It’s really fun to see them calling us hysterical for pointing out the actual genocide happening abroad while they lose their shit over fictional future genocides happening at home.

Only that which affects me matters, which is why my nightmares are real and the Palestinians are fake.

That is also what happens when people only show up for Presidential elections. It’s important to participate in ALL elections, even primaries… maybe especially primaries. You might get a candidate who is closer to your ideal.

But when you don’t show up when decisions are actually made…

Hi yes remind me again when it was that we came together and democratically selected Kamala Harris as the nominee?

I just can’t with these people. None so blind as those who will not see

That is a rough way to be woken up. Hope you can find your way back to your gardens.

*Steeples fingers*
*Paces slowly*
*Starts to speak*
*Hesitates, stops*
*Faces out window, somberly*
Well considering that it’s 2024 and you’re still using role-playing asterisks maybe it’s either because you’re young or a sentient IRC channel.

Global thermonuclear exchange: What am I, chopped liver?

That’s how you activate ultra stealth mode

You’ve attended a COP, haven’t you?

Many such cases

So I wake up this morning and the first things I see are Kamala Harris doing an unironic “Thank you for your service Mr dick cheney” and Tim Walz doing Zionist lebensraum

Please my dreams were pleasant I want to go back to them

I can’t believe she keeps trotting the “lethal military” thing out as an applause line and no one has stopped and asked “Wait, want to elaborate on what you mean by that?”

We’re just in all mask off all the time mode and that is terrifying.

Sooo… Zero urgency, then?

Comic book nerd: “Look, right here on page 52 of the August 1983 issue of Captain America World Crisis Hjorkajork Invasion (third in of the 52-issue series), it shows Cap wearing the Indivisibility Ring on his MIDDLE finger, not his RING finger; the canon reason for that is probably the injury he sustained fighting the Chartreuse Calavera in Alternate Universe Capitano Mexico’s Foiled Fiesta, spring of '78. Cap took a burritorang straight to his hand that would definitely have left him with some recurring tendonitis. Your HAVE TO move the ring, IT’S A CRITICAL CALLBACK that HINTS AT Capitano Mexico’s possible return from the Null Zone!”

Comic book illustrator: “Dude, '83, huh? Yeah, that was definitely before I dried out. Probably an absinthe year, I think. I put the ring on his middle finger, huh? Sheee-it, go figure.”

Woo, I always wanted to join the Trepa Nation.

Crap, I have 18th century brainworms to exorcise?

Heck Cattle

Comrades, there can be only one solution to this threat. We must create the Heck Bear.

Deliberately miseducated because the Hungry Ghosts needed factory workers and soldiers, not people who could ask questions. The tax code in particular is kept Byzantine on purpose.

I sometimes wonder how much we can blame people; we’re here because the programming didn’t work on us, but probably for a bunch of different reasons, many of which are also outside of our control.

Translation: Mind if we obfuscate the government’s eventual refusal to do anything about restoring power?

“We’ve done it! We’ve done it, Igor! We’ve created the perfect utility monster! Soon it will be ethical… for everyone else to suffer! Mwahahahaha!”

Thanks, this site has been an oasis of sanity and I appreciate everyone here.

I’m a white hot ball of seething rage with no outlet crammed deep into the body of a boring American research analyst. Every where I look I see the way things are structured to prevent real change, to stop people from doing anything meaningful with their lives and I’m supposed to be grateful for it? I’m supposed to be happy that we’re speeding headlong for a cliff at 75 miles an hour instead of 80? (Except it is actually 80 and we have collectively agreed to pretend it’s 75 and that’s Doing Something).

Whatever happens in this dog-and-pony show of an election people are going to suffer and lives are going to be snuffed out but people - some of whom I used to respect and trust - are out there celebrating the possibility of being

I’m a pile of joyless negativity and I hate it.