JFC the absolute entitled attitude while being completely oblivious to what she’s insinuating…

“It’s only max two hours, you can deal with it…”

…yeah you fucking donut, you can deal with not smoking for 2 hours instead of making everyone around you have to deal with you.

Peak conservative.

The thing about protesting is that the government needs to give a shit for it to have any effect, unless we’re talking about actually forcefully changing who is running that government. We’ve been screaming at concrete buildings for decades and yet none of the issues we care about are dealt with. In good times we have propagandists to placate the masses even if we had a government who was afraid of losing voters, and in “bad” times well we still have propagandists, but we also have a government that couldn’t possibly care less about what we think. I still protest, have gone to many rallies and such, and while the feeling of community is nice at the end of the day all I feel like I ever accomplished was yelling at a building with a bunch of other people.

The only way this administration is changing direction is when the wealthy go after them :(

My retirement plan:

There are practically endless similar examples because MAGA doesn’t stand for anything it claims to

“Trump is the president for peace, Biden will start WWIII!”

Parroting fox news: “we don’t need to be so friendly anymore, we need to take Canada and Greenland by force if necessary.”

“Trump will bring down inflation and the price of food!”

Parroting fox news: “It’s our duty to pay higher prices to support American businesses!”

“Trump and the GOP represent the party of law and order, they will protect the constitution!”

“What Trump says goes, anyone obstructing his plans are traitors! He deserves a 3rd term! He who saves his country breaks no laws!”

MAGA stands for anything that gets them what they want in the immediate moment and then tosses it away when their needs change… It’s infuriating.

Time really. After a while none of the conspiracies played out, or I just “researched” enough on my own using actual legitimate sources as opposed to YouTube schmucks and learned how to reason things out.

Every article has the potential to be the first one someone is seeing. I think your post has within it an assumption that the same people read all the articles over and over. Even if some large percentage of the people reading it have already read previous articles there is some value in knowing “this is still happening, wow” in regard to Tesla, or “so that’s the stage of the case against Luigi were at now, ok.”

In a way it’s like finding new trees in the same forest.

I crossed out the end because half way through writing I forgot you weren’t talking about new information lol

I was still surprised… We live in a world that has “rule 34” and yet I was still surprised to read that…

What response was he expecting??

“TAX THE RICH!!!”

“So your solution is to tax the rich?”

“Oh… Well now that you put it that way… No I guess not.”

I was just referring to the general sentiment of “when things were less bad”

Thanks! I just googled it and it mentioned “Europa and the bull” representing unity and peace.

We could definitely use some of that, but unfortunately we just get a bunch of what the bull leaves behind instead… :/

I’m an ignorant American, what’s the significance of the bull/ox?

Nyx, but every cat I have is either “kitty” or lately “monkey”

I’m at work with a new-ish phone so I can’t pay the cat tax, I don’t take many pictures :/

I was a kid so fairly ignorant of wider issues, but I do miss the 90s where it felt like things would only ever get better…

Then I reached the 2000s and graduated highschool into the Iraq war and it’s only been downhill from there. :/

It’s so fucking infuriating that practically every election, if it were possible, “did not vote” would win the presidency.

We’re always looking at some stupidly close, razor margins bullshit, when there’s a MASSIVE group of people that unfortunately just couldn’t possibly give a shit less…

“In too many cases silencing individuals for doing nothing more than expressing themselves online…”

Yeah… If your expression is “all the n-words and f-words should die in a fire” then you can go fuck yourself. You going to go complain to spez over at reddit that you can’t even post a picture of Luigi? I don’t think so.

They do it, but the machines are quite large and they have a gigantic generator in the back just to power the thing lol

So yeah, ridiculous indeed

The ones where I’m from mostly advertise their soft serve, which were the machines I fixed, but yeah they sold hard frozen stuff too.

They really don’t know how to clean their machines though no matter how many times I’ve shown the ones I’ve worked with… :/

I actually spent almost a decade as a refrigeration tech fixing ice cream machines.

Now I never eat from an ice cream truck lol