Blocked from posting on lopsided posts. The system wants to demonize half the population and infantilize the other. I’ll post when it draws a crowd. Why waste the forums I’m not blocked from. Uncomfortable truths are free.

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Cake day: July 30th, 2024

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  • Picture if you will; a large government where checks and balances are out the window. A 2 party system co opted by a single force, where both sides are working towards a common goal, but they mask it with temporary solutions, they do this to keep the general populace too worried about paying bills than to concern themselves with something that doesn’t really impact them like government corruption. Within this system you have pillars of control, the police, militias, and military. The single entity deeply entwined with both political parties is feeding select agents into police forces, militias, and any military unit they can get assigned to. They do this to identify like minded individuals, individuals vulnerable to becoming an agent, and individuals that stand in the way. They plan over decades and decades making tiny advancements whenever the chance arises, a lever with constant pressure that takes any extra room available. The single entities end goal being to subvert the government, pass a single law, or series of laws with convoluted wording, and install some form of social system that kept just enough people comfortable that there isn’t enough rocking the boat, and installs themselves as either shadow, or public defacto leader. They need large number of police on their side to quell potential rioting, and military to keep allies at bay while the power transfer is completed. They have just been looking for the right person to force their hand long enough they feel complicit, and go along in the form of becoming an officially elected emperor, or empress. What would that look like? One party throwing siege hiels, while the other forces out a career politician to force in a district attorney that does what she’s told? Or would it look like white police brutalizing black people as a way of identifying who is safe to keep around? Would it look like supreme court justices granting themselves immunity to bribery? Or the same supreme court granting the president the power to do whatever so long as the president claims it was done for the country? Emperor Napoleon style. Can you picture it? What would it look like to you?


  • Who wants to be really fucking angry? I know something that will make any decent human being unreasonably angry. You know the 2 trillion Elongated bent Musky Penis intends to cut from medicare/medicaid/social security? Oh, you do? Good. If you know a group of disabled people living together, and maybe one died, or left to a more specific group home of sorts that caters to their disability, Elon the immigrant, considers the continued Citizen residents that now have an extra room, as committing fraud against whatever service is paying. According to Muskrat, if your old and or disabled, or young and disabled, generally just disabled at all, and your roommate dies, you are expected to move your entire life to a smaller area because it is fraud to continue living where you were living. This is the “fraud” they are going after. That, or does your aunt on medicaid sometimes have an extra pill or 2 left over, they want that reduced to none. No emergency pill, no “in case you drop one and can’t find it you old blind bat, here’s extra’s” this is the “fraud” they were referring to. Now that violence has been threatened by more than just Lil ol me, they can’t use it, they can’t sacrifice the weak like Ronald Mcdonald Reagan did. So they are going to have no where near 2 trillion to cut, unless we see an uptick in homeless and refugees in our own country.



  • I quit streaming services around 4 months ago, determined the exact maximum streaming quality every device I own can handle, used a $60 used office PC from craigslist, admittedly I haven’t fully figured out how to get subtitles to work without transcoding, but I just need to sit down and figure it out at some point. I direct stream all of my content from a 10+ yr old PC and it uses less than 5% cpu while watching a 4k movie. I could stream to easily 5-10 PC’s and still likely be able to do software maintenance on the PC at the same time. That and with how jellyfin looks like a streaming service, with no transcoding it’s better than any streaming service. Nearly every streaming service you use is transcoding on the fly instead of storing 20versions of each video for direct streaming, direct streaming a previously encoded asset will always deliver a higher quality viewing experience.



  • The average person wouldn’t give a flying fart in the wind if tax cuts were funded by eliminating red tape, and removing things that actually didn’t make things safer, or more secure in availability. That said, I see no changes to medicaid to indicate things have gotten better for serving citizens, to me it looks like a Congress that is only useful to pass budgets, is cutting essential services and this is a recreation of Ronnie Reagans tax cuts that left mentally ill individuals to fend for themselves and die under a bridge from pneumonia. But, you have to understand Ronnie was fighting the soviets so your uncle that worked for 40 years paying into the system before their sanity shattered certainly didn’t mind losing their housing and begging just to put a warm meal in their belly. Let alone the potential fall out from cutting red tape that is there to protect people, and literally ANYONE that wants to bypass it is either making working conditions, products safety, and/or public safety worse. This should make it apparent to the average person the Republican party is NOT your friend. And they are no more patriotic than any idiot that can drape themselves in the flag while “born in the USA” plays over the PA.






