I was real excited for a second there bud. I was wondering how the fuck I missed that in the news cycle.

The government has executed scores of people for exercising their right to bare arms.

Turns out you only have the rights the police are willing to respect. Which means you don’t actually have any.

You put it in quotes. Like a big ole scaredycat

Let’s overthrow the government, hang all the billionaires from highway overpasses, and set anyone who resists us on fire.

…

In… In Minecraft

Sorry the dimension you’ve been transported to has laws of physics that don’t allow water to exist.

Which means you’ve got a few precious seconds to get yourself home before you violently erupt as your water molecules each individually break apart in to hydrazine.

I’m sure they’ve read the Bill Cooper collected works.

Spoilers… For a joke from a kid’s movie with the plot depth of a sidewalk rain pond from 13 years ago.

Some of the children obsessed with that movie when it came out are old enough to rent a car now.

The war on drugs was a dog whistle continuation of the Jim Crow era. Because it was now illegal to discriminate against black people simply for being black, new methods of oppression needed to be instituted. When Nixon announced the war on drugs, drug use was going down and was approaching it’s lowest point in decades. His hope was that by finding ways to continue to police black people, he’d win support of Southern Democrats who were largely at the time, pro labor but mad about the civil rights movement.

This strategy worked, and it was continued and expanded under Reagan. When Nancy Reagan pleaded with Americans to ‘just say no’ drug use was at about 3% nationwide.

American police were always a tool of oppression of black communities. They grew out of post civil war racist brotherhoods like the KKK. On multiple occasions, entire chapters of KKK members were deputized.

The narco trafficking the CIA did was a natural progression of this, and was used as an excuse to further militarize the police.

“Because they were black” is a simple answer. And it’s correct. But you could add “and black people are who we oppress in this country.”

“maybe the clothes are made of paper. The food is just nutrient paste…”

Or something like that from the Expanse. Sure, your needs are met, but living life on basic assistance seems like a nightmare.

John Oliver looks like a batch of over whipped vanilla pudding in a toupee.

You son of a bitch. I’m in

We need some form of law enforcement.

We do not need a standing military with a license to kill any random citizen.

Long answer: deep breath NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo

Punny was right there

Oh. Ok I have an idea.

It’s Hunter3

Ok I’m gonna change it to that tomorrow so it should work now

Hunter.2. .

But remove all the dots. Try that

I just use Hunter2

What do I need any of those for?

BuT mOnEy MoTiVaTeS uS tO iNnOvAtE

It’s a luxury home, 5 bedrooms sure but it’s also a huge property in an area where property value is insane.

It also has a pool, hot tub, and tennis court with some yard left over. It’s not a boilerplate, built from catalog “McMansion” that are common in the US, but it’s bigger than most of those homes tend to be.

It’s a large luxury home, we call those mansions.

It’s just a little guy.

My wife abused star trek of being a soap opera at some point. At first I thought, maybe she’s just showing up at the worst possible time?

No. It’s all of the time. Every episode has some weird soapy bullshit. Beverly fucking a ghost, LaForge fucking a hologram, Riker fucking anything with genitals INCLUDING a hologram. Everybody be fuckin. That’s not even the soapiest thing. Voyager is basically Soaps in space.

I love classic trek, but guys I think it’s a soap opera.

Almost everything about the situation you were born in to is an accident of birth.

As in, you had no hand in it. Your parents may or may not have had some say in the matter, but for the vast majority of Americans, they didn’t choose to be an American either. Any more than they chose the color of their skin or the texture of their hair.

If you’re the child of immigrants, or an immigrant yourself, then sure, be proud of the accomplishment. It was hard and they (or you) earned the right to be here. But for most of us, it’s just where we happened to be from.