jpreston2005

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

The everything is already awful enough without us having to carry around a device that connects us to all the awful everywhere we go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

nobody would care

Information Overload. The march doesn't matter. The people who did the upsetting thing have already gone on to do several more upsetting things by the time we've started marching against the first one. The people reporting about the upsetting thing miss the point but it doesn't matter because nobodies actually paying attention, it's just fluff on in the background. The white noise we need to go about our day maintaining some false sense of "staying up to date" when it's impossible to do. The torrent of information comes from all over the globe and never stops growing. Even if everything is suddenly perfect in your neighborhood, city, state, or country, it doesn't matter because there's a genocide somewhere else, and the pope died, and there's a famine and a new study that says the sweet treats you like are going to kill you and the stock market is down but it's back up by the time you check and you should've bought the dip so you could actually retire but you were too busy ignoring a TV while looking at bad news on your phone and eating a sweet treat because nothing feels real anymore and you just need a hit of dopamine before you start panicking and reach for the gun in the nightstand to put a bullet in your brain because at least the bullet will be real and the silence afterwards won't be temporary.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

That is an insane thing to have to do. Having to manipulate your TV into not doing something you don't want or require it to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Can't force the memory to resurface. It comes when you're ready for it, not before (i.e. when you're not running from it anymore). Took a lot of effort, therapy, and breakthroughs... Then, when I least expected it, several memory triggers hitting all at once and BAM. All came back like lightning. Every detail, like it happened yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

From what I remember, it was visually overwhelming, while the story and dialogue were the opposite. Additionally, for how simplistic the story was, it seemed like they could have done it in less than it's 2hr 15min runtime...

But I dunno, maybe I'll give it another shot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Avoidant, checking in! Everything is awful!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And I don’t really think I have ‘repressed memories’

Funny, I said this exact same thing. Got pissed at the therapist, never went back to him.

Then it all came back.

Things don't stay buried.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Releasing her doesn't matter, the message has already been sent, the intention is clear. To intimidate those that would defy their fascist operations. To silence critics that fear retribution. To say for all to hear, "if we can do this to a judge, imagine what we can do to you."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA couldn't have happened to a more deserving shitstain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I still don't really understand how we ended up fumbling the ball so hard at the end of the season. One game Russel Wilson is throwing for 400+ yards, and the next, we're being made to look foolish. Both QBs gone, and we bring back our old third string guy who's more famous for getting beat with his own helmet more than anything else... We just went out and got another amazing WR, but got nobody to throw them the ball! Mike Williams, George Pickens, and now DK Metcalf, but who's gonna give them the ball?? So many questions. This years draft is gonna be interesting.

Just please for the love of god let aaron rodgers go somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't agree. I think what was originally dubbed masculine, was thinly veiled stoicism. It was a philosophical approach to how one should live a good life. It was be a hard, strong, quiet man that takes it all on the chin because you know that your work will come back and benefit you in the long run. Masculinity was akin to boomer-isms of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps," or "work hard and you'll be rewarded."

But through the lack of social economic reforms over the last half century, there is a profound disconnect between hard work and wealth. Wealth generated passively from capital has surged, while earnings from actual hard work has dried up. Young men are not so stupid that they don't see this. So what happens when someone swoops in with seemingly a massive fortune, that is selling a new version of masculinity? He's selling a new philosophical approach to the dire economic hardship of today, and it's basically one of the gangster. The same people that idolized Al Pacino in Scarface, now, instead, worship online toxic figures selling similarly thought out get-rich quick schemes.

His philosophy could be surmised into "Use everyone around you in order to accumulate wealth."

It's really just a terrible philosophy that destroys lives, but within it, he offers the same snake-oil that most religions do, "it's not your fault." Which is the barb that sticks in people. "It's not your fault, it's XYZ (whether that's the woke or women or immigrants or whatever, it doesn't matter who they blame, so long as they blame someone else for your problems)."

So, instead of focusing on figures of true positive masculinity (Steve Irwin, Mr. Rogers, Arnold Schwarzenegger), they flock to the simpler, easier answer. They can imagine how to use people, how to sell drugs or prostitute women, because they see it depicted in movies, and think that they could do it. It's far more difficult and far more convoluted to grow into a fully realized man that values others, and works hard despite not garnering massive wealth. To live a life of charity and humility isn't sexy, and doesn't make one a millionaire. So why would they flock to it?

Fix wealth inequality, and you'll fix a LOT of issues we have today, including (I think) the rise of toxic male influencers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Aw heeeell yeah. I have my doubts about the influence Disney will have on the outcome, but hopefully we at least get a couple more great seasons!

 

A panel of corrupt republicans are trying to toss upwards of 65,000 votes in an effort to overturn election results. Gee, where have I heard this one before?

