My narcissistic, selfish, and abusive parents abused things like “because I said so,” “you’ll understand when you’re older,” and “you’ll understand when you have kids” among other things.

I now understand. They were shitheads that never wanted to actually explain things or be held accountable for their fucking abuse. I understand that it literally took EFFORT for them to be so goddamn angry and verbally/physically abusive to us, and it takes a serious level of hate to sprinkle in the emotional neglect and somehow be okay with treating your child like that.

I can’t fathom doing half the shit they did.

It could just be a bad joke.

Jurassic Sith

That’s what they wanted. Small government. Bootstrap. All that. Feds have been widely lambasted, shit on, gutted for resources, and now those left operate in a constant state of fear and worry just trying to do a decent job for this so-called society.

Get fucked.

Edit: see the comment below pointing out precisely what I’m getting at. This county asked for it and its unsurprising.

https://lemmy.zip/comment/20150290

It never was by the people or for the people.

If you spend more time to consider and think about the differences between spirituality and religion, you’d see what I’m getting at. There’s a blurring of lines sure, but a lot of these religious activities are not at all necessary for their beliefs, and merely a choice that fulfills them in a similar manner as other hobbies.

California’s general mishandling of nature and natural resources is a great example of what I’m talking about. We don’t have a fucking clue, yet we think we know better, and no lessons get learned despite how clearly wrong our solutions are. Like the wildfires and water “management.”

To be clear, most other states are also run by morons making idiotic natural resource decisions. California’s just a good example since you brought it up.

I dunno what counts as big budget, but 30 Minutes or Less was seen as tasteless in how it was based on a real-life serious event that had occurred.

On a false advertising note, the movie’s run time is 1 hour, 23 minutes. Bullshit.

They won’t. Establishment Dems want this as well. Repubs are doing it for them, and then any elected Dem then would likely be more of the watered down same, and they’ll quietly allow the status quo to continue.

Maybe they’ll stop the gutting. Maybe they’ll slim down some high profile things like ICE a bit. But largely they won’t ramp up hiring to return to any previous scale.

Also FYI, the last time the US Federal government lost employees on this scale was under Clinton in the 90s working bipartisan with a Repub congress.

You don’t levee children…

Why didn’t they turn down the Sun first?

Kirby vaccuums maybe? More like a MLM back in the day.

For a lot of people, when you look at how they spend their time, it is clear that their religion is both their belief system AND their hobby.

Think of the “Bible study” types. They’ve turned it into a hobby-like activity. Some I knew growing up clearly had nothing else. It was their hobby.

Warhammer. The tabletop one with the figures, not the video games.

Vacations/travel for some people. Its clearly something where they have zero clue about their privilege and zero self awareness as they talk about it.

Parenting. Seriously, it becomes some people’s only fucking identity and the way they talk about it feels like religious proselytizing mixed with a bit of used car salesperson energy.

Comic conventions. Some people make it uncomfortable how seriously they take it.

Wasting some time on Lemmy trying to leave shitty comments just looking to rile people up or something.

True for all cops. True for all garbage careers built solely on harassment and fucking with people.

Fuck em all.

No! How dare! My unique lived experience is unique to only me and my arbitrary group! You can’t be the same!

What next? You gonna tell me the “wait 5 minutes” joke about weather basically applies everywhere?

Then we go and define things as “invasive” as if the world hasn’t been ever-changing for billions of years. As if we know better and need an environment to remain exactly as we found it, forever. As if nature won’t just fucking figure it out.

Other countries elect scientists and economists sometimes.

What if I’m talking about very attractive adapters and cables?

Dayum look at dat female! So easy to plug into, and grips hard!

My favorite cable is an aux extension I use every day.

The “motherfucker” forced me to hear this in Samuel L Jackson’s voice.