I just miss my corny dogs

Let’s tear them down anyway

I would trade every American gas station and convenience store for a single authentic Japanese 7-eleven corndog.

Everything in their world is transactional

I grew up in a pretty conservative household and we were literally raised that life is work and work is hell. By way of the transitive property, life = hell. It’s taken a long time through various degrees of depression and I’m still not fully grown out of it.

But yes, the entire culture and identity is about being miserable and persevering through it, even if that means making yourself and everyone around you more miserable to justify the perseverance.

Like the saying “nothing good comes free.” You could say the sunrise is free, but they’ll argue it’s not because you have to wake up early and waking up early is by necessity miserable so that the sunrise can be good. They’re brainwashed into thinking the only way a good thing happens is through suffering. Except the truly lost ones who only see life as suffering.

Agreed. But also, it’s a good way to communicate complex ideas quickly like Darmak and Jalaad. And many novel ideas come from “What if (blank) did (thing) but differently?” Like a huge portion of art history is just artists doing something another artist did in a different way.

I think there’s a little room for nuance, but not much. The way corporate landlords are buying up houses and collaborating to fix prices is totally fucked and needs regulated. There also needs to be regulation or limits for private property owners who buy up a bunch of properties and slumlord it.

Where I think there’s nuance is how things fall right now. I just left the military and I’m renting out my house exclusively to military occupants who are not trying to buy. I bought it at 3% interest and my mortgage is more or less fixed. The next buyer was looking for it as an addition to their rental portfolio. I did the math before deciding to rent and found that because my interest and mortgage are so low I can charge $800/month less in rent than a mortgage would be if I sold it. It’s also less than their housing allowance so they have more for utilities and food.

It’s regrettable that this is the situation, but in this specific case in a very high demand/low supply area, renting it out is the lesser of the evils. Hopefully the market crashes or rates fall and I can sell it to a family who needs it. But until then, I’ll try to make things easier on some service members.

Maybe the rise of fascism or demographic collapse

On god

God, I hope people can rally around Harris. My biggest concern with the sudden change was fracturing across the Dems. I hope it’s just a concern

I don’t understand, but it speaks to me

6-3 split, but yeah

I remember being absolutely blown away that you could see planes in the sky

Poetry in motion

Looks like a coordinated disinformation campaign masquerading as amalgamated ragebait designed to discredit any non-conservative voice on Twitter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitchy

Feeling some real surprised Pikachu energy right now

I hate the existing copyright system and would love to see it contested.

My brother in Christ, they’re literally contesting it

Oh I see. When I said it, it’s because I thought that meant we were safe from this movement continuing to exist. But you’re right, it’s definitely more about being prepared for that death struggle

That is almost verbatim what I told myself leading up to 2016. And here we are.

I sincerely hope that shitposting saves us from the hell big Corpo has made of the world