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Yes, but that is for good reason: sanitation.

Here in the US, for most, values and political principles are a matter of convenience.

The NRA never cared about tyranny or kids. They only ever cared about not having to wait a day to get their shiny new toy.

Yes.

There are some retailers that put a lot of money into making the experience of shopping enjoyable and more pleasant (Nike, Lulu Lemon, Apple, etc.) and their storefronts thrive.

Walmart, the store you pictured, thrives because they sell cheap.

Okay, Jan.

I won’t even bother entertaining you or them, but just for funsies, go look up who gave Tom Homan his first federal appointment.

You’re welcome to your incorrect interpretation, and I hope you have a pleasant evening.

argue for accelerating the rise of fascism.

Either you’re putting up a straw man or you didn’t read what I wrote correctly.

They have nukes and the Palestinians don’t. That’s how.

It’s not the handful, unfortunately.

The handful has no real power.

The problem is that 49% on each side flip-flop based on whoever’s in power, because their values and opinions are a matter of convenience, and perfectly easy to change with their preferred nightly news broadcast.

Genocide Joe walked so Fascist Donald could run.

Fascism didn’t start in January. It’s been a steady, forty-year march aided and abetted by every president since Carter.

Marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries. This guy must have been really badly-behaved.

Two wives?

That must be unbearable.

Might sound corny, but books are my escape.

In a physical sense, my condo building has a rooftop deck with a beautiful view, and I spend a lot of time there.

My absolute favorite place, however, is the third-floor balcony of Union Station in Kansas City. I’m a little shocked no one’s filmed a rom-com using that space.

They’re under pressure to increase fertility rate but only in a way that it doesn’t cost employers money

That’s what is wild to me. Boiled down to the basics, the quandary we’re facing is having a functional society or a few hundred billionaires; and the billionaires are our priority.

HA, needed that laugh. Thanks.

I was intrigued to see this issue written about in an international context, as usually, the articles I see on this are US-centric and from right-wing sources who really, really want the poors to birth the next generation of exploitable labor and inexplicably ignore that the people they want to birth and parent these children are themselves being exploited and exceedingly impoverished too.

This wasn’t part of Next Fest, but I devoured ‘Tainted Grail - Fall of Avalon’. Excellent demo.

I remember many times just being on a mountain in Skyrim listening to the soundtrack.

Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.

I was trying to think of a way to put it, but that’s a good sentence in this context for sure.

Also, yes, blood relation does not mean you have to put up with some asshole’s cruelty. Cut them out if you can.

What’s happening is that the other two branches of our government have (mostly) abdicated to the Executive branch; therefore, absent the lower courts who can’t act in real-time for the most part, Donald has carte blanche to do whatever he wants without any meaningful accountability.

Some court or another may intervene, but it can’t happen quickly enough to stop what ICE is doing right now.

With all due respect to Maori people, these displays are annoying to watch, but I’m of the opinion that there shouldn’t be any religious displays in government proceedings.

At least until one of these supposed gods mskescan appearance.