Agreed! There’s apparently a huge ecosystem that I wasn’t aware of!

This is very much it.

I’m not trying to dismiss OP either. I’m glad they finally notice. But for a huge population of the world, it’s ALWAYS been there. There’s been a lot of evil shit. It’s just it was never on their doorstep until now.

But this isn’t a “The world is all doom and gloom”.

There is a significant amount of positive upswings. Looking in the past 10,000 years, we are absolutely in a better era. We can make jokes and shit post about it, but the average person’s quality of life back then no where matched what we are doing today. We tend to be relatively safe. We can get a variety of food anywhere.

Humans unfortunately only have a small window of time and don’t see it, but there’s a lot of good in the past hundred years.

Salute you. It’s about letting people know there’s resistance

I held onto Windows 7 even a year or two past so-called the EOL. I had a pretty powerful rig and I wasn’t going to pay money to upgrade. Then I think Microsoft just gave Windows 8 for free?

I finally got on Windows 10 when I bought a premade gaming computer. Still not upgrading.

I blame all the satire.

It didn’t just go over their heads, they took it as truth and ran with it.

You know, I didn’t pick up that he was pointing that out too. George Carlin still hitting us from the grave.

American here. Maybe I’m going through the five stages of grief and now I’m at acceptance.

Everything in your first paragraph sounds accurate and maybe something that probably needed to happen. America as the World Police is/has been a problem. There were some positives, but a lot of negatives.

The sooner America gets off the stage, the better. We don’t deserve the recognition. We can’t even feed our own people and yet wield tremendous influence internationally, and maybe it’s a positive thing that it ends soon.

At age 17, I remember running 2 miles to school and then back home so I can save my bus money. I was also playing sports, doing some heavy lifting then repeating it over and over again.

Now I walk a few blocks and I’m like “Enough exercise for today!”

I went to a small town recently and this was it.

The small “boutique” shop absolutely has a Karen-looking gal who was selling things from Temu but with her sticker on it.

Real sad state.

Well I mean, it’s usually one company making 23 bagel flavors. Look at toothpaste. There’s Colgate and then 15 Colgate variants. But if we go higher, the parent company owns 2-5 toothpaste beands, and those toothpaste brands have multiple variants.

And then we go even higher, and those parent companies are actually owned by the same group of people.

I mean if we want to get real about it, do we really want that fake choice either?

Although I just pour my fresh coffee into a thermos, because a good thermos will keep it at least warm all day.

This is the way.

The text…

Billionaires call them ajfoenciw

The six elements: Earth, fire, wind, water, heart, ar-15.

And then he smells crime again, he’s out busting heads. Then he’s back to the lab for some more full penetration. Smells crime. Back to the lab, full penetration. Crime. Penetration. Crime. Full penetration. Crime. Penetration. And this goes on and on and back and forth for 90 or so minutes until the movie just sort of ends.

Lincoln Project threw down some real great material.

Of which Elon is just African pretending to be an American.

Can confirm.

I haven’t purchased a game at a GameStop in decades. But I’ll never forget the time a cashier was getting yelled at by a shitty teenager because the teenager felt conned having preordered a JRPG thinking it was a First-Person Shooter, and the teenager was throwing empty game boxes around calling the cashier all sorts of 2000’s era offensive names.

I don’t understand the full story but I think about it often.

Why? Maybe the mom shouldn’t be buying her kids things she doesn’t understand.

Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, making it literally impossible for him, even telepathically, to say that quote.

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Kid doesn’t deserve cod