People forget that Biden wrote the PATRIOT Act. Which opened the door to unprecedented spying on US citizens.

“It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.”

Dang majority ruining it for the majority

We’re really awake, and it’s really a horror-show. We’re learning in real-time how absolutely fucked we are as a species, and we were already in a pretty precariously fucked position already.

The amount of immediate sucking up that is happening is disgusting, but America was always willing to sell its soul for the dollar.

Strap in, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

Do: Admit, through the use of a racial slur, that you were glad Williamsburg hipsters were mostly white. (revealing early on how much of a piece of shit he was)

Don’t: Shove a dildo up your ass to prove you’re not homophobic. (because no, just no)

I remember telling friends that it was so wild because, like… I absolutely believe in pedophiles in positions of high power and others using that as blackmail to get what they want… but when it veers into “Satanic Cult Conspiracy” that is firmly where you lost me.

But it’s clear they either don’t understand or never actually cared about such issues.

They were super busy investigatating black lives matters protestors for example… While they also readily admit nazis are a bigger problem.

Like all cops they prefer low hanging fruit that doesn’t fight back, and a lot of them simply agree with the racists.

ACAB includes the FBI that investigated and murdered Fred Hampton.

Obligatory FUCK OPRAH WINFREY.

We elected a fox to guard the hen house and he is predictably hiring weasels to protect the chickens.

*Yawn

It would be more scary if it wasn’t so fucking predictable and boring. A boring dystopia, indeed.

Is this the banality of evil?

It’s also why repair costs an arm and a leg.

It used to be a bumper was just filled with foam, so getting in a fender bender was a pretty cheap fix.

Now a bumper has upwards of $5000 in technology and sensors sitting in it, and a fender bender can often make the car considered “totaled” because the cost to repair is now more than the total resale value of the car.

Get a bike, ride a bus, fuck surveillance capitalism.

Maybe I should just give up and become a scammer.

Fuck you too, Joe.

Just more traditional media letting these people goose step all over them and not answer questions.

Our journalists fucking suck at their god damned jobs.

Fuck it man, I’ll take it, you can still spin that up with Linux and run a bunch of microservices on it. Not a great form factor for a server, but guess what, if these China tariffs take off, you’re gonna be so glad you have a 10 year old machine to have around for extra compute power, since buying new compute will be obscenely costly. (Assuming you’re in the USA of course, if you’re in Europe you’ll be fine)

Yeah, notice there isn’t a McResistance this time around like there was with the performative pussy hats and shit.

Nostalgia’s a helluva drug. I’ve done my best to try to avoid it, but we all like that hit from time to time.

I think that was probably added post-theater-release because BttF was actually planned as a standalone and got a sequel due to audience interest. Probably when it hit home video.

I mean, to be fair, the beginnings of most movies with sequels don’t actually start by being titled, say “Back to the Future Part 1.”

The Fellowship of the Ring, for example, wasn’t titled “Lord of the Rings 1: The Fellowship of the Ring” if it mentioned Lord of the Rings at all, it didn’t imply a number, it just stood on its own. People knew sequels were coming, they didn’t need numbers to know that.

So to be fair to Wicked, naming it something like Wicked Part One is dumb anyway. Especially if it flops and they shelve the sequel for a tax break.

I realized that while I prepared him for Vice President Harris winning, I did not prepare him for her losing. I’m not sure I even prepared myself. It’s like having a doctor telling you to prepare for the death of a loved one. What does that even mean or entail?

I mean, that’s on you, in all brutal honesty. Even the death of a loved one is something you can plan for, despite how difficult it may be.

Sometimes, you can tell when people haven’t faced real hardship, because they’ve made almost no effort to accept that hardship is a thing that is possible to have happen.

The Republicans have been trying to gut Social Security for my entire life, and so I always told my disabled partner she needed to be pursuing education while being on disability to ensure that when they finally succeeded she would have a plan to fall back on, and if in the best case scenario where she kept her disability, she got the bonus of an education. Looks like getting those degrees was the right idea, because there’s a high likelihood of that cut to her disability is coming.

Always hope the best but prepare for the worst. Because “hope” isn’t enough. It’s out there with “thoughts and prayers” in terms of usefulness. Hope is important, but hanging your future on it is a gamble.