They always say some shit like, “this is not the man I voted for.”

Uhh, who did you vote for, then? Everyone else knew he was a massive rapist and conman.

It depends on how you define prisoner.

For some reason, I’ve been thinking about that stupid-ass Kamala Harris quote recently.

“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

Fuck, she annoys me. But that’s honestly pretty astute. I believe we are inseparable from our upbringing as it gave us the lens through which we view the world. Even when you go against the grain, you have to draw from your experiences to know what not to do.

So, is one a prisoner? Only so much as one’s experience is a prisoner of oneself. It’s a give and take. Everyone comes into this world unable to meaningfully impress upon it, and so we are formed by those initial experiences that we cannot choose or define. Those experiences inform our actions which inform our future experiences and so on and so forth.

At the end of the day, I think we’re just truly reactionary beings. I believe we’ve just been reacting to the experience of the universe since we popped up in it. I’ve yet to see a single human creation that wasn’t a reaction to a condition or behavior.

Mother Necessity, some call it. But I think we can see in other sentient creatures the experience, act, experience pattern as well. We’re just fully sapient so we get to struggle with concepts such as fate.

MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD

DING DONG THE WICKED BITCH IS DEAD

I hear it every time. Ahh, memories. I may plug the N64 in and give her a go tonight.

The first step in Moscow’s capitulation. Gamers will rise up.

Fucking based?

Ah see you gotta use Nyarch for that.

I can’t tell if this is sarcastic shock or if this is the type of comment I was trying to preempt by acknowledging that fact.

Oh, it was a shitpost. Directly from the DoD.

Edididid

I’ve also found that most words become surreal the harder you look at them.

Say the word green like 50 times in a row and tell me that shit’s not made up (all words are lmao)

They don’t know nothin bout that PS Triple

Aye-aye, captain

Yeah, shrooms really made me want to only consume things that grow from the Earth.

Of course, here I am on estrogen but the psilocybin hasn’t smacked me in the face over that yet so I think I may be good.

Now, that’s a watermark I haven’t seen in a long time.

People were calling George Dubya a Nazi. Reagan’s entire economic plan was “make the rich richer because they’ll give poor people money.”

The fact of the matter is, most Americans have been propagandized into thinking communism is the greatest threat they face. Fascism isn’t even on their radar. That’s why they get more upset about people calling others fascists than they do about fascists - they don’t have any concept of the legitimate threat, and quite a few think that authoritative power is the only thing that can fix society.

I told my mom in 2021 that I thought the next major threat the US will face is from right wing groups, because I was seeing a sharp rise in alt-right ideology and meme pages on Instagram. She just looked at me like I was crazy and said, “Really?”

It also took me way too long to wake up. I didn’t start calling it fascism until last year, and I certainly didn’t see the warning signs in the first Trump term - I just thought he was an asshole.

But it’s been going on for a while. Since Reagan at least. “Give your people bread and circuses, and they will never revolt.” Except now we have ultrabread delivered to your home and megacircuses in every living room. 70s-90s America, especially, were kind of a paradise for the middle class. Even in the 80s, when people were upset at having to work corporate jobs, consumer products were being cranked out nonstop and affordable to boot, and you could own a house. We’ve just had it too good for too long, and we didn’t notice the structure of it all eroding until the floor fell out from under us.

Head gasket, again…

I had never heard of this before! Listened to Cold Heart of the Klondike, and I can see the pages turning in my head.

Fuck, I need to buy a complete collection of the comics.

Based Europeans. I found a stack of Rosa’s and Barks’ various Scrooge McDuck comics in the back of my grandfather’s shed when I was young.

Yeah, holy fuck. Has Disney ever been blessed with writing like that again? The one-off stuff was great. I remember a comic where Gizmo invents a device that can stop time, which the Beagle Boys used to rob Scrooge. That was such an interesting sci-fi concept, explored in a Disney comic! I remember another one where Scrooge found Xanadu! Super memorable.

But man, none of that stacked up to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. I mean, I only had one issue of it - the one where he goes to Alaska for gold. Even still, the emotion in that part of the story is seared into my brain. The fact that they could tell stories of that depth with the “he’s greedy, get the joke?” character is fucking amazing.

Mind you, I haven’t reread any of this in years. It’s etched into my memory. Rosa and Barks are some of the best to ever work in the American comics scene. I don’t think I found anything as compelling until I discovered Tintin.

The most sensual description of aircraft manufacturing I have ever read

hahahahaha