  • It’s worse than that. Elon identified one of the core tenets impacting employment and he didn’t even know he was doing it. H1-B visa engineers are underpaid, and over worked, the rich are replacing the hardworking US engineers that demand good pay with slave labor engineers from foreign countries. If an immigrant is better at a job than me, it stings, but by all means pay them a good wage and give them a fancy title, but if there really isn’t a difference other than you can pay them less… Get them out, and fill the jobs with people already here. Replacing good workers with slave labor is part of what has strangled the middle class into lower middle class, and bottom class people.

    1. It used to be that if you had to rent an apartment you were poor, even in the cities you could buy an apartment when working at an educated level of job. Now, people just rent an expensive apartment and people assume they have money, Unless you have a support system to help you, you aren’t buying a home. If you do you will be working a side gig as well as your main job, and that’s just to make the two different ends of paychecks meet in the middle.

  • This hits home. I have 2 failed companies to my name. First one flopped, second one I learned from my obvious failures and it got started, then folded when a client refused to pay and I didnt have the resources to fight it in court(single person business, no resources to fall back on as it was just starting out). So back to working the carnival. The second attempt took everything I had, savings, working 12hr days minimum, and every bit of my technical skills. While the first I was hoping for side cash and didn’t invest as much time and effort and got practically nothing. I am not going to sacrifice like I did for the second one ever again, too much work to have it fail because of someone else, the place that didn’t pay me ended up folding within a year so likely I just took on a bad customer, but if that’s all it takes for a fledging business to become untenable for a single hardworking person to accomplish, then it’s not even worth trying because there are so many failures out there that you have to weed out if they will be likely to pay or not.


  • While this is hilarious, likely because it’s true. Dudes going after SSRI’s. SSRI’s saved my life. AND after using them for years I simply slowly reduced my dosage over about a month and I was off them and now only use them as an emergency pill if something really stressful or bad happens it keeps me from getting too emotionally raw and ragged. I have a supply to likely last me years so this doesn’t impact me. It worries me for the people the SSRI’s could help, but he wants to keep the drugs a way from.



  • Ya know how about 2/3rds of the internet population is now on at least 1 watchlist because of supporting Mangione. The second we start seeing vulnerable citizens having their medicare/medicaid/food stamps/gov housing/anything I missed that our taxes pay for to keep people from dying in a ditch during a snow storm/benefits actually cut. You know, like the second 2 small children citizens freeze to death because of funding cuts while the rich refuse to pay their fair share. I say we all, in unison, do something so illegal it requires a legal response, but since so many of us are doing it they won’t be able to pick out anyone to single out for certain so we can all keep doing it as they freak out and go after whomever they feel is vulnerable. Like who’s the one person it’s illegal to threaten to kill? What would happen if 75million of us did it at 2:30 on a Friday afternoon? Pure, unadulterated chaos. Just if some kind of “threat protest” were to take place because of small children dying while rich fucks slept in late, and now a bill for more benefit cuts is being considered, you yourself should absolutely be prepared to be targeted as a ring leader because they will target the weakest and try to use them as a scape goat, I can almost guarantee the current Reich’s SS wouldn’t have the balls to knock on the door of someone that lifts 80lbs of dry cement with 1 hand and is documented as “should already be dead we don’t know what the fuck.” I could be wrong, and if I am, nothing would make me happier than sum small nut little man that everyone thinks is a badass finally going toe to toe with me… But I have no doubt they would pick on a highschooler, or housewife, or a software engineer. So be ware of how they view you before you stand up bravely, you don’t want to be the reason the cement beast goes on a rampage, you want to live to see the cement beast go on a rampage. Also, I’m not advocating for any actions at 2:30 on a Friday afternoon, but at the rate they are looking to “slash” benefits for the average Citizen, and frankly I’ve had everything taken from me already, I’m not on government benefits but my family is, and I’m done having everything taken. I’m Jim Carrey and this is fun with Dick and Jane - “I got the lawn back”. Take again, and I will take whatever I can, and I’ve already seen how your little Piggy’s cow toe for me. I would too if I was weak like them.



