I would hate to work in fast food just trying to get through my shitty day for shitty pay and keep getting weird, stupid prank orders so people online can get upvotes.

They absolutely care about losing subscribers and advertisers. Evil follows money. Lets stop this doomerish attitude that nothing matters and nothing can be done. They WANT us to be cynical and nihilistic.

Sounds about enough for a decent down payment on reliable vehicle. Then I would still have to pay off whatever is left and make insurance payments and licencing tax, so ironically if I magically made 20k, I would end up spending more than solving anything.

Meanwhile in my country 20k USD is like, your mortgage payments and property taxes and insurance for almost half a year if you have a decent home in or near a city.

Sounds like some cheap ass motorcycles tbh

I disagree on this one, this would be a good time to send messages/tweets to SiriusXM, the more public the better. Make posts on facebook, make tweets of her repeating this heinous shit, tag SiriusXM with it, attack SiriusXM for enabling child sex crimes, and so on. Blow this up.

I don’t actually believe republicans care about kids at all, they hate you and want you dead or exploited, but a lot of the conservative base are simple folk who can be swayed with stupid emotional appeals and anything that makes them feel directly connected to the issue, so make sure your comments and posts include language like “Does this make you feel like they are protecting YOUR kids?”

It’s going to be more like “Those 15-year-old girls knew what they were getting into/needed the money/were asking for it because they were promiscuous anyway/and somehow were able to make adult decisions of consent when a 15-year-old kid can’t even legally drive.”

The republican party has been leveraging people’s misunderstanding of how the world works for decades.

An 8-year-old child can experience early-onset puberty, but that doesn’t make them capable of making adult choices, much less make it remotely okay for someone to use them as cattle for old men to rape.

All any of this is, is more of the “well define the line” bullshit and distraction that they use to fight abortion rights and nearly every other social issue that allows women in particular to not be treated like cattle. They hate you, they hate your kids, they hate you existing and want only the worst outcomes for each of us.

I don’t agree with this framing that we can’t expect better results just because oligarchs exist.

Yes they would love to influence politics even more than they already do, but this isn’t an alien invasion… yet. These are people who stand to lose a lot by having influence exposed, and it’s far easier to just bribe existing people to get influence about specific bills than try to create some kind of Manchurian Candidate and put themselves at huge risk of not just losing their own political capital, but also ruining the very party they wish to use to create influence.

We lean on our representatives in house and senate to oust people who aren’t working. If someone else gets up there who doesn’t work, we do it again and we keep fucking doing it until we get someone with integrity.

FFS I am tired of this doomering that discourages active involvement in politics. Yes it’s bad, but we let it get bad, we have accountability to try to fix it.

While we still can, sure.

In about another year or two, even the most detailed inspection is going to be almost impossible to differentiate so we might as well get some enjoyment now in kicking them out.

Mold and demons and shit. Nobody is totally sure. He’s been in and out of the hospital and even intubated according to his daughter.

The right and Trump’s own base really didn’t like him doing this. This will do as much if not more harm to him from his own side than the goddamn Epstein files.

What do you expect to gain from me not educating people about the origins of the term?

Educate people all you want, in the proper context. You know VERY WELL that someone was going to try to push back on it here because you want to have a debate with someone and are too scared to face down actual conservatives in conservative spaces about their ACTUAL racism.

I am extremely frustrated with leftists online bickering about MOTHERFUCKING TONE AND WORDS that don’t hurt anyone because someone, somewhere, who isn’t even effected by said words, started saying it was problematic, BECAUSE MY COUNTRY IS COLLAPSING AND YOU SHITS ARE BEING PERFORMATIVE.

That’s it, I’m done, I will never see another message from you because you’re stubborn and I don’t have time nor patience, I have dozens of accounts across different platforms for scolding dumb shits and promoting unity and direction forward towards common goals. You decide in silence if you have any responsibility and accountability to help keep our collected ideological group focused on the right concerns while our constitution burns.

using corporate social media

If you can reach enough people, do what you will, but it’s ridiculous to be performative about it, millions of conservatives use social media, they trust social media, social media is what got trump fucking elected to begin with.

you will succeed in turning some people away from Megan Kelly

I’ll take it.

There is much of what you describe in these communities, and a lot of it is even simpler and sadder than that, which is people desperately scared of death and clinging to religion to provide some level of comfort.

One of my favorite documentaries of all time is Dan Olsen’s In Search of a Flat Earth, it’s a sublime journey that starts with a beautiful and pleasant journey into measuring the humbling scope and scale of our world, and in the second act, delves deep into conspiracy theorists and their motivations.

I rechecked, I will revise it, there are some huge variables and nobody can really agree. It would likely be anywhere between thousands to hundreds of thousands of years, but I have seen some people confidently state that if we’re not running industry and most sea life dies rapidly that it could potentially be millions of years but the carbon/oxygen cycle is wildly complicated so it’s still a pretty hard idea to calculate.

This exchange talks a lot about how different variables can wildly swing the results. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/46125/how-long-could-earths-oxygen-supply-last-if-no-new-oxygen-were-produced

I wish I could say my family member was my only exposure to conspiracy derangement, but I’ve know a handful of them.

And it’s ABSOLUTELY what you said. These are people who don’t understand things. They don’t have a grasp of scale of things, they don’t know math and numbers and don’t get how populations work and how systems work, from city infrastructure to political institutions. They get severely insecure or anxious when something comes up that makes them feel that insecurity… like almost any news story or political scandal.

So they write their own story using magic and mysticism and ideas they pulled from grifters online basically telling children’s stories and fairy tales about flat worlds and goblins who steal children.

Having a “secret” story makes them feel knowledgeable, like they have something they can teach others, a way to be relevant and respected. Even if it’s just by other delusional people.