that just sounds like you’re bragging about how corrupt and spineless your fellow republicans are

lol ok Manchin and Sinema, two big democrats! Yup! it’s laughable you’d try to paint them as such. your disingenuous trolling is some top tier useless garbage

show me where republicans put forth a plan to end gerrymandering and democrats blocked it.

Yup, everything evil republicans do is actually democrats fault. That’s a totally cool and not at all moronic position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/us/politics/north-carolina-republicans-gerrymander.html

Whenever I see headlines like this, I always wonder if this is going to be the random little thing that escalates into WWIII.

Fun times during the great fascist creep of the new century.

I’ve seen this before!

you’re responding to the wrong person.

nobody was being an asshole to anyone. the OP was addressing people aging yet not updating their thinking with new information. then when you made your asshole comment (yes, you were the first asshole), he even clarified without being an asshole back.

you’re being the asshole here. good news though, you can just stop

except you’re not being pithy. you’re just an asshole.

does there exist someone without trauma?

distraction-based economy

So true. More and more I’ve come to the realization that the ideal serving class is one that’s constantly distracted from their lives. You have a medium screen, a little screen, and a big screen, and the majority of us spend just about all day on them. The amount of ‘content’ to view and absorb is an ever growing behemoth that demands attention. You didn’t see the latest show/movie/tweet/tik-tok/sensationalized news story?? Then how are you going to relate to people who do??

with the advent of streaming services, I used to say this was the golden age of television, but really we’re just reached peak content. It’s all bread and circus, except they discovered they don’t even need the bread anymore. They don’t need to pay you enough for you to be fed and entertained, now it’s just enough that you have a screen with access to wifi.

A distracted worker doesn’t revolt. A distracted populace doesn’t concern themselves with the boring business of governing. A distracted nation doesn’t care about foundational societal issues like wealth inequality when there’s a new war every 6 months to have an opinion about. We’re so concerned with having an opinion that we forget to act on them.

Now here comes old money with their new problem, there aren’t going to be enough people to take advantage of in the future! who will they spit on with contempt, throw nickles at, and pay with experience? have more babies! they demand. because how else can they endlessly grow their wealth (and opinion of themselves) when there isn’t endless people to take advantage of?

Of course, all of us understand that endless growth of an organism destroys it’s host. Just like cancer, there’s just more and more of us, metastasized to ever region of the globe, into every niche pocket of despair we’re afforded by the circumstances of our birth. Our host is dying, and the ruling class says “keep growing, I’m not satisfied yet!” demanding we grow into our own destruction, solely for the ego of those who will be dead long before our collective death spiral concludes.

I’m thinking of starting a go fund me for a series of billboards that say only this:

“won’t someone rid us of these troublesome billionaires?”

Wasn’t there a fight between an american boxer and a japanese sumo wrestler? and it was just the most epic fucking thing I’d ever witnessed. now it’s all domestic abusers with a BJJ hobby

hamas is a terrorist organization that does not encapsulate all Palestinians. That’d be like killing everyone in the US to dispose of the KKK.

POOP FUEL CAN’T MELT STEEL JETS

another article for this incident, guess he came to the door during crisis negotiations, cop saw him with a gun, shot him. Did you think he’d be threatening to kill himself with an eggbeater, there, 15 year vet cop Sgt Jessie Hartsock?

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/fatal-police-shooting-carroll-county-under-investigation/44093015

pro tip: Whatever problem you have, just throw a molotov cocktail at it.

now you have a totally different problem!

is there a retailer I can buy gently used ones you know of?

same here lol

Aldi for $17.99 each if I remember correctly!

hell yeah lemme get that pretzel bun SON! shit SLAPS

I dunno. I’m pretty smart in some things, but I’ve also made some real bone-headed mistakes. Sometimes I’m rushing, sometimes I just truly don’t think about it. Sometimes while talking through what I think is the best solution, I figure out I’m wrong.

two things I’ve done.

-gotten a 3.9 GPA with honors through two years of medical school

-didn’t realize “Penn State” was in Pennsylvania until I stopped and thought about it

like, sometimes we don’t think about things enough. Sometimes we have a brain fart. Sometimes we’ve just never been introduced to a particular concept or factoid (being ignorant).

I think the only true stupidity is when people don’t learn from their mistakes, when people refuse to update their ideas to fit new facts, and when people remain willfully, maliciously ignorant as a point of pride.

easier to a fool a man, than it is to convince him he’s been fooled.