Is that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei?

That’s why he said “old guy question”.

I graduated in 99. I can take cell phones apart and put them back together all day but ANYTHING to do with the carriers I have negative interest in. I would rather eat paint chips while listening to harpies screeching. I just can’t be made to care.

There’s always just some people, with everything, who just don’t fucking care and nothing will ever change that. With every subject.

With homeboy here, I would t spend 1300 on a phone. Ever. I’d go out, today at this point in history, and buy a used pixel 7 (or 8 if priced right), root it and put GrapheneOS on it, but that’s just me.

The only way to have money is to not spend it and very few things are worth feeling the despair that can come with being broke. At this point in my life, there’s nothing that I can think of that’s worth being broke over. Not one single thing out there.

A hung jury just allows the prosecution to retry him

It’s up to the prosecutor if it’s worth the expense or not.

So if I were to take one of them cars and drive out to the middle of nowhere in the desert where there’s no cell service, what’s it gonna do? Shut off once it’s roaming? Not start back up and strand me in 115° heat? I just want to be prepared for my lawsuit that’s all

Politics is nothing but coordinated violence, in that it is nothing but coercion of people against their own interests. If you’re an interested party, than youre adding to the coercion of others. If you stay out of it, then it’s not political to you is it?

Politics:violence

Politics:economics

Economics:violence

Try telling people whose rent has doubled or tripled within a decade that economics isn’t violence. You’ll experience some carnal violence in return, I’m sure.

Politics = violence; it’s the NC-17 version, violence all grown up and sophisticated. Sanitized for TV, in it for the sound bites. In fact, I’d say at least half of it is theatre alone. It’s even been packaged up for the people to play along from home. The evolution of violence, fun for the whole family. I mean, what else would we talk about come holidays? HELPING each other?!?

We should call him Macroni, a la crony capitalism and it sounds as stupid as his face looks.

Just sells out the workers to corporations.

What’s the difference? Living under heel or living under foot? Seems the same to me.

Capitulation isn’t a plan. Nice try Orbán, ya fascist fuck.

Dude, I just ate. Don’t make me …🤢

It FLABBERGASTS me that people get on internet forums knowing anyone could be from anywhere and have ulterior motives and not run everything thru the very basic filter of “qui bono”, which is latin for Who benefits? The double tap is “Follow the money.”

If the opinions put across lead to a conclusion that politically oppositional countries would find beneficial…guess what…you’re talking to someone on their payroll. Or worse, you’re talking to useful idiot doing the job for free.

I’ve called out hundreds of shills over the past few years. Hundreds. The only rational way to look at opinions online is askance.

There’s a new word for you, it’s personally my favorite, so remember it, use it, love it, spread it, and apply it to the internet. And tell others to do so as well.

How many felonies does convicted rapist Trump have pending?

You’re right, America don’t have time for that.

If Trump weren’t such a dip shit, he could’ve sold red MAGA facemasks, establish a new mint to meet his payout, and kept the 11000 votes he needed in Georgia alive and won reelection. Substantially more than 11k Republican voters had died in GA between Jan 2020 and Nov 2020.

His negligence killed his own voters. That’s not 4D chess. That’s dumbstruck stupidity at the highest level.

I fully agree with you. 2 caveats.

For the last 15 years, that I can recall, every year it was reported that more people who are or lean left have been buying the bulk of weapons. The left isnt toothless and honestly, most of the fucks who drove around in Trump trains, bullying on the freeway and what not, would shit their pants if fire were returned their way. Like all bullies, theyre real tough until they meet someone who is, then they’re a bunch of chicken shits. Case in point; Uvalde

And it pains me to think it but I do; America’s “silent majority”, those too afraid to lose what they have to speak out, won’t budge until we see a REAL loss.

Take this, entirely plausible scenario.

Trump wins the election, not because people want him, but because the status quo (which is all Democrats can ever offer - they aren’t a party of leaders; they’re a party of middle managers) is destroying us all, and/or because our support for Israel, as they become the newest genocidal, eternal victim/pariah. Genocidal Joe is a baaaaaad moniker. Trump comes in, 2025 starts getting implemented. To distract, in the name of national security/health war is declared on the cartels, without discussing it with Mexico first and the bombing campaign begins as troops are built up in Cali/Arizona/NM/Texas. Soldiers push out off of America soil. Skirmishes are ran across the border and back again. Keep in mind - any military action inside the states is illegal. Legally they would have to establish a beachhead to invade; but that defeats the softer point of the whole venture, which is to normalize military use around civies. Protests erupt after our military, under direct orders to do, start channeling their inner Israeli and kill every human in sight. Mexican Americans, the majority along the border, grind the 2 largest state economies to a halt. Police are overwhelmed…next thing we know, Tucson doesn’t exist anymore, thousands of American are dead, at the hands of our military…

That’s the threshold I think it’d take for any fucking Karen or Kevin to realize things have gone to far. I hope I’m wrong.

