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I’d like to wish the retiree in the GOGE t-shirt I saw the other day a very merry I Hope You’re Freaking Out About Your Retirement Account.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

In 2015 I was seriously thinking of becoming a US citizen. For a brief moment it seemed the country was making inroads in becoming a more pluralistic society. Then a repulsive turd slid down his gold escalator. I love my American wife and child. But I won’t pledge allegiance to this flag 🇺🇸

People are talking about the penny, but I just wanna say the buffalo nickel was the greatest US coin of all time. -Indigenous person -Indigenous animal -No slave owners -No goofy neoclassical allegories -No appeals to God

Apple, I don’t even want to use Siri. There’s no way I’m turning on your goofy Apple Intelligence shit.

He’s evil, but the penny does need to go.

Being miserably bored in the most miserably boring city in Canada (London).

We sing silly songs to our son to the tune of Frère Jacques. Mostly songs about an ambulance or a fire truck. But, recently my wife made one up for him about a “Shark Plane”, so I decided to illustrate it.

what the right wants free speech to be: saying slurs without any social consequences and getting jobs on how based you are also what the right wants free speech to be. getting fired for being LGBTQ, brown, black, or a woman

I’ve been in a hiring position in the past. Not any more thankfully, I hate being a manger. So, I’ve given a very diverse swath of people a chance. And let me tell you this: the white men I hired were the hardest to deal with, and produced the most middling to poor work. I’m a white man too, btw

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Feeling this lately

When I was a kid I thought being an adult would be like the music video for DeBarge’s “Rhythm of the Night” but instead it feels more like the music video for Ultravox’s “Dancing With Tears in My Eyes”

Trans people are inspiring as hell. Being your true self in this fucked up world of hateful shitheads is badass and brave. Trump and his rapist buddies will die in disgrace and be remembered for nothing but the pain and suffering they brought upon others.

“Ha ha ha! Swastikars! Elon is so owned!” he thought as the death squad cocked their rifles.

One fun way of getting your Republican family member to acknowledge that Musk made a Nazi salute is to ask them if you can film them making the gesture