

Iran is a quagmire but only has a tiny fraction of our military involved, so there’s plenty of capacity for more war to shift the narrative.


Iran is a quagmire but only has a tiny fraction of our military involved, so there’s plenty of capacity for more war to shift the narrative.


The dance bar in my old city used to get overrun by bachelorette parties, women disrespecting the space and its purpose, disrespecting patrons, etc. So they made a rule that you couldn’t do bachelorette parties there anymore. Ultimately it was a good rule. I have nothing against a girl and her friend going out for a drink at a gay bar. I do have issues with them getting blitzed and walking around, trying to hang on the half naked guys, trying to be the “star” of the night, that kind of thing.


My boss burst in one day to tell me these were in the wood chips outside my work. I went out and sure enough, they were there, but so much smaller than I expected - I’d have missed them.
They just forced the 10 commandments into every classroom in the school I work with.
It absolutely galvanized the student body, they hate it and are forming different opposition groups.
I hope that was the religious movement’s goal, get everyone to hate them.
Wait we’re just allowed to do this now?
It took us longer to get here, and we’re worse off. Everyone can feel that. People remember their childhoods with occasional vacations and things we might see as luxuries today.
More to the point, class of 2000 here, but they told us Social Security would be insolvent from the time we were teenagers, “don’t expect to get anything.” We know now that was actually political psyop designed to get us ready for them to kill social security. But it’s coming to pass - 6 year from now benefits will be cut 40% if nothing changes.
A lot of folks my age, myself included, had to suffer multiple once-in-a-lifetime crises like 2001, 2008, plus medical events and other emergencies that liquidated retirement plans. So even those who were saving often lost it all, maybe repeatedly.
I am not eager to see my final vision fulfilled, which is a bunch of tatted up, screen addicted old people jammed into the worst elderly housing projects without serious medical care, just cubes for us to die in cheap, while we play N64 and get stoned together and try to live on a bag of potatoes for 2 weeks because climate change is wreaking havoc on the food supply.
But yes, touch grass.
I love the cynicism but 4 months ago every strategist was like “talk about only the economy, that’s all people care about, and you can’t lose” and now the Dems are trying that, and people are like “Pfft talk about revenge more,” which wasn’t part of the strategy. I haven’t see the polling on it. But I bet the average American gives a big shit about their bank accounts and relatively little shit about Trump’s inevitable escape of consequences and the circus he’s constantly spinning. I want the Democrats targeting the big base of potential voters, not courting the angry people on the left at the expense of broader palatability.
Populism is a funny thing, if we’re going to try it to counter the populism that got us here, we have to acknowledge not everyone will be satisfied by the plan.
But I am spitballing, I have no idea what they’re thinking, nor does anyone in here.
Also the ad is for a new knife-tunnel-as-a-service

I really loved the lead in Send Help! Womanizing, loner, highly avoidant. This is the lesbian of my youth. This is who I want to see represented, not the tired old stereotypes.
Honestly a heated bidet is better. Now I’m not saying give up bathroom breaks - smoke a J in there, or go wander in a park for a while. But my bunghole only appears when there’s an oscillating jet of 100* water ready to blast it spotless.


He’ll forever be Leland Palmer to me, father to Laura as well as a lot of confused looks during the 90s.


Tell me this didn’t actually happen
It’s AI, or else the alligator which weighs far more than a human is weightless and doesn’t push down on the floatie anywhere, cause it to fold, sink in the water, etc.


Everything about this is completely on-brand
GP1s did this to me. I’ve always jumped out of bed in the morning. Well, I was usually going to get stoned which helped. But the combo of going on GP1s and quitting weed… now when my alarm goes off, I’m like “Nah I’ll just stay here.”


Betcha can’t just eat one
vertebrae


Look at how quick we got used to school shootings and climate change and death-squad healthcare and a bunch of other awfulnesses.
We are very good at taking abuse and carrying on with it.


I’ve fantasized about doing something like this but putting in a nonprofit, foundation-based system run by a board of mental health workers, that was designed to actually bring people together. It may still happen. I don’t have the high barrier to entry it takes to start a social network so I’m starting from the other end and doing community organizing instead. Power to the real people offline, who aren’t trying to make a profit off our need for human connection.
Seems like, somehow, people have spent a lot of time thinking about Ariel’s tits. Perhaps science can tell us one day why.
Turns the mice that die behind it into leftover chicken meat