Things most Americans agree on:
Groceries cost too much.
Tariffs suck and make no sense.
Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.
The debt is a mess.
The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.
Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.
Americans are exhausted.
AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.
Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.
Canadians are super fucking cool.
Mexicans are chill.
Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.
Good neighbors are a blessing.
Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.
We all question, are we alone in the universe?
We all fuck up along the way.
Epstein didn’t hang himself.
The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.
The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!
Things we’re told to fight about:
Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.
That’s the joke.
Eric Kripke says Donald Trump posting a photo of himself as Jesus ruined the Homelander as God joke in ‘THE BOYS’.
“A month ago when we were talking about marketing, I was like, Homelander saying he’s God is so out there. We have to be careful about how we even introduce the idea to the public because they’ll say he’s gone too far and here we are. It’s just really hard to out-satire this world.”
(Source: https://t.co/qmq48tStfA)
We cannot have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.
No, it doesn’t. Purpose is subjective. What makes religion so relevant is that the universe shows no clear purpose at all.
It simply expands, decays, and obeys physical laws with complete indifference to whether anything understands it or not. Humans, however, struggle to endure the absurdity of their existence and the careless nature of the cosmos.
Even this Earth, so often claimed to be specially designed for us, has endured more than five mass extinction events, where nearly all species were wiped out without ceremony. Entire branches of life erased long before humans arrived to congratulate themselves as the chosen species.
Then religion steps in to explain what humans cannot fathom, using God as a placeholder for ignorance. It offers purpose, meaning, cosmic importance, and an afterlife stories that make our brief existence feel grander than it is. It resonates because humans are intelligent enough to fear death, yet vulnerable enough to seek comfort from fiction.
Cosmically, we are far less important than we imagine. Earth is a speck orbiting one ordinary star among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way, itself one galaxy among trillions. Every empire, war, prophet, prayer, romance, achievement, and ego crisis in human history happened on a grain of dust almost nobody in the universe would notice.
And even that grain is temporary. The Sun will eventually swell and sterilize this planet. Our species will vanish like countless others before us. One day, no monument, scripture, nation, bloodline, or memory of humanity may remain. The universe will continue exactly as if we never happened.
Yet some still believe their god dropped them onto this tiny dot to test their free will for admission into a heavenly kingdom. The arrogance is staggering. The stupidity, even more so.
Information just has no consequence anymore. Like if this came out in any other era it would be The Main Thing for a long time. Now it's just like yeah I guess that makes sense.