 

Needed a bit of optimism in my day, and thinking about this possible scenario made me feel better. Perhaps there's light at the end of the tunnel?

 

Well it's been another banner week for the dipshit parade you voted for. I know you're not paying attention to it, so let me round it up for you.

Dear leader Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in ‘horribly shortsighted’ decision. Surely that won't come back to bite us in the ass, right?

Dear leader proposes ‘getting rid of FEMA’ while touring disaster areas. You know, like a jackass might.

Dear leader giving a nazi oligarch office space in the Eisenhower building. (There's a fox news link just for you!) He has since gone on to lock Office of Personnel Management workers out of computer systems. But hey, those systems only contain dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of all government workers.

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications." (Good thing Dear Leader fired the cybersecurity team!)

Dear Leader's massive deportations are causing farm workers to stop showing up for harvest. Leaving American farmers high and dry, they're crop rotting in the field. I wonder what that will do to grocery prices? 🤔 But don't worry, Dear Leader is siding with his chief immigrant to extend the H1B Visa program, allowing immigrants to take the jobs of professional Americans too!

Dear Leader decided to speak at an anti-abortion rally in Washington attended heavily by, you guessed it, white supremacist group patriot front!

Dear Leader decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords, because climate change is just a Chinese hoax, right?? He followed that up by curtailing wind energy projects, while expanding oil and gas drilling! Wow, good thing Climate change is a chinese hoax right??

Here's NASA saying it's not. Climate change is real and your dear leader is expediting the destruction of our planet.

Dear Leader released files on MLK and JFK assasination, but curiously didn't release the epstien files, Gee, I wonder why? Here's Dear Leader talking specifically about it, and here's why he won't release it. Wow, 7 trips to epstein's island, huh? Here's a Direct quote from Dear Leader;

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine that year for a story headlined “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Dear Leader, in a gift to Russia and China, orders a freeze to all aid to Ukraine and Taiwan. Wow, who could have seen that coming?

Dear Leader nominated a white nationalist domestic abuser whose only qualification is being a fox news talking head to run the Defense Dept. While also nominating puppy killer ivanka stand-in as head of Dept. of Homeland Security. And can't forget your favorite worm-brained anti-vax moron that thinks wifi causes cancer, RFK!

Dear Leader attempts an illegal firing of Dept. Watchdog Inspectors Generals. Can't imagine why he wouldn't want corruption watchdogs on staff!

Dear Leader couldn't even make it a whole week without golfing, holding a gop retreat at his private resort, and funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into his pockets. Because, lest we forget, he never divested from ANY of his companies. Jimmy Carter sold his fucking peanut farm.

Dear Leader, in a sign of gratitude to their terrorism, pardoned jan 6th terrorists. Dozens of whom had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking (They're sending their best!). They immediately go on to get in a shoot out with police.

Dear Leader also pardoned violent anti-abortion extremists, while simultaneously announcing that his administration would no longer enforce the FACE Act, which protected abortion clinics from these violent religious extremists. An act that was put in place after the murder of Dr. David Gunn in 1993. Gee, can't foresee anything bad happening from these decisions!

Dear Leader fires justice dept. staff in blatant retaliation to their involvement in the legal prosecution of his criminal activities. Convicted felon gets elected, immediately fires people who investigated his felonies. The Onion couldn't write a headline like this!

Dear Leader also wasted no time in canceling student visas for pro-Palestinian protestors in a gift to the man currently genociding their people, natenyahu.

Dear Leader cancels all federal grants and loans, sending everything into chaos, from college students with FAFSA, to people with medicaid. Wow, what a fuckwit.

“This sort of came out of the blue,” said David Smith, a spokesperson for the Shawnee Mission School District in Kansas, one of countless districts that receive federal funding. Now they’re trying to figure out what it means “based on zero information.”

Dear Leader began purging any competence out of federal employees with sycophantic loyalty tests.

Dear Leader bans trans Americans from openly serving in the military. Cuz why not?

Dear Leader is setting up a 30 thousand bed concentration camp at a torture black site, but I'm sure for nothing nefarious! It's not like the 200 deported Colombians included pregnant women and children — but no criminals... oh wait.

Dear Leader fired the head of the U.S. Coast Guard and TSA, while terminating the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. (Cue Curb Your Enthusiasm Intro) which immediately resulted in a mid-air collision over the Potomac River that claimed 67 Americans, AND a crash in Philadelphia which saw 7 dead and 19 injured. Wow, what a short-sighted totally-stable genius! Almost like when he fired the pandemic response team immediately before a world-wide pandemic!

In response to these deadly crashes, Dear Leader blames minorities. Wow! So creative!

