Ok … So you’re mad I said you’re not a Libertarian and now you’re just explaining how you’re not a Libertarian?

Yeah … I know someone else already said this but you’re absolutely not a Libertarian. So, good news, you can throw that box out and realign your language.

Also, I get that it’s a talking point but I think everyone believes in a fiscally responsible government. It’s just some weird right wing double think trick people say to imply the other side does not want that when in reality the Dems (if we’re framing this through an American lens) want fiscal responsibility just as much as any other party or persons.

As an American … I never thought that either 🫤🔫

I think you both can share the labels, throw Tennessee in there too for good measure.

Really?

Somehow I can’t picture someone being that much of an asshole but I guess he was a horrible person. That literally sounds made up because it’s so heinous.

Edit: yes he did per Snopes reporting.. He also did it two weeks and felt bad enough (or saw he crossed a line with his own audience) and stopped it after two weeks and donated $10,000 to a charity that helped people who had AIDS.

So, overall, he was a bad influence on our society I’d say.

Hamboning will save your life one day!

(All I could think when I read the title)

Learning some chemistry basics is probably still good though. Not that we’re using it daily but just in the “hey mixing this stuff can kill you” or, in the same vein, seeing how it only requires small amounts to make big changes.

We’re surrounded by chemicals in our everyday lives, learning a healthy fear of them is probably for the best.

Also high school is meant to prepare you for further education, if you want to pursue that, so it really does cover a lot of ground for basic concepts you need to learn to understand and gain further education in whatever field applies.

Yeah it’s wild how fucked our economy is.

The divorce of worker productivity from worker pay leading to the huge wealth gap we see today is really bad for everyone but the 1%.

Well … fuck, I just got done grabbing the BLS inflation calculation for .25 from 1973 and that’s $3.05 today but your post is just already here making me feel silly for even thinking about commenting.

Cool stats though, it’s interesting to see how the cost has more or less stayed in line with inflation. I think that’s what you’d expect to see with most commodities from that time to now, but I’m also an idiot who got like a C in my macroeconomics class so I don’t really know.

Thank you!

A new party either keeping the Republican name or changing it to be more fitting but idk what that would be.

It’s kind of an echo of what happened with the Whig party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)

What is that picture from. It reminds me of the movie Heavy Metal but I don’t think it’s from that.

Also if you’ve never seen that y’all owe it to yourselves.

They do, just some people don’t care and are happy enough to deal with that and get the high off it. I’m not sure it’s a good high but y’know I guess whatever.

I feel like you can get better highs for cheaper, I don’t really know why people choose to inhale that shit but they do.

If you want to get high off of a gas I’d say it’s way way waaaaaY safer to just inhale nitrous oxide (whippits), It won’t be the same high but it’s probably better overall, can’t say I’ve ever huffed canned air though so can’t do a true comparison.

Just the stuff in canned air is so much worse for your body and brain.

It’s kind of insane how many people had to fuck just for you to exist. Like just thousands of humans stretching through our vast history … Nutting.

Someone else gave a link to it:

https://anarchist.nexus/comment/1720298 < comment

https://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/RAFT/RAFTpapers/Examples/nocomment.pdf. < The actual paper

You’re right it was crazy to read. It’s wild what people will do, I was actually impressed by the other case they cited that was similar where a guy got concrete poured in and it cured. They were able to give him relaxers and get the concrete out without surgery. Too bad the glue stuck to the inner walls and couldn’t get taken out without surgery. What an absolutely wild thing to put up your ass though - like I’m not here to shame anyone but just put stuff up there that’s not gonna fucking kill you.

Thank you! I like reading bizarre stuff sometimes and this sounds crazy. Another commenter said the paper was comedy gold so let’s see what it’s all about.

Edit: Best part is the last sentence of the whole paper saying patients should be offered psychological help. “yo, heard you were shoving stuff up your asshole you should not be, wanna talk about it?”

Bro I read that a few years ago now. One, good book. Two, the creepy borderline pedophilia in it was weird. Three: it is quite a bleak outlook for most people but I also think that it’s closer to reality than I’d like to admit. Same with Cyberpunk 2077, at this rate we’re basically running with our arms wide open towards that dystopian hell for the future of our planet.

I’m not saying people should walk around with ar 15s but unless the dude had it shouldered and started aiming it you just go talk to them and discern their intentions. At the very least get close enough to hit your target when you shoot.

It is what it is, being armed at a protest should not be an automatic death sentence especially when it’s legal (for better or worse).

I own firearms and I think they’re too easy to get and need to be better regulated but I am not in Congress writing laws nor sitting on the Supreme Court making shitty decisions on how to read the 2nd amendment. Regardless of my opinion though I think shooting at someone and missing and hitting another person is pretty fucking egregiously bad.

I’m not a crack shot by any stretch of the imagination but it is ludicrous to me this person shot into a crowd to try to subdue a person that wasn’t posing an immediate threat. Who was surrounded by people who were not freaking out which should tell you they’re not dangerous

Yeah, you should be suspicious. That’s why you go investigate what’s going on and don’t just shoot a dude, or rather shoot at a person, miss them then proceed to murder an innocent man because your aim is shit.

Yeah it’s a bummer. History is full of shitty stuff, too much of it is the same as now. Also if you study history or sociology any you start to see that humans, no matter how we organize ourselves, fall into sadly predictable patterns by stubbornly refusing to learn the lessons of our past.