From day -1 we have argued about what this country is and should be. When I think about what I like about our history it is, in large part, the argument. The argument is how we have found our way through and become better. Places without argument may at times be more efficient, but they are not as cool.
This is annoying because I hate a lot of the current arguments. I think many of them are extremely stupid and often selfish and sometimes even cruel. But I guess they never liked their’s either.
Here’s to another 250 years of absolutely insane bickering. 🇺🇸
Literally everyone deserves to go out for dinner, buy coffees, wear quality clothing and have fun experiences whilst also being able to afford rent, groceries, bills & have a little left over for savings no matter what job they do. Why is that so absurd to some people?
Been trying to get this across for a while now: Tech billionaires are antihumanist. They're technochauvinists (believe tech is superior to humans) who believe that once there are no more people apart a handful, they don't need money. They have everything. They've won the game.
my most woke take is platonic cuddling being “inappropriate” is a capitalist psyop to keep us from getting all those good happy hormones and stop the resistance
think of how often your pets cuddle each other! pack animals stay cuddling for mental health!!
Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it.
And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him.
Do with that story what you will.
I am not interested in climbing any corporate ladders. I don't care about job titles. I don't need recognition or fame. I just want to have an income to fund my lifestyle, not be depressed, help other people, and be around good humans.
I’d take it a step further: erase the 40 hour standard, everyone works 4 hour days. More shift changes, more job spaces to fill, more time to enjoy the only life we’re given. Do this and pay them more, money is fake just like time.
i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a rolex or a lamborghini.
i want to be rich so i can control my time and go to the gym at 3pm on a monday.
sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon.
so i can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients.
spend on my family and friends without worrying about a budget.
that's my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat.
Kids can’t learn for 8 hours straight, nobody can, but the reason school lasts all day is bc parents need somewhere to send their kids while they are working and producing shareholder value.
"Let's stop attacking pedophiles"
FUCKING. EXCUSE. ME.
I actually fucking can't with this one...
Ya'll wanted to deport immigrants bc ya'll labeled them as dangerous, felons and child rapists.
You have been torturing the countries streets to get rid of people you label dangerous.
Attacking children. Attacking families. Tear gassing children. Smoke bombing children and babies. Killing protesters. Threatening to kill anyone who doesn't listen to your lack of morals.
AND NOW YOU SAY "LETS STOP ATTACKING PEDOPHILES" !?!?
GET. THE. FUCK. OUT!!
When I was a teenager I got in a fight and had to go through a juvenile detention board panel to avoid a charge on my permanent record, despite the fact I didn’t even start the fight or throw the first punch, because my “reaction was not equal”, meaning (from what I understood and remember from the time) I reacted too violently to the altercation. I (allegedly) took it to a level it didn’t need to go to because all the other girl did was pull my hair and swing on me. I should’ve “de escalated” “walked away” etc. according to the police who watched the footage (there was a camera in the hallway), but instead I… did not do that. lol.
Anyway, I say this because the police told me, as a teenage girl, with zero training on any de escalating tactics, who wasn’t even the initial aggressor, I should’ve either just not reacted, walked away, or mentally calculated what an equal reaction should’ve been in the midst of all this.
But asking that of full grown adult trained federal agents is asking too much.
Please spare me
“Alex Pretti kicked out a tail light and spit on a closed window” I’ve seen drunk people do worse outside of bars and 0% of them had a mag dumped into them. If you genuinely believe this changes the narrative of the events that occurred a week later whatsoever you’re just obsessed with justifying lethal force by masked federal agents by any means possible. If any past examples of anger or law breaking justify being shot 10 times in the back on the street at some point in the future then y’all better get to clutching your pearls because you’re all on the chopping block.
Just a reminder to the maga crowd cheering on these mass firings...
These are scientists. Park rangers.
Disabled Veterans. Humanitarians. Civil servants.
They are human.
They have bills to pay. Families who depend on them. Children. Many of them took pride in their work. Some were just getting started in their careers.
Losing a job and financial hardship is not funny. It impacts every member of the family. It impacts self worth. It impacts the economy.
Finding satisfaction in the indiscriminate firing of tens of thousands of Americans at the hands of a punch drunk billionaire is not only cruel, it's unAmerican.
This is not patriotism.