I understand, thoughts and prayers will suffice inshallah.

Where I’m at the Christians have mostly completely lost the plot. There’s this complete perversion of the faith called Prosperity Gospel that basically believes money is proof of divine blessing. So being rich is proof you’re in Gods favor.

Also where I am there’s is non-0 number of Christians who legitimately believe we/someone needs to rebuild ancient buildings in the middle east so Jesus can return.

It’s a death cult that believes money is proof that God approves of you. While simultaneously believing unending war/genocide in the middle east is a necessary evil. So they can just shrug their shoulders while people are slaughtered and say “God works in mysterious ways!”

Send help.

He’s grown, I wonder what’s in his basement.

You’re over here arguing about what continents are and you’re gonna call the other poster obtuse?

Whiskey Jones has a black belt and spent a little time as a stuntman back in the early 2ks.

He prefers beer these days.

I use Arch btw.

Pluto, is a planet!

After WWII a cabal of rich elites started plotting to undo everything FDRs New Deal had done.

The citizenry aren’t blameless but it’s important to understand why we’re in this spot.

They’re worth billions, they get to make their own rules now.

They certainly didn’t have a childhood to speak of, and were likely exploited in a dozen ways, but they and their children and their childrens children will never work or want for anything in their lives.

The Easter Bunny has been around since the 1500s but if it helps you to think that all of the evils in the world are American you’re free to do that.

I didn’t realize Easter was an America-specific holiday.

Don’t discourage people. There are lots of dumb TVs out there that are competitively priced, you just have to look. Scepter has a whole line of displays with no built in bloat/telemetry that are priced the same as every other TV on the market.

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I could see that. I’d been thoroughly prepped on the movie and went in with a pretty cynical, “this was made to ‘shock’ people and is all fake” mindset which definitely colored my interpretation of it.

It’s a bit of a try hard meme film tbh, you’re not missing anything.

Do you have actual data or are you just typing words online to see yourself talk?

Pediatricians are mandated reporters and are often the ones reporting abuse. I’m very curious about the offending rate.

From the Ozarks, we have a similar “yuns.”

I assumed it was a shortened form of “you ones.”

Any actual notes?

A lot of us are organizing and are going out pretty much every weekend to protests. I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.

The shadowy cabals the rightwing says are behind everything is classic projection again, they’re controlled by shadowy cabals of rich people. One of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate how bad these people are and they’re winning.

The coup was successful, they’re in power and if they don’t want to give it up they won’t.

Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Establish secondary lines of communication and start preparing.

https://generalstrikeus.com/

https://www.dsausa.org/

https://pslweb.org/

https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/

https://socialistra.org/

https://www.socialistalternative.org/

https://afsc.org/news/how-create-mutual-aid-network

https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids/

https://mutualaidhub.org/

If you insist.