That’s the plan - RN is my ticket out of this shithole. I’m not aware of a political utopia, but there are at least a few options that aren’t swan-diving into fascism. If I’m lucky, it’ll be somewhere that dodges global instability long enough for me to die in a semi-natural way.

…oh god no - the fire putting us all out of our misery is my last hope at this point. This is one of the worst messages I’ve ever seen.

I guess I never had the privilege of such comfort to begin with.

I may have overstated that unintentionally – it’s the fine line at making just enough to pay the bills, but the check-engine light still being terrifying. The comfort is that I’ve got a roof over my head (not my roof, my landlord’s, in exchange for most of my paycheck), and food on the table (not healthy food, that shit’s too expensive; but food).

If I get caught acting out of line, I’m a missed paycheck or two away from homeless, and that’s a pretty powerful motivator. I’ll still come here and bitch my landlord and such - that’s not illegal yet. But actually taking to the streets? That’s risky as fuck.

building solidarity with your neighbours and co workers

I’ve recently learned that most of those are Nazis. Unsure if solidarity is what I want.

You can’t run away from making a choice

The choice to do what? Guerrilla shit? Pretty sure that’d end really quickly with me either dead or in prison. Voting? Haven’t missed an election big or small since 2016, and that hasn’t accomplished shit. Supporting my community? That’s why I went into health care (surgical tech currently, in school part time for nursing); and even once I become a nurse, I live in a state that legally mandates that I violate the nursing oath if I ever get a patient who needs reproductive or gender affirming care… pretty sure I can get in legal trouble just for telling them which states to visit where they actually can receive care. It’s fucked. All of it.

they are already coming for your neighbours, and eventually they will come for you.

Yeah no shit - they even made a roadmap for how they’re going to do it called Project 2025. My neighbors and I are fucked, and something like 80% of those neighbors are going to spend their last breath pointing at the other 20% and laughing from the other side of the toiled bowl as we all spiral down the drain together.

Redefining ‘good’ to whatever it is you speculate may be cooking in Zeus’s noggin isn’t going to dodge the Epicurian paradox, it just changes it to god can’t be all three of 1) all-powerful, 2) all-knowing, 3) all-whatever-the-fuck-word-god-chooses-to-use-to-label-the-concept-of-the-thing-we-call-‘good’.

That’s like arguing that the thing you’re looking at right now isn’t a screen, because maybe god calls it a chipmunk instead.

^That.

Humanity as a whole is disgusting. We need to hurry up and go extinct… not that we aren’t already speedrunning that shit.

That’s what I mean by moving the goalposts. You just shifted it to support all-knowing and all-powerful by unchecking all-good. If god could have willed our world another way and chose not to, he created and continues to facilitate evil, and is thus malevolent.

Naw you’re good. We’re on the same page.

If herr cheeto getting elected for a second term doesn’t do it, what the fuck will?

Not a damn thing. We don’t have it in us. By the time the masses are uncomfortable enough to get up off the couch and do something about it, it’ll be far too late. And I hate to say it, but self included.

I voted for the frying pan in hopes of avoiding the fire. I don’t have faith in any of them, but there’s a spectrum of awful they all fall on and I’d prefer to at least hang out on the less severe end of it.

But you’re right, we absolutely cannot rely on this shit.

Too soon was yesterday and earlier. The race is over - it’s time to rub our own representatives noses in their bullshit and hope our country limps along well enough to give them a chance to apply the lesson. …I’m not confident that opportunity will be on the table going forward.

I used to give the collective ‘us’ the benefit of the doubt and assume we’re just stupid, not evil.

After 4 years of Trump + all the Nazi shit he’s said since, he did even better than he did the first time. People aren’t ignorant to all that, they fucking love it.

We need to hurry up and go extinct and hope some critter rises from the ashes and evolves to be less of a collective sack of shit.

Dude, the average Republican would let Trump shit in their mouth if it meant a Democrat had to smell it, then brag about it on social media and show off the half-digested chunk of corn now stuck in their teeth like a badge of honor.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re just as fucked as the rest of us, but they’re going to love every second of it so long as it hurts the out-groups.

You have again assumed that care for the individual trumps anything else

Does god not have the power to care for both?

You’re doing the goalpost thing.

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https://www.270towin.com/2024-election-results-live/state/virginia

Just updates a minute ago… she’s leading by a hair at the moment. Definitely too close to call. Also FUCK YOU, STEIN! That 0.9% could cost us the fucking country.

Edit- just updated again. Moving in a good direction. FUCK YOU, STEIN! …merits repeating.

Lead lost, but remaining are still projected to trend to Harris:

I’ll keep updating, zoomed out a bit to show trends and what’s left:

Treeson!

And that is Epicurus’ assumption- that the greatest good is achieved in minimising pain.

That’s a solid assumption though: the claims that define ‘god’ come from the religion, not from the supposed being itself; it isn’t necessary to speculate at the possibility of some theological grand plan that isn’t established by the religion’s own lore. Choosing to unnecessarily make someone suffer / experience pain is pretty core to the concept of evil. If it’s integral to reality or some shit, then the being that made that reality either doesn’t care (not all good) or it’s unable to whip up an alternative (not all powerful). Every single attempt to explain away the Epicurian paradox just moves the goalposts from the point currently in the spotlight in a way that opens up one of the other two.

Disagree - that implies God is all knowing and all good, but not all powerful. If he was all powerful, he wouldn’t need to resort to using evil at all, even it’s just a tool to accomplish good.

If he was all three, the child wouldn’t be cut in the first place.

Meh, he’ll stir up hatred from prison too. Best for everyone if he’d just hurry up and succumb to his decades-long suicide by cheeseburger.

If we’re talking that shitty highschool cafeteria pizza, I swear doing this made it taste better.

To hell with calories or fitness or any of that crap - it’s the noms that matter.