Pre smart phone era so much harder to corroborate
One in a thousand to even get a chance to talk to someone, what an encouraging system
Wow I had no idea Donald Rumsfeld and PewDiePie were related
Like, if this was part of a historical parade, and the next scene is a wave of students dressed in Allied attire laying waste to the Nazis, I'd be okay with that
Manufacturing has been in decline for a long time. NAFTA was one of the last nails in that coffin. But the tech boom of the 90s+ injected a few decades of growth and international status. I'll put my "point of no return" collapse date at Y2K
maybe I can finally get a co-worker to help me with this hexbear place
"I was too chickenshit to risk any harm to my reputation by refusing conscription, so instead I was killed by militants defending their home and all I got was this lousy t-shirt funeral"
It landed on the roof of that one house with the mean old lady and her big dog, so we're gonna let her keep it
So that's back to back Gary Peterson USA bangers.Melania air force one painting with trump was from this guy too. Is he a great troll or a genuine freak?
Yeah, the surveillance state comes for us all. What I was mostly getting at is that large demonstrations only succeed at getting violently repressed
Yeah well put. I'm obviously not the first whose thought of it
Here's what I learned from 2020:
Highly visible protest in public space: huge police presence, violent counter protesters, unable to build pressure to force change. Human Cost: 2,000 people brutalized, gassed, and doxxed.
Direct action by dedicated, anonymous covert operatives: inhibits, delays, and frustrates the state and it's ability to repress dissent. Human Cost: A couple of people throw away some incriminating clothes, lay low, then move on with their lives.
It's been a long time since I was it, but A Confederacy of Dunces was a fun read
Thanks for the rec, sounds like an important read
just wanna give a shout out to all the posters who made this 1000 comment weekly mega possible
Article 1: county refuses to reopen warming shelters despite snow and ice covering city and temperatures haven't been above 32°f in a week and warming shelters had record usage during the storm. Says they "can't open unless temp goes below 25 or there's an inch of snow coming down or it's below 32 and raining an inch".
Article 2: heartwarming emergency personnel save a hecking doggo from too much smow.
God damn America, that's in the Bible.