I’m actually rewatching it now, and Clark was minding his own business after getting the tree and Todd makes a snide comment about the size of the tree unprovoked, and Clark just bounced back at em. Then their next scene when Clark is putting up lights they kinda low-key hope he hurts himself.

No idea who exactly started the illwill between the neighbors but the yuppie couple certainly aren’t played as the innocent victims

At face value, no. But we’ve all had those asshole neighbors who can never mind their own business.

These days it’s FAFO. I used to work with someone and he would shoehorn that into conversations completely unprovoked…like he itching to find any excuse to shoot someone

We will see a bunch of “this is not the Brexit I’ve voted for” to come.

No, they’ll just continue to blame dems, immigrants, and anyone else under then sun except for their godemporer for the mess they voted themselves into.

They’ll find a way to blame everyone else when all the Chineseium junk on amazon suddenly isn’t so cheap.

When I was in the 8th grade I tried asking what the difference was. A friend of mine at the time, who was kinda smart albeit the son of a rich dentist, summed it up by saying “Democrats want to give money to the homeless while republicans want to create jobs for the homeless”. It made sense at the time and held some truth for a decade or 2.

Whereas now it’s “democrats try to get homeless people back on their feet, republicans make being homeless illegal”

pretty ugly when you don’t bury it beneath talking points, or obscure it with incoherent rants

Or outright blatant, easily proven lies.

Fucking magnets!

I think a big part of it is we’re on the other side of the peak of all houses going for 100k over asking regardless of condition. A number of houses have that grey vinyl flooring installed in a bunch of rooms that’s as cheap as it is ugly.

This is everywhere. I’ve been looking for houses for 3 months in NW Ohio. 300k is the new 150k, and all the houses are beat to shit on the inside needing 50k just to make them passable inside because nobody takes care of them.

Ohio and Michigan. It’s like if a Home Depot merged with WalMart

This is the fucked up part. I had to listen to a gaggle of middle-aged white ladies at work spend an hour talking up how Kamala’s campaign is a disaster, tAmPoN tIm lying about his son being near a shooting and how vance was so polite and cordial during the debate, picking apart “lies” like Walz doesn’t even know how to use guns…

…meanwhile the orange turd and the couch-fucker have been spewing off endless amounts of lies and hate including the pet-eating illegal immigrants in Ohio, the state we currently live in. And one of them had to “explain” what gerrymandering is and why they should vote to keep it in place in Ohio.

“where’s my sharpie…”

He’s just as scary but for different reasons. They both spout the same unsubstantiated lies, but The dude is balls deep in P25 and huge into election denial. Same endgame just different steps.

https://youtu.be/RllWJUvrxEY

It’s not on my drive, and I think I may have completely lost it, but here’s a synapsis from the last time I posted it…

The whole premise was on some rando day all screens with sound on earth (kinda live V), started broadcasting a message from the ambassador from the Concordium, and it’s all one giant monologue from him. He just says that anytime they find advanced, intelligent life in the galaxy they monitor them for roughly 11 of our years to ensure they’re advanced enough and are able to exist within their structure and harmony. But it took less than 3 for them to determine we are not, cannot, and never will never be functionally capable of it. One cited example is there at 10 individuals on the planet with enough wealth and resources to legitimately end hunger and poverty, and advance the civilization 100 years in maybe 10, but they’d rather burn the planet and let over 1/3 of the population suffer and die just to increase their already obscene wealth. Others include individuals damaging or killing themselves and others in displays of barbarism for mere entertainment, hate based on superficial features, and constant warring not towards the advancement of peace and prosperity but material goods and archaic resources that only further destroy the planet. As a result, our solar system is considered quarantined; they will not enter it, nor are we allowed to leave. If we attempt to they will eliminate us so we don’t poison the rest of the galaxy as we have our own planet. Only twice have they encountered warring species similar to us, and both times theose species’s intention was to try and build advanced warships to conquer their way out of their solar systems, but because of their nature they both ended up destroying themselves and their planets in the process.

It ends with the transmission being cut, and the ambassador being asked if he thinks this could make humans unify and work towards the goal of bettering themselves to the point of being welcomed into the Concordium. He replies it has never happened in their recorded history

A few years ago I wrote a short story about a benevolent alien alliance coming to earth because they observe planets with intelligent life to evaluate if they’re worthy of joining the alliance.

They say they usually take 10ish years to do a complete evaluation but it took less than 3 for them to determine not only are we not worthy, but they are officially quarantining our solar system. The basis of their determination: 10 people on this planet have the resources and means of legitimately end all suffering and make this planet a utopia, but they would instead poison and burn 3/4 of the planet to hoard more of those resources for themselves.

"and what would you like to drink’

“Ok, good”

The more you toot the better you feel, so eat your beans at every meal!

Put more money into tacticool guns than they did ammo. Spent more time making them look Gucci than they did at the range.