Miles O'Brien

“THIS IS THE FUTURE UNDER SOCIALISM!!!”

literally a picture of the current world under capitalism, usually in the same country or one of similar quality of living

Uncaring?

You really think they don’t care how they ruin people’s lives?

Quite the contrary. They relish in the suffering. The cruelty, as always, is the point.

Fuck them sideways with a Guillotine.

Truth doesn’t matter, reality doesn’t matter, their OWN MYTHOLOGY doesn’t matter to them. Most of them haven’t even read their own manual outside the dozen or so cherry picked verses that they use somewhat interchangeably for conflicting messages, once a week for 45 minutes.

… Sir, this is NCD.

All that happens here is openly mock decisions made by scared old rich men.

“Why are you so afraid of answering questions?”

“democrats answer questions like this every day, surely you want to prove you’re better than them?”

Get digs at their egos. At the very least, there may be one or two conservatives out there who see that and go “yeah, why IS he afraid of answering a simple question?”

"A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,”

I’d love for reporters to start pushing politicians when they say dumb shit. Don’t just let them say it and then gawk at the camera like you’re Jim from the office or move on with questions.

“in what way are you concluding that Mr. Mamdani is a communist? Are you aware of the difference between communism and socialism, and could you explain how he is a communist?”

“what terrorist ideology? waits for answer In what way is this the ideology of a terrorist?”

Show that they have no idea what the words they spew mean. Show that they’re just using buzzwords that sound scary.

And then give the facts.

I fully expect the regime to announce they’re arresting ATC personnel who quit.

Just a guess based on “covid” and “candles”, a ton of people negatively reviewed candles for not smelling good/right/at all, not realizing they had lost their sense of smell from covid at the time.

I know my spouse had the realization our cold was covid because we couldn’t smell the candles we had bought (and smelled) the week before.

go fuck a duck

Poor duck…

I love games that allow me to have a “decoration set” of armor that doesn’t change stats.

Then I get my maxed out magic regen AND look like a badass.

Turns out “market forces” was just the heavy metal poisoning talking, they were just hallucinating magical economics.

Lead in gasoline and household products really fucked with some generations, hard.

I imagine

With the internet ,you don’t have to!

It’s basically a wall you shoot over, and if you can shoot over the wall, the round doesn’t have the ballistic trajectory to fall into the road.

I mean, after a certain point, yes.

Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says “were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils”

The second frog turns to the first and says “you’re being alarmist, things aren’t that bad.”

This sounds like the second frog.^‡

It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it’s certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life…

You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.

I’m not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, “any day now they’ll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)” and no end of bullshit about how “mentally ill” and “unstable” they supposedly are.

Besides, if my choices are “concentration camp v0.95” and “best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo” then I know which choice I’m making.

You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I’m a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.

^‡(frogs don’t actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)

My state surprised me during covid.

It’s not surprising me now…

Oh, it’s definitely a thing. Especially with Lower Decks being animated, and therefore easily replicated in style.

… Not that I’d know anything about such things.

Infinite realities means infinite possibilities, so somewhere in the multiverse there’s a starfleet absolutely filled with cock monsters.

The question is, do they seek out new life for exploration?

Or is it for cocks…

I used to think my own sight was bad enough. I get little tiny Starbursts around lights. And I mean tiny. This dot - • - would look like the same dot with a / plastered on top.

Finding out the OP picture is how my wife sees the world at night was a little mind blowing. I knew it could get bad, but damn.

Well you’re definitely not going to get there if you spend all day explaining infinity to people.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

… Well, better get to walking.