ObtuseDoorFrame

You have a point. I've been wondering just how senate Democrats could possibly approve all these wildly incompetent boobs to these powerful positions. Maybe they want the worst people possible in these positions so that this administration implodes on itself.

But that could be giving them too much credit. It would mean they weren't entirely spineless...

Yam tits! That is genuinely a new one for me. Excellent.

I'll never, as long as I may live, get over the utter embarrassment of being born and raised in a country who could support that maniac. I suppose the worst thing I could do is leave. The only way to alleviate my shame is to stay and keep voting for the least insane option.

I'm autistic and trying to figure out if autism is an at-risk minority group. It doesn't help that I was extremely vocal on Reddit about how much I hate Trump and Musk. I deleted my account, but Reddit is now a fascist platform and would likely turn over my posts and email address to this administration without a second thought.

I'm not sure what to do. I'm not sure if I could even leave at all, with my debilitating anxiety and trauma.

Making paper out of trees is one of the dumbest things our species does. Paper can be made out of fast growing plants like hemp and bamboo, yet we're making it out of the SLOWEST growing plants in existence? Make it make sense.

In the early days of the USA, wealthy land owners lobbied the government to make hemp illegal to grow because they knew that using the trees on their land was an inefficient way to make paper, but it made them money. Hemp was a threat, and so these greedy short-sighted capitalists made it illegal to grow.

Sweden should learn from our mistakes and grow hemp.

It took a moment for this delectable meta humor to register in my brain. Top notch.

This is one of those comments where I didn't realize how badly I needed to read it until I did. This kind of support from the countries our dictator is actively alienating is extremely beneficial for morale. Thanks!

Calling it something silly and ambiguous might work. Leftist votes should already be locked in so you could call it the Eagle Party or some shit and lure in centrists and disillusioned Republicans.

Deal with it? You mean, like, primary you and the 9 other simps who voted for this bill? Okay. That's good advice, thanks Fetterman.

Last Week Tonight did a story about dollar stores:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QGOHahiVM

Yeah, they're as bad as you'd expect.

I hope you're right. Zelenskyy not being a politician probably helped him win an election in a country with a history of corruption. People were sick of the status quo and picked an outsider in the hopes it would improve things. It would be great if that happened here. (I don't consider Trump an outsider, that was just part of the grift)

Part of the reason it can be annoying when people keep suggesting Stewart run for office is that it distracts from actual candidates who are willing to run. And false optimism isn't exactly a good strategy in times like these.

I would love to be proven wrong, though.

I do. It doesn't change what he has said repeatedly: he has no interest in running for office.

The kind that is supposed to be an animal, but has successfully separated itself from nature through technology. Modern humans are plagued with anxiety and negativity bias, because those things kept our ancestors alive long enough to reproduce. The happy, anxiety-free people were careless and died before they could reproduce.