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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • These are the dolts that sit there and lap up blatant nonsense about how Taco and thugs are trying to “dig out of” some kind of alleged mess that Biden totally didn’t leave behind.

    I will seriously talk to chuds that are doing just fine and claim that they were not doing fine under Biden. When pressed, they will admit that, well, they weren’t really doing all that bad at all, but that maybe it’s a problem that someone like ME (and of course POC, and LGBTQ, etc) was also not actually miserable under Biden.

    Not even kidding about that last part. These assholes actually object to liberals such as myself doing well. They are fine; but having others they don’t approve of doing fine is not acceptable. When that video went viral in his first term about how he was not hurting who he was supposed to be hurting, that went viral for a reason. Because so many people had conversations much like I have had with these people - it’s not enough that they are doing okay; others have to be miserable, and the miserable people need to be people unlike them. If you voted blue, you should be living hand to mouth.





  • She might be right about young people not having much context as a general rule - I’ve seen this kind of Dunning-Kruger thing before when someone in their teens/twenties first comes across something and they start to have some political awakening. Think of the way that some people fall into the most maximalist of positions on the spectrum and how cringe it often seems, often to later versions of that very person, LOL.

    Anyway, I think the cracks on Israel being some united front on our “special relationship” with them and as far as the average U.S. citizen supporting it w/o question have been starting long before TikTok was even a thing.

    And most of the people I’ve talked to over the years, or things I’ve seen others write/say online has had plenty of context. Hell, Chomsky has been out there talking about this for decades. It’s just that the gatekeeping corporate media chokehold on people being able to talk to one another about this, en masse has been loosened, starting in the late 90s.

    Used to be someone could yell “anti-semite” at anyone questioning us doing Israel’s every whim and that was the end of the conversation. That tactic’s effectiveness started to erode with the rise of the 'net. Are some of the people that obsess about Israel/Gaza and Jews/Palestinians anti-semitic? Of fucking course they are. Is everyone? Hell no.






  • Yep. We used to live in an area near two Costcos and we knew some people that had several of their (extended) family - adult kids that had moved out and lived in the area as well - working at Costco. They were living middle class lives. Maybe not upper echelon stuff, but it seemed like they had some affinity for the place and they seemed to get treated with an amount of dignity instead of some places that seem to do everything possible to crush the souls of their workers. These people actually seemed…happy. This is even when we ran into them at a Costco store while they were working.








  • What’s the sad truth is that vaccines are a victim of their own success. We seem to be right at the point in generational die-off where all that wisdom is being lost and a whole lotta dipshits that didn’t watch babies dying of preventable diseases are now taking over…and believe the anti-vaxxer bullshit about how it was “really” because of things like septic systems, clean water, etc…

    (What’s even scarier is that also explains the rise of fascism, too. I know the 80 year cycle theory has supposedly been disproven, but it would explain a lot about the rise of the “alt-right” nonsense among the young)



  • I know it’s trendy to hate on the elderly but y’all need to understand you will be old yourselves soon enough and the cultural hate of the old will apply to you. You are neither different nor special. Get vaxxed, eat your veggies.

    This, 100%. I see what seems to be a huge rise in bagging on “boomers” and a lot of it is among the supposedly progressive, which is just…mind-boggling. Apparently one of the last identity it is open season on is anyone above an arbitrary age, no matter what their life experiences. Everyone above, say, 70 years of age is one big monolith that caused all the problems…