That’s a really good one to add and you’re totally correct. It’s also funny (read: depressing*) that even with all those additional costs they still can easily afford it and you can tell that’s true because their profits keep breaking records

*or motivating if you realize it vindicates Rosa Luxembourg and we’re probably better off doing the whole revolution thing.

Putting Joe Biden and Rachel Dolezal into the teleporter from The Fly

Chasten tries to distract Pete by telling a funny story about the time they went antique shopping because Pete keeps looking at the dogs while making pistol cocking sound effects with his mouth.

I applaud the idea of grassroots organizing but what all these “we will take back our liberal democracy” nerds fail to consider is that the “handful of rich oligarchs buys politicians” exchange has a virtue that 38 million smaller donors will never have: a smaller number of people to pay back with much more specific interests.

I just woke up so I’m probably bad with words rn. Allow me to explain. Let’s say you can buy a politician for 5 million dollars. 5 rich dudes and they are done for 1 million each. To combat this 500,000 small donors must raise 10 each.

Easy, right? Not so fast.

Now consider the politician. Would you rather owe 5 favors or 500,000 favors? Now consider again that one of the biggest reasons the rich donate is to prevent reform. The system is already working for them. They are paying money so you don’t do anything. Medicare for All? That’s expensive. Will change big things. Will end as many political careers as it advances. There are 500,000 versions of what that looks like and how long it will take. Etc etc. It will create large and numerous waves of consequences.

Now how about opposing Medicare for All? You gotta do nothing, essentially. You have to maybe face a few reporters when it gets brought up. You make a few comments about reforms you will never earnestly pursue. You don’t even have to do your job of crafting legislation. The industry ghouls and goblins will write the legislation and the lobbyists will deliver the bills to your desk. One of your staff will tell you to sign it. You keep five people happy and you keep your job. And most of what you need to do to keep them happy is to do nothing. And people like jobs where they get paid to do nothing.

Now take all of what I just described and add another key ingredient: consequences. How do you reward politicians? Funding them. Getting them the job and keeping them employed. How do you punish them? You take away their money and make them lose their job. Now, how in the name of God’s good earth are you going to wave the threat of losing their jobs when your other, parallel political sloganeering campaign is to vote for those politicians and their party “no matter who” because you live under a two party system and the alternative sucks even more?

Can any liberal truly answer me on this question? Because it looks like you, and everyone else, are fucked by this system. And it’s not because of this guy here or that guy there or any fiddling of the various dials and levers that can be adjusted on the control panel. The system is broken to the core. It is not designed to do the thing you are trying to force it to do.

It’s like a Faulkner story at this point.

More like Can’tstantinople

W I D E

trousers

But I just got out of the shower.

He surrenders in Ukraine, moves to the US, becomes US president, the CIA has him sign his own assassination order.

It would be extremely funny if he throws a tantrum and he’ll think he’s making a bunch of vague references to overdosing on purpose but it won’t be at all vague.

Situational Communism

COVID mask? Check. Dyed hair? Also check. Angry boomer finger point? Check.

Oh yeah. It’s comedy time.

Never ask a man his salary. Never ask a woman her age. Never ask a Prince Yasuhiko what he was doing in China in 1937.

While a dude who is most commonly referred to by all 3 of his names is hanging out

Loveshack

The system that has an imperfect grasp on basic necessities like food distribution should have even more control - tech nerd fuckers

Aren’t like half these social maladapts praying for the zombie apocalypse or some sort of similar culling event? I hope there’s a false alarm and they get shotgunned in the face by some paranoid prepper when they approach a house with a generator to barter a cup of electricity to start their phone

There are I’m just amusing myself by being stupid

Nixon being Nixon is probably why. You oust the raving alcoholic vendetta obsessive and people will dismiss the inevitable grumbling as just Nixon being Nixon. He could have gone full “blame the CIA with receipts” route and people would have just sighed and said “golly, Nixon sure is being Nixon today.”

I already had no vote in 2025 because it’s not an election year lmao gottem runs past the bleachers getting high fives

Why aren’t my ostensibly left-liberal news sources not giving free air time to Drumpft?!

I swear to God liberal recreation must consist of repeating the words “I learned nothing from 2016” while slamming themselves in the head with a wooden mallet.