The anarchy symbol rebelliously displayed on a rear projection screen, the pride of the A/V department, in a ballroom of a Hamilton Suites lobby somewhere. My youth recoils in horror.
And these fuckers aren’t anarchists. They’re asshole right wingers who think they want companies to have even more power because they read ayn Rand once.
This country needs more than two parties. But these assholes? What the fuck, USA?
We can thank Murray rothbard and Milton Friedman for that gem. Rothbard openly coopted anarchism in Anatomy of the state and mixed it with Austrian economics woo woo
My now recoils in horror.
I have this cool keychain that says “be the change” but the A in “change” is the Anarchy A.
Am I gonna have to stop wearing that?
If you’re asking permission, then yes.
Gotta admit, him saying, “keep getting your 3% every 4 years, maybe you don’t want to win.” was pretty lmao
The biggest reason trump won in 2016 was, apart from Clinton’s unfavorables, his sense of humor. He could throw out zingers and also be surprisingly self deprecating.
His problem is that no one was in the mood for any humor in 2020 as he had royally fucked up covid and now in 2024 he’s obviously in mental decline. He’s still good for a quip once in a while but he’s not nearly as funny now as he used to be and way less funny than he thinks he is.
Biden, meanwhile, for better or worse is exactly the same now as he was four years ago. A little more soft spoken maybe but he hasn’t changed nearly as much as Trump has.
He was surprisingly good at creating devastating nicknames for people that would cut them down to a single flaw. A lot of his path wasn’t to be the best candidate, but to ruin everyone else’s reputations.
But now when he’s falling asleep in his criminal trial on almost a daily basis, it’s hard for quips like “Sleepy Joe” to have the same effect. Or when he’s asking for Biden to be drug tested before the debate when he’s the one with the White House that was referred to as being “awash in speed”. It’s always been projection, but he isn’t able to distract everyone fast enough anymore.
When has he ever been self-depracating ?
Only at the Al Smith dinner in NYC in 2016. And someone wrote those jokes for him.
Biden, meanwhile, for better or worse is exactly the same now as he was four years ago.
🤡 He wasn’t good in 2020, and he’s even worse now. This is only the hottest, most recent takes based off recent events, but we know there’s a long record of humiliation & weakness on the world stage. Mexico border: fucked. USA fentanyl crisis: fucked. Afghanistan: fucked. Israel-Palestine: fucked. Russia-Ukraine: fucked. China: getting on their bullshit. The global hegemon is weak; the world suffers as a consequence.
Until the last couple months of panic mode, I have seen an entirely unfounded, unflappable confidence being displayed by Democrats, media. There is not a single damn thing about Biden that instills confidence. Trump isn’t silenced, Trump isn’t jailed, everything tried has failed. Which leads me to believe…we’re going to see at least an attempted Trump assassination.
Biden should be shuffled off into the nearest nursing home & replaced with a competent Democrat. It looks like that’s not going to happen. Idk, this next half-year is going to be mighty interesting, to say the least. 🍿😃🍿
Swamp creatures are scary and gross, but my real fear is paywalls: https://archive.is/uFqL7
Yes, God forbid journalists can pay their bills…
Maybe the Brits have something with the television tax. I have no idea how you apply it to the modern streaming world, but it’s an interesting alternative
Chasing the profit incentive, including and especially for journals, is an overwhelmingly large part of the reason murica is in this mess to begin with.
What about my bills, then? I couldn’t pay internet this month. Am I just supposed to be ignorant because I’m poor?
Libraries are free.
And underfunded and steadily becoming fewer in number. Information should be free regardless of its source.
I recently read that there are more libraries than fats food restaurants (in the US), so seems like libraries are doing just fine.
Information, like everything, costs money. If you don’t pay for journalism, someone will and they will control the information. That or garbage LLM generated sites riddled with malware.
Journalists are workers and deserve a living wage.
Yeah… we’re gonna need a source on that. In my small town there are zero libraries, and about 200 fast food joints. I’ve never lived in a city with more than a few libraries, and those with more than 1 are college towns.
I observe that you don’t answer the question.
Pay your bills.
“pay your bills” is not an answer to “am I supposed to be ignorant if I can’t pay my bills?”
Libraries are free.
For a bit of context. Inviting Trump was decided on by the party leaders and was not a popular choice with most of the delegates who were worried it would send a confusing signals to people not familiar with the party. Trump was also able to sneak a lot of his MAGA supporters into the convention for the speech. They tried to sit up front to make it look like Trump was popular there but they were forced to sit in the back. So any claims about cheering should be take with some salt.
“MAGA=socialist”
Does nothing mean anything anymore?
“Libertarians” have worked very, very hard to see that nothing does, starting with the word libertarian. That isn’t out of nowhere, it is quite literally a political strategy.
Perhaps it’s the good old “nazis are socialists” meme. I mean they’re clearly at least half right: maga are nazis.
“I told you so.”
- No one in the Party out loud
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