Republicans when talking about min wage: “We can’t give out money, or else inflation happens, learn something!”

Republicans when voting comes up: “HAVE FREE MONEY!”

Something has to trigger my memory, but there are things in my head that are easily pre-Internet.

The cool 90s S is the one that comes to mind.

Ooh, I need to bring that one back into my rotation. I loved that one.

Aren’t most farmers voting for team red?

US here, yes. The Ag industry is heavily Republican and you can tell it by all the handouts they keep getting from them. They’re also a bunch of millionaires who cry the second anything goes sideways then comes out better. The mom & pop farms that people think of are almost nonexistent, especially after the last time the republicans convinced them to do a farmers strike decades ago, which lost a lot of small farms to big corporations.

One of the very rare moments of AI being used completely for good.

Steam is a good service compared to the alternatives, but corpos will always be corpos

This. I was telling friends back when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil” because the rule is never trust a corporation.

Then again, I grew up around the home of WalMart so I guess I may have been used to shitty tactics with the veneer of “helping the community”

This is kind of my problem here. There’s a lot of hobby based communities in Reddit that hasn’t made the move and pretty dead over here so it’s what keeps dragging me back.

But gah, the new style is completely unreadable to me.

I was at the early end of when programming was being pushed thing. Found a welding degree was an option.

Get a welding degree, welders will never go out. The 08 slump happened, and suddenly I was coming out of school requiring 2 years of work experience to get a job, but couldn’t get an entry level job because I was too experienced when the local factory moved to Mexico.

Moral of the story, the industries are not your friend and are happy to fuck you over no matter what you pursue.

In the US I’ve been saying “Libertarian is a Republican who wants to smoke weed.” But seeing as they’re not villianizing it much anymore the Libertarians really don’t have a talking point left in the country.

Jeez… like even if the AI slop wasn’t a big invasive problem, I don’t know how anyone thought this was a good idea. Seeing the picture of that pulled pork (or really any of the others) would have made me go “NOPE” if I thought that’s what the food looked like.

American here.

DON’T

Remember the stories about how wifi does a good job of telling where people are in the house? They might already be on that way.

Honestly how I’ve been on the move. Little Rock is the biggest city in Arkansas, and Kansas City is a pretty big upgrade.

Honestly, I’d LOVE this city, if it weren’t for the state basically taking it and St. Louis as the places to screw over as much as possible.

Having come from Arkansas moving to Missouri.

Yup.

So I found a honey cheese at Aldi that when you slice it with apple… gah… I want to find that stuff again.

Cosmic Crisp actually! Fuji’s seemed to have lost the tartness I love but the cosmics have REALLY taken over that spot.

I can forgive the ones who say “I don’t know what I was thinking”. I can forgive the ones who say “I was tricked” or “I was not paying attention” or “I believed he blah blah blah”. I can forgive the ones who are remorseful, and the ones who work to undue the damage they caused.

Nah.

First time around with Trump, sure.

Second time around. Anyone who was under 18 at the end of Trump’s first term are the only people that get the pass. I was a dumb kid in high school who didn’t pay attention either when I couldn’t vote. But anyone after, he wasn’t some “dark horse” or “outsider” or all the dumbass lies they sell.

But then again, I live in a state that’s been red over a decade, who voted in the least educated governor in the union, that is about to get rid of income tax “because it’s what Texas does” despite the fact our neighboring state did the same thing and nearly went insolvent until a Dem governor got elected for the first time in decades and fixed it, that our traitor of a Senator got voted as Senator before he finished his first term as AG despite campaigning as AG for not using it as a ladder to further political aspirations, then his protege did the EXACT same thing, and Hawley got re-elected. I’ve watched Republicans get shocked EVERY time they got fucked over, then promptly voted the same people who fucked them over because it’ll hurt someone else.

I’d even say the people who were remorseful and work to undo the damage… but #1 Republican before Trump, McConnell SPECIFICALLY ranted and raved about how guilty of Trump was of trying to overturn the election and that he wasn’t above the law… then did everything to stop justice. Republicans are only out for Republicans. If things get too bad they’ll dial back the damage just enough to stop hurting themselves, then start hurting again.

It’s why I can understand what we need to do to go forward as a nation is forgive… but I also cannot do it.

I mean… read the second part of my post. I’m not ready to forgive and most definitely not ready to forget.

This is going to be the problem. If the country is going to come together we have to be able to forgive and start building bridges together.

But I’ve watched Republicans say that too many times then stab us in the back by tripling down on partisanship I don’t see the path forward because I’m VERY much in the same boat.

I don’t have an answer to make it better unfortunately.

I know that we’re not to celebrate death of Graham so I’ll say the nicest thing I can think about him.

Today for breakfast I had two eggs and an apple.