what it comes down to is this: if human rights are something you have to deserve, then anyone - including you! - can be deemed undeserving.

and once you believe that, the only thing separating you from a fascist is a little bit of haggling over the price.

I can hear this image, and can recite this speech without looking.

My sister and I mostly asked him to curse.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

I raised my hands to the sky, just in case it's all real.

I gain a half inch every time I read a Scalzi novel.

Admittedly, it's around my waist...

Alright but hear me out. This whole thing except now it's you and you have SSJ hair.

Cool now, right? Hypocrite.

Late stage idiocracy

Big "it's a banana, Michael" energy here from Cuomo. It's obvious he doesn't have any idea of the value scale of any cited dollar amount. He just blended them together and thought added empty sass would make his point stick.

Out of touch douche bag.

Whoever you're looking for is out there. Love is not dead.

Solidarity!

All the shitty, awful technologies are going FULL SPEED AHEAD. Meanwhile, we have new vaccine technologies that could *literally cure cancer, a thing we've been trying to do since we found out cancer was a thing* and to that, RFK just mumbles "nah" through a mouthful of roadkill. This is the worst.

They're trying to take everything from us, including satire.

All those concerned onlookers could be part of your downstream if you just locked in and focused on what mattered.

An artist at a little local show today told me that his sales only subsidized his hobby making cool local-themed art in his basement while high and raging out to music.

I really dig my new Baltimore Punk shirt and I'm glad he'll use my cash for more weed.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t call, email, and protest. We should annoy them and waste as much of their time as possible. But the victim-blaming needs to stop. We shouldn’t have to call our representatives every day to remind them to do their jobs. It’s not our fault when they refuse.

He blames the citizenry for the consequences, and thinks himself untouchable.

Smug grampa smiles at the board game while his opponent is away looting the house and killing his family.