I know I know, so was my edit. 🙂

Well, at least you finally got hmmm bop out of my head.

As long as it’s even harder for poor minorities, and no trans kids get help, two thumbs up from poor whites tho.

I hope you applied this same level of rigor to your analysis of the reports of Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs.

Edit: The rapidly applied downvote without other comment suggests to me that perhaps you did not.

The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.

USA right now: Don’t get any ideas, Trump!

Beyond words…

I’m holding my breath for the pinephone to be ready for primetime. I check in on it every so often to see what the current buzz is.

My money is 90% on “banana republic” level horseshit shenanigans.

Something something none of my business kermit drinking tea meme 😁

Edit:

Terms I previously did not understand in detail for $1200, Alex. Even more applicable than I realized to where we are clearly being herded by Trump and Republicans and the oligarchy currently.

A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.[1] The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.[2] Such exploitation is enabled by collusion between the state and favored economic monopolies, in which the profit, derived from the private exploitation of public lands, is private property. At the same time, the debts incurred thereby are the financial responsibility of the public treasury.

My assumption for many years now has been that the answer to any question involving MS giving access to your data is “yes.”

I feel bad for that kid. Whatever is wrong with him is surely a result of his home environment.

You are if you have any interest in getting me to take a kinder, gentler approach to Republicans. 😂

After ten years of maga, and thirty or so years of watching R point in exactly this direction with every conservative policy or position, and every argument I ever had that included being called a “bleeding heart” or worse, I’m just here to wait for us to get it over with already, and then warm my hands on the smoldering wreckage of our nation that remains when Trump is done wrecking it.

Eventually I will die of old age while continuing to give no shits about maga or anything they have brought upon themselves while consigning the rest of us to the dystopian hell hole they cheered and voted for. The nation will still be recovering from Trump though, if we’re lucky.

They’ve wrecked the lives of countless people with their slavish devotion to a candidate who embodies the worst of what US culture has ever had to offer. Some of those people are people I love and care about, but they are all people.

And on top of it all - they still have no objection to where things are headed until it affects them personally.

Fuck every last Trump voter. I’m very happy to let better, less jaded people than I am go the Andrew Johnson route. (not that I think it was a good idea the first time either) I don’t need or want any maga in my life.

I don’t hate them for their ignorance. I would actually stop short of saying I hate them at all. But the deep disdain I feel for them is for the hellscape they have dragged all of us into, and which will take decades to fix, if we fix it at all.

So yeah, I’m probably burdened by being ignorant of how that makes me just as bad as they are.

Considering I’ll die of old age still being harmed by what they have empowered and are currently cheering for, and will also die knowing my kids’ lives and the lives of everyone I care about will be worse because of it, I’m ok with that.

I’m sure someone is somewhere grappling with that.

Since the politicians they support and voted in are actively dismantling the government, erecting a dictatorship, and enacting policies guaranteed to get people needlessly killed I don’t find myself burdened by such concerns.

I mean sure, you could ignore the struggles of others not like you and be like the the White Moderates in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” - that is what most people do, no doubt.

You don’t have to play the games the social media companies want you to.

You might want to look at the link about the origin of the term.

No reminder needed for me, but for those who might want to do a deep dive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#20th_century

How odd that we have this recording in which he claims that merely uttering the phrase causes all cameras to be turned off. 🤔

I think it’s a bluesky post with a screenshot of his twitter post. Which is a little bleh I agree.