I cannot help but wonder if we are in the Matrix, and David Lynch has been given the reins for the direction of what this time-line is…all donnie needs now is to dance with the backwards talking little man and to have the tall man materialize behind him…

Weirdness - very on-brand for the cons, who are total freaks, and not in a good way of being a freak.

Weird.

Well, fittest doesn’t necessarily mean the smartest.

I wish I could claim it as something I came up with. I probably saw it on lemmy somewhere…

This sounds just like Elon Musk, butthurt that his minisub idea was mocked, called the man who actually rescued those kids a “pedo guy”.

The wingnuts always go calling everyone else a pedo…projection.

We’re America, god damnit. American Exceptionalism demands we pave a different path. A rugged path. Like the men of the wild west! We cant use the same idea everyone else has, thats just filthy socio-communism!

You’re kidding, but the arguments I have heard against better healthcare in this country boil down to pretty much this.

These are the same dumbphucks that fell for the birther nonsense and then elected the very King of the birthers, soooo…

USA! USA!

Look, I really do love my country. As unfashionable as that sometimes seems on the left. But it ain’t perfect. There are a lot of things that need worked on. Our healthcare situation is subpar. Our labor protections - bleh. Same for consumer protections. There are lots of things we could do to study other models and try to bring them here (except for the regressives here that hold everything back, that is).

But one of the very worst is our Electoral College and the way the House is capped. The Senate system should get an overhaul, too. Two Senators from every state, no matter how many people live there? The EC was a slavery era thing and should be abolished, but the Senate thing should get an overhaul as well. I don’t know the kinds of populations the 13 colonies had, but I doubt there was anything like the magnitude of California/Texas/Florida/New York/PA/etc vs. Wyoming. Maybe the makeup of states should get reconsidered if we cannot change the number of Senators - maybe split up California into smaller states, maybe combine some of the flyover states that have almost no one in them…

We got our ballots here in Colorado area. I plan on researching the ballot measures and filling it out on my leisure, then dropping it off.

God, I love this state! When some dipshit like dementia donnie trashes this great state of ours, it sure does anger me. Every state should have this option for voting, as a for instance.

Get out there and vote, people (or fill out your ballot and mail/drop it off if you have the option)! Like your life depends on it.

I don’t need toxic masculinity (or Jesus, guns, or American flags - don’t have any of those in my life) to know steak and bacon and hamburgers are freaking delicious and I want to eat them a lot. I enjoy lots of other things, too. It’s a rare meal I don’t have some kind of meat, but I love crab and fish and chicken as much as red meat.

I was talking more about the people that consider their food part of their very identity. The types that toss around silly things like “soy boy” and think that consuming massive quantities of meat and dairy is part of being a “real” man [1] and so on. I’ve seen people do this even when they tell me their doctor tells them they have got to stop eating red meat (at least) altogether or drastically cut it down. They think eating fresh fruits and vegetables is going to emasculate them. They’d rather continue on this performative path of SAD eating that is literally killing them rather than giving the appearance of being liberal or - gasp - caring about animal welfare.

If you are eating these kinds of things because you find them tasty - hey, have at it. I’m talking about people that feel that they must consume meat/dairy in order to sustain some notion of themselves because of the culture they have chosen to steep themselves in. LOL, then there are the types that want to argue with me and tell me that if I don’t eat meat, I’m going to die…I have no idea where to even start w/ these people.

[1] I’ve seen women just as susceptible to this, by the way. There is a lot of toxic masculinity that runs very deep when it comes to nutrition and health…

Anyone see the movie “Against All Enemies”.

This kind of talk is no accident…

If it’s anything like the J6 terrorists, they might round up about 60% of them within the next 3 years and then give them light slaps on the wrist.

I guess it’s a good thing none of these “patriots” were suspected of passing bad checks or selling loosies. They might have died from a knee on the neck.

Good, let’s get more of these magabrains into the justice system. This jagoff should be thankful he didn’t get a bullet in his head.

This. Since I’ve dropped the omnivore thing, I found my food is far, far tastier now, and has much more variation in flavor, as a general rule. Depends on who is doing the cooking, I guess.

There are some omnivores that think eating something without meat at the core of it has to taste terrible.

Yep, same. Both my parents worked and worked weird hours, however, my mother had frugality imprinted on her (and knew that fast food was mostly just hot garbage when it comes to health and nutrition - it seems it has not gotten any better, by the way.) so fast food was a once-in-great-big-while thing. Soda was almost a never kind of thing.

Just curious: what time period was that?

Oh, of course. But it’s just that I’ve never found fast food to be particularly cheap, ever. And eating off the dollar menu rarely lived up to being all that cheap, either. It certainly seemed like a very bad meal (but lived up to its name: fast) - it usually did not seem very nutritious and certainly not the least bit healthy.

But maybe that’s because I grew up with not a lot of money, I don’t know. Building up a basic set of spices and learning a few simple meals based around beans and rice definitely worked a lot better for me when it came to finances and to how satiated and how good I felt. The grease bombs of the typical fast food fare usually felt okay in the moment, if I could afford them, but terrible for energy levels, GI tract, etc…shrug. I know the Taco Bells and the McDs of the world are convenient, but it didn’t seem like very great food and it didn’t seem all that cheap, at least to me. I considered it splurging if I went to McDs and got a quarter pounder or a Big Mac back in those days…

That we have to worry about the xtian taliban getting power via dementia donnie…in 2024.

We are talking about terrorism here. Why do all these old fucks want life to be miserable for everyone else? Is it because they think they are at the end of of their lives?

I always thought fast food was incredibly expensive, but maybe that’s just me. When I was living hand to mouth during college and shortly after, I found that a big bag of rice and beans (even canned, although dried would have been even cheaper) went a long way in my food budget. Fast food was a luxury I almost never did.