Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

“America needs a new hero: Kamala Harris” - NYT in exactly one week

Democracy dies during regularly scheduled maintenance outages.

TheAnonymoyseJoker: “You can kill someone with scissors, but I should still be allowed to have scissors because they are extremely useful to me. The same logic applies to nuclear warheads, meth, and anime C. P.”

Me: “Joker, what the fuck are you talking about?”

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I think you just discovered the plot for The Fast and the Furious 10.

BRB, hiring a coyote to smuggle a cool Chinese EV over the border to avoid tariffs.

Wonder why Americans keep getting away with it…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members’_Protection_Act

But HOW will the medication factories work without the CEO and the shareholders? Who will make the medicine? The workers themselves? Preposterous! Without shareholders, material infrastructure ceases to exist. I am very smart.

Yes, I think if you watch American Graffiti or Happy Days you can see exactly what the mythical “American Middle Class” was supposed to mean. Every white dude can work 40 hours a week, and have a suburban house, a car, a wife, 2.5 children, money to spend on vacations, milk delivered to their front door, etc.

The Simpsons even made fun of this trope with their famous “Frank Grimes” episode. Grimes straight up tells Homer Simpson that he is a lucky dumbass and that “In any other country, you would be dead.”

If you read On the Road by Jack Kerouac, he uses his GI Bill money to get a degree and then spend months upon months hitchhiking around America without a job. The American Dream was definitely a real thing for a specific segment of the American population for a certain period of time, but now we see even boring white dudes being excluded from the shrinking middle class. Of course, this increases radicalization.

Fapple 2024.

Love my completely secure, untraceable communications system funded by checks notes Radio Free Asia. /s

(Signal is bad. Do not use signal. Speaking out loud on the phone is way more safe than typing in Signal.)

Yes. And The Economist made the Xi Button emote for us:

I was promised bugs to eat and a pod to live in, yet I have neither. This sucks. Promises not kept!

Wait, you didn’t get thousands of dollars worth of PPP loans which were converted into grants? What are you, some kind of peasant?