4grams

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He deserves a goddamned posthumous award. There will never a death more ‘billionaire’ than this. I mean this is cartoon level, over the top, absurdist level perfection.

I mean tell me, if you just saw the headline “Man dies after swallowing a bee at a Polo match” that your reaction is anything but “I wonder which billionaire that was.”

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 17 hours ago

Pretty sure we’ve just been in a dead cat bounce. When it hits, it’s going to hit hard.

I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this and that Rubio is playing higher dimensional chess (stop laughing).

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yes, there was a whole running narrative about bill the cat having his brain replaced with trumps back in the 80’s. my now completely crazy, maga dad, turned me on to bloom county as a kid so most of my politics likely took root with a large nosed penguin and his friends. Then when I hit high school, I found rage against the machine.

But yeah, I never watched any of his reality shows, this is the turnip I knew, until he became the actual president. My brain has not recovered.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I honestly don’t know. This is a man who wrote in Ralph Nader for every presidential election of my life, until he voted for Obama. Ever since, he’s hard maga and all I get from him anymore is him calling me too woke, saying that I need to take the red pill, that this isn’t politics, it’s civil war. He’s gone completely and totally insane.

Was always a shitty father anyway, not much lost.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 50 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I’m middle aged now, but I have to admit, while I’ve always known there was racism still around, and still part of the government. I’m blown away though at just how much more of it, and how deeply rooted it is. The kind of people in charge right now are literal cartoon villains when I was a kid.

I mean that literally.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

I mean, without a doubt he will use it as a threat/leverage. that fucker is all-in on attempting to change history (and it’s working so far).

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What’s hilarious to me is how my dad and I used to talk about how reagan was a supervillain that kicked off all the shit we are dealing with today. This was maybe 10 years ago.

Now he no longer speaks to me since I refuse to “take the red pill”.

So, apparently enough propaganda works.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 108 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That’s the point. They have a weapon that can be used against anyone, and it’s already shown they don’t care about due process. The courts gave him everything he needs.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

all the "by the book" bullshit is there for cover. I felt the same way, like it needed to be done right, because the system would hold. it's very, plainy obvious to me now, especially 6 months in and seeing them fight harder against a winning candidate in their own party, than they do the criminal authoritaran, that it's all part of the same machine.

We think it's a political war, it's really a class one.

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