Mmm. Forgot about droughts and pavement hot enough to cook eggs on.

Well, let us know when you find somewhere that doesn’t have fire season, earthquakes, tornado season, hurricane season, blizzards, or avalanches.

Well, at least Palestine is going to be okay now that genocide Joe and Kill’emAll Kamala are out of office…

Biggest /S ever.

…Special Counsel for the Department of Justice from November 18, 2022 until his resignation on January 10, 2025

Less than 2 years to get Trump. I don’t blame Smith. I blame Garland and Biden for treading so softly around such a corrupt SOB simply for the optics of fairness.

Fairness for the American people would have been announcing investigations in to Trump during Biden’s inauguration speech, indicting him 14 days later and placing him on (at least) house arrest so that he can only make public statements through his lawyers, who are compelled to tell the truth.

Edit: Worth noting that Achibald Cox investigated Nixon for 1 year, 2 months, and 23 days before Nixon resigned. The timeframe for Smith is right on the money for how long it takes to criminally indict a President, and trump had a lot more sycophants and corrupt judges to run out the clock.

You aren’t wrong that other people have it much worse. I don’t think the hate we’ve developed post 9/11 is proportional or justified compared to the scale of the attack. I wasn’t trying to do that with my post, I was trying to explain when and why I saw a shift in how Americans treat each other internally.

The credit system is a game to get you stuck constantly paying for things you’ll never afford. When I had no debt settled my student loans, and paid off my car, my CS was 630. Now I have 20 K of CC debt, a car loan, and a mortgage, and my score has never been higher.

It’s a bullshit system, and now that I have a house, I’m going to clean all that up and go back to never spending on credit again.

I’m gonna bring up a slightly different take on the situation.

2001, during the walk between my 1st period and 2nd period class, my country changed forever. My math teacher had a shocked look on his face, he put the radio on, and told us that it was very important to listen, as we will never forget this moment. An airplane had hit the world trade center. I remember the bell going off, going to my history class, and shortly afterwards, being told that the busses were coming back to take my classmates home. They were terrified, that their school busses would be attacked and that they wouldn’t make it home. I found my brother and we walked home early that day. I got home in time to see my mom staring at the TV, which was surreal on its own because she hates TV. By the time I go home, the towers were falling.

That moment was a catalyst for irrational hate and fear taking over the US. Anti-musilm hate (if you can even call it that sophisticated and targeted, really just anyone the right shade of brown) really took off. I remember hearing about men being assaulted and having their beards shaved. Women had their head covering confiscated, and mosques became a primary target for yahoos and bigots to deface and burn. A few years later I remember and popular jingle about bombing Afghanistan, not specifically the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, but just Afghanistan in general. Hate became more mainstream and visible to me than ever. Sure, the US wasn’t perfect before, but for my generation, 9/11 was the moment that “Othering” people who didn’t look like you, talk like you, and pray like you, became not just a coping mechanism, but a core identity for a significant portion of the USA. If you spoke out about the irrational hate, you were Un-American, or a traitor. My father took me to see Fahrenheit 911, and I remember hearing about protestors attacking theaters that were playing the movie, and people that were buying tickets for it.

Anyway, that’s my two cents on where millennials (at least) got their hate enemas from.

I know what you mean. Partner and I are both working professionals with no kids, and it was still a huge financial stretch to get the house. We even had help from family to get the down payment. I honestly don’t know how most people do it.

…conservative ecosystem that weaponizes anger for electoral gains.

That’s like saying “a gun that shoots bullets to kill things”. Everyone who isn’t a conservative, (and many who are) knows that’s the only core value the ideology has anymore.

Just twice in 10 years? You’ve got a good place. Every apartment I’ve stayed in (except one privately owned one) jacked the price 11-13% every year. That was a major factor in biting the bullet and getting a house. In 5 years (4 now) the house will be cheaper per month than my last apartment.

Cucks are kinda into that though…

He’s a beta cuck. Real alphas don’t have to go around proclaiming their alpha status and receiving praise and validation from betas and other “alphas”.

That’s a grackle.

It’s already outrun reality. Trump voters either have no concept of reality, or they are willing to back Nazis and bigots in order to get a lower tax rate.

We need to make it a crime to deny claims on necessary healthcare. 10x penalty (paid to the victim directly) for denial. 30x if they were denied using AI or an automated system.

Wow was cheap and fast for me… And would go down for 3 days at a time inexplicably. Oh, and they sent me a modem-router combo with cascade routers disabled and a firmware flash that prevented me from changing it, evnthough I specifically requested (and paid for) modem only.

I would buy that. No Arch Vile though, fuck those guys.

Don’t worry, it’s fake. That’s not a real anime girl in the goon glass.

I was aware of that, but thank you for providing context!

No, no, you’re fine. I just stopped where I stopped. You’re spot on that bunching up in lanes causes jams.

I try to drive with the mentality that lanes should be “permeable”, cars should have sufficient space to make easy moves between lanes. When you get a solid line of cars, people start driving the same way deer try to cross a highway.