i already feel superior to people who care about influencers so you can imagine the astronomical levels of superiority i feel over anyone who enjoys this
Live-streaming the execution a guy in a wheelchair, who has already expressed his desire to be martyred, is likely the most pro-terrorist thing that an American government has done since it funded the mujahideen.
However corny this is, if this elicits a strong negative response from you, you probably should unpack why you view public infrastructure as something you are allowed to personally deface but not personally refurbish.
My most cynical take: I have absolutely zero faith the median American voter has a learned a single deep lesson from all of this.
We’ll keep swinging wildly every few years based on vibes, and the world will keep distancing itself from us.
Okay so 2004 was my first election as an adult and it was infuriating, but I did get over it. I think it helped that the liberals were united.
The election that really fucked me up was 2024. Like I know 2000 and 2016 were more important and had far more monumental ratfucking from the far left, but 2024 was completely idiotic.
High profile liberals backstabbed the sitting President, lefties were babbling something about Gaza, the media was constantly shitting the bed about unimportant nonsense like the price of eggs, Gen Z momentarily thought Trump was nifty, Latinos thought they'd vote for their own deportation, and everyone that cared about Project 2025 or January 6th was viewed as insane.
I lost faith in Americans in 2024. I don't think I'll ever really get it back. What happened was just too stupid to ever get over.
Native Americans are spiritual and wise because they used every part of the animal, wasting nothing
modern Americans are grotesque and disgusting because they use every part of the animal, wasting nothing
One of the greatest wins the agricultural industry and fossil fuel industries got this decade is convincing zoomers that datacenters have anything to do with this and to forget about the formers.