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Yeah, the kids who have every reason to legitimately fear being the generation drafted to fight WW3 is really not into jokes about it, I've noticed.

Me: Gonna just keep my comments to myself today and mind my own damn business.

Rando Internet Jackhole: "Haha, rural/southern people so dumb"

Me: Well, sometimes bitches gotta be set straight.

Its the blaring alarm of someone having the worst day of their life- stroke or car accident or whatever- and the fact that hearing this constant screaming wail of human misery isnt stressful for y'all is because city folk are so lacking in empathy. (See, stereotypes work two ways!)

Dude, rural address doesn't make people dumber. We aren't "scared" of ambulances we just aren't accustomed to hearing them constantly because population density being what it is, we hear them only once every couple months and we aren't completely numbed by exposure to the loud, distressing sound.

...and several potential alliances were rejected because people insisted on complete ideological alignment from everyone with an overlapping interest in fighting facism.

Scope. A single person or organization can't fight on every front. Someone wanted our local library advocacy group to have a stance on Gaza, I said "unless the genocide is happening in a public library in our state, its a wee bit outside the scope of our mission" and hooboy did THAT ruffle feathers.

Yeah, unprecedented corruption probably requires unprecedented resistance. The federal government is in shambles, and establishment Dems are like the cartoon character coasting through a cloud of wreckage clinging to a steering wheel.

Oh, in that case, carry on. I thought you were unironically criticizing her, but if you were highlighting the ridiculousness of belittling public figures for publicly figuring the wrong way because they didn't magically, single-handedly fix everything after NOT getting elected, cool.

We have a proud tradition in America of former presidents and candidates fucking off during their opponents' terms because that's a big chunk of the peaceful transfer of power- there's only one president at a time. The fact is, Harris is doing exactly as much as required of anyone else in her place.

You say "be out there" but she is out there, promoting her book. You say "she should say something", but I bet she said a lot of things in the book she is promoting.

...or did you want her to cart her ass around the country repeating all her words in small soundbites for you for free? 🙄

There ARE protests. Everywhere. Even my rural, deep red MAGA county in Alabama can muster several dozens to attend protests. There's challenges to the incumbents in my district for the first time in decades.

Most Americans are still hoping to use the mechanisms of democracy in midterms before war

*this might not be true, but I'm still unpacking the guilt of being relieved when her dementia makes her easier to deal with because she can't track the plot long enough to manipulate drama anymore.

I sympathize! I can tell when she's feeling better, because she's nicer when she's off (probably because she's aware she's confused and guarding with her nice mask) but when she's feeling better she tries to start shit like always. "You're being ornery today, I'm glad* you're feeling better, Ma."

...no, they spent DECADES building a corporate allyship that evaporated in a poof of insincerity the second it was inconvenient to them and I want a full-throated apology and some groveling, and I want that groveling to become sincere begging as their stocks continue to plummet. Fuck 'em.

I read recently that there is a correlation between Alzheimer's and narcissism. I don't know much about that, but I do know that a narcissist with dementia is a special kind of hell for caregivers. My mom recently dropped her mask with my kids. Its rough on the ones who dont already know that side.

Boy, you can tell who took the time to skim the book and who didn't, huh?

...and how TF is it "not clear" whether any Trump coin would run afoul of laws that state no LIVING current or former president can be put on the coinage and also clearly states a president is not eligible for such honors until two years after his date of death?!

People "see" faces differently, though. Your friend in the example might not see the resemblance at all because perception is shaped by internal context so I bet if you had them draw yourself and your MAGA doppelganger they would emphasize features differently and draw dissimilar faces.

These people value money above all else- an easy metric by which to measure "winning" in the only sense they understand it- and "MAGA face" can be achieved only by spending lots of money. That they look like exaggerated children's drawings of adult features is just their own immature mental poverty.

Letting them become? Honey, they evolved out of slave patrols.

I'm currently the kind of exhausted that is falling down onto my bed like a ragdoll but it feels so amazing to FINALLY lay down that it wakes me back up a little.

My spouse gets more right-leaning military stuff in their social media feed, so I ask them, what are the hot takes out of military culture right now? They just started a story about telling lieutenant he dropped his pocket, so I remain confident the jackasses don't have unwavering military support.

...they were standing at attention because they are military guys and they are literally not allowed to clap and also he was supposed to tell them "at ease" or some shit so they could sit down but he didnt he made them stand there while he berated them for following Rules he doesn't bother to know.

I dont think we can admit that it happened. Anyone with half a brain and a high school understanding of statistics can see the Very Highly Improbable Anomalies that somehow occurred in all the swing states, but to admit it, investigate it, and prosecute it? Too few of the people with that power care

Anyone expressing surprise at any of this was just willfully ignorant in 2024. They literally published 922 pages of their detailed plans to dismantle democracy and institute authoritarianism.

I'm a part-time WalMart cashier in rural Alabama and even I had access to the damn thing to read it.

I will go to my grave refusing to believe she legitimately lost.

But whatever happened, it happed, and I agree... wtf does anyone want her to do now? I understand we are desperate for a rally point in the resistance, but gosh it would be nice if DNC would stop crushing everyone stepping up for it.

Whole thread sounds about white. Interesting that bigotry is too common to be declared A Thing, but ADHD cannot be thought of as just a normal type of way people are. Cool. Cool.

No, they do it by Twitter now.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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There's something wrong with my eyes- I can't read the headlines anymore, they all just read the same: "Buy Dry Beans"

Weird, right?