It’s fucked up that he says it like it’s some sort of flex, and his cultists eat it up.
I know that there has been a demonization of higher learning for a very long time in Conservative america. But I’m floored by how pervasive it’s become that a vast majority have been completely gaslit by it.
Literally anything that Stan Winston had a hand in.
Any movie that relies on “The call is coming from inside the house” trope.
WTF is a landline?
And probably a thousand more I’m not thinking of off the top of my head.
Religion.
It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc…
It’s why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.
We don’t need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.
There will be plenty of lawyers ready to take this on pro bono. Easy case to make AND a name to be made.
When your food supply depends on the sun, you tend to pay attention to these kinds of things.
That’s a whole lot of easy lawsuits.
I just get disgusted with everyone who’s calling for violence left and right (metaphorically and politically).
There’s a fine line between advocating for violence, and being aware that violence is going to happen whether we want it to or not. As someone else mentioned, the Right Wingers are absolutely ready to pull the trigger and it’s naive for people on the left to think “It won’t happen to me, so why bother being ready.”
I look at this killing the way I look at Luigi; I’m not going to shed a tear for the victim. He had it coming to him and then some. And I hope the shooter never gets found because fuck Charlie Kirk.
I’m not saying there needs to be all out revolution. But actions such as this killing are good in that they make the other side realize that “yes…we are ready…and you’re not safe if you keep trying your shit”.
I’m not going to celebrate his death. But I’m not going to spare him any empathy either. He preached hate. Got hate in return. FAFO.
Their god has made them believe for centuries now that it is their place to serve their husband. Replublican men marry women who will vote how they tell her to because religiously, she’s nothing but chattel.
That’s the point.
Once a stock price is involved, you’re just another line item on a spreadsheet; something to be minimized and managed as much as possible for the sake of maximizing profit.
You’re not a human being. You’re part of a collective metric called labour. And as such, they only need you to be as smart as you need to be to use the tools required for your job. Any smarter than that and they run the risk of losing control.
Ultimately, it’s why there has always been a conservartive demonization of the Liberal Arts (Ars Liberalis) and a large push to be the “party of the average joe” who likely goes to a trade school.
Me too. That eventual sugar crash gets worse the older I get,
On another post somewhere, someone said “It shouldn’t be a crime if it’s objectively hilarious”.
I think that applies here.
I’m 49 years old and every once in a while I still say “Fuck it…for supper tonight I’m having a giant ass bowl of Lucky Charms cereal”
losing what little crumbs they have
That’s absolutely by design. We’re no better than crows. As long as we have shiny things to distract us, we won’t bother looking up to even admit what they’re doing or to hold them accountable.
Maybe I’ll go protest after I finish browsing on Tiktok…
Charging Blocks
My ex started as a Production Assistant in the Vancouver Film Industry. She mostly worked on the CW shows and those terrible Hallmark holiday movies that get constantly filmed there. Being a PA was a little like being everyone’s bitch, so she eventually made her way into the account department of the same hiring company that managed the PAs.
She had her share of good experiences and plenty of asshole stars.
The president’s limo will be there on the front lawn, up on blocks with it’s wheels and hood missing. A few barrels will be interspresed with fire for warmpth.
Trump will be seated on a beaten up old lawn chair, the kind that your parents had in the 70s and never got around to replacing. To his right there’s a styrofoam cooler; the kind you get at a gas station when your heading out fishing with your pa. It’s filled with Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Melania will put her hair up in a Peggy Bundy beehive and squeeze her aging ass into pair of daisy dukes and cowboy boots.
Joe Rogan appears and kneels before Trump before the match begins. But instead of kissing a ring, it’s a beer tab.
The festivities begin with Kid Rock catterwalling out what he thinks is the national anthem, but is actually just a bunch of random lyrics he put together during the last time he blacked out.
Dean Cain is the “celebrity” referee for the match and Kevin Sorbo is there to provide some colour commentary alongside Rogan.
Due to the unpopularity of all of them, no one wants to volunteer to be the people in the match, so it eventually Trump sends ICE out to round up some homeless people and it quickly devolves into bumfights_dot_com
It’ll be great!
Every civilized country on earth has figured out that there needs to be acceptable limits to free speech and that freedom of speech does not equal freedom from the consequences of saying something.