So if the stocks fall enough you won’t have your money anyways.

Banks are insured by the government. If they get rid of the FDIC then I don't know, but if a bank collapses you still get your money.

I live in New York City and have no desire to move to the suburbs or countryside. It's great here.

• I can walk to most of my needs. Several grocery stores, pharmacies, a big park, bars, restaurants. I don't need a car.
• there's a thriving music scene. I can go see live stuff of many genres every night if I want
• a deep dating pool. Lots of people. Lots of queer people too, if that's your jam.
• I like there being people around. The empty streets of the suburbs feel spooky and hostile to me.
• more people means it's easier to get group activities going. Join a soccer team. Brass band. Bird watching group. Knitting community. There's everything. Usually more than one, in case a particular group isn't your vibe.
• stuff is open later.

Some of the things people imagine about cities aren't really true

• it's not constant noise
• I typically can't hear my neighbors
• people don't typically interact with you on the street, but if you need help someone will usually step up
• it's not shoulder to shoulder constantly. People seem to imagine it's always times Square on NYE, but it's just not.

While you're not unseen like you might be in the countryside, no one really cares that they do see you.

Some people want "more space" but I don't really know what for. A one bedroom apartment is fine for me. What would I do with more rooms?

If I had kids, I wouldn't want to put them in the suburban hell cage like I had. Nothing to do. Can't get anywhere on your own. Don't like the few dozen kids in your school? Well that's your whole pool of friendship options. I was always so jealous of the kids I knew that lived in the city. They could just get on the train and go to the beach, or go skating, or go to a punk show, or whatever. I had to beg my parents to drive me anywhere interesting, and usually they didn't want to.

I don't think fucking idiots are evenly distributed, so the odds depend on where you go.

Alternative : we kill you for being anti-social. Get fucked.

Fascists think they're standing up against "liberals" or "moral degenerates" whatever. They think they're the hero.

If they were good at critical thinking and analysis they wouldn't be fascists.

It's kind of annoying and distracting. It makes me think they have some emotional damage (don't we all?) and then I start wondering what else is going to break under stress.

A sincere apology and owning fault is a power move. Apologizing four times because the chair made a weird sound when you adjusted it makes you look sad and impotent.

Musk is also a profoundly stupid man with the emotional maturity of an unloved 13 year old boy. He'll do anything to try to fill the void in his heart. Well, anything except be a decent person, I guess.

Does instagram really let the hateposts like the top one fly?

Can we find the person who posted it and beat the shit out of them? I know, I know, I'm just doing internet tough guy right now, but I really am sick of all these hateful assholes making the world worse. They post who they are under their real name! Burn their house down!

Corporations, by contrast, cannot go to jail and or be physically executed

Ok so technically we can't physically execute a corporation, but we could get pretty close if we rounded up the board and c-suite.

I kind of hope that will have the bonus effect of making the ownership class ease up on return-to-office. Sure, have your executive meeting in-person. Oh shit, someone flew a drone in and it exploded, shooting nails everywhere and killing half the c-suite? Shit. Anyway. We'll be working from home until at least they clear the blood out of the carpets.

(Though realistically, they'd make workers go in physically while being remote themselves. But maybe someone will bomb their house. No mercy for the ultra-rich.)

I want republicans dead. That's not really practical but that's what I want. Every republican up against the wall. The big players can get a guillotine.

More practically? Probably impeachment proceedings, noncompliance, fillibuster, malicious compliance, push hard to the left and sell people on a future that's not climate collapse and wage slavery.

It's the "conservatism has one rule: there must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and outgroups for the law to bind but not protect" thing.

Let them enforce their decision, then.

Look, I don't really want a civil war or constitutional crisis, but under no circumstances should we have let the republicans proceed as they have.

Calling him a traitor on the campaign trail isn't the same as actually enforcing the law, at gunpoint if need be. Laws don't matter if they're not enforced. They should be physically removing the republicans from office.

Maybe we should put the prosecutors to death instead.

I would have liked them to push on how Trump and a bunch of other republicans are not eligible for office because of the insurrection. Go for blood. Refuse to acknowledge that that these people hold office.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

You're probably not telling the total truth, but maybe consider that one person being unpleasant 30 years ago isn't a good reason to abandon an entire form of media for your entire life. Let it go. The librarian is probably dead by now, and they don't have to matter to you anymore.

I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can't have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn't ever work. When they're going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn't work, it's the same

As more people are laid off, "I gotta go to work" becomes less compelling.

We really should be organizing to fight the right wing, because they're pretty unified.

It does feel like unrest is coming. I don't want to live in a world with car bombs in the US, but I do want all the republicans dead, so.