This in is the dictionary under unforced error.

They weren’t there to stop crime. They were there to scare minorities. Surely that’s obvious.

Show this to everyone who thinks dogs and cats can’t be friends. They’re close friends.

I dunno man, he gave me this note for you. None of my business, he’s a weird kid. (Jesus giggling behind a potted plant.)

Respect and derision are not the only choices.

e: for example, failure to even acknowledge is a deeper social slight, and one that stays through time, not something cheap and transient. But that requires a bit of sophistication.

I’m not sure people are acknowledging the amount of money and slavery are behind this movement.

Trump dying will not stop this. He’s a carnival barker and is not really in charge.

I really hope his death is very slow, very painful, and very public. I want him to drag his cursed movement down with him. If he abruptly dies, he’ll be a martyr that bolsters this movement, and that would be worse.

Sociopath. Even if you hate the guy, if you’re a public figure like trump, the least you can do is muster a bit of empathy.

But he can’t, because he can’t even fathom the concept of empathy. It’s completely foreign to him.

Electing sociopaths is how you get war and genocide, as we’ve known for millennia. And we’ve given a total sociopath the levers of genocide, both abroad and at home.

You know what sucks most about this? We could literally fix many of society’s issues by focussing on education. Hunger, crime, inequality, poverty, climate, population, everything. But that fucks the goals of billionaires, so we won’t.

So, fun and slightly unrelated story:

In the late 80s, when I was a teen, we were driving through the Arizona desert to Mexico and there was this big stretch where there was just nothing. No radio, no rest stops, literally nothing. And I had to pee really bad.

So we pulled over for me to do my business. It was an open desert with nothing to hide behind, so I went a bit from the road and found the biggest bush I could. It was dead and not full enough for much privacy, but far enough that I thought it gave enough cover. So I squatted and pulled down my shorts, and heard a really loud rattle. I didn’t even think. Just scrambled back towards the car, butt naked to the sky, scraping my knees in the dirt. Not even sure when or how I pulled up my shorts.

I’d nearly pissed on a rattlesnake. The adults reassured me that they rattle instead of bite, so I wasn’t in real danger. They thought it was hilarious. I did not.

Sometimes you don’t think, you just do what you can do.

This is the most American thing I have read in my life. I have lived for more than half a century, some of it in several different US states.

Seriously, if anyone asks what the US is like, show them this post. It’s perfect.

Yeah, but where’s the fun in that?

All of the cost, none of the equity. Just as capitalism demands.

Distributed burden, with the profits for the few.

What did we do with the railroad barons again? And where’s their privatised cutting-edge tech??

Where I live, there used to be an Officer Gay in our police. He retired a while ago, but just imagine the possibilities. There was graffiti. Soo much graffiti.

Like, this was a legitimate word, once, used for names and such.

Yeah, there be trolls about.

Why do you hate free speech now?

This is objectively true:

Ideological values are parametrically associated with empathy neural response to vicarious suffering 2023, PubMed

Maybe we should stop trying to convince them and start showing them.

You can have my pickle. I don’t want it.

I didn’t get it on temu, and it’s not exactly the same. They’re all the same basic design because they have to be to work, and I happen to have a red one. They come in all colours.

Weird.

e: just for some more proof I’m not a bot:

Uh, buy my book! XD

Malicious and stupid aren’t mutually exclusive, but stupid often leads.