You do you, have fun and play safe.

I think Hildawg was so incredibly unappealing that people decided to vote for Anyone But Hillary. It made absolutely no sense for her to be the candidate right after the Obama admin. People who loved Obama would hate her for the racism and the weird death threat that her campaign put out when she was running against him, and people who hated Obama saw her more or less as an Obama clone without any of his charisma. She was a candidate made for people who write opinion articles and nobody else.

I've got two bunnies running around my place. They do cute things, like bunnies do. It's hard to be upset when you watch them frolicking together.

The biggest warcrime on display here is that hair, am I right, ladies?

Egg Head's portrait is better in the original. That's about it.

You've got it right, this is just a bad thread.

I can't be bothered to ever measure out my instant coffee, so I use decaf instead. You get a robust flavour and a respectable amount of caffeine through sheer volume.

I always knew Karl Marx and Freddy Pringles were fake communists.

So sad to see that Hamas runs the New York Times 😔

Vaping and getting a handy in public sounds like a great date night, I don't know what the failing New York Times is talking about.

Fish hook theory is proved correct once again. Libs and Conservatives are both fully on board with the "facts don't care about your feelings" method of argument and don't seem to understand that being smarmy to people who are miserable doesn't get them to like you.

It makes my heart glad that all the innocent lambs were able to come together to shank the big bad wolf.

Blackface and redface at the same time- that's some very efficient racism.

Honestly that's a pretty decent visual joke, but from a re-election standpoint he probably shouldn't be drawing attention to how he's old as fuck.

Oh, you think the bombardment of Gaza is bad? What if it was happening under a president that handled the situation exactly the same but didn't kind-of-sort-of pretend to feel bad about it? Does that sound like the kind of world you want to live in?

I like the Super S on the bottom half, real 90s chic.

I use a browser and Notepad and that's pretty much all I do on my PC. I do so little with it that learning how to use a new operating system seems far more effort than it's worth.

Buying speed from a dealer who was advertising on Craigslist. It all went fine, but that doesn't stop it from being a bad idea.

If your nihilism doesn't make you happy, you're doing it wrong. The absence of meaning should be a liberating factor, not a limiting one. It's actually dope as fuck that there's no greater purpose to your life, you can never fail as a person when there's no standard you feel you have to meet.

They're 16 years old. It's perfectly natural to be a complete idiot when you're a child. I was a bog-standard libertarian at their age, there's still plenty of time to turn around.

I think most of the rev-left is in sync when they're considering what they actually can influence. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that for the most part the Western left has been crushed or defanged or otherwise rendered insignificant. It's hard enough to effect (affect?) any change within your own apartment building, let alone your street, let alone your borough, let alone your city, let alone your province, let alone your country- certainly there's extremely little you can do to influence a different country on a continent that's an ocean away.

As a leftist within the imperial core, whether you think there's an ongoing Uyghur genocide or you think the CCP is giving them the best possible lives, you have the exact same amount of influence over their futures: absolutely none. I'm all for internationalism, but we need to be honest about where we are right now. You've got to think and act local before global action is anything other than a fantasy.

When it comes to issues effecting their municipalities, I think most ancoms and MLs would be in agreement. We can start infighting when we get actual power, until then all the slap-fights are ultimately just about aesthetics. Knock it off and actually do something to help the underclasses within your reach.

A lot of bougies are building their doomsday bunkers in New Zealand, so based on that alone I'd guess NZ is safe. Then again, if the wealthy are good at anything it's being very confidently wrong, so maybe not.

The overwhelming majority of car accidents are caused by people with driver's licenses, so having one obviously makes you a worse driver.

Don't worry, things can and will get much, much, much worse. Most Americans have a roof over their heads, plenty of corn syrup to fill their bellies and enough treats to keep themselves occupied. The US is definitely declining, but an outright collapse is still very far away.

How hard can it be? Put a magnet on the railroad tracks, then stick another magnet with the same polarity under the train. Bam, maglev.

Whether they're all-in on China or think that Xi is the anti-Christ, the end result is exactly the same: absolutely nothing whatsoever. There isn't a local left, much less a national left; certainly there isn't anything that anybody could seriously call an international movement. The opinions of random westerners mean absolutely nothing to the CCP. Fixating on what we have zero influence over is wholly unproductive.

Maybe in 20 years we'll have cobbled together a movement that Beijing thinks is even worth offering a nod to, but right now we're a bit too irrelevant to worry about our place on the global stage.

I can't see it happening in my lifetime, but as conditions continue to degrade I'd like to believe alternatives will present themselves by pure necessity. When global warming hits +4°C, I should hope people would start breaking into the shelters the rich are hoping to ride out the apocalypse in.

Replace them with someone who more or less fills the same social niche. Your heart is a callous bastard and will completely overwrite all that worn-out nostalgia with memories of the new hotness. It's pretty awful in the abstract, but I've found that the only reliable to get over somebody is to make them redundant.

😬 THIS IS MY FRIENDLY FACE

A sugary tortilla is not a pancake, it doesn't matter if you give it a goofy French name. Cakes have girth.

A girl I was seeing asked me what I liked about her and I drew a complete blank. There was plenty to like about her, but when put on the spot I couldn't think of a single thing to say. I don't blame her for leaving me not too long after that.

The alternative is admitting that they had a complete meltdown over a balloon. People can force themselves to believe basically anything if it can save them the embarrassment of admitting they were enthusiastically wrong.

It's sad how many countries are doing absolutely nothing to protect their citizens from exposure to Germany.

As long as it's an indoor child. If you let your kid outside it's just going to end up killing a ton of birds.

Thankfully it was only a warship, if it was a balloon things might have gotten serious.