Christ, I cannot wait to read his story obituary.

Yes, I’m criticizing. I’m anti-war, and I’ve always found it silly how people in our country view war like they do a football game, and the only time we’ve ever seen any real resistance to foreign entanglements is when we made people go fight the war themselves.

But if there’s a widespread enlistment and Americans do explicitly sign up to go fight for Ukraine, however unlikely, I’ll gladly change my position.

EDIT By all means, downvote, but identity politics failed, and it’s because you decided someone saying a mean word was a more important political concern than someone being able to feed their kids. It’s that simple.

It seems apparent that Americans have decided that mean words are no longer an important concern culturally. Still a shitty thing to say, but the majority doesn’t care.

On some level I kind of respect that dedication, even if this person’s clearly not thinking things through.

Most people in this country are keyboard commandos who support any war that their preferred news program tells them to until someone wants them to go fight it.

The ones I’ve played of late are:

Disney Dreamlight Valley

Dungeons of the Endless (Casual, but a tad addictive)

Dungeon Defenders

Bill got so used to reading his own press that when he no longer had Brady’s coattails to ride, it became clear that he was the same asshole who sucked in Cleveland. It must have been hard to look himself in the mirror and realize that, yes, he wasn’t the coach everyone said he was.

Hopefully he doesn’t ruin UNC’s program while he’s there.

Trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle requires a lot of bullshit, and Fox, NBC, CNN, CBS, and your favorite news outlet are happy to shovel it.

Stop watching partisan, billionaire-owned news outlets and start consuming international news and non-partisan sites. (Like the AP and Al Jazeera)

Also, watch moderate people on the other side of the political divide. It may annoy you in some ways (like how I can’t listen to Maher when he gets on the topic of Israel), but you’ll learn more and you’ll have more nuanced views, which will benefit you in ways you can’t fully understand until you’re able to think about things in a different way. I’m a leftist, so for me, it’s been Bill Maher, Chris Williamson, or Jon Stewart. More people need to learn what they don’t know that they don’t know.

Prey by Michael Crichton’s a good one.

I’d tell you more but don’t want to spoil anything.

I am so jealous of people who can make a wealthy career out of just being hot.

I press the red button and end it all.

Approval ratings don’t matter anymore.

You’re welcome.

I think there are two major reasons why Dems have gotten significantly less popular, but in this thread, I’m referring to the knee-jerk reaction I’ve seen out of many to react with smugness.

Democrats make a habit of being assholes to people, usually over stupid things, like someone using the term “homeless” instead of “unhoused”. That’s the sort of thing many people couldn’t care less about when they’ve spent the last four years getting poorer or seeing their spending power vastly diminished.

The people whose votes you need do not like you, and they don’t feel like you like them.

They definitely will be.

In 2028 we’ll see 20,000,000 voters who just decide not to vote instead of 10,000,000, and it’s because no matter who we elect the poor and working class have to struggle, so why miss a day of work to vote?

Yes, there will be midterms.

I’m sure he is.

Every president in recent memory has lost control of Congress here in the US at the midterms, and it’s because of nonsense like this. Trump’s next term will be no different. No president since LBJ has made a good-faith effort to actually do what they promise, so one has to have plausible deniability to try and survive in Washington.

You and the 70 million other Democratic voters who have no understanding of why the party keeps losing voters, naturally.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

I was lucky to have money to invest at the right time when the markets crashed in 2008 and 2020, when stocks could be had at a 90% discount. As a result I was able to pay off my student loans and put a down payment on my residence with the profits, just by being willing to wait a few years for the market to recover.

“Must Pass” Defense Bill

LOL, as if Democrats couldn’t refuse to vote. I’m so sick of excuses. As if their poor hands are tied and we shouldn’t expect them to actually be an opposition party.

I’d go back to the day of my birth and smother myself. I have a good life but wouldn’t mind having not existed to begin with.

It was interesting watching the NY governor fellate the NYPD in the news conference after the arrest, as if we all didn’t see the videos of them pretending to work taking a stroll through Central Park. It reminded me of the assholes in Uvalde, also pretending to work.