Great…now they’re gonna crusade against the liberal zoos. There’ll be super successful “patriot zoos” which are really just paid tours of factory farms where the treatment of the animals will be landed as traditional, conservative, even biblical. People will eat it up.

This is the issue that prevented me from joining when I first heard about them.

I find it helpful sometimes to write down the negative shit then wad it up and throw it away or burn the paper.

I imagine the implementation would cost them more than the fine…

Not even a tithe.

“Mmm…look at that profile! This is why I don’t skip fin day!”

You can resolve the paradox by remembering that MAGA isn’t arguing anything in good faith. At all.

Instructions unclear…JD runs toward the gallows

I imagine being kidnapped is a pretty traumatic event, and it’s pretty easy to gaslight a child even if they haven’t been traumatized. If every adult in your life keeps telling you you imagined something or dreamed it, it probably sticks after a few years.

Trying to use the Principal of Charity, it was probably just that one or more counties pushed a version of the form out from after the Republican convention, but before the Democratic one.

I’m fairly confident that if it was done with malice, they’ll figure it out in short order and handle it accordingly. Despite what Republicans want to think, there are a good number of fraud protections built into the system…if there weren’t, it would be easier and more effective for Ryssia/China/Iran/whoever else to directly hack the system than to spend the time and money paying people to shitpost devisive political garbage for months leading up to the election.

I mean, casual observation seems to show that to about 1/2 the electorate, being descent is, or at the very least should be punishable by death.

“It’s OK guys, he was trying to go to a library and got the address wrong”

His fans think he’s under protection from God, and everyone else would respond somewhere between relieved and elated.

I’m worried it would fuck his mind so bad he’d start making sense /s

Societal consequences obviously don’t motivate much of the investor class, but financial ones do.

At this time year? In this part of the country?

Is a promise from Boeing even worth the paper it’s written on?

It does sound ludicrous…might be better off making a concave mirror so it reflects and intensifies the light…like a giant magnifying glass over an ant hill. Yeah…that’s how they should do it. Nothing gonna wrong with that.

Never forget…felt like that in 2016 too…hell, 1/2 through election night I still wasn’t worried (enough). What a fucking nightmare

I got my first PC in the mid 90s. 1st task was to take it apart, but after that, I first learned about the internet through friends, and we had a few computers at school in the library or the BASIC programming classrooms. My primary uses were the Blizzard chat rooms and playing OC starcraft with my friends (though we’d usually just get together at someone’s house and LAN for that.) I had AOL for a while, but couldn’t really afford it and neither could my parent. There was a thing called netZero I used for quite a while…it was free dial-up internet that displayed an ad banner on your desktop, but it wasn’t very intrusive, especially if you had a crazy high resolution (crazy high at the time being > 480x768). My primary uses were picking 2-3 mp3s to download overnight while I slept so nobody would pick up the phone and disconnect the internet, sharing dangerous and stupid amounts of personal info to basically anyone on IRC that asked (a/s/l anyone?), playing around with kitchy little hacker tools (one of my favorites allowed you to attach a malicious executable to your picture you’d send to people that would allow to do goofy shit like open their cd rom or flip their screen upside down). My mom’s only complaint about the internet was when she couldn’t use the phone (so I mostly browsed late at night). It was harder to find things, and there wasn’t much content…what was out there was just text since even images took 10s of seconds to download sometimes. Security and parental controls (beyond fear mongering) were practically non-existant and even when someone’s parents were competent enough to try and lock it down, most of the pare tal controls could be overridden with the local admin account, which we all knew the passwords to because we had install the stuff our parents wanted on the computer anyway.

Good question, thanks for the trip down memory lane!