He's paraphrasing - their exact words were "we're going to die as part of an effort to distract the world from the fact that Trump raped children on Epstein's island."
He's doing this shit on purpose. He isn't just blundering his way through a terrible presidency, he's intentionally damaging the US in every way he possibly can. This is way beyond just confusion.
He is a domestic enemy of the US and our constitution.
Murican here. Assuming we don't get it is the best case explanation for our collective bullshit, and frankly we don't deserve that kind of benefit of the doubt. Ignorance detracts from intent. We all knew exactly what we voted for: the warnings sounded like an air raid siren. The nosedive we're stuck in is because the majority of our voters are evil. ...not that there's any shortage of stupid going around here, but innocent stupidity cannot explain the consistent storm of human rights violations coming from our country.
And before anyone starts spitting up Hanlon's Razor, that philosophy is a nice fantasy, but simply doesn't apply to the reality we're stuck in.
Anyway, we'll get what's coming to us, and we'll deserve it. Sucks that the rest of the world has to deal with our bullshit though - y'all deserve a better neighbor.
Oh fuck no. There are a handful of people from highschool I wouldn't mind catching up with, but the vast majority of them I either never met well enough to form an opinion, or actively disliked.
...and as long as it's been, every single one of us is a completely different person now. It'd basically be like meeting a few hundred complete strangers. And at that point, I can just go to a bar or something and meet complete strangers right here - why travel to reunion for that?
No they didn't - they were with me rocking some Halo CE splitscreen and gorging on Mountain Dew and pizza. It was an all-nighter, so they wouldn't have had the time to be anywhere else.
That’s it guys, wrap it up. Time to stop trying cause previous attempts didn’t work.
That's the wrong takeaway. Trying the same thing repeatedly and facing failure every time doesn't mean quit, it means try something different.
In this context, we have a presumed baseline of legal justice. The legal part isn't working becuase the offender is above the law. So we can, as you suggested, wrap it up and do nothing; add more laws in the hopes that these people suddenly start being held legally accountable (which rhymes a lot with wrap it up and do nothing); or turn to vigilante justice.
So far we haven't had the spine for the latter. I certainly don't, and I'm assuming you're in the same boat seeing as you're doing the same thing (bitching fruitlessly into the void of the internet... what can I say, it's therapeutic!).
As a glimmer of hope though, we did just see an active duty officer give a speech identifying Trump as a domestic enemy of the constitution, which they are oath-bound to engage the same way they do any other enemy of the US. That individual is probably in prison by now - that little maneuver broke a handful of laws under the UCMJ, but this is the first such act of defiance I'm aware of coming from an officer, so here's hoping it prods other troops into actually taking their oath seriously instead of idly following the domestic enemy's orders.
Probably still no, but, fingers crossed.
But laws? we've seen repeatedly that those don't mean shit. We don't need new laws. Actually enforcing the ones we already have would be plenty, but we've got years of precedent showing loud and clear that shit ain't gonna happen.
Anywho, wishing anyone out there with the means and the spine the best of luck!
Iirc there was a Simpsons or South Park or something - doc hands the dad an insane bill for a broken leg, the dad reads it and proceeds to have a heart attack. Doc: "ooh, sorry to do this, but that'll actually add another $25k"
Christians aren't a monolith, but Christianity is. My assessment of it is as a whole, although you're correct that doing so is unfair to the individuals who manage to not be corrupted by it. Still, even if those individuals aren't actively participating in the evils perpetuated by Christianity, they are actively supporting them, which makes me question if they're sincerely good people, or if they're just wearing an outward veneer to make the evil shit easier to swallow. The Bible itself addresses these types in it's scrutiny of the Pharisees: that there's a modern version comes as no surprise.
He's paraphrasing - their exact words were "we're going to die as part of an effort to distract the world from the fact that Trump raped children on Epstein's island."
But, ya know, close enough.