Children can be criminals. Have you ever read Oliver Twist? /s

I am a natural citizen of Usonia and I fucking gasp every time I hear through the grapevine that someone from a(n) (formerly) allied nation took the risk to travel here. I understand that most don’t have much choice, but my home is unrecognizable to me now.

Don’t come here, and I am saying this as someone who benefits from Canadian tourism. I have a deep, long-time love and appreciation for the Canadian people and their First Nations — it breaks my heart to even say so, but please, for your own safety, do not come here!

I am struggling to get my fellow Americans to understand that in WW2, we built concentration camps for Japanese people and were detaining them in these numbers. Everyone just wistfully calls them “internment camps.”

I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with this culture but we are just perennially unable to recognize things for what they are. It’s like we have this built-in need to be lied to. If the government doesn’t do it, we brew up our own homemade lies.

The one thing about a low replacement rate that brings me comfort is knowing that the very material realities of our world agonize white supremacists every second of every day.

Honestly I wonder how long it’ll take before these goobers just lock the doors of Congress during a recess with a U-lock.

God, what the fuck else is new? That has been every day since January, man.

Yup. I hope she stays safe. She seems especially sane.

Y’know, every day, I think I realize more and more that the guys doing generative AI search optimization are the real geniuses. If you can bake a biased statement into a gigantic model, I guess it’s pretty difficult to ever get it out specifically.

Yay Canada

My understanding is that he never actually paid out any of that money he promised to voters.

Sadly, the “concept of a plan” line was from last year. :/

I have to admit, if Trump changed opinions about him via destroying the economy, I have yet to see it. All the dipshits in my world are crowing about how they had been preparing for this for decades.

You got that right friend. 🤝

the problem here is that nobody takes the time to think about how civics actually work in this country. the most important, qualitative elections people can participate in are municipal and state ones, but none of y’all ever turn up. guess who has been voting in municipal and state elections since the 80s? if you already guessed in your head, you’re probably already correct.

if you want living wages in your area, start by electing a mayor or city council that will actually do it. if you want police accountability, make your city or town do it. hate the entire political system that works in your area? you actually have the power to change that! they’re basically the last civil workers who actually have to be somewhat pragmatic and not operate entirely on polemic lines. nobody cares if you’re republican or democratic if the sewers aren’t running.

it’s not that hippy-dippy — the phrase “think globally, act locally” is basically the play from here until forever.

i mean, don’t get me wrong, i may not agree with China’s ethos, but it’s at least an ethos. Usonia is just basically collapsing under the weight of our own virulent individuality and greed right now.

Eugh. I am not sure how comfortable I am with a world where Xi Jingping is considered the more trustworthy party.

Officer, promote that person!

Buy a chest freezer! It opens the world imo.

Big fan of buying used on eBay, here. Works amazingly for clothes, too. They aren’t nearly as poor quality or as dirty as people would imagine. I can get brand new shoes or pairs of pants for $10-$20 per pair!