Calling out a distraction =/ excusing military deployments. How about you go drive a railroad spike through your head? You might be a little less of a fucking idiot if you used that instead of whatever the fuck you’re using now in the empty cavern that is your brain cavity.

If the media keeps reporting about troops patrolling streets, cracking down on protesters, and marching around with guns drawn; but when someone actually goes looking for them they can’t fucking find them anywhere, then YES. At a certain point, you have to conclude it DOESN’T actually exist, and is just a distraction from shit like Epstein.

At least, you can make that conclusion if you have more than a single fucking brain cell. If you don’t, you instead go “Well, the media says it’s happening so it MUST be true. They NEVER lie or misrepresent reality! Anyone saying otherwise must be a fascist!”

Where are the troops? Are they in DC? WHERE?! Because people actually going there, in person, looking for them, CANT FUCKING FIND THEM! Doesn’t that at least tell you something in the narrative must be off?!

Except the thing is THEY ARENT FUCKING THERE! This isn’t “normalizing” it, it’s pointing out the whole thing is a fucking farce! How the fuck does that make me a fascist?! You god damn mouth-breathing, inbred, DUMB FUCK! Why are you so fucking stupid?! Did you even watch the video? Did you even fucking read my comment?!

B-b-but I was ASSURED by Lemmy that Nintendo was shooting themselves in the foot with their pricing and business practices. That they have lost everyones trust and will soon feel the sting of customer dissatisfaction.

Or maybe it’s just time to admit that Lemmy doesn’t have it’s hand on the pulse of society, but rather just its own dick.

This whole thing is a BS publicity stunt for both sides. Trump wants you to be afraid and distracted, the media wants you to be afraid, the reality is the National Guard isn’t doing jack shit and barely has any presence there.

https://youtu.be/eo1uowKXnBk

From mainstream media reports, you would think the National Guard is patrolling DC’s streets, but as you can see in the video above, they’re nowhere to be found. People haven’t even seen them firsthand, it’s all second hand reports of “well, I haven’t seen it. But I HEARD they were seen by others elsewhere”.

This is some horseshit. Nothing we read online is real anymore. They just push out a handful of troops for a quick photo op and then vanish, because the illusion of this happening is more important than if it’s actually happening. Which it’s not.

First time I’m hearing about the return of Digg, I’ll probably keep an eye on it

I mean, you can just use a debit card, but I see your point.

Straight into the garbage.

Because you didn’t explain the title.

I hate you.

Rant time. Lunch breaks are a fucking scam. Hear me out.

We’re made to believe that a mandatory 30 minute, unpaid, lunch is somehow a victory for workers rights. Tell me, do you really feel like you’re taking a break from work in those 30 minutes? Or are you still thinking about work? Are you still in “work mode”? Well guess what, that’s 30 minutes of you thinking about work and not relaxing that they are stealing from you. Your workday isn’t 8 hours, it’s 8 and a half hours. That 30 minutes isn’t really yours, it’s not enough time to get anything done. You don’t agree? Go get drunk during your lunch break. Oh what’s that? You can’t because you’ll face consequences at work? Well gee, sounds like that time doesn’t actually belong to you then if you’re not free to do whatever you want.

It used to be a job was 9-5. That’s 8 hours. Total. You either had a paid lunch, or you ate on the job. But it was PART of those 8 hours. I don’t know about you, but if I’m not getting paid for it, I don’t want to be at work a second longer than I have to. I’ve had a few jobs that let me work through lunch and it was great, I could keep working and eat at my desk and I was out of the door 30 minutes before the rest of my co-workers. Jobs that force me to take a lunch are BS. I don’t need 30 minutes to eat a sandwich, and the remaining time is NOT relaxing. I don’t get to unwind from work. I am instead filled with rage that I’m just wasting time, not getting paid, in order to uphold the illusion that the company “values our time”, when really they’re just holding us hostage.

Mandatory, unpaid, “breaks” are just a form of wage theft.

I’ve gotten really into Lemaitre, they’re a Norwegian electronic duo thas kind of in between Avicii and Daft Punk, as far as sound goes. To me at least, they’re incredible. Their song Reflection came on my playlist one day and… Man, you ever hear a song and just immediately know you’re going to listen to it on repeat for the next week? Then I checked out more of their songs and immediately listened to those on repeat as well.

I never hear anyone talking about them though. It’s crazy to me they’re not more popular. Their music just seems to push a button in my brain.

I say this to people and then always have to clarify:

It’s not that the World War Z movie is a bad adaptation of the book, it’s that it’s NOT an adaptation of the book at all. Other than the name, and the fact that it has zombies, there are literally no similarities between the book and the movie.

The characters are different, the settings are different, the format is different, the plot is different, the way the zombies act is different. Literally EVERYTHING.

Calling it an adaptation is like if you took The Neverending Story and changed its title to The Lord of The Rings and called that an adaptation.

It’s a relief valve. Sometimes when I find myself overwhelmed and feel like I want to collapse, I’ll go watch a bunch of emotional videos to make myself bawl for an hour or two. It’s extremely cathartic, and I usually feel a lot better afterwards.

My go-to videos are Thai commercials on YouTube. Short, super heart-wrenching, and unimportant enough that I don’t feel bad afterwards like if I watched a sad movie like Schindler’s List or Grave of the Fireflies.

Look up the group Indecline and see if they have any suggestions for civil disobedience around you.

Henchmen.

The best example I can give is 21 and 24 in The Venture Bros. Just two grunts following their supervillain boss and surviving through their knowledge of tropes. It’s fun to look into the lives of the faceless goons of villains. See what they do in downtime, or what they talk about during an operation, or how they respond to their boss’s insane demands.

Band of Brothers has that one scene where they’re walking past a bunch of German POWs and Malarkey jokingly asks them where they’re from, only for one of them to respond with “Eugene, Oregon”.

Supposedly based on a real encounter, the guy’s family was part of “The Aryan Call” wave of propaganda that happened early in the war, which had some native German families in the US return to fight for Germany. Poor guy just got swept up in his family’s decision. It was an incredibly humanizing moment when you realize everyone there, on both sides, is just some scared kid, far from home, whose only there because circumstances in their lives beyond their control brought them.

Of course, shortly after, the guy gets executed with the rest of the POWs.

You think nepotism is an insult to them?

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What lawsuit? What are you talking about?