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Nivek

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  1. Goddamnit…. I laughed too much at this one. Thanks.
  2. I get it. I feel like I have been pushed to this place to live in a country that I do not recognize and identify with anymore. I used to actually believe we set the aspiration of being the beacon on the hill for others to follow. I used to believe the rhetoric about how we were all immigrants (excluding the natives) and how we made this country better. I thought we had the same idea to make the country better for everyone and those around us, but that we had different ideas on how to do it. I used to naively think, Nazism could never happen here. I used to think we we were on the side of human progress. Then I learned. I got older. I still naively held some of these beliefs. All it took was a mediocre looking redhead to infiltrate the NRA. All it took was a few stupids to put their own self-interest above the country and party, only to find out their longevity within that party would be shortened. All it took was a known script from past authoritarians to reshape people into being horrible to one another. Demanding papers of others, while wearing a flag pin and a cross, and pushing people to drown in a river. To find the most vulnerable people and say "fuck em, die" instead of trying to welcome them. To repeatedly vote to create and normalize horrors of school children being slaughtered while we pretend to not know what the solution is, who caused it, and why. To repeatedly hear people demonize the ones who are sensible, trying to help (pandemic medical staff), to hold honest, educated people to higher standards than we hold the most powerful people in the world. To embrace and celebrate the profits of unhealthy food addictions, pharmaceutical drug addictions, and decreasing support for education in this country. To cravenly resist the rise of the oligarchy, as we witness the gilded age II surpass the original gilded age, while in the throes of the age of fraud. So your experiences with the flag are different than mine. It was a background image mostly, but a symbol for both what I believed in, and also a banner for those who struggled, fought to change, fought to live, and fought to defend this country. But that is all stained now. It is a piece of cloth with words we don't give a fuck about, meanings we don't give a fuck about, and standards we don't even pretend to have. It is not a hope for the future, it is a symbol to smother the powerless and to bash into those who believe as naĂŻvely as I did.
  3. The Japanese didn’t start out with a death cultist mindset. But all it took was a little push and normalizing of it to get it going. Celebrate heroic (ancestor)figures like Minamoto Tametomo who first started the suicide instead of capture and the rest of them followed suit. The non-stop anti-trans ads and accusations creeps into people’s minds. Just as propaganda does. The history books are filled with examples of this, heck we only recently had a massacre in Myanmar that was caused by these lies being perpetuated. Would you like me to go on with examples?
  4. I would join them. The US has decided to show its ass and be disrespectful to them, even to threaten their sovereign status, after being one of our closest partners for 100 years.
  5. don' yer tell me how 2 run my farm!
  6. They really should propose some legislation where blue states should start discounting their payments to the federal government. Why is it California's fucking problem that the Dakotas don't pay enough? They got 2x the senators so they should get to brainstorming on how to not be a fucking welfare state. They don't need $5k/resident (N. Dakota, Louisiana, Mississippi, Wyoming) when their property values are shit compared to California.
  7. You see, being a pedo isn't nearly as bad as being a trans person in Amerikkka. Musk out front should have told you. They will celebrate it. Probably with child porn....
  8. Move fast, and break things. Aircraft carrier (check). Helicopter (check). Civilian airplane full of kids? (check). Fighters? (Check). Historic alliances? (check). stopgaps to prevent disease outbreak? (Check) Privacy? (check) Democracy? (Check) social programs that help poors, widows and handicapped? (check) Law enforcement? (check). Justice system? (Check) Education? (check)
  9. This is the distraction.... from the 4 trillion dollar debt ceiling increase while president musk and his businessman trump run up massive debts yet again.
  10. Republicans elected 2 actor for gov, one for president, a conman/felon/reality tv businessman for president. The left elected one for senate. Who is sucking up to celebrities?
  11. We will survive. And then like with the confederacy, we will have to pretend the South wasn’t full of traitors.
  12. And the rise of right wing hate/propaganda networks started with the end of the Fairness Doctrine. Right wingers complained how they couldn’t trust media, it is of course because they broke it, but facts always have a liberal bias, because intelligence, fairness, and empathy does as well.
  13. It was written by the Kremlin
  14. Alarming to whom?
  15. Why not print these out and stick them all over?
  16. Please get after Medicare/medicaid/social security soon. I am not hearing enough older folks suffering from their vote.
  17. Ivanka Ocean. Both are full of trash and plastic.
  18. My family members actually think he is a businessman because he pretended to be one on TV.
  19. Only one helicopter took out a civilian plane and now our largest fucking warships are running into a 600+ foot cargo ship. Maybe an unqualified day drunk should not have been placed in charge of the Military?
  20. Is this their proof of grift or government waste?
  21. Her ex husband should borrow Melania's "I really don't care. Do you?" jacket.
  22. This can get real complicated really fast. Not having properly trained staff is one way to fuck around with it. The schools also get a choice on how to spend the money, and if in the case of HISD, they are doing it outside of the direction of Mike Miles, they get canned. No matter the performance of the school or the students. So the old excuse this was about improving education was as always with these clowns, a lie.
  23. I wonder how schools became such victims of political footballs, but I just can't quite place my finger on it. I mean i vote for people who say we need to defund the schools, break up education, who ignore their own guidelines over class room sizes, who try to break teacher unions, and siphon money from blue districts to feed red districts because no one wants to live there. I mean I have no fucking clue how this could have happened?
  24. I mean, I am sure it is a hoax, but well, I don't give a fuck anymore. They don't.
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