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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

To: World I'm sorry we're such a shithole country. Please don't come here - it isn't safe.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Absurdity is the state assigning you "The Grapes of Wrath" at 16 and tear-gassing you at 26 for understanding it. /ht herlifeandwork

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSc...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

How interesting to see billions of people readily accepting a person choosing to go by a new name today. See... it really is that easy.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Unpopular Opinion: Companies releasing "remastered" versions of old games aren't innovating or developing material. They're simply cashing in on your nostalgia instead of spending capital to create new content. In other words, you're paying full price (again) for what amounts to a MAACO paint job.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts Commemorating the battles of Lexington & Concord. Patriots fought a tyrannical Despot & his Loyalists and were especially outraged by rampant import taxes on goods crucial to the economic health of the Colonies (Many moons ago I attended Jr High School in Lexington.)

submitted 62 days ago • 27 comments

PSA: Automatically accepting everything in media that you agree with, and automatically dismissing everything that you don't, both take the same level of intellectual laziness.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: House Republicans passed the SAVE Act, Federalizing election registration laws Who’s old enough to remember 2021, when Repubs said they couldn’t pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, because “election law is a states right issue, not something to be centralized under a big federal govt”?

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Serious point: This might be the most interventionist American government in my lifetime. The price of just about every good reflects the good thinking of the Commissars in Washington DC implementing their 5-year plan for National Greatness, rather than market forces.

submitted 70 days ago • 60 comments

Not good... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

“Republicans have been in total control of Florida’s government for nearly 30 years, and he wants to talk about government waste?” floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/02/d...

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submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Something I just realized. The President of the United States, on national television, with posters and handouts emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the United States, just acknowledged that China and Taiwan are separate and distinct entities.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

People smarter than me figured out where the alleged tariff rates came from. Not actual rates + barriers; they simply took our trade deficit with that country and divided by its exports to us. [insert epic facepalm here]

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments