Democracy Supporter

I like the implication of some of the no on 50 ads that the election only costs money to administer if the proposition passes

I think the appeal is it allows for podcasts to become TikToks

Life must be easier when you are this fucking stupid

Committing random violent crimes at home and abroad partly for the purpose of the violence but also to make TikToks about doing it

Cillian Murphy as a judge in an expedited court, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Yes exactly

-questions that would lead to hundreds being burned alive if asked at the wrong time in the wrong European town

Really feels like the Horrors are going to drive me mad

Got an ad for a gutter cleaning service that was entirely AI. I hate the future

"You see sir if we deport all the bad people you will be young and virile again"

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

Being 3 was the *worst*

23 continuing the trend of prime number years rocking my shit

Surely some revelation is at hand.
Surely the Second Coming is at hand!

This is not the question that was asked like at all, why lie for clout?

Holy shit you are 30 years old grow the fuck up (not the poster the audience of the video)

Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. he was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county.

Major Major's father was an outspoken champion of economy in government, provided it did not interfere with the sacred duty of government to pay farmers as much as they could get for all the alfalfa they produced that no one else wanted or for not producing any alfalfa at all. He was a proud and independent man who was opposed to unemployment insurance and never hesitated to whine, whimper, wheedle and extort for as much as he could get from whomever he could.

I feel like Joseph Heller had their number back in the 60's in Catch-22 and I still think of this quote whenever I hear farm owners complaining about socialism or benefits or taxes. It was a short little aside but it stuck with me for like 25 years.

Yeah it's like 40% of American Christians who follow a bunch of sects that popped up in the 19th century, it's just they never shut the fuck up and think they're the only Christians. We don't have to agree with them on that though

They want an infallible daddy telling them to do the stuff they already wanted to do anyway

I've seen people much smarter than me say that thing where towns of like 500 people in Mississippi make their city budget off of giving tickets to anyone from far enough away that it's cheaper to pay it than fight it is very HRE

I just spent the day subbing for fourth graders and I don't think Stephen Miller is tough enough to handle that, let alone whoever he thinks he's talking about here

Chat is it good for regime stability if you give a big speech to your generals and not even one of them will say nice things about it even anonymously? What about if separately you're underpaying a bunch of rank and file troops and cutting their benefits?

An image of President Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr. Text next to them says “Autism Announcement.”

When someone asks me about my favorite Amtrak routes.

A tiny Venus fly trap and a tiny pitcher plant on a wooden fence

Plants that consume

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Am I to understand this job requires two degrees? And are both of these degrees on American soil?

My biggest problem with Barenaked Ladies is "I hope the Smoking Man's in this one"

Dude I want a monster episode.

What is actually happening in my brain when I'm like "I need to remember that thing I'm forgetting harder" and then it works? Like is there a little goblin man with a little goblin boss who tells him to find the file faster? Are there many little goblin men and a larger group comes in to help?

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

It's fine it's not like he's getting them all to wear his mark on their foreheads

You seem unpleasant at parties and in other contexts