Fun fact: the taboo on suicide has always been based on depriving the state or church of your labor and taxes. I wonder how many more people would just choose to die rather than participate in this, if not for the taboo?

To be fair, rape, genocide, and punishing women for shit that isn’t their fault are all biblical values.

I bet you’re a blast at parties.

The profession tends to select for sociopathy.

It mostly started with the cold war. The US was obsessed with stopping the perceived threat of communism. In the process, it discovered the benefits of power mongering and war profiteering.

Is that YouTube trying to compete with Tiktok for the no-attention-span brain rot market? I never saw the appeal.

No the fuck they aren’t. They’ll be over it by tomorrow.

Why is it always the ones you most expect?

Oh look, the 1643rd time I’ve seen this headline. Call me when the angry mobs start forming.

Hmm, interesting. Is there perhaps one weird trick to using it?

It is exhausting and unhealthy in some ways. But look around… None of this shit is good for our mental health. I’ve done my time trying to make the best of being surrounded by truly disgusting people, and even help them despite everything. I’m done.

That is a super misleading headline. What’s the efficiency improvement over existing technology, instead of raw barium titanate?

What a time to be a snake oil sales person.

I actually did find that person. We’re pretty happy, grumbling and isolating from the world together. There’s people and then there’s people, and the latter are just awful.

Holy shit.

Translation: awaiting orders from handlers.

In related news, people in hell want ice water.

Your defense of the Democrats boils down to “at least we’re not the GOP.” And you’re not wrong. I’ve done my part by voting against the GOP in every election since I was eligible. The Democrats themselves don’t even do that. I wish their effort would at least match mine, seeing as it’s their full-time job. And I wish you held your reps as accountable as your fellow voters.

As individuals, we can only influence our friends, family, and kids as best we can. Sometimes that’s not at all. We’re all now familiar with the trope of “Fox News ate my parents’ brains”.

This isn’t a game or a movie that necessarily has to have a happy ending. Sometimes shit’s just fucked. As long as the propaganda machine is in place, millions of people will be brainwashed.

I agree with you that the parties are not the same. The GOP are outright evil puppets of the billionaire class. The Democrats are ineffectual cowards who’ve made careers out of paying lip service to the right thing, and every now and then doing something helpful if it’s convenient for them and doesn’t piss off their billionaire donors. A lot of the time that ends up translating to the same results for most people.

I don’t buy the “sorry, our hands are tied” line we always get from the left. Dems throw up their hands even when they do have majorities. The first meaningful opportunity the Democrats had to obstruct Trump’s agenda, after the left base had been screaming for weeks for their representatives to do something, Schumer rolled over immediately. I can’t take this party seriously anymore.