To be fair, I can't think of any way to improve my life with 44 billion dollars either.

It's a disturbing, but necessary reality check. The people who can comfortably detach themselves from the horrors of what's happening are going to try to stay comfortably detached.

Fuck that though. You're not being a downer or unrealistic by pointing out unnecessary death and suffering. This isn't normal and pretending that it is does a disservice to the people killed in the name of acceptable losses for profit.

I see it more as Democrats killing 50 and allowing 50 more to die because the parliamentarian said rules are rules.

ADHD feels like your neurons are cats instead of dogs.

Merced got fucked up back in December with flooded apartments and parking lots. The crumbling infrastructure is going to be washed away.

but water

Like I get pointing and laughing at someone like , but sometimes I feel it leans too close to an irony-poisoned indifference to the horrible things he says and propagates.

I understand not caring in the grand scheme of things because it's ultimately nothing new in the West, but it's still rough when you want to talk to people about the blatant dog whistling.

The US government has emergency powers to limit patents. I can't recall a time it's been yet in recent memory (but they could pull out the parliamentarian bullshit).

But you'd think a drug that reduces the transmission of HIV down to under a percent would be freely available. I mean just make it freely available, have doctors recommend it when applicable, and we could reduce HIV to a more manageable condition.

I think about gay men I've talked to who couldn't afford PrEP or didn't even know it existed. Sex education is a nightmare in the US and we're sending lgbt kids in blind when there are so many resources stuck behind paywalls.

I hate that it's controversial to point out that the effort to minimize the Holocaust by not teaching it in schools, normalizing jokes/denial, and deflecting accountability is all deliberate and needs to be fought every time.

It's stunning how much effort they'll go to just to find a worse atrocity.

I mean it's obvious why - the mechanisms in place that enabled the Holocaust are alive and well in the world. Powerful people don't want to lose what they've acquired through blood and so they have a vested interest in people forgetting the Holocaust.

Beyond parody. Just surprised it's not Florida.

I think it's a tomato!

It's a good thing that the US has protections in place to ensure standing sites can't exploit writers and creators

I guess what I mean to say is, I don't like being in the cool zone

This trend of Spiked (Simply Orange Juice, Monster, etc.) says something really bleak about how the West is going

The same sticker, but there's a link to hexbear. Also it's not Gadsden yellow.

This is really good advice.

Update on the last time a commented on the queer thread a while back.

I'm still figuring out my gender and that's been a cool experience. I've been thinking about it off and on for a little over a year now, and it's a lot of identifying and reflecting on stuff that I take for granted.

Like maybe I'm not necessarily genderqueer, but maybe I'm feeling a strain from how my race is stereotyped in such a way that navigating m/m spaces just sucks.

I guess I feel like I'm a guy, but I don't want to be put into assumed roles in relationships just because of my appearance or background. Imagine that!

It's a process, but it's nice because it feels like I'm getting closer to having the life that I want.

I haven't heard chuds' arguments defending Libs of TikTok doing the same things to teachers and lgbt+ people, but I do like seeing their tears.

Oh no! You're being harassed and losing your jobs?! Boo fucking hoo, cry more, and don't be a nazi piece of shit.

But it's white nationalists in a country that holds delusions about white supremacy. This could go either way.

Dance the Night is so good!

Libs love a good redemption arc.