OldSoulHippie

There's no analysis of how this keeps happening to their party. People run as progressives [citation needed] and then do the same thing every single dem does once they get elected, and there's never any vetting ahead of time. It's always in hindsight that they put the pieces together, but the conclusion is always that they're a secret Republican. Couldn't possibly be that the two parties agree on everything that matters.

Can't wait for the next one they try to push!

I'm so tired of the same ass responses any time trump does something.

I wish I would have saved it and I'm not sure what thread it was in. Anybody know what I'm talking about? They were talking about how anyone who drowned but came back, came back different..

this reddit dipshit has compiled an incomplete list of them in a reddit comment. CW for fat phobia, body shaming, most likely some homophobia thrown in. My cringe face is stuck in some sort of cringe rigor mortis

Better question is why are we even federated with those types anyway?

If you're a leftist using .ee, why aren't you just moving over to a better instance? There is no difference between .ee and reddit

(CW: all kinds of heinous shit like misgendering and homophobia)

All the holier than thou democrats you can imagine making the same used up "lol he's ghey" jokes over and over and over and over. I'm sure the next thread down is about how so and so is against pride month and the commenters are all calling so and so Hitler without a shred of self reflection. There isn't a single person in that thread pointing out how fucked the misgendering et al is. Just a bunch of rabid jackals who can't decide whether they should be homophobic or punch left against Greta thunberg

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1l1jhna/lindsey_grahams_deranged_post_about_greta/?sort=controversial

I haven't seen the libs this cringey and amped up since covfefe or whatever. Talking about having a taco truck festival in front of the white house. Fuck outta here.

We take a yearly vacation for our anniversary to the more wild area of our state and when I was driving, there were a few thoughts that came up. They're pretty obvious but I don't know who else to talk about them with.

The first one was the quality of the roads. I'm sure most Americans experience this a lot. You can tell when you enter a new county because right at the county line, the quality of the road changes. Any serious country would have some sort of nationwide standard and you wouldn't notice because the roads would all be nice. I understand that even under communism there will still be pot holes occasionally. Some areas have weather and other environmental factors that wear out the roads faster. Some roads get a lot more traffic etc. without getting into the semi vs train debate, there is also the fact that some companies just use the roads "harder" yet don't pay more into the upkeep funds. Taxing gas to fix roads just isn't enough. Also, the lane sizes differ. How isn't there a standard for that as well? Our car kept beeping at us saying I was crossing the painted line because the roads were super narrow in some places

A similar issue is cell phone coverage. Any serious country would have cell towers as a public utility instead of us having to run the risk of going to an area that has towers, but they don't work with your phone because you chose the wrong service.

Capitalism hasn't even cynically solved it by beating out other competition with actual good service. They have no incentive to.

In short, the illusion of choice sucks and the federal government should equitably distribute the road maintenance funds.

I don't know, just "thinking out loud" I guess

I'm coming up on 14 years of experience in my field, and I feel like because I like to have fun at work and joke around while we work, I don't get treated like an adult. I'm 37. I work circles around some people and I feel like I leave it all on the field every day. I help everyone, I do just about anything they ask, I help get new people up to speed, I come in early often, I don't come in high.. you get the picture.

So my manager has like a year of on the job experience and is just about the worst manager I've ever had. Nothing is ever good enough and I'm always "wrong". I've tried standing up for myself, and I've tried letting it roll off my back. Neither approach solves any of my problems.

Today, my manager waylaid my team member on a break and asked her what I do back there. I'm never not doing stuff and everyone but my manager sees it and knows it. I'm the type of worker that you don't have to worry about.

So I text the manager after she left and asked if she had a problem with my work. Of course not! I'm gods gift to bread! Blah blah blah...

She calls my teammate after hours and discusses why I have a problem.. doesn't ask me why I am upset. Instead I'm the asshole for standing up for myself.

There's a guy I work with that is basically checked out and refuses to make decisions or small talk. He's a good worker though. He told me one day that I should just turn off my brain and do what management says no matter how stupid and just let the pieces fall where they may. I'm trying. I really am. But the leftist in me is screaming at me to stand up and try to fix it. It's against my nature to prostrate myself to people like this. My new strategy is to turn my brain off and just be a soulless husk of a man at work who just keeps his head down and isn't friendly toward anyone. I'm only going to talk about work and work related stuff.

It's hard to do and it's so lonely! I have to listen to the same garbage music every day hear the same "working hard or hardly working" jokes every day and eat the same bowl of shit every day because the management doesn't pay any attention to the yahoos they pull off the street to do this job that should realistically have some training. It's a daily shit show and me and a couple of people have to "deep state" fix everything behind managements back while they chortle at the wine bar and take credit for all the fires we put out.

I should just quit, right?

My job is recession proof, it pays pretty well and on a good day, I enjoy it. I'm also hitting that age where I'm slowing down a bit and I don't know how to do anything else. I live at least 25 minutes from towns where jobs are, and they all would be a significant pay cut. I'm scared of the trump economy and rolling the dice on a different job.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1kamb2r/its_time_for_the_us_to_guarantee_healthcare_to_all/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyProtest/

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Funny protest idea! 🤡 Dress up like clowns and make signs shaped like speech bubbles of all the ridiculous things this administration says and take photos for the internet so it looks like literal clowns are saying these quotes (basically what’s actually happening)

My friend gave me this idea when he told me he wanted to see a clown troupe in full body costumes on unicycles and playing Kazoos at J6 and the Nazi March in NC, following them like a train. And how that imagery against the violence would’ve gone viral like the HawkTuah girl on steroids😆

Do you have any other ideas to use humor to protest?

I think laughing at them is a great way to belittle them ~ calling them weird SO got under their skin last year!

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