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Jesus fucking Christ what have you Americans gotten yourselves into? Do we need to pop across the pond and sort you out again?
Yes please. The sooner the better
+1, I'll make cookies.
I think you mean biscuits.
I'll call them whatever you want -- Kekse, galletas, piškotki -- if you help us get rid of the fascists.
But personally I'll always associate the word 'biscuit' with this.
I need to re-binge-watch that show again, Dylan Moran makes me quiver
I was just talking about rewatching that with my partner....we ended up choosing Stargate SG1; but Black Books is on the list.
There's no such thing as rewatching Black Books too many times.
Dude this is everyone in MAGA country. It's so fuckin bad. I had a client rant unprompted to me about Biden and electric cars for a half hour on Friday.
My ass is moving to the UK ASAP. Helps when your spouse is from there.
Careful you don't arrive here just as Farage gets in.
It's on my mind, the UK is on a very similar trajectory, just utilizing different mechanisms. Still, I think we'll be safer there. And if push comes to shove, we can move somewhere else in Europe down the line.
Hopefully not tho, we're finding some really cute homes in Scotland.
We could use the assist!
Yes, please come pick up your rebellious teenager
Feels like we’re headed towards a new dark ages
We’re already in it
If you need, I'll write up a declaration of dependence.
Man, what I want from Americans is writing down "I will not vote for a fascist again" 100 times. You can keep your independence.
I identify with this as an American Idiot, but I think the lesson is this can happen anywhere when the interests of those in power diverge from humanity.
I'll get started on that.
I’d ask for rescue, but your Supreme Court just ruled that I shouldn’t be allowed to piss anywhere at all because a mediocre children’s author is apparently a kingmaker now. Maybe y’all should prioritize taking care of your own homegrown fascists? This is sorta “there but for the grace of god go I” except yall also did stupid shit like Brexit.
Well it was this or a woman.
Pretty hard choice for them.
Whole lotta people that should know better stayed home, too. Also, a lot of people still bleating out nonsense, even now, about "both sides" and talking about "shitlibs" and GenocideJoe and so on.
How many of those were really people? Their arguments were all cut'n'paste and most of their posts stopped after the election.
It's a fair question for the online world, and I think at least some amount were paid actors/trolls/bots. However, I do know people like this IRL, too.
We have terminal Nazi syndrome. Send help.
West coast checking in, sure would appreciate the assist.
For fucks sake, yes.
If you mean Britain... Didn't work out too well for you last time. Canada been pretty successful though.
I'd like just one of these fuckers talking about what Biden "did to this country" have to explain themselves in a forum where it's moderated. A forum where they cannot get away with magabrained fanfic like "the autopen" or "Hunter's harddrive, oops, I mean 'laptop'".
I keep hearing these dumbfucks saying this and Biden had everything going quite well domestically and headed in even better directions. This dumbass came in and broke everything again.
So I would love to see them called on their claims and have to answer the question - just what was so bad about Biden, exactly?
The media is totally out to lunch. I watched HitlerPig in a few different interviews bragging about the cost of gasoline being only $2, and not one "journalist" challenged that assertion. Where is it $2? What state? I travel the entire East Coast for work, and I haven't seen gas below $2.50 since the peak of Covid.
I'm in Florida, and it cycles between $2.90 and $3.20 on a predictable cycle. It's about $2.95 today, and it will be at $2.89 by the weekend, then jump to $3.20 next Monday or Tuesday, guaranteed. The cheapest gas on the East Coast is always South Carolina, and I haven't seen it below $2.60, and it's usually in in the $2.80s.
So $2? Where?
He wasn't the best for unions. Not that Don is better.
Apparently.
I wish, but the truth is that no one is coming to save us. It's up to "We the people" to commit and sort this shit out.
This fucker is like an IRL Michel Scott
"Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t know where it’s going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation."
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and then I will be able and not to do with him and being able for the best to make us feel like we are the only one that has a lot to say otherwise we will have a lot more time for you guys and we will see if they are going on about the show
Yes, please.