“THIS IS THE FUTURE UNDER SOCIALISM!!!”

literally a picture of the current world under capitalism, usually in the same country or one of similar quality of living

Uncaring?

You really think they don’t care how they ruin people’s lives?

Quite the contrary. They relish in the suffering. The cruelty, as always, is the point.

Fuck them sideways with a Guillotine.

Damn, you’ve got the shameless doublethink down.

Honestly I can almost hear most of my family saying these exact words.

Truth doesn’t matter, reality doesn’t matter, their OWN MYTHOLOGY doesn’t matter to them. Most of them haven’t even read their own manual outside the dozen or so cherry picked verses that they use somewhat interchangeably for conflicting messages, once a week for 45 minutes.

“Why are you so afraid of answering questions?”

“democrats answer questions like this every day, surely you want to prove you’re better than them?”

Get digs at their egos. At the very least, there may be one or two conservatives out there who see that and go “yeah, why IS he afraid of answering a simple question?”

"A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,”

I’d love for reporters to start pushing politicians when they say dumb shit. Don’t just let them say it and then gawk at the camera like you’re Jim from the office or move on with questions.

“in what way are you concluding that Mr. Mamdani is a communist? Are you aware of the difference between communism and socialism, and could you explain how he is a communist?”

“what terrorist ideology? waits for answer In what way is this the ideology of a terrorist?”

Show that they have no idea what the words they spew mean. Show that they’re just using buzzwords that sound scary.

And then give the facts.

Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.

Look, he may be grimy, but kink shaming isn’t cool. He can be fingered whenever he feels like it.

I fully expect the regime to announce they’re arresting ATC personnel who quit.

$399.99

Lol

Lmao, even

I ain’t buying that shit. I will happily buy two 3d printers, upgrade them, and print a giant coffee table sized version before I spend that much on such a small set.

Maybe the chief should make the world a better place and shoot himself instead.

Shoot at my dogs, one of us will be dead very soon.

Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

Fine, I’ll re download it and keep playing…

I’ll finish it someday, I promise. (I know nothing of the story)

If I had the money and ability to trust strangers I would hire people to clean my house for me.

I love the loop of “feel bad for not cleaning - depressed - don’t clean - stare at floor - feel bad for not cleaning…”

“The fuck is you talkin about, I looked a buncha stuff up on my phone that’s research!”

-majority of conservatives

Depends on how many you eat…

Turns out “market forces” was just the heavy metal poisoning talking, they were just hallucinating magical economics.

Lead in gasoline and household products really fucked with some generations, hard.

I hate most scarves. Mass produced ones are terrible.

Someone knit me a scarf out of merino wool, and it was super duper soft, didn’t fuzz up, and was one big möbius strip.

My guess?

Lit room: lots of things scattered around, colors, visual noise, over stimulating

Dark room: dark, not very visible, less/no noise, not (necessarily as) overstimulating

I mean, after a certain point, yes.

Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says “were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils”

The second frog turns to the first and says “you’re being alarmist, things aren’t that bad.”

This sounds like the second frog.^‡

It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it’s certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life…

You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.

I’m not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, “any day now they’ll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)” and no end of bullshit about how “mentally ill” and “unstable” they supposedly are.

Besides, if my choices are “concentration camp v0.95” and “best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo” then I know which choice I’m making.

You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I’m a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.

^‡(frogs don’t actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)