Resistance isn't just lawsuits and protests. It's also refusing to let them steal your joy. So keep laughing. Keep building community. Keep loving your people. Keep fighting for what matters. That's power they can't take away.
I have the same question but far less competence… hopefully we get an answer!
I tell my kids that they have a chance to change the world… they are 10 and 12…
I’m hoping we get to the fixing part soon, as I’ve grown tired of the breaking shit part.
Honestly, one of the greatest gifts I’ve gotten from sobriety is the realization that the only thing I can control is myself…
That and being present in the moment.
Trying to make the best decisions I can and then accepting the results of my choices. (It’s also improved my golf game greatly)
I’m an alcoholic. I have spent the last. 6 years rebuilding trust. Much like sobriety, our country’s mess is going to be one day at a time to fix it.
Showing we hold our leaders accountable on a global stage would be a huge first step.
It’s never, ever going to happen, so it doesn’t matter.
I’m well aware!
Allowing our own to face judgment should be part of reconciliation…
Instead, we are going to be left behind by a new world order that won’t ever trust us as we are always one election away from another Trump.
I’ve been in online communities for decades now… I was on IRC as a teenager, trading MP3s in chat rooms…
It’s always interesting to watch them rise and fall… I actually watched a small golf forum implode because of one use and no moderation.
It’s crazy how quickly one person can ruin a space.
If only we had some process to remove him from office.
Honestly, the USs only path to regaining any trust would be to impeach Trump and then send him and his cronies to the ICC to be tried for war crimes.
Obviously, that seems unlikely to happen.
LLM gave a fun history of punter…
The gambling version came from French (ponter). The sports version has unclear origins… it might have come from bunt.
Yeah, I think the issue is we basically let all the people who prioritized money buy everything and are shocked the world got worse…
Tragedy of the commons is very real.
Agreed…
Though I’m in a delightful telegram chat for golf. It’s still out there, just harder to find.
It doesn’t have to be this way… heck, it wasn’t this way 25 years ago.
But now we live in a hustle economy where if you aren’t revenue maxing you are just wasting time.
We need to figure out how to pursue more than just money… everything has become shittier as short term profit became the goal
It’s probably not a great sign for our culture that people believe everything is done for profit.
Answer: all of them.
Stick it in your brain hole.
A stamp that has a line that crossed out donalds signature and puts “redacted: epstein files” under it.
Free business idea: make some rubber stamps with stuff like “certified rapist” to stamp above trump’s signature on any dollar bills you receive…
Do something always triumphs over doing nothing.
But if they didn’t make up problems to solve, and then “solve” them, they wouldn’t have any solutions.
It’s far easier than actually addressing real, existing problems.
But here we are… ignoring real problems to further hurt communities that are too busy surviving to fight back.
Teslas stock price has convinced me that everyone is faking it.
Except maybe Warren Buffet.
(Or, you know… we could value education as a society, invest in teachers and research and make school better for everyone… but that’s probably not happening)
There’s an argument to be made about changing the way we teach… computers / AI guiding the instruction and then teachers actually doing the hands on work (basically flipping homework and lectures).
It’s unlikely that this is it! But I do hope we can use technology to improve teaching!
The trix rabbit was in the Epstein files…
Appreciate the info, and i look forward to discussing food mascots.
As always, this is getting the issue backwards. What the fuck is the point if we don’t fight for everyone?
I want every single person in this country to have the opportunity for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I won’t negotiate on that. We owe everyone inside our borders kindness.
At least he’s not murdering someone!
Trump is fighting hard against wokeness during this event in Memphis
Why can’t blocking straits be funny again?
The funny part of this is ice agents standing around threatening people in airports will just make them more unpopular… TSA agents arent getting paid and now have to babysit…
This is the incompetence we warned about.
My buddy flew today… 3 hours to get through. Missed his flight…
It’s a mess.
God help us if we have a natural disaster, because we know FEMA won’t be able to.
Got warned for violence on reddit again… apparently “I’m rooting for the aneurysm” gets you reported.
Whoops.
