Finally, a piece of good news…

Typing is hard today, I guess.

Same the feds are going to wipe out every last scrap of progress we made.

Pretty sure we just nailed that window shut.

Oh just go fuck yourself.

I really wish any of this mattered.

I really wish this mattered.

We have to take the regulation we can get, okay? Not everyone can have legal systems that “make sense” like you get in them skandinavyvian hellholes. Catch me dead in a country where you can just assume the tap water is potable…

Plus the complete lack of effort on the part of any government anywhere… we are all so fucked.

Lmfao sure dude, whatever you need to believe. We’ll save a seat for you over here in reality whenever you feel like joining the rest of us.

Lmfao, what law is being followed here? Come on.

They keep bringing up how small the protests were and how they “ran out of steam” or w/e. It really shows how little they actually know about the US.

It seems pretty clear that the negative implication is putin’s regime abusing his authority for sexual favors (especially given all the mass rapes by russian forces in ukraine…) and not that said favors are bad because theyre gay. It’s telling that they assumed it was based in homophobia, though.

LIMITED EDITION GOLDFISH CRACKERS. Alright fuck this, I’m building a guillotine. Fucking hell.

I can personally attest that no, some people do in fact want that.

Even more complicated, it was two probably innocent men recently executed. It’s getting to the point where we need a chart to keep all this awful bullshit straight.

If you’ll allow an interpetation of their comment

How dare you offer a counter interpretation to my interpretation you terrible person (I wish I didn’t need to include this but /s, you are not a terrible person)

Taken on it’s own that’s a fair and totally valid criticism, I think the pushback is just due to conflating the two experiences as equally out of touch. Anyone who is 59 and has had a steady white collar career is going to lack first-hand experience with the current minimum wage work life, but Harris is a great deal more likely to be able to at least accurately conceptualize and empathize with what it’s like vs. someone who’s never worked a day in their life and was given $419 million dollars by their father.

Conflating the two as the same is the issue, not casting skepticism on the impact of Harris’ teen summer job on her understanding of the challenges facing modern American families, and that’s the reason they’re being downvoted (imo).

If I had to guess, it’s both because their comment can be read as them asserting that someone who worked at McDonald’s… doesn’t know what working at McDonald’s is like, and because they’re asserting that the there’s no realistic difference in life experience between the white male child of a corrupt multigagillionaire and the black-indian female child of a research oncologist and an economics professor.

Were either of them poor growing up? No. Are there many steps between “poor” and “having a gold toilet” that a person can be at? Oh you betcha, and suggesting there isn’t is either myopic or intentionally deceptive.

Don’t you dare give them ideas

Nic- wait, shit.