You’re making a good argument that we should partially socialize the systems needed to support life, like agriculture, and healthcare, but I would go further and include housing and a few other things.

At that point, we are talking about a strong welfare state.

So the modern solution to all this was invented like, 90 years ago by FDR.

We need another FDR.

I live in a city that’s half black, in one of several gayborhoods. I keep wondering when black and pink panthers will form and start patrolling. Probably when we get hit with our first localized stochastic terrorism incident. There’s a rainbow crosswalk that rednecks love to come do burnouts on. Tensions run high with highly conservative MAGA folks dominating the rural areas just miles from our very flammable houses with rainbow flags.

But you know what happens when the panthers start patrolling? Suddenly, gun control.

Our cops wouldn’t arrest them but the feds would probably escalate it. I am not sure how it’d play out today.

Everything in a Tesla is remote controllable, down to the odometer. It’s through Tesla’s own system but I am 100% sure that system has an Internet connection.

Heck I patched in my non-smart-car into my smarthome using an Onstar integration, I can lock and start it using Siri. Tesla’s system is just a way beefier version of Onstar. I wouldn’t be shocked if there was an app just for Elon to play with it all.

As Churchill said, you can’t reason with a lion while your head is in its mouth.

It’s way too uncanny to feel fun to me. I didn’t like Carrell for a long time but it turns out he’s a good actor, just got paired with a lot of unfunny material.

I lived in Seattle for a while and got used to the nudity, imagine my sadness moving to Arkansas which bans any public nudity “within view” of the opposite sex (hello gay campgrounds) - but last year I saw a lesbian go topless at Pride and I was SO happy! My straight neighbor made it a point to mention how she didn’t care for that, and I’m like, it’s our event lady, don’t come.

Obama did a response to the film The Laundromat (which is excellent), where he said, yes this is one of the keystone problems we have, but there is not going to be a fix for it, because the people that could fix it are benefitting from it. I’ve never seen him quite that defeated before.

I think Jesus would be flipping some tables right about now.

This is exactly what needs to happen again. A bold progressive president who DGAF and builds some monumental new social programs and revives a strong welfare state, taking back the word “welfare” because it’s A GOOD thing to not watch your citizens starve to death in the street, and we once knew this.

If you dig through the finer marketing print, it seems like this is a concept you can “lease” for the next 12 months, meaning it’s not a rebrand at all, just a year of alternative packaging. But hey everyone is talking about them, so it worked.

Or even grosser melt them with a wet rag :(

Full of spiders.

I hate cleaning these up because they’re fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.

So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?

My best “famous people” story is that I once had a private dinner with Joe Biden and his entire family, Jill and Beau and Hunter and their kids when they were small.

Now, instead of a great story, I had dinner with one of the worst presidents of our time.

Dammit Joe. You fucked up our country, and my story.

This age doesn’t value reason, facts, or logic. But so many old school intellectuals think reason, facts, and logic are going to save them. They will not. It’s time to adjust your sails, because the wind has changed.

Run your logic again, but this time, the only factor is “women’s bodies should be controlled by men, and used mainly for breeding.”

If you argue it with any of these smalltown dinks, they’ll tell you it’s just the liberals molesting kids anyway, so the solution is to get rid of democrats. There is no amount of stats or math or logic that will sway this.

See, you can build coal plants in poor/black areas, so you don’t have to see the pollution, nor your kids have to get cancer like those silly poors. And then you don’t have to put up with woke shit like windmills. Sigh.

Canada already has precedent of not extraditing trans people here because of the climate for queer people. June I think.

I suggested drawing in chalk on the street outside of the governor’s mansion, to protest the GIANT chalk Christ she had commissioned across the driveway to celebrate Easter one year.

It wasn’t even a serious call to action.

With or without a mohel? This specialty tool saves a lot of time in the shop.