I hope Shawn Fein can pull it together for 2028 like he’s mentioned. I’ll be standing in the roads right next to you brother.

If George Soros ever did anything to warrant all the hate he gets he should offer all 5 conservative judges 5mil/yr to retire immediately.

Like, you can’t expect them to NOT take it. The rights been selling America out for 40 years now.

Well in Seattle, before CHOP, that bitch ass east precinct started all the violence on cap hill, every single night. Then abandoned shop as if they were under attack, which they weren’t.

“THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES”

and those far right terrorists? Yea, those were ICE and BP in unmarked cars, in civilian clothing, pulling up throwing bags over people’s heads and throwing them in the trunk. People just walking home from work, not even involved. Pure fucking terrorism. That’s what Trump levied against the PNW.

I’m not fucking kidding either. This whole place is fucked, not even worth the paper the bullshit sanitized lies we were raised on.

I love it.

If there’s no respect for the law at the top, why the fuck should any of us have any respect for it?

If you wanna be rich you gotta do what the rich do right? Bring on some fucking anarchy, America’s been getting primed since Newt Gingrich for a purge, dumb motherfucking out of touch 1% think they’re gonna survive it. How’d that work for em in the movies?

I’m with ya man, if cost weren’t a deterrent I’d hold multiple doctorates right now.

Personally, I think education should be free to all, rich or poor, as its the summation of the human experience thus far.

Or in other words, it’s our birthright

No one should have the right or ability to paygate it, and that includes the state. The labs necessary should be publically funded because society would suffer more for having less physicists and chemists than an abundance of them, for reasons I hope are obvious.

In my mind, if a company wants to set a generalized education requirement, above high school, that company should be required to pay off its employees student loans. Otherwise it’s using the education system as a subsidized training program.

Note I said generalized. Engineers, doctors, etc who desire to ever be employed can’t stop at a bachelor’s anyways. Even still, their employees should have to pick up their training tab.

Business has gotten a free pass for 40 years and look at the society they’ve created with it. Maybe civilization needs more than a love of money to sustain it. Crazy huh.

If someone has the financial means to assert themselves or their rights, then they are obstacles to the oligarchies goal of enshrining their wealth and having the government, that we pay for - they don’t pay taxes, protect their wealth for them, from us. Why else usurp regulatory control?

We pay for our own oppression then. This is, no hyperbole, the face of Slavery, Inc. and the 100% guarenteed, as immoral as inevitable, end of corporatocracy (late stage capitalism). Correcting course won’t be easy, how to won’t be shared thru media, and the doing so absolutely will not be legal. But what choice are we left with? Live on your knees or die on your feet?

Your point is valid.

Mussolini described fascism as the merger of the corporation and the state, his entire cabinet was staffed with the heads of industry no less.

Now, a technocracy, where the smartest people, the experts, have the seats of power sounds…logical. Assuming the CEOs, whose only skill is having access to capital (kowtowing with the rich, its about who you know, etc) are the experts is exactly what the media sells us everyday and as the only thing Elon Musk has genuinely done on his own is show us that, boy oh boy, we do NOT live in a meritocracy. And he bought his way into that one as well, staying true to character.

Corporations are an accountability shield that enable atrocity. It used to be that it took religion to convince man to compromise his moral self and commit evil (…look at Israel right now). In the modern world we have streamlined the process, no faith required. Giving the morally jettisoned power is such a horrible horrible idea.

If Trump wins, not only will we all face down his fascist regime (Immigration and Border Patrol brown shirted) but I worry the solidifying of corporate statemanship into the permanently entrenched (our own taxes fund our oppression) would mean reform, thru voting or any other peaceful means, rendered impossible.

I consider that likelihood at 100%. The same as declaring war on the cartels, under public safety over fent, to climatize people to the military operating in our borders, before they’re ordered to illegally act against us. That probability, mark my words, 100%