Snot Flickerman

Insult Sword Fighting taken to a new level.

Forking shit, man.

Let me let you in on a little secret: television isn’t real.

Only rich asshats get to pretend Portland is still like that.

A bohemian artist hasn’t been able to make solid living and afford rent in Portland since probably a few years before the show even started.

Anyone else remember the video of Fred Armisen going through downtown Portland surrounded by corporate culture and being like “this is the real Portland”?

Fucking New Yorkers man.

As an American, this is how stupid we’ve always been, frankly.

Precisely. Is there anything like the Minnesota Freedom Fund for protestors in LA, for example? The Minnesota Freedom Fund was indispensable during the George Floyd protests in helping release people on bail that would have otherwise been stuck in jail awaiting trial and could not afford to get bailed out.

There needs to be donations to all kinds of groups at the moment to support those who are risking it all and taking direct action, whether they are protestors in the streets or protestors in the government risking their jobs or walking out of their jobs.

I’m gonna love/hate this game just like the original.

The catch is you have to install the Epic app or whatever it is called.

Also they hate Linux and shitcanned the already-existing native Linux port of Rocket League when they bought it. It’s fair to say you won’t dump resources into making new Linux ports but shitcanning a quality one that already existed? They can eat shit.

I never played Rocket League again after that.

I dunno, I lived through the 80’s and 90’s where something like 90% of people identified as Christian.

I also lived through the Bush II years where 70% of the country thought that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the attacks and wanted to invade Iraq two years after 9/11

Thinking having your eyes open and your brain engaged is a bad thing is basically Americas modus operandi.

Reddit, where the sources are made up and the points only matter as a hit of dopamine for the person making shit up.

I don’t think I’m taking away his agency. I’ll even quote myself.

I used to think that being a true believer was his worst quality and why things went so badly and it made me think being a true believer was the most dangerous quality you could have in a leader.

His agency is defined by his religion, his religion is why he was so sure he was doing the right thing without any self-reflection on the human consequences of the millions of lives lost in Iraq. He was justifying it as a means to an end to win a Holy War. That’s pretty horrific.

I do think he actually wanted to do good in the world, but yes, true believers of religion are often blinded to the suffering they’re making happen because they’re so sure that the suffering needs to happen for God to love them. That’s why I thought being a true believer was a dangerous quality in a leader, because they don’t have the capacity to self reflect on how horrific their decisions are due to the fact that in their mind the ends justify the means in the name of God. That’s still his own agency choosing to ignore the horrors he wrought because he believed it needed to happen in God’s name. Religion didn’t force that viewpoint upon him, there are plenty of pacifist religious people, it was a choice he made in the name of his religion.

I’m a tall burly cisman so people are always surprised that I know how to sew. I mostly hand-mend my clothes but I made my own pants in high school when I had access to a sewing machine.

He was sucking up to MAGA and literally had Steve Bannon on his podcast.

Don’t trust him he’s an opportunist.

If peeing your pants is cool, then call me Miles Davis.

-Old woman in Billy Madison

Because it was always hiding the reality that they didn’t care about any of that shit as long as people they don’t like are getting hurt. The 2A canard is almost exclusively used by angry scared idiots who just want to shoot their neighbors and get away with it.

Tops need support, too!

Nah, they let him do some:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/28/1159415936/george-w-bushs-anti-hiv-program-is-hailed-as-amazing-and-still-crucial-at-20

His program for helping manage HIV/AIDs in Africa is still viewed very positively.

Dubya was a mixed bag and I often felt like he got the rawest deal out of the war on terror. He was a true believer, he famously told Jacques Chirac that he thought the biblical demons Gog and Magog were at work in the middle east. He truly thought he needed to save the world. I think he was naive and was basically used by the neoconservatives around him. That doesn’t excuse any of it, being a true believer led him to signing off on true atrocities. However, it makes me view him as more of a mixed bag of a person who may not have signed off on so many atrocities and might have done more genuinely good things if he had a less evil team managing him from behind the scenes. People didn’t call Dick Cheney Darth Vader for nothing, the people around Bush were far more legitimately purposefully evil than him, in my eyes. Bush still signed off on war crimes though, so it’s hard to have that much sympathy. I used to think that being a true believer was his worst quality and why things went so badly and it made me think being a true believer was the most dangerous quality you could have in a leader. Well, Trump taught me that believing in nothing at all is far, far worse.

lol

lmao even

As predicted.

True but a bunch are being laid off by the tariff fuckery and lack of product to be moved I am sure.

For context, two years after 9/11 upwards of 70% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was directly connected to the attacks and wanted to invade Iraq.

Americans are not smart, and they are very racist.

Those of us who lived through the Dubya Bush years can attest to this. Even Dubya Bush wanted to give illegal immigrants amnesty and a path to citizenship but it was deeply unpopular so it never happened.

The police are violent thugs everywhere, not just Republican cities and states.

It’s because they have almost complete immunity from being prosecuted for wrongdoing and also, well, they are incredibly well armed and often use their monopoly on violence to threaten blue politicians.

I grew up in a city where cops didn’t like their own chief of police because he wanted to drug test the force regularly after several got caught doing drugs on the job. The chiefs own force stalked him, harassed him, made violent threats against him and his family, until he was ran out of town. The police union sued him and said drug testing them violated their rights. The police union won in court. Those drug tests never happened.