ricky holiday

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

i want to still believe, really have to believe, that the great majority of people simply do not want to live like this

Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

“Run the government like a business” remains a peerless indicator that you’re talking to someone who doesn’t know shit about fuck.

I built a Playstacean!

“the president gave our WW3 plans to an epic bacon ketamine addict with no impulse control” okay man, I guess at this point I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about it. “adderall incels asked AI and it said nobody needs books anymore” well, I already called my senator and he said it’s fine

Considering this reality why does every single Democratic official have to issue a disclaimer that we really do need to cut the federal government but it's just not being done the right way.

We don't.

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.

Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

I have no patience for "that's what they get" replies. I don't care the fuck anybody voted for or didn't vote for. The people whose lives are being destroyed by Trump are not my enemies. Period.

I don't want anyone harmed. I want the harm to stop.

There has always been enough public money to do all that needs to be done. They just won't take it back from the obscenely wealthy thieves who stole it from the public.

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen American magic bean companies like Beanco, The Boston Bean Company, and Nvidia have already shed hundreds of billions of dollars in stock value.

China’s new and cheaper magic beans shock America’s unprepared magic bean salesmen

Vacationed into the storm. Ah well, it isn’t so bad.

Guess I should post. Don’t wanna look like a weirdo