  • Seems like a good place to leave my final thought on this matter. Electing anyone other than trump or kamala would have sent an undeniable message of “NO!” To the current establishment. The Democrats do whatever they please just look at how they treated Bernie in 2015, Trump was afraid of Bernie! Meanwhile the Republicans make up stories about “what they want to do is the most patriotic!” Then give massive tax cuts to people that already have more than enough money and work to actually create jobs, but then they have less money so they leave their business minimally staffed with part time crew, and a single over worked manager that’s on salary and works 60+hrs a week. At this late in their game of granting themselves political freedoms like assigning any idiot as any agency head they want(for a start! How big is this constitutional crisis gonna get? Cuz that’s how far the Democrats have been over reaching already since there’s no check or balance against it!), it’s about sending a message that we are still the owners of this country, they are just the current management, and are very replaceable just as they have made sure all of us feel in our lives. Abandoning the parties that just kept doing the same thing over and over making everything worse every time, and actually electing someone that wasn’t who the Democrats or Republicans wanted, would have actually changed things, no matter if congress didn’t work with them, we can’t actually change things to be more intelligently designed in this country when special interests like billionaires have so damn much money, and money is legally protected as free speech, rejecting their candidate rejects theur money as free speecg. Keep electing Democrats and Republicans and things WILL get worse, currently it’s a tug of war where one parties infected bandage of a solution gets applied and it seems like things are better for their constituents, only for the positive affects to wear off shortly after the other party takes office, no one sees the issue is bad policy that only makes things worse in the long run, they only see things got better for a stretch then the midterms happened. They have cities fighting rural populations for control of systems the citizens have no idea how they work, because all they do is further tighten the leash around our neck while pretending to be on our side. We failed to put our foot down as a country after Democrats had control of the government but refused to install checks and balances against executive orders, refused to touch Roe V Wade, and simply expected the power would revert to them again. We failed when the Democrats and Republicans worked together to manufacturer outrage from us to get elected, and then never even brought things to a vote so we could see publicly who stands against change. The citizens failed and should feel thoroughly ashamed for their actions. I have nothing more to say on the last election.


  • Good. Off the top of my head “honor thy father and mother”, and " honor the Sabbath and keep it holy" are both meaningless when you have parents traumatizing their children so much they can barely function in the real world, those parents shouldn’t be honored, they should be shot… Or at least forced into some sort of mental health facility/hospital, and Saturday is the 7th day, ya know the day god rested, not Sunday, so… That’s just been co opted entirely when Christianity and the pagan religions mixed back under emperor Constantinople, not Istanbul in this instance Emperor Constantinoples name remained unchanged.


  • Dems and Reps have been planning this for decades. It was only a question of which party got their puppet into control first, while I can’t say for certain, with hindsight available, it looks like GW Bush was meant to be the Reps patsy, heck maybe he was with the patriot act getting signed into law, each step they could take to erode away basic freedoms in the name of security, or environmental protection, they did. This is very important to remember; instead of congress simply making heads of government agencies a job that must be filled by someone with a degree in the field, they eroded away checks and balances and gave the choice of those heads to the president, something that was not intended under the Constitution. I will be the first to admit without the EPA corporations would ABSOLUTELY pollute our rivers, air, and soil to the point life could not be maintained, but it makes no sense to put a career polluter in control when they don’t care about the science so it should have been law a degree is required.


  • Somewhere along the way, complaining about something you don’t like, while that thing is occurring, became a meltdown. Personally, if you aren’t screaming, jumping up and down, flailing your arms like a maniac, or in the least doing that thing where you force blood into your head and your face gets all blood flushed and if you keep doing it you pass out and crumble like a building made of peanut brittle, unless you did atleast one of those then you aren’t melting down… But based off constant headlines, Complaining about something is a meltdown, then I have constant melt downs, and I really don’t know what it is when I’ve had what I called a meltdown, but apparently is now much worse than what is defined as a meltdown. I have a meltdown when I hit every red light(I complain annoyingly about it), I have a meltdown when I buy diet instead of sugar soda, but I honestly don’t know what it’s called now when my face gets flushed, I start flailingy arms in the air, hollering up and down for whichever deity will bring down holy fire upon the video game that I just died for the 100th time for the same boss… Is that now a psychotic episode? Cuz I always thought psychotic episodes you were psychotic, and melt down you lost your composure, but complaining is a meltdown, so is losing your composure now going psychotic which used to be having a meltdown?