You say the people in the cult became even more cult-y? wow, go figure.

I s’pose this is also a great way of showing all future democratic candidates, there is literally no point in trying to appeal to these hateful ignorant pricks. Stop trying to go right to appease these nutjobs, you’ll never be right enough for them. Go left instead, and find the majority of the American people waiting for you.

I’d love to take a train, but I think the website is either purposefully made to be shit, or it’s just super shitty. Because trying to book any train ticket is impossible. Every time I’ve searched on their website, it gives me the same alert: "This trip cannot be booked. We do not have any travel options between the stations entered. "

Even though I know they have trains going there. I know the stations, I know the routes, and yet it STILL gives me this error code. It’s like they actively are discouraging you from riding the train. I say this, of course, because I think that’s exactly what they’re doing. Auto makers have captured the railway system, and between them and the monopoly of the current rail system, they’re trying to make train travel as painful as possible so you give up and either fly or drive.

You guys see the route right there in this post, yeah?

Go to https://www.amtrak.com/home and try to find a train ride between any two locations. I bet you $100 it gives you the same message.

Cops love warrantless search until someone has the audacity to use it against them.

A lot of people who are super self-reliant grew up in households where their needs weren’t met, so they learned from a very young age that anything that they wanted they had to do themselves. It’s usually a trauma response.

first flock cameras and ALPR readers, now these? police state.

what a fucking moron. I want revenge you dumb bitch.

Some people say it ironically, in jest, or with hyperbole…

I don’t. I mean that shit. He is literally satan.

I’m an agnostic, but the one thing that’s nudging me toward belief is the fact that the literal devil is running the white house.

Republican Sleeper agents make up the core of the democratic party?

That’s seriously what you’re saying?

Now there’s a face that says “If you came down 60 seconds earlier, you would’ve seen me with my dick out”

“We can sort of win the battle, but we’re going to lose the war. Because in the long run, they’re still going to be able to do what they want to do, which is arrest people and hold them for long periods of time,”

You know, because fascism. Warrantless searches, denial of the right to trial, deporting random brown people to random countries just to appease the cruelest intentions of their cult leader.

Jesus fucking christ go vote.

Have a friend, and we have a complicated relationship. Making friends as an adult is hard, but then life shit happens and even the friends you do end up making can be assholes.

I had just gotten out of a divorce, and wanted to throw a big halloween costume party. Told everyone months beforehand, with plenty of reminders and groupchats, spent over $1000 on decorations, couple hundred on snacks, alcohol, weed I’d have stocked. It was going to be a rager. Well, a bunch of people cancel, because my house is like a 40 min drive, but my best friend at the time, he was, for some reason, not giving me a definite answer. Like, I figure even if nobody else shows up, my buddy and I could still hang. But come the day of the party, he tells me he’s not coming, and it’s just so he can maybe find something better to do closer. And I’m just… So upset. Cancel the whole party via an on-line thing, and just sit there feeling fucking awful.

Shit messed me up so bad, it’s like 5 years later, and some of the decorations I put up for that party are still up. I obviously haven’t even tried to host anything since.

anyway. like, a couple months after that fiasco, my buddies brand new girlfriend texts me, asking me to come to his birthday party. She was putting a bunch of work into it, making it a scavenger hunt thing for him and his friends. I told her immediately, “nope!” Not coming. She asked once or twice more and got the same answer.

But in the end, I was still nicer, because at least I gave a clear answer right away.

Well that fucking sucks.

But his opponent is ashley hinson, a proud trump supporter, so, uh, Vote for the person that’s not her.

Time for lil’ Billy to learn how to slide tackle if he wants the ball!

Palmer Luckey brony pic

Shit you weren’t kidding

Dang, I want to upgrade my TV for christmas, and was thinking of a nice 65" OLED Samsung, as the “hospitality” TVs of the same size with OLED are like twice the price. I don’t have open WIFI, I use a computer and just the TV as a display, I thought I’d be OK. But I have a soundbar as well, so it’ll be listening to me regardless? Jesus fucking christ. The future we’ve built is terrible.

This guy’s melanin levels is off the chart! It’s over 9000!

“Watch out! He’s got a giant breadstick!”

“He’s comin’ right for us! Release the hounds!”

No, I mean, the “radio announcer” and thus the “news reporter” voice was modeled after the Ohio accent, because it was seen as a non-accent. You’re right that we have one, it’s just so incredibly bland, that it comes across as not one at all.

Here’s an article that goes into further detail

Vizetelly, who established a school for announcers at CBS, was concerned with maintaining the “purity” of American English. In his mind, the Midwest was the place to be—and Ohio in particular.

Vizetelly and other educators felt that broadcasters could evoke trustworthiness and objectivity by imitating the speech of the “heartland.” Eventually, when radio announcers and TV journalists began sounding like they were from the Midwest, the “broadcaster’s dialect” became understood as normal.

I just wonder sometimes, because my father is undiagnosed autistic (he just has too many hallmarks to dismiss), and I sure do act a lot like my dad.

And, yeah, same breakfast and dinner (I always skip lunch) for 20 years doesn’t sound that normal to me… i know my ex-wife used to tease me about it.

well, I mean, it’s a lack of any specific American accent. They don’t sound like they’re from the Appalachia, West/East coast, or Boston, or the south etc. etc. A lot of American television news reporters came from Columbus, Ohio back-in-the-day because we just don’t have a regional dialect.