That is a work of art, goddamn

He said a small town. Small town America gives it’s homeless one way bus tickets to the big city cuz only the city can afford them.

This leaves rural America generally homeless free and then Republicans can pile on to Democrats ruining our cities, as evidenced by all the homeless. Smh. All while willfully ignoring that both property crime and violent crime happen at far higher rates out in county.

Every small town in America, having traded in its character for a freeway offramp, feels, and looks, the exact same nowadays - over policed and traumatized communities originally, back in the good ol pre-2008 days, addicted to Adderall and Oxycontin, nostalgically peeling scabs with meth and fent-laced brown. No will to invest locally, no desire to improve things, just escape from the overbearingness, stuck surviving in the dissonance between repeatingly mouthing self-affirmations/placations and the anxiety of knowing you’ll live to witness civilizations end. Just in time for everyone to fall out of love with the discarded husk big tech left of the Internet.

We are all war victims. Protracted slow economic warfare, intentional, we are all frogs and the waters already at a boil. But continue on being a pick-me for corporate greed (not you personally)

With friends like these who needs enemies?

There’s also a fuckton of gold in the ocean, just waiting for someone to figure out how to filter the entire ocean and pull out the individual atoms. All at a profitable price point.

Same with uranium. Which means it’ll never happen.

We will have cracked fusion, mined the far side of the moon for helium3 and brought it back to terra before we crack that nut

For context; we’ve only mined ~200k tonnes of gold historically with an estimate ~50k tonnes left. The ocean holds 20milion tonnes, worth over $770Trillion and it’s not cost effective to get it out.

I try not to drink calories at all, but if I do, it’s considered part of the meal.

I strongly recommend this, as strongly as reading the news everyday. Don’t watch or listen to it, READ it. It makes you conscious of your participation, makes it easier to remember, and over time, will sharpen your critical thinking skills

If you’ve ever thought ‘holy fuck some people are dumb’, well, if they read the news on the reg, they’d be less and less dumb, everyday.

The flip side of this is productive procrastination, where you do all the menial tasks before doing the task you don’t want to do. Generally you aren’t even aware you’re doing and most people can go their entire lives never knowing the term exists, and yet they’ll do it all the time.

You can’t fix a problem you can’t identify.

You’re welcome and I’m sorry.

Capitulation isn’t a plan. Nice try Orbán, ya fascist fuck.

I appreciate the post and the clarification, I devote very little long term memory to details of these events as it’s just not relevant to my life and records are available if needed.

I see now I was confusing Uvalde with the San Antonio shooting, the one that propelled Beto to run against Abbott. I’m not a Texan, I just follow politics religiously.

And taken by percentages BLM was primarily peaceful. There was violence, obviously. Like in Kenosha. Like with the police responding to criticism of being too violent by being too violent. In Seattle they tear gassed square miles of capitol hill nightly, all while gaslighting everyone every morning on trumped up accusations that medics couldn’t get thru (they could, no one has beef with the FD), and they wouldn’t do it again. You couldn’t hide in your apartment to escape it, thus making sure all babies and grandmother’s were punished for their crimes of existing. Collateral damage like that, callously and repeatedly, is terrorism.

They played every tactic right outta the domestic violence handbook, and to put it simply, that disqualifies any legitimacy they have. Authority has to hold itself to a higher moral standard or else dystopia, which is evidence by our shared reality.

If our power structures can’t hold themselves up to our virtues, then expecting anyone to foster virtue is a fools errand. In any system other than authoritan you can’t ask of others what you yourself won’t do. That’s the natural order, that’s what rings true with our internal sense of justice. I’m aware theres a wide chasm between justice and our jurisprudence, but again, higher standards.

Ultimately, I see any and every action that disperses power out to the many, and out of the hands of a few as a net gain for society. We can’t wait 2000 years for another Cinnicinatus or Washington. There’s a reason they are venerated, and the current global right wing wave is polar opposite their example. Fascism rises because of income inequality, not multi-culturalism or cosmopolitanism. The youth of the old “in group” gets priced out and they say fuck that. I get it, it’s just the wrong answer. Hitler scapegoated the Jews bc the Catholic Church, when they respected the no usury rule, essentially railroaded the Jews into money lending cuz they had a need for services they couldn’t commit. But Jews had no law against usury. Usury is still illegal in Islam to this day.

The problem is with the bankers, as it always fucking has been. Not just bankers, today it’s more broad but essentially those who move paper to make paper. Insurance, etc etc. obfuscation leads to greed, neoliberalism fetishized greed and now if your born after 1980 you’ll never own a house. I get it. The proper reaction, y’know, justice, isn’t to conserve the financial system and attack minorities. It’s to flip those two around.

So now that the shooters voter registration has been plastered everywhere and it’s well known he was a Republican

Regardless, can you direct me to an example of left wing violence in the past 30 years?

