TheHiddenCatboy

They’d not be so forward in polite spaces, but yes, this is exactly what they’d be thinking, and perhaps saying in spaces they don’t think will get into the public, such as encrypted group chats. ;)

Yeah. Because just not looking for new diseases erupting is such a great idea. I hope Europe and China are doing their due diligence, and hopefully we don’t have the next big disease kick off in the USA.

No. It isn’t.

Trump’s schtick is to do things he’s not allowed to do according to precedent. Domestic terrorism can’t be prosecuted. He declares antifa domestic terrorists and promises to prosecute them and everyone who supports them. The US Military cannot be deployed on US territory. He does so anyway. Presidents can’t get rich off the office while they’re in the office. He’s getting and has gotten stupid rich off of his office. And Presidents are not above the law, but with cover from his hand-picked supreme court, he is. What makes you think he won’t deploy the military against Blue States trying to have elections and arrest anyone sent to remove him? Let’s stop giving him cover and prepare for the worst, even as we hope for the best. That away, if he gets thrashed next year in the Midterms and then shown the door in 2028 (to both him and his hand-picked successor if he respects the 22nd Amendment…which is itself not a given), we can sigh a sigh of relief, but if he suspends elections, we’re ready to fight him that day instead of taking a year and a half to gear up.

And that’s fine. Some of us are going to stay in the US and fight the good fight, just like antifa Germans did in the 1930s and 1940s. Others will punch out of this country and find a place where they can survive. Your circumstances will determine which path you take, and that’s OK.

As others have said, this is about the bigger picture. If Clinton was involved with the Epstein Child-Fucking ring, he should go down. Anyone who has been part of the Epstein Child-Fucking ring should go down, honestly. I think that’s the one thing we and Conservatives can agree on. Child Fuckers are bad. Problem is: It’s super-easy to categorise the Other Side as childfuckers while ignoring the childfuckers on our own side. expatriado was just making it clear that they are OK with Clinton (and presumably other Left-leaning childfuckers) being caught up in this if we get all the Republicans involved in this shit as well.

Not that I expect we will. The Epstein Files will be curated so they only hit Dems as long as the Shitgibbon is in charge.

My wife and I have location sharing enabled in case something happens to one of us. We usually don’t use it, but its good to have when we need to meet up at an unfamiliar place after something goes sideways for one of us.

But if your SO doesn’t trust you enough to allow you private moments and would accuse you of cheating, your relationship isn’t based on trust and thus is very weak.

It’s ugly, and it looks like it jumped off the screen from the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It’s poorly built and ineffective at the job it was designed to do. And then Elon did his thing, and now it’s irrevocably tied to a dead Mid-20th Century ideology that the entire world fought to dismantle. I’m glad it’s falling by the wayside. An object lesson – don’t build stupidly engineered items, and don’t tout murderous ideologies that get a majority of the world against you.

Message to Europeans from an American.

It’s time to start looking for other trading partners. Canada and Mexico come to mind. So does South America and Africa as a whole. Be ready for us to shit the bed in epic fashion, and make sure you’re not in the poo position. And don’t be afraid to punish us for our BS. Just be strategic with the payback and don’t copy our fails.

I love it. Here’s the full expression of distaste from the people of Scottland for that jerk: “Tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon.”

I don’t have guilt for the girls who were killed in this. Thought I made it clear in what I typed. They’re dead, or suffering waiting for rescue (I lean towards dead now, given the time that’s elapsed). And that’s not great. Brought on by the adults in their lives who they trusted had their best intentions in mind. I believe it’s clear they never did. It is all about Winning the Political Football Game, and they approach their choices and heroes with about as much introspection and forethought as they do their chosen college or even high school football team. “Me team good! Other team bad! Ungh!” And now dozens of young women, with a potentially bright life ahead of them, are dead. And all to own the libs. What a fucking waste.

Hopefully that makes it clearer what I’m saying.

It’s getting harder and harder to show empathy for these people. The Shitgibbon is delivering everything he promised to deliver. He doesn’t care about anyone, his voters included. The leopards are feasting, and these idiots have no one to blame but themselves. But man…those girls? They didn’t vote for anyone. And now they’re dead or wish they were dead. And that ain’t great.

That’ll hurt us, but it needs to happen. And targeted boycotts of Red State stuff for extra ‘FAFO’ energy.

Dealing with Trump is a daily example of ‘like playing Chess with a pigeon – the bird shits on the board and struts around like it won the game.’ Canadians need to tell the USA to fuck off.

Like others have said, nothing we say or don’t say will change what ideas they get. But calling it out makes them at least reconsider being so transparent.

You have a lot riding on a single election in one of the most democratic parts of the country. While I agree that Democratic Socialists did make a push here that could well set the tone of politics for the next 20 years on the left side of America, I’d hesitate to say it with certainty, given how crass American voters can be. Let’s let ZM actually get elected mayor, and let him prove he can get a DS platform passed in NYC before we crown him America’s saviour.

I know this is in jest, but it’s definitely something the shitheads would push. And my answer goes thusly:

No. The Economy hasn’t done a damn thing for me, and it’s done less for my wife. I’m treading water, unable to afford a house or a car on what was once an unfathomable sum of money when I was younger. It has done less for my wife, who relies on my job to keep a roof over her head. You want us to have kids? Reassure us that our kids will have a better life, and stop vampire-squidding us and sucking down every loose dollar.

There’s this possible ending in Cyberpunk 2077 that I think speaks to how Billionaires view the world. The leader of the Japanese megacorp Arasaka is arguably the most powerful man in Japan, more-so than even the Japanese emperor. His company’s security forces includes an aircraft carrier, not to mention endless drones and faceless goons equipped with … if not the best technology on the planet, then the second best. And they’ve unlocked the technology of digitising a person’s consciousness and storing it.

The CEO’s son is a bit of a rebel, trying to undermine his father. He eventually gets very hands-on (integral part of the plot that your character witnesses first-hand early in the game) and bumps his father off and takes over Arasaka. And if you play the game a certain way, you reach an ending where the daughter of the CEO assists her dead father in … coopting the son’s body, displacing his consciousness, and ‘reincarnating’ in the son’s body, to continue his centuries of ownership of Arasaka.

This is fiction, but Cyberpunk is all about assuming the worst of our corporate overlords. I don’t think it’s an overreach.

My wife and I made the same decision. We joke that Octomom had our kids.

8 billion people call Earth home. As another commentor has said, we probably should have half that. Your choice and our choice not to have kids enables that, even if only stupid people reproduce. With how the world is turning out right now, I think we both made the right choice.

Exactly. Any half-way competent Russian commander would steamroll Ukraine because Russia has roughly 10x the GDP as Ukraine (or it did before the invasion, at least), and roughly 4x the population. That Russia has only managed to take a sliver of land on the west side of Ukraine and not the whole country suggests that Russia has dropped the ball in an epic way AND Ukraine has gotten crazy lucky. This war should have been over a long time ago if Russia was 1/10th what we thought it was back in early 2021 before the invasion. That it’s not and not only has Ukraine managed to hold Russia off but actually take over Russian territory puts the lie to Russian propaganda that they deserve a seat at the same table as the US and China. As the Infographics Show likes to put it, we thought Russia was the second strongest military in the world. Now we know it’s the second strongest military in Ukraine…