"per my last email" = you've critically failed your reading comprehension check and I'm real tired of holding your hand on this, which is why I've cc'd your supervisor.

In response to that...

Try this on

We're semi-rural (multi acre lots often with houses set almost at the back of lots), this was my first Halloween out here, I was following the kids with a car cause it was cold and snowy. But apparently the other parents in the neighborhood all hang out and set up a flatbed trailer with a fire pit, lawn chairs, and beer just being hauled around by a UTV. I need to learn how to make friends as an adult.

I think there was a movie about that once.

Lol don't they own a McDonald's?

"McDonald's franchisee and heir to the throne..."

What fucking losers. They're exactly the same as the loser who let our big wet boy run the thing that you cook the fries in once.

"Elon Musk sure seems... Dumb..."

Mmmm Republicans giving us repression?

Best thing to ever come out of the state of Kansas.

Don't forget Louisiana... My wife's favorite.

I've always had to drug test exactly once for my jobs. I feel that it's probably different for retail workers.

Doesn't even have to be actual booze. Apple cider vinegar + a drop of dawn dish soap works a treat.

A lot of us have spent our lives masking and suppressing other issues because we were told that all of these issues were due to some kind of inherent badness. "you're so full of capability, if only you weren't so fucking lazy" - on repeat, for years, from everyone you love and trust.

It fucks you up. And when you realize that if literally anyone in your life had taken a step back and helped you get the actual tools you needed (often medication, and occupational therapy) you get so sad and angry at all the waste and internalized self-hatred.

I wasn't diagnosed until after I'd flamed out my first couple semesters at college. First time I took medication after being diagnosed I cried. It's taken more than a decade of therapy to undo most of the damage.

Gracias. He hablado mal y voy a continuar hasta lo conseguiré jaja. Siempre olvido "corregir" es la palabra correcta cuando quiero el verbo.

This feels like it attacks the problem at the margins. How is this approach more effective than direct dilution of power and flattening of hierarchies?

It's almost as if fascism and unbridled capitalism have some kind of a mutually beneficial relationship.

Weird.

For my fellow burgerlanders who may be uni-lingual: "This has taught us that one day everything's fine and the next you're buying a cinnamon roll and you find out your idol's dead... I feel terrible and I don't know what to say."

(Si no traduje bien, me correcta corrijanme por favor)

"Both candidates will continue supplying unlimited munitions and money for destroying children on the other side of the world by an ethnostate. While also suppressing labor at home at the behest of jillionaires."

Lee greenwood intensifies

I feel like everyone forgot what happened last time.

People in unmarked vans with no identifying patches or badges, just fatigues, grabbing people off the streets at night in the northwest.

Even worse than the official fascists, the unofficial ones who were emboldened to act with impunity, riding into cities and inciting violence. Attempting to run Kamala's bus off the road in 2020 in Texas.

Dems run like they want to lose. Always conceding the arguments of the fascists. Touting the endorsement of monsters like Dick Cheney. The kinds of monsters who made the Republican party what it is today.

If "senior democrats" actually gave a shit about avoiding conflict in the US, they'd actually be fighting for universal voting rights and eliminating FPTP voting.

Honestly it's baffling. They wouldn't have even had to actually do anything. They could have just let a Palestinian-American come up and say generic "we have to do better for the people of Gaza and the people of the world" type of shit and they would have even said that they endorsed Kamala. That's it, and a shitload of people would have been at least able to lie to themselves and say "ok, she'll do something different." But they couldn't even be asked to go through the motions this time.

It's such fucking smooth brained reactionary shit, you don't get to act like Republicans because Republicans will never vote for you, the ones that will are only ever going to do it to not vote for the current fascist, and their policy led to him.

I guess maybe the taste of David Frum's approval is sweeter than winning an election.

The church people doing the both hands in the air thing has always struck me as odd.

This time it strikes me as infantile behavior. Like a child asking for their parent to pick them up... It's so weird.

I don't think he gets what's going on there, that there's people treating it like a church service. At least he doesn't recognize the symbols and gestures, he gets the "they're worshipping me" part, which I suppose is the "important" thing.

This shit is gonna stick around forever now. Ugh. I wonder if this is how the Romans felt.