There’ve been many, many, far right shooters. Uvalde, Christchurch, Vegas immediately all come to mind.

Idr about the DC Sniper, I assume he was R bc he was a cop, and damn near 99% of cops are R… but DC Sniper went rouge because he saw the forces underbelly, the wanton rampant police corruption. Which would make it = institutionalized right wing corruption.

With the shite supreme court overstepping and creating laws on the bench (fucking activist judges) when that’s the expressed duty of Congress alone, gave us qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture, which immediately led to the police being the largest organized crime ring in the country, if you dont count corporations wage theft and profiteering. More money and property has been looted from regular people every year since 2001 than all criminals scombined have stolen.

Don’t believe a word I said, don’t believe what anyone says. Look it up for yourself. The violent side of the political spectrum is the right, exponentially. For every one act of left wing violence (which is always like, pipeline protests or tree hugging, the Earth Liberation Front disbanded in the 90s) there’s a 100 right wing ones.

I was at the BLM protests in Seattle. I saw with my own eyes, there’s video and pictures of it online too, that the cops instigated the violence, not only attacking unprovoked, but swinging on a 5’2" white girl with a yellow umbrella. That’s right wing violence.

Fact check me. If you find I’m being a little hyperbolic, does the point still stand? Just look at the facts man. The economy does better with a Dem as president. Look at the facts. I fucking despise Democrats but truth is truth. Denying truth is denying God creation, it’s motherfucking blasphemy my guy.

Ding ding ding!

And traffic. The absolute best part of sacrificing your melatonin is never having to drive in traffic. That kept me working nights for over a decade.

This is misleading at best. If you subtract the largest 1000 earners in America the median income drops to $35,000.

That’s all you need to know.

So here I am scrolling as one do, and your photo slides into view. To myself I think, oh, nice mammaries, and then pause to think more people should say that, and then scroll down until the text comes up. And small? That is not what I would call them.

Anywho, quite right, good show, carry on, cheerio.

The Brits really have more fun with the language than we do.

Mediterranean literally translates to “middle of the earth”

Medi = middle Terran = earth Ean = of the

The complete sea name in a native romance language, not English, is Mar de Mediterranean. The word is obviously Latin in origin and the sea has been known as such since antiquity, probably predating Rome (who at the height of their control called the Mediterranean a Roman lake, since they encircled it on all sides. How quaint of them, yea?). This would have been known to Tolkien as the educated, well everybody really, back in the day, had more exposure to Latin, which had spread out widely due to the Church. Martin Luther and Guggenheim started that unraveling, tho Latin is still spoken in many many Catholic churches today.

Midgard does translate to middle earth as well. Tolkien was prob aware of this as well, tho i think that this is lesser well known than Mediterranean, just by the global reach of Spanish.

I mean Mediterranean is literally middle earth.

I think I was 27 when that gem hit me upside the head

Ok, the source of the judgement doesn’t eclipse me, nor do I see how that could be derived but you got there somehow so…

I’m speculating on the whether citizens united rescinds the gmnts ability to demand money, writ large, as that would impinge our 1st amendment. Punitive judgements, between separate parties neither of which are the government such as with Jones v Sandy Hook parents, I would assume wouldnt be effected because the judge is basically performing arbitrage. The DOL, permitting, and taxes are wholly separate issues. Likewise the EPA bringing a corp to court over pollution, or the SEC against bad actors illegally manipulating pump and dump. Not that cases like that couldn’t exist, but not with a government agency as an aggrieved party.

Ya follow? I don’t think its a difficult thought experiment.

So your clear on this going forward; the first amendment protects a persons speech from repercussions from the government. That’s it. Not from aggrieved parties. Not even from businesses deciding to sue. It means your city or state can’t censor you - the rest of society ABSOLUTELY can tho.

Free speech doesn’t mean you get to say whatever you want. Free speech means the government has to argue you back, if it decides, and not use the power of the state, and it’s monopoly of the use of violence against you.

If you want to burn a cross, go ahead. But you’re also free to experience the consequences within yr community - the government isn’t going to _protect _your decision to be inflammatory.

What I want to know, is if money is free speech and the government cannot impinge on that right, then how the fuck can the government charge us for ANYTHING, be that fines or services. All should of been rendered moot with citizens united.

In Tacoma, Wa.

I witnessed 5 police officers all hit a man on the ground with their tasers. Broad daylight.

Died on the scene of a heart attack. Apparently natural causes. The polices internal investigations found the police did no wrong, imagine that.

Unless you make enough money that you can regularly “donate” to the force, I suggest that you assume they are not there to help you and you protect yourself accordingly

I love that about physicsduck, it def snaps me into attention, like, wtf he just say…?

My money is on energy drinks

Safest time ever bro. The police just need another fuckbillion dollars and harriers and then crime disappear, totes.