I make less than all of those and live in one of the expensive states. Life is fun. :)

That’s the problem with all these rich, weak, and narcissistic men in powerful positions that are currently dismantling everything. They are all using each other for their own goals. Fortunately for them they all have similar goals in mind for now. If Dear Leader kicks the bucket due to health issues, which is very likely, it’s gonna be an absolute shit show while they all scramble to take all the power for themselves. There’s no way in hell they all agree with the couch fucker taking the office next.

Well, yeah. How else is he supposed to abolish it?

People that live in a car centric country where you cant go anywhere without one and can’t afford a new car just yet. I have a relatively new car and relatively doing well financially, but if I had to buy a new car immediately I’d probably be fucked for the rest of the year. And the fact that the resale market for Tesla is probably not that great right now you won’t get much money back by selling it. I am seeing a lot of Teslas with the logo taken off, though.

I still have RIF on my phone even though it doesn’t work. Can’t bring myself to delete it.

I definitely feel that. :)

If the US makes it out of this regime in one piece i’m gonna be so glad to see America’s ego knocked down. Of course, that’d be the best case scenario. Only time will tell if America even survives in its current form within the next decade.

I thought he was already dead, to be honest.

You’re acting like I said we shouldn’t protest or fight back while I’m literally just talking about the curfew. And I’m not even saying it’s 100% a good idea to have it in the first place, I’m just saying why I think it makes sense and how we can use it since ICE has been almost exclusively operating during the day to make it as obvious as possible. They have been and will continue to use our anger and fear against us and if we act on impulse we are doing exactly what they want us to do. These aren’t just random ICE raids in random communities, they are specifically targeted raids in blue states in specific communities in order to manufacture a crisis that they can “respond” to.

If anything, we need to protest more and resist more. We are way past the point where we should have a general strike. I’m just saying that if things get more violent on our side we are absolutely fucked.

And you’re not wrong, but they are going to be doing that during the day for maximum effect. The kidnapping is the kindling and the police and military are the ignition. It’s not an accident that they are doing this as cruelly as possible. It’s literally the point. They are purposefully pushing us to a breaking point by kidnapping people in broad daylight so they can crack down and make themselves the heroes of the story for their propaganda machine. It’s perfectly reasonable to be pissed off at everything they are doing, but if we don’t look at the bigger picture then they win.

I kinda agree but also kinda disagree with the whole curfew idea. On one hand Trump is trying to incite violence in LA right now and this could potentially make it more difficult by limiting the amount of people in the area. People like looters that are taking advantage of the situation tend to wait until the sun goes down. But on the other hand this could feel like an unnecessary crackdown in and of itself against the protestors and could make them more anxious.

Also, around 20 people being detained is not “mass arrests.” The article says that more than 500 people have already been arrested in recent days so this number almost seems low by comparison.

“You better come to my birthday party or you’re gonna be sorry!”

With him leaving the way he did literally nobody in the country likes this man and aiding with him in any way is political suicide.

If she didn’t have such a large online and social presence I’m sure nobody would have seen her again, or at least not for a couple years. Which is also the reason they wanted her out of there as soon as possible because she would have told it like it is everywhere she went.

I’m sure if it was up to the developers and creative minds behind the game this would have never been an issue. Sure, things like inflation have made the process of making games more expensive, but it’s not like the extra money is going to actually go back to the developers. I’m so sick of this “games are more expensive to make” bullshit while they treat their employees like garbage and make them work ungodly hours. Micro$oft makes more money in one day than most of us or any of the developers will ever see in our entire lifetimes yet they need to lecture us on why we need to give them more money.

To be clear, I hold no grudge against the actual developers of this game. The first one was pretty decent and I’m sure this next one will be relatively good as well. But remember that we are talking about the company that forced Arkane to make Redfall when they had no desire to make it, and after it failed fired everyone at Arkane Austin and closed the studio. This isn’t about making their money back to cover the cost of development, it’s about making as much profit as possible with the least amount of effort possible.

I’ve seen two separate videos posted about 30 times all over the internet. There was one where a cop shot a woman point blank with the “less than” lethal round and she went limp and unconscious. I’ve been trying to find more information on it because I’m extremely worried for her. She was just trying to get out of the road and got trampled by horses like that other guy and you can see one of the cops quickly point his gun at her and shoot her in the head from 2 feet away.

“Your dick sounds pretty good to me.”

Right… Because you need 700 highly trained military personnel to deal with civilians.

Like the guy or not, it’s about the precedent. If they arrest him for criticism they can arrest any politician they want for any reason. I don’t like Newsom either, but if he actually got arrested for this we are all fucked. Arresting people simply because you disagree with them is exactly what fascists do and advocating for it in any way is dangerous and only enables it further.

No worries, I appreciate the follow up. Glad it’s coming to them all.