah, he’s been a lying piece of shit snake who will say whatever makes him the most money. The problem is that you were listening to his words, instead of listening to his actions.

It’s really weird to strike at my job, because I work at a non-profit who genuinely does great work to help students go to college and university. Probably the worst part about our program is that some of the companies we take money from are shitty, but it’s hard to be mad spending evil money on educating students. They also give me an incredibly generous PTO program, meaning even if I don’t come into work for a day to strike, I’ll still get paid for the day, which seems antithetical to the purpose.

I’m still not gonna come into work on March 14th, and maybe if I can get all my coworkers to do the same it’ll still feel like a strike, but it’s just a weird situation.

An-caps. They’re not really anarchists in any legitimate sense of the word, but they have very good branding people. Very big in certain parts of the U.S., lotta Sov-Cits and Libertarians that fall under the umbrella supporting Trump.

I really, honestly cannot see Republicans listening to their constituents. By all means, it’d be great if we could get Republicans receiving all the same calls the Dems have been getting, but I think the Republicans will tell anyone who calls to pound sand. They’re in the endgame now, why would they listen to the peasantry?

This kinda shit is going to be what ultimately collapses the United States. Once funding starts getting withheld to blue states, they’re going to start wondering why they’re paying the feds so much money.

Oh you don’t even want to get started on that rabbit hole. You wanna hear something real wild, it differs by the socioeconomic power held by women. In cultures where women have very little power, they care less about looks and more about personality and socioeconomic status of their partner. In cultures where women are empowered, they want to date somebody hot.

Anyway, if you want the full deep dive on all the ways your unconscious biases affect your conscious thinking, you should start with heuristics and follow further.

Their plan is to do nothing, then. They could have been forcing Republicans to vote against popular things for decades now, including during the entire Trump presidency. Without even going into how ineffective this kinda performative bullshit is, why should I expect them to seriously start calling for these votes now?

Y’know the interesting thing is, I’ve never had a poor old person talk condescendingly to me about economic prospects. The elderly widow taking public transit, counting their coupons, and desperately trying to stretch their dead husband’s pension check has never lectured me about pulling myself up by my boot-straps. Similarly, I’ve never called any of these people a Boomer pejoratively. To me, the stereotype of a Boomer has very little to do with age, and everything to do with socioeconomic status, and I absolutely will keep insulting the Boomer fucks that pulled the ladder up behind them.

People have been saying this is all the fault of the American people because they just didn’t vote against Trump. They’re right that it’s the fault of the American people, but it’s the fault of everyone who ignored the warnings people have been pushing about our corrupt government for generations. Alarm bells should have been sounded when the govt started rounding up pro-worker union leaders by calling them suspected communists. Riots in the streets should have started when George W Bush stole an election through the Supreme Court. Citizen’s United was the deathblow to any hope of democracy, and most Americans weren’t even aware it died. People have been sitting on the sidelines and letting the rich get away with whatever they want since before I was born in this country, it’s laughable to think anything will change.

Yeah unfortunately the gun crazies fully support what’s happening, and it’s a PITA to get a registered firearm if you aren’t already a gun nut.

Hey if anyone has a line on unregistered Kalashnikovs, hit me up. I just want it for “display purposes.”

Yes, I’d say that’s a pretty extreme view. I’m also not sure what you mean by controllable? I’d argue most of the uniqueness of humans comes as a product of the environment they were raised in, which isn’t really something we have control over.

Also I have real bad news if you’re worried about things you’re not conscious of affecting your behaviors.

There’s nothing wrong with having preferences. Discrimination gets a bad rap because of it’s association with racism, homophobia, etc, but everybody discriminates all the time, every day, typically about incredibly simple stuff. At the end of the day, it’s just recognizing differences in people and making decisions based on those differences. Yeah, you shouldn’t let something like race or gender impact a decision to hire someone, but you’re already discriminating against one gender when selecting romantic partners. (unless you’re bisexual and have exactly a 50/50 preference) If you’re only attracted to people with athletic builds, you’ll be discriminating against tons of people with health conditions. If you’re looking for a goth partner, you’re discriminating against all the people with happy families. I don’t really think discriminating over pheremones is any different.

I’m a male bottom and also can occasionally go crazy for musk.

I would argue that a narcissist also has an incredibly skewed and warped sense of reality, and I would point out that their desperate need for attention can cause them to lash out in a manner consistent with schizoid-typal disorder.

Its not really fair to excuse Kanye over his schizoid-typal disorders, but then argue Musk’s mental illnesses are irrelevant. Either their mental health had nothing to do with them developing their hateful ideology, or it had everything to do with it. You can’t pick and choose. I’d point to the large swathes of people suffering from mental illness who haven’t become Nazis as evidence that it’s not as relevant as the choices these men have made are.

Musk is almost certainly also mentally ill.

So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?

I mean, we can only hope…

Oh please, I doubt Musk could suck his way out of a gas station bathroom. He’s got a lot of help doing the sucking here, and every one of them should go down for aiding and abetting this government sack-draining.

MAGA fans wish they could be as well liked as Doug

When you come down hard on minor infractions, it creates a culture of forced politeness enforced by fear.