Welcome to the party, pals!

This is why I’m a dog person.

Cats bitch and moan when you disturb their routine.

Dogs are just happy to be interacted with.

I’ve seen cat owners waste half a dozen cans of food finding out what their cat is in the mood for that night. Cats just seem like another source of highly conditional affection. Might as well just go be social at that point.

They’ll need to use an electron gun to carve the face on the regular sized head if they want to make the scale accurate.

Why would non Israeli Jews have to denounce the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians?

The conductor was Israeli.

I wish we could get such policies. At the very least there should be codes that wealthy people that leave to avoid taxes will be barred from doing any business in the US, which should extend to global partners that choose to do business with them if they then wish to expand to the US, nope you partnered with asshole McGee after they ran away so fuck off. It could be done, it would just require the agents and resources to do so.

But just as our elected officials won’t vote against their own interests, they will defend the interests of the robber barons that pay their real salary in bribes, which is effectively legal post citizens united, so nothing can change under the current system, a new one would need to be made in its place.

I’m all for chasing them away.

If taxation is what they won’t accept, They always saw your nation as something to be exploited and sucked dry, which means they were never on your society’s side, which with such resources makes them incalculably dangerous.

If they fail the taxation test, the nation should be relieved when they run away.

Nah.

We think we’re that powerful, but there’s an entire domain of creatures we can barely reach that utilize geothermal energy that will just keep plugging away out of our sphere of influence.

Surface and shallow water life is and will suffer greatly until we burn ourselves out and are no longer a threat on the scale we currently are, but humans are even egotistical in this topic. We couldn’t come close to sterilizing this world, even if it magically became as important to us as fucking one another over for paper simulacra of supposed value.

We are a nuisance, but we aren’t the first evolutionary nuisance the earth has dealt with. We have no mastery over this world as much as many like to believe so. A nuclear detonation possesses a tiny fraction of the power of a volcanic eruption.

Of course we would we’d just have more!

And buy really expensive ketchups for it… Like Dijon ketchup!

I consider it insult to say I agree with either of our 2 parties on 50% of the issues. Almost all of both of their policy positions are derivations on “how will this metastasize the capital markets faster” and not “how will this improve the wellbeing of the citizens of society, preferably at the expense/taxation of the capital markets that we kindly permit to profit off of society at all so long as they don’t undermine said society to increase their profits”

Both parties would be lighting themselves on fire to prevent the latter. The tail has been wagging the dog for a long time, the fucking profoundly perverse servitude of a society to an economy. It obviously needs to be the other way around or… Well this.

I voted for Harris, and voted for Biden before that, and Clinton before that. With shame as I should. Harm reduction, methadone instead of heroin.

It’s nothing to brag about. You guys try to make them sound like a good choice, when neoliberals are for the same status quo, only minus the scapegoating. They’re just a lesser degree of bad. They’re for mass homelessness, they’re for entire murder for profit economic sectors including American “Healthcare,” they’re for ever worsening income inequity, because on economic policy (that informs and often dictates social Ills) they’re on the same take as Republicans. Just because they don’t cheer and pour the blood they’re drenched in over their heads in celebration like Gatorade, doesn’t mean their hands are any cleaner.

That scapegoating makes Republicans worth voting against, but you’re praising Jack the Ripper in the face of Adolf Hitler. No American should feel anything but shame about only having a extreme right wing party and a fascist party as our only two options. No one should have left an American polling place with a smile or pride for the last half century, it’s been a rocketship to avarice diseased oblivion, that Trumpism is just a newer symptom of, not the cause.

Reagan toppled this empire, it just takes an empire a while to hit the ground. We have arrived at a while. Trump is more of a vulture come to feast on the corpse.

The one that started it all.

In 1999 Blockbuster video had a contest, giving away 1 full size episode 1 Yoda made by Industrial light and magic in every state. I didn’t know about the contest until the last day, put in my entry, and he’s been looking over my room, now office, ever since, keeping me contemplative ever since.

Either that or a trap used in Ghostbusters 2 that I had signed by Dan Aykroyd. But probably Yoda.

Yet another thing that is beyond our willfully ignorant American Republican’s comprehension.

Adults cooperate with others who are open to mutually beneficial cooperation. Babies (and largely seniors past 70 as we become very similar to our sunrise at the sunset of life) kick and scream demanding to get their way the way they want it.

I’m a 40 year old manchild who collects movie props and even I know that.

They were right to be talking down on us and we have been trash since at least Reagan though.

Most European nations are societies. We’re a bunch of deluded fools playing pretend we’re rugged individuals at each other’s throats for oligarch scraps.

We can’t even agree as a society to feed or invest in educating our kids. We let millions of our worst off neighbors die of exposure out of economic tribalist spite. We’re a loathsome country worthy of ridicule. Honestly if we weren’t so good at marketing, the art of bullshit, we could have saved a lot of potential immigrants time, shown them who we really are, and they never would have crossed a desert to come here. This is a cesspool.

I’m all for ragging on the boomers for the shitstorm of cruelty, greed, and ignorance they’ve made.

But this is just another era’s assorted cables drawer. You might need to rig something 🤷

Glad I went Emby.

I’m anticapitalist and it’s inevitable conclusion of fascism when the unrestrained capitalists finally gets their way.

X is literally owned by a fascist, basically the stupid Goebbels to Trump’s stupid Hitler. And sadly, they represent the general malice of the US and our toxic hyper-individualism perfectly. Sounds like you just lump everything you think is bad together.

No world superpower isn’t drenched in blood, but China actually seems to care about there being a future for their people and future generations beyond the next quarterly earnings call. Why wouldn’t a humanist root for that over this dog eat dog rigged race to the bottom with no plan, actively eviscerating any future to goose the next rich fuck earnings call as our neighbors die of exposure under and police capital defense force brutality under a freeway in a box after the capitalists are done breaking us?

I was actually still surprised to see that some Luigi praise has been getting through on TikTok.

Rednote is still better though.

Nah, Karmas coming for them.

Not because of some just world fallacy, they were just fucking stupid to build their supposed “promised land” on top of people who were already there, and surrounded by more people that it pissed off.

Iran’s got a nuclear something for their ass sooner or later. Which will be WWIII, but Israel is Scrappy Doo, they’re not as big as they think they are, and they just keep pushing, they will be pushed back, because a shittier neighbor by actions there is none.

They always need someone to blame for their ever descending new level of hell they’ve made of society.

Fascists sell off society a plank at a time while telling the angry, ignorant crowd which powerless scapegoat is to blame this week.

Hell, my fellow Americans have been blaming powerless homeless people, the neighbors we’ve failed as a society, for hurting their property values with their inconsiderate continued existence while destitute since before Donnie was fake firing people on brain rotting reality TV, solely because the for profit media told them to do so as they counted those gullible idiot’s money.

Sabotaging education has made us a nation of suckers.