I’d make way more money in defense. I’ve actively avoided it in my career. I spent one summer at LM as an intern. Never went back.

There’s a lesson here…

If you’re not careful, the beans will blow out your bottom.

This. But shamefully I’m happy about it.

I’m not sure how to feel about front liners at these death factories.

On the one hand, worker solidarity, they’re clearly not capitalists.

On the other hand, it’s a damn death factory.

This needs one of those bell curve memes.

$100k bond.

They’re gonna destroy this woman because they’re fucking her over and she dared to imply she could fight back.

The NYT only put the Holocaust on the front page 26 times when it was happening. Only 6 of those times were Jewish people identified as primary victims.

They have never cared about actual news, only manufacturing consent.

“Social Murder”

I lived there for years and didn’t know this! That’s insane!

Additional fun fact, Kansas has in the past attempted to annex Kansas City, Missouri.

The metro area being split between MO and KS has also caused a race to the bottom for certain kinds of regulations and taxes because for many businesses the cost of moving between the two states was essentially moving from one side of State Line Rd to the other.

Such a strange metro area.

Bold assumption that “we” (meaning the government) includes anyone actually reading this, because as far as I can tell the only “we” the government considers is capital owners. Unless you’re proposing some alternate method of behavior alteration.

They didn’t want to compromise their ability to spy on us easily.

My former officemate grew up in Russia in the 80s, he hated a shitload about growing up in the Soviet Union. He raved consistently about two things: the education system and gender equality.

His mother was a mathematician and computer programmer, and he didn’t have issues with school there until after he’d been here (the US) as an exchange student and had some… Cultural differences with his teachers.

“People who smile a lot in Russia are considered to be unintelligent”

Your brain is dopamine deprived, video games are designed to get our dumb monkey brains to squeeze out all the happy juice. Adderall floods your brain with dopamine so the video games just don’t hit like they used to.

ICC is Hamas. Obviously.

“Yeah girl, my bathroom lights come on automatically when you walk in. I’ve even set them to 30% brightness… After bedtime.”

If only my wife truly appreciated me lol

Disregarding your physical needs in pursuit of dopamine for 20+ hours is a symptom.

I’m definitely not saying you should blame yourself for not phone banking or door knocking enough or something.

The system that we live in is just perfect for making us feel like this. And the people in charge are not incentivized to change it for us.

The only way we fix it is by trying to make things better locally, from the bottom up.

You’re not wrong about having the physical and temporal capacity to inform yourself regardless, but you’ve also got to have the mental and emotional capacity as well.

I’m sure you’re aware of how exhausting it is to live here, even just having nominal exposure to all the campaign ads and the outrage bait “news.” That’s before all the regular stress of living here with a family, all of your material conditions. Is my car gonna break down? If it does will I get fired? How can I afford my kids soccer cleats? Will the babysitter cancel on me for my extra shift?

If the only exposure you got for the election that you paid attention to because it was “entertainment” was a “funny” Joe Rogan clip your buddy sent you of the Trump interview it’d be real easy to be like “well, we made it through the first one, and at least he acknowledges that things are more expensive…”

Obviously if you’re tuned in, you know that’s a bullshit front. But if you don’t have the capacity to be tuned in because fucking everything is designed to stress you out and extract what little money you have… Well, here we are.

It’s so easy to shit on voters for not being informed.

Dems had $1B to reach this lady with a message about how they were going to improve her material conditions and they couldn’t or wouldn’t. At least they got that sweet sweet Cheney fan vote.

When people have to work constantly or their kids will starve and it just keeps getting worse wtf is anyone supposed to do?

“You didn’t do your homework, so you deserve to have your life destroyed lol”

The system is fucked. Well and truly.