“Protesting is tooooo haaaaaaaaaaaaaard”

Kate is a national treasure.

The problem with this place is that I can’t tell whether you’re serious or not.

You need to be a bit of a narcissist too want to be president. But, well, the current one kind of overshot that mark.

Also, dementia is not strictly speaking a job requirement. It’s just a tradition that results from an empire in decline selecting leaders that remind them of daddy when times were good.

To be fair, they pretty much built this place. They were here before the whole Reddit thing, and they stuck around. Most normies just up and left.

I don’t particularly want to talk about the evils of capitalism in every thread. It’s really really bad, but I have diverse interests, and have some form of object permanence, it’s ok to talk about something else once in a while. But that’s the only content that gets any engagement here because we left and they stayed.

So chalk another one for the old small-d democratic notion of “decisions are made by those who show up”. This is the “get lectured by Tankies” social media network now.

I mean yes, but also very much no.

The decline of the Roman Empire, from Trajanus Maximus to the fall of Rome, took more than 300 years.

The British empire peaked in the 1920s and has been managing its decline somewhat gracefully since then.

But leave it to the Americans to just throw everything into the woodchipper yelling “FUCK YOU LOSERS WE’RE STILL NUMBER ONE” all the way down.

And a serious issue expressing it clearly.

Dude, this is not a me problem. It’s 100% a you problem.

Oh yeah, absolutely. The county electing an obviously unfit person to the highest office is not something that happens on its own: it’s an indication of the rot running deep. The unfit person can then accelerate the destruction of the country in ways few were even able to anticipate.

The U.S. has entered exponential decline, where everything that happens makes the next step more likely and more impactful.

And after that, VRA, loving vs Virginia, fair housing act. Ending segregation was a gradual process that, by many metrics, still isn’t complete, but any date before 1964 or 1968 is a big fat lie.

Yes, but also no.

Everyone can see the inflection point. Some might be tempted to roll the dice, we got a shit situation now, let’s see what happens. But everyone can see things are not like they used to be.

What is your point exactly?

I know you are probably not trying to sound like an apologist for fucking slavery, but I’m coming up empty on alternative hypotheses.

Yeah my other two options were murder and buried with evidence of other crimes to make investigation harder.

Oh that’s honestly on the benign side of the options I was turning around in my head.

Is this just “haha your mom is dead” (which is not a particularly ingenious put down for middle aged children — parents tend to die eventually) or is this a reference to something untoward happening to Ivana?

The point of fantasies is that they are, well fantasies. Most of them are sketch as fuck if you do it irl without proper consent, if not downright criminal.

I’m not particularly into the bimbo thing, but objectification fetishes of all sorts are hella big. I’m not about to throw any of my fellow perverts under the bus.

That’s new to you guys?

Ahem, yes, it’s new to me too of course.

You mean Cinèma.

Unfortunately the patriarchy