Ænima

I lost all interest in the entire series when they were chasing the fleet and shooting lasers in an arch…to combat wind resistance in space, I guess. Oh man, I laughed (unintentionally) when I saw that. I almost walked out of the theater.

Luigi could jump the highest of all the playable characters in Super Mario Bros 2. He was always my go-to character for this reason. Those egg flinging dinosaur fucks be damned!

Jack Black would be very cross with you if he was here!

being smart is definitively not a prerequisite to be a billionaire

Bingo! They just need to be ruthless narcissists with no empathy and money to continue buying their self-worth.

These inexperienced tech bros are not writing regs and laws, though. They’re using generative AI to identify existing programs to gut. You are talking about legislative changes to keep up with the times and that’s not what they are doing here, to the detriment of the whole country.

Exactly! However, to little too late his ravenous base will already have been spoon-fed their next scapegoat. In the words of Gandalf the Grey, “hold on to your butts.”

Blame Reagan (iirc) for nixing the Fairness Doctrine, which required news to be provided daily, as close to truth as possible, on public broadcast. Reagan really was the shit smear that started this poop bobsled off.

She’s not dark enough to viciously beat so what could they do?

But they never do, nor will they ever have to. They can just sue the company for poor stock performance and then claim the unrealized losses as a tax write-off this year. It’s infuriating. If aliens are real, I hope they can summon the billionaires money in physical form and then drop it on them.

This is a fear my therapist and I have talked about. I didn’t understand why children made me uncomfortable to be around. We discovered that it wasn’t about the kid, nor their age, but the perception. And I think some kids pick up on that anxiety.

Kind of the same reason you make noise while hiking in an area with bears. I’m never looking for an interaction so I make some one-off noises to let the other party know I’m there and I’m letting them decide how they want to handle that info.

US Military: we set up the bomb!

Yes! My body is ready!

And he can’t read, at least not big words with more than 2 syllables.

I’m a vet also. Never felt the need for a gun as a civilian, but November changed that for me.

Come for our healthcare! Stay cause you died.

That’s a really good idea! I’m about 5-8 hours from the Canadian boarder but I will not fight for a fascist country. I’ll either join the other side or join a resistance here.

That’s the point, I think, as well. I could see Putin using the useful idiot to destroy the primary rival to its superiority. The US is incredibly difficult to invade. The intelligence apparatus is too ingrained in all our communication to avoid detection. If you can’t get the rot to start from the outside, go for the inside.

It’s cute how so many in the comments think the legal checks will prevent this. They don’t care about the law or the Constitution in the same way they don’t care about optics, hypocrisy, decorum, or process. People keep viewing this through the lense of American democracy. None of that matters to fascists.

For four more years, so far.