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We didn’t start the fire

It was always burning, since the world’s been turning…

I’ve spent my entire life watching the “minority” Republicans successfully squash, blockade, deflect, filibuster, or poison every single bill any Democrat has ever put forward to make anyone’s life better, while simultaneously presenting and passing their own bills that make everyone’s life worse in service of their own paycheck.

Now that the tables are turned and a similar sort of action is required of the Democrats to literally save the foundations of our democracy, they do nothing.

That’s why.

I’ve been a proud Democratic supporter and blue voter my entire life and I’ll continue to vote for them if I continue to not be offered better options. But I’m not happy about doing it anymore. I no longer trust the Democratic party to be a bastion against fascism and that’s just the long and short of it. The most basic showing of resistance against any of this bullshit probably would have locked in my vote for Democrats for the rest of my life, but they can’t even do that. We have Bernie Sanders and AOC doing the same things they’ve done their entire lives, and every other person is just sitting back in shock watching their office get looted and doing nothing about it.

The resources were never the point. The point is to make Ukraine refuse a “ceasefire deal” and then point at them and tell everyone they “don’t want peace”. It’s blatantly obvious.

Personally I just run gotop at startup and keep it on my second monitor. I know it’s a small waste of resources but I enjoy watching the blinkenlights.

… will have the morals to stand up to fascist orders from the executive branch and disobey them, displaying that they are at odds, or if they will simply obey unlawful, fascist orders to not get prosecuted under the UCMJ.

Obeying unlawful fascist orders will get you court-martialed, not avoid it. Not obeying them might have you scrubbing latrines for six months, getting a punishment from your CO, but obeying them will end in prison time. This precedent was set at the Nuremberg Trials and this is the reason every soldier is drilled with the knowledge that you are not encouraged, you are obligated, to ignore unlawful orders because the law WILL NOT have your back for performing them.

I mean, these are all real CIA documents being referenced, you can go read them yourself. It’s trustable in as much as you can trust the CIA to be straightforward within their own documentation that wasn’t declassified until 20 years later.

They made a pretty good case through a series of generally ethical experiments to prove that at least some forms of psychic phenomena like remote viewing are almost certainly real, if not exactly reliable or common. I thought that was pretty neat.

Other than that, no, I can’t think of much.

Their holy book that they’ve definitely all read surely didn’t warn them of this possibility right?

Alright, fair. I see your point now. Sorry to come out swinging like that. I think I misunderstood what you were trying to say originally.

The “security failure” was in government operatives using unsecured modes of communication. Signal itself did not have a security failure, the US government did.

The bit about it being a “”“glitch”“” is a direct quote though (and a bold faced lie by the president).

Trump told NBC News that Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” on the military operation, and defended Waltz, claiming that the leak was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one”, as the White House sought to downplay the incident.

Y’all really need to learn to read the article before having a false opinion on it.

You’ve seen something change. They aren’t even pretending to be liberals anymore, neo or otherwise.

You’re not a bad person just because you like dark humor or shitposting.

This is absolutely true.

Why do I need to be better? I don’t give 2 shits about virtue signalling. I don’t have to convince the world that I’m a good person, I know my own virtues and I know that I am; so I’m allowed to joke about horrific shit all the fuck I want.

This is the part that makes you a bad person no one wants to be around.

As in, he could not possibly have been hired anywhere to perform any job by anyone qualified to be a hiring manager. He’s unemployable. All he knows how to do is buy other people’s companies and install himself at the top of them.

This unironically should have been a requirement of all politicians from the very beginning. They need to publicly disclose their donors at all times, attempts to hide or alter this list can be punished with disbarment and removal of office.

Patch jackets are a great way to accomplish this (with other referencable lists online to support), they will even work as advertising for the companies. If there is an upcoming candidate that I’m a big fan of and I find out that, let’s say, Microsoft is a major sponsor of this candidate, that will cause me to a) find out why that is, and b) change my opinions of Microsoft, likely for the better if they aren’t doing something underhanded.

If we can’t remove sponsorships and donations and money in general from our politics, which, let’s be real here… We can at least make it more transparent.

I had a pen like that when I was very young, had to be maybe in the 5th grade. It exploded on me because I chewed on the end of it while thinking. Parts of my homework desk remained blue until I graduated high school, I’m lucky my teeth didn’t also.

If you were checked for hereditary diseases (you were, as a part of this) and then actually develop any of those diseases later in life, insurance now has a surefire way to tell you to go kick rocks and die.

I keep this one around until then

Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world

Could recall him into the fucking ground

My favorite variation on this I ever heard came from one of my coworkers a few jobs ago. I forget the exact context, but:

“Hey [Name], can you get this done?”

“Can the Pope’s dick fit through a donut?”

“…I don’t know?”

“Exactly 😎👉”