The only thing I could even say in his defense is that his point is about state/local LEOs and it's mostly the feds doing the fascist stuff this time, BUT everybody reading this lived through the George Floyd protests where it *was* the state and locals busting heads for no reason so...

The Onion Presents: Our Dumb Century and The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Or Sisyphus Excavation

Same

And then the reactionary centrist political consultants will be all like "the American people are against these constant purity tests! If we don't welcome Nazis, pedophiles, and predators, how can we win elections as a big tent party?"

That was an old joke when I was in college, I think. UW-RF, where the men are men and the cows are scared.

link to a readable version imgur.com/a/vbjLFHv

A short story collection is a great opportunity for me to use my diagram of the early storyline to place them in the timeline! I made it to describe the series to my friend and encourage her to start reading it. I stopped at
~2/3rds because if that wasn't enough, she'd never start it anyway.

Or maybe they used to have over a thousand books but then got laid off and had to move and couldn't afford to take them all with so now the only books they have left are the few that are super important and the ones with no resale value. 🥹

Hey ma! The Torment Nexus guys are trying to make everything Snow Crash.

Does it involve a wall or perhaps a rapidly falling piece of angled metal?

Or worse, the Bears - where QBs go to waste their potential.

I came here to make sure that this was in the top level replies.

To be fair, getting in and out of GiantLocalMegaCorp at almost any of the usual times of day is a real pain in the neck. You point still stands, though.

Exhibit A: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6e...

I'm picking up what you're putting down here and that's also one of my favorite scenes.

This is exactly on point for me as well. Those three are the best while I actively disliked almost everything with Gina and Boyle, can take or leave the majority of Terry and Jake, and was mildly entertained by Hitchcock and Scully.