Prove to me you never raped your niece

Be careful with this one though.

Just to be clear, most of us aren’t even remotely surprised. We have been losing our voices telling the idiots we live and work around that this isn’t stupid as hell.

This is hilarious. Last time my union tried to do anything, Biden stepped in and stopped us. Then he took a victory lap about being a hero in to us while Congress forced a shitty contract down our throats.

Most of us are either completely deluded or utterly crushed by the collapse of our entire system of government. We know this is corrupt, and we want to organize to bring it to an end. But we have so many checks and balances that even if we all marched today with pitchforks and torches it wouldn’t effect any real change without burning down every police station, city hall, state house, and the federal buildings. All while hoping the military doesn’t show up and now us down with their weaponry. All the whole knowing that there has been a sharp rise in the popularity of police using violence and death as a deterrent.

In short, we know, and we can’t see any way out of this mess. It wasn’t supposed to be possible, and looking back we all saw it coming. But we were just dismissed as alarmists every time we spoke up and we are surrounded by morons who think this is the best thing that has ever happened to this national.

Iirc that was the back page of a MAD Magazine. They used to publish tons of fake magazine covers like this so you could flip the last page around and make it look like a real magazine.

I know, right?! I can only imagine how utterly disappointing reddit is to MAGAts. Probably about as disappointing as it is to the rest of us lemmings.

I’ll think about it.

There are many really, really good cheeses in the US. Obviously we don’t compete over the same cheeses, like we aren’t trying to best the Italians’ zizzonas (yes, that’s a linguistic double entender). But Wisconsin is the origin of Colby (which a fresh Colby is my personal favorite) and has perfected quality mass produced cheeses (Colby, cheddar, mozzarella mostly). The local favorite is fresh cheese curds. They deliver them, still warm, to vendors like grocery stores and seven gas stations. They sell out within an hour, usually, so people have to plan their timing to get any without making a special trip to any of the half dozen local cheese producers in any given area. I think we produce a lot of American cheese, but we don’t eat that crap. Here is a picture of just about half the cheese at a grocery store in Green Bay. The prepackaged sliced cheeses and stuff take up another whole aisle.

The East and West Coasts are good at more complex cheeses. And Wisconsin imports them in bulk and processes them for individual sales (cut and package) on a very large scale due to an unusually high demand for cheese here. Making it easier and cheaper to get really great cheese in Wisconsin than .most anywhere else in the country. Also, although I don’t drink, most wisconsinites can drink most Europeans under the table, which is extremely unusual as I wouldn’t make that claim for most of the world. There are a lot of signs in bars in Germany and England barring people from Wisconsin from entering drinking competitions there for a reason.

I live in Wisconsin.

I was going to guess Minnesota when you said garbage plates. But I guess that’s different too. Wisconsin (where I am) has tons of cranberry bogs.

My allotment would be taken up by my wife and kids. So I’d have to ask.

Is cheese curds a thing where you are? If so, I might be where you are.

They did. Diesel steam was the main source of steam over time. Coal was used for a relatively short period of time. Wood for even shorter before that. Jupiter (the engine from Central Pacific that met I. That famous photo of driving the Golden Spike on the Transcontinental Railroad) was wood fired while it’s Union Pacific counterpart was more modern, and coal fired. But my grandad ran Diesel Steam his whole career.

Today there isn’t much nostalgia for Diesel Steam. So a lot of the working museum pieces are coal fired. I can’t remember if Big Boy, from UP, is diesel or coal. I think it’s diesel though.

I’m a railroader not a foamer.

I got a silent Gen dad, and a boomer mom, and I am a younger Gen x. No, I’m definitely not. Most of Gen X had silent Gen parents. Most millennials had boomer parents. Obviously there is some bleed over.

I think that went right over your head. No one is blaming millennials here. That’s just the string of events that led us here. I didn’t say anywhere that millennials did any of that. Seriously you guys are just as easy to trigger as boomers.

Ok.

Late Gen X. I’m an outside watching boomers and millennials duke it out like a drunken bar fight.

I can’t argue with that. But as a late Gen X, I graduated highschool at the time when my age was the wealthiest generation in human history. The politics that led us here is not just Boomers fault. Millennials, Gen X, and even the Silent Gen have blame here too. We were all too happy to see Clinton continue Reagan’s pandering and then felt shoehorned into most of this by the 911 attacks. The economy collapsed and then Bush’s policies totally saved us… for a few years. Then the recession hit and the Bush era legal changed wrecked our ability to regulate our government officials leaving us vulnerable to corporate slavery.

Silent Gen raised Gen X which raised Gen Z. Seems simple enough to me.

Also, millennials are just Boomers replayed. Hippies are almost a mirror image of millennials. I totally can’t wait (sarcastic) for them to turn into yuppies (they already have) and become overtly materialistic to the point of robbing their own childrens’ futures to keep up with the rising cost of avocados.