@2a70c54d 

yup. GOP has been trying to gut public education and college education so there are less folks with critical thinking skills, knowledge of history/civics/economics. makes lying to them easier. 

 @2a70c54d 

indeed. subtle is not one of their traits. they're pretty much saying all of it out loud these days. 

 @2a70c54d 

TOS is fun, camp, and definitely sometimes unintentionally funny. not quite to the level of the adam west batman, but i laugh out loud sometimes at both. 

 @9a182f64 @0b8cb427 

maybe if we started throwing politicians into ponds? 

 @0b8cb427 

Thomas Jefferson — 'The government you elect is the government you deserve.'

harsh but hard to argue with... 

 @2a70c54d 

the 50+ cis-het white presenting male had the most unearned privilege throughout most of the their life and is the most rapidly shrinking demographic these days. in this case, the dinosaur can actually watch the meteor that will wipe them out. 

 @c3a3f988 

which is perfect, since we all know that once carried to term, GOP totally deny any form of health care, education, or other benefits. 

 @2a70c54d 

we were indestructable at that age. :) could eat any crap at any hour, club/drink all night, and still go to work the next morning. 

 @2a70c54d 

ah, when we were young. ;)

i still remember my cousin referring to his stove as "the takeout sorting area". 

 @9b033548 

telcos: "but you've taken away all our monopoly advantages and subsidies! we need new ways to get unearned revenue! surely you can't expect us to compete based on products/quality!" 

 @30ce86c6 

a reciprocating saw: https://www.milwaukeetool.com/Products/Power-Tools/SAWZALL-Reciprocating-Saws

cuts through wood, metal, bone, overly slow coworkers, whatever. ;) 

 @30ce86c6 

at a bare minimum, everyone should have a sawzall. you will find that you never run out of applications it is suitable for. ;) 

 @2a70c54d 

cable mgmt. it’s not just a job; it’s an adventure. :) 

 @2a70c54d 

i still twitch and my stomach lining is still damaged from it. ;)

my team built the entire WAN and modem network for MSN for the launch and i spent the prior 6 months on campus testing that and the dialup connectoid in win95. want to see me flinch? just play the tune win95 plays on boot. 

 @2a70c54d 

in decades of voting, i've gotten to do it once. once. :( 

 @2a70c54d 

most of the time, i go to a company with some project/objective in mind. seems most take 2-3 years to achieve. the only places i've stayed longer, i've had multiple different roles & projects and most of those also fit into the 2-3 year time frame per role/project. 

 @2a70c54d 

as soon as i saw manchin supporting no labels, i knew it wasn't an honest or viable party but some sham, bought and paid for. digging up a trail to crow just confirms my