What this tells people is “fuck off, you are on your own. Government doesn’t work for people like you.”

But that isn’t how Democracy is supposed to function. It is actually supposed to develop and implement policy to improve the quality of life for the general public - especially the broad swaths of people who work for a living.

It’s also insane that the advice is to “get a roommate” at the same time leaders are crying that people in their 20s and 30s aren’t having enough kids. Guess what? If you make people live like they are too young and broke to have kids for the first 25 years of adulthood, they will… Not have kids. Shocking.

I think you are forgetting that we are living in an era where “the internet trolls” are proving to be prevalent or at least highly influential in the real world. The US has elected a complete brat twice, the AFD are threatening a fourth reich, and terms like “looksmaxing” have entered the general lexicon.

No one who watched gamergate occur on in the mid 2010s, and then tried to explain it to normal people who said ‘oh that’s just niche internet drama’, and then watched the rise of the alt-right, is ever going to see dangerous bullshit online and believe it will just stay there ever again.

If you understand that Griffith is not someone anyone should want to emulate, I don’t think this meme is about you anyway.

This meme is about the insecure dudes who are hurt and angry and decide to channel that into some cringe edge-lord ‘I want to hurt everyone else and feel nothing but that it is my destiny to be on top’ phase.

Nononono… New America is next to Arizona.

That is, of course, going to be New Trumperton

Death penalty is implemented by the state, not individuals. He was starting to charge at her - credible threat to her life that he started and she finished. FAFO.

Guys like this will find something to rage at others about. There will always be some limiting resource that becomes a source of conflict.

In a non-car society, it could have been the last of a product on the shelf, or the last spot on the bike rack.

Except I think that cars actually make people of different physicalities more equal.

Let’s be real - he got pissed because someone smaller and weaker than him bested him over some territory he wanted. In a non-car situation, he would have just stollen what he wanted or pushed her out of the way.

In this case, the car and gun both acted as equalizers, allowing her to protect herself and her kids despite the greater physicality of others around her.

Grand juries exist to make sure the norms of law enforcement and prosecution don’t stray too far from the common populace.

It’s why the guy who threw the sandwich at the CPB guy about a year ago did not end up with a felony.

However, it cuts both ways. I don’t know if I believe TX is really about to flip purple because shit like this is common. Ask the protesters sentanced to life as terrorists for moving a box or leaving an ICE protest early.

I’m not worried about NG or army at the polls. Those guys have better training than most cops, from institutions with stricter rules around civilian engagement. And the people recruited are a mixed bag politically - many of them just want to go to college or get trained in a trade. They won’t want to be there, or to bust heads, or to fuck over the Constitution.

But that’s not who they’ll send. They’ll send ICE, who have over a year’s worth of experience terrorizing and abusing civilians, preferentially the most vulnerable ones least likely to fight back.

A lot of people here treat the idea of being American like it’s a sports team.

Also, it isn’t classy. And it isn’t meant to be. It also serves to communicate that you are relatable to other non-classy people. That can mean that you are an 'easy going person who accepts people as they come" or it can mean the same “…if you are white” (and conservative).

There was a popular show here in the 70s called the Dukes of Hazard about outlaw redneck hooligans. They drove a car with a Confederate flag on it. That kind of crass display was part of the ‘fuck you, you can’t tell me what to do’ mentality, and it caught on for the aesthetics despite being racist. But I think it also opened the door here to people doing the same thing with the American flag.

But this same person probably has no problem badgering people left of her to choose between centrist Dems and Republicans, who are both too conservative for many.

It’s “vote blue no matter who” and “pick the lesser evil” - but only when it makes others uncomfortable.

We need to start talking about “perceived as normal” privilege. With the stress on ‘perceived’ - because people who are ostensibly still comfortable in this political climate are NOT normal.

What is normal, and responsible, is realizing that what we’ve been doing is broken and we need to try some new things. Like politicians who want to act like public servants.

This is true of any non-profit you give to ever though

No, some people get a thrill out of the power of making more people, of having a huge family, even if they don’t take good care of them.

I personally don’t get it. But I have a friend who is a really incompetent person - when we hang out, we have to make extra sure she doesn’t do dangerous things like she is a child. She is a sweet person, but very oblivious in a way that is hard to put a pin on. She is married, and her husband takes care of her and has always seemed to kind of like the responsibility. To each their own. But they now have 2 kids and he is completely overwhelmed. But she wants more and keeps talking about trying to talk him into it or ‘oops’ getting pregnant again in a few years. We all yell at her when she says stuff like that.

It is the perfect flip-flop of the usual gender roles - where Dad has all the responsibility and doesn’t want more, and Mom just sees it as some kind of power trip about her self image and is oblivious or just doesn’t care that it would break her partner.

…is this the reason guys prefer longer shorts? So they don’t feel the splashback of toilet water on their legs when they stand to pee? You guys don’t care if it spashes back you just prefer to wear it all day obviously?

It’s called Indian food. Sometimes also Mexican food.

The timing of the accusation is suspicious. Most rape cases don’t involve the balance of power in which millions of lives hang in the balance.

What does ‘in the middle’ look like? Getting vaccines for some things and not others?

As someone who is an expert in one area and as dependent as anyone else in others, and who also hates appeals to authority -

To me, the correct stance is that any should be able to question things that don’t make intuitive sense or that one suspects might be a perspective motivated by financial considerations instead of expertise.

Note that I said question. Not invent your own replacement fever-dream explanation.

Questions require good-faith attempts to find information and understand.

Not pitch something where its main virtue is that it makes ignorance feel good actually.

I hope this takes off so DDG improves their search engine. I’ve tried to switch, but 2/3 of the time the results are off target and I end up back at Google anyway.

I think this just annoys everyone.

Obama possibly among most of all.

Why not both?

Because we can still stop tomorrow’s deaths in Gaza, technically.

The perpetrators are still effectively the same people who committed the crime.

The terrorists of 50 yo are likely already dead, the entire topology of their cause changed. It is pointless.