Every damn day I am sooooooo happy I am not currently working in my office, having to witness and get dragged into conversations like this.Quoting Skitch (view post)
Every damn day I am sooooooo happy I am not currently working in my office, having to witness and get dragged into conversations like this.
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I’m 100% field based. After having to explain the falsehoods of Plandemic ten times in one day, I do my best to stay even farther away from current events and politics.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Someone called 'em the Bass Pro Shops reward club members and I lost it.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
A bunch of right wing assholes tried to overthrow the government. The US is a banana republic at this point.
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
I find some of these guys hilarious. There's Braveheart Jamiroquai* who was doing a total "KNEEL BEFORE ZOD" thing at the Capital. Then I saw the Nancy Pelosi office guy on the news who straight up rested his ol' boots on her desk. He stole one of her letters but was adamant he didn't technically steal it since he left a quarter on her desk. God bless America.
*https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...s-fans-mistake
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Has there ever been a more embarrassing time to be an American?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
You tell us, with all of your experiences as a U.S. Citizen.
I did used to live in the U.S.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
And I've been to Canada. Doesn't make me an expert on Canada.
I don't understand why you're being defensive about this, nor why you're singling me out.
The entire world is critical of America right now.
I never claimed to be an expert in the country. But it's a dumpster fire right now.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
The entire country is not a "dumpster fire". The changing of the guard is happening in less than 2 weeks. But I (and I'm going to guess, others here too) get annoyed when you constantly talk about how shitty America is when you don't even live here. Just because you lived here once, you think you're free to say whatever you want without annoying people who live here? Who have lived here their whole lives? Or because the whole world is doing it it's OK for you to freely? Or that some meme you found represents all US Citizens? Or that our dumbass leader represents all citizens?
Criticize trump all you want. But when you criticize "America" you're criticizing us, whether that is your intention or not.
You talk about other countries sucking quite often, when you haven't been to them.
And I find it equally annoying when you say America is the greatest country on earth, when it's not even close.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I do? At the rate you shit on America?
And it is so...
You're just trolling now. I'm out.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
No actually I'm telling you exactly how I feel. So if you don't want to listen, and continue to post the way you do, you'll continue to get these kinds of response from me.
So, it is OK for you but not for me?
Are you a Republican?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Ok for what? What are you talking about? And what party I'm enrolled in is none of your business.
Ugh. Let's stop this.
I'm sorry, I'm not directing at you or the people of the country. But the political representatives are making a mockery of America and are, by extension, giving the country's people a bad name around the world.
Again, apologies.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I’d say the ‘50s and ‘60s were a lot worse.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
I said the same in that argument with my MiL. The difference being we are currently bombarded with information about everything.
The Jim Crow times may be a bit more embarrassing... Mostly swept under the rug.
Indian Removal Act... Maybe!?
You and Scar are right, but living through this and seeing the insane pride that some people have in their hatred and rejection of reason right now is so disheartening.
The anti-science movement seems to grow daily. And yes, I know it is not just in the USA, but for a country that prides itself on technological and scientific advancement to have such a strong anti-science presence within its borders is (sorry to repeat myself) disheartening.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
If there's any silver lining to the Trump presidency, it's that Americans are probably now more capable of seeing their country less as they would like it to be (Reagan's City upon a Hill, the greatest, freest, most democratic country in the world, the envy of the world) and more as it really is (a waning empire buckling under its own internal contradictions, beset by appalling racism, inequality, and governmental paralysis). The last four years have been one thing after another that no one thought could happen in the US but did happen: the president calling white supremacists "fine people," the president pressuring the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on a political rival, the president pressuring state officials to change the results of an election, the president refusing to accept that he lost an election and egging on his supporters to storm the capital to obstruct a constitutional process. If nothing else, Trump has obliterated the idea that there is some impermeable boundary separating shit hole from non-shit hole countries, and even if the US isn't yet a shit hole country on par with Lebanon, Venezuela, or Zimbabwe, that doesn't mean it can't or won't become one in the future, and may in fact become one faster than anyone would have thought possible. And if it can happen in the US, it can happen anywhere.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
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This is why wife and I keep following US politics so closely. Everything spills over, and the worst things get here first.
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