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Cake day: December 30th, 2023

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldAlphas.
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    5 days ago

    I was stable release male but now I’m no longer supported. So I’m no longer secure, I don’t have the latest features, and I’m something most people don’t want to mess with. However, there’s a certain demographic that thinks I’m pretty great so I’ve got that going for me.







  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonejack rule
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    6 days ago

    Not the person you asked.

    Gass made a birthday wish during a concert that the next assassin wouldn’t miss trump back when that dude shot at him during a rally. Black publicly said he would “never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form”. They cancelled their tour and went on temporary hiatus.

    While I disagree with Black, I do understand why he would say that. MAGAs were itching to find someone to shoot at the time. If I were an entertainer I would not want them showing up to my show shooting at my fans.

    The most recent interview with Gass has him saying this: “Somebody called my mom. My poor 95-year-old mom. It hits close to home, and you want to be brave and courageous, but I’m not a congressman. We’re just entertainers. And it just bespeaks the insanity of the times. It feels almost vindictive."

    But both Gass and Black have said they’ll be back as Tenacious D. Black said he loves the D and everybody has to take a break sometimes. Gass said they’ve hashed it out.

    Friends go through shit sometimes. And these two have been friends for like a thousand years. Their friendship just happens to be public and people take sides when they see it happen.

    Edit: took out a sentence that I had in there twice.








  • A couple of things.

    First, that was mostly a conservative fantasy. They pretended to be waiting for a corrupt government because they were big and manly. Most of the “left” (I mean, you know, left of Republicans) wanted gun control ranging from sensible roadblocks to an outright ban.

    Second, no matter whose fantasy it was, it was going to be a fantasy once modern war machines were invented. Let’s say I go get a semi automatic rifle. Convert it to automatic. Build IEDs and homemade grenades. But the second drones start dropping bombs on my house I’m fucked, as are my family, probably my neighbors, my friends, and anyone in close contact.

    I’m not saying this to be defeatist. I’m not saying this to try to prove you wrong. This is what it was for. But this ain’t gonna get the job done with the modern state of technology and the people in charge being walled away from the general population. I don’t know exactly what the answer is but I’m open to suggestions.


  • Nah. The people having the kids aren’t generally thinking about another source of labor. I come from a stinking, filthy kind of poverty. Sex is free entertainment and family planning costs money or time to get to the clinic and you have to deal with assholes who think the family planning clinics are abortion factories. So you think “if we’re careful it won’t happen, I’ll just pull out”.

    A lot of quiverful ministries are also home to the very poor. Some of them are given teaching for how to get extra money from the government for every kid. The man works, the woman does not, and the older kids are in charge of the younger ones. Childcare solved, in their eyes. I could be mad at them for gaming the system, but I’ve already got too much anger in my heart over the government blaming it on the “welfare queen” stereotype. You know the lie. Black woman with 5 kids from 6 daddies, every one of the daddies is gone. When in reality the system gamers are poor white evangelicals of a specific flavor.