Dear Leader also, for some unknown reason, ordered a pause of all activities and events related to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth, LGBTQ Pride Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Wow! This guy really hates minorities and women, am I right?

And last (for now) but most assuredly not the least, Dear Leader ordered Army Corp. of Engineers to flood California farms in a nonsensical political stunt.

“Something really bad could happen because of their nonsensical approach,” the former official, who was granted anonymity because of the issue’s political sensitivity, said. “Floods are real. This isn’t playing around with a software company.”

Dumping the water from Lake Kaweah and Success Lake poses a flood risk to downstream communities, he said, like the town of Porterville, which nearly flooded during rainstorms in 2023. It also reduces the amount of irrigation water available to farmers during the driest months of the year. The snowpack in the Southern Sierra Nevada that California depends on for water supplies in the summer has dipped to 47 percent of average for this time of year after a dry January, according to state estimates released Friday.

“We need to keep every bit that we have, because this potentially is irrigation water that we have up there,” Hernandez said.

Wow! What a fucking moron!

That's all I have for this week, please let me know what sense you can make of all this horse-shittery, because I'm stumped!

 

Let's recap what a spectacular failure your administration has been so far. So much has happened already, I think it's important to keep track for you, as you bury your head in the sand of propaganda.

Drumpf launched a meme coin prior to the inauguration, of which he retained a massive amount, allowing any foreign actors to directly funnel money to his personal coffers without a trace. So far he stands to pocket somewhere north of a billion dollars from the venture. drumpfs final bribe total remains to be seen

This is, of course, naked corruption. Lest we forget, who was it that never released their tax returns, despite promises to do so? Who was it that was charged and convicted of a felony for using campaign funds to hide secret hush money payments to porn stars? Who was it that had 4 criminal indictments resulting in a fine of almost 500 million dollars? drumpfs criminal investigation tracker

He has attempted a blatantly unconstitutional executive order to end birthright citizenship. Gee, I thought we were a family of proud immigrants, that celebrated our German and Irish roots? My grandfathers fought nazis, their children helped put them in the white house. He's now allowing ICE to invade schools and churches to round up undesirables. All while rolling back key civil rights federal protections established in the Equal Employment Opportunity Order of 1965 that protects minorities such as myself from being discriminated against. This is while he pushes for his agencies to enact McCarthyism style witch hunts to root out and intimidate anyone who might value the true nature of the United States as the great melting pot it is.

His EPA is rolling back rules limiting PFAS in Americans drinking water, allowing companies to dump as much of the toxic chemical as they please. But don't worry the US ranks 23rd among nations when it comes to clean drinking water.

He has refused Dr. Faucis security detail, while giving a perfect example of stochastic terrorism saying he'd "Feel no responsibility should harm befall him." But hey it's not like his rabid base of mouth breathing supporters would try to harm anyone on behalf of their dear leader, right?

Here's a throwback to when he falsely claimed that a group of legal immigrants were stealing and eating peoples pets, which put an entire community in danger. A bullshit, racist assertion that he never walked back, despite it being proven false.

Additionally, after an innocuous sermon calling for empathy and compassion, drumpf took offense, and now she's receiving death threats from your wildly unhinged base too.

He's also rolled back a program aimed at keeping the cost of generic prescription drugs lower for medicare and medicaid recipients. While the rest of the GOP floats the idea to cut funding to medicaid to fund his destructive agenda.

Oh yeah, and I definitely saw this one coming. Representatives introduce bill to allow drumpf a third term in the white house. Just another example of the traitorous, disgusting, and insane behaviour we've all come to expect from your party. The pundits and yourself may laugh it off now, but as the years go on, soon you'll be in lock-step saying that "he should have 8 uninterrupted years of rule so as to enact his agenda" with as much vigor as your dear leader demands.

Oh and his proposed new tax plan would increase taxes on the poor and middle class, while giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy! Who could have seen that coming! Besides fucking EVERYONE?

"... we estimate the bottom 40 percent of households would see tax increases, on average, with after tax income falling by 0.6 percent for the bottom quintile and by 0.4 percent for taxpayers in the 20th to 40th percentile. Middle income taxpayers would see very slight tax cuts on average, with after-tax income increasing by 0.3 percent in 2034. The top two quintiles would see the largest increases in after-tax income, ranging from 1.4 percent for taxpayers in the 60th to 80th percentile to 3.1 percent for the top quintile. Increases for the top 1 percent are even larger, reaching 4.1 percent in 2034. In the long run, accounting for economic growth, all income groups would see an increase in after-tax income, although higher income earners would see a larger increase."

Hey, and this is just the first week! Please feel free to explain how this will lower the price of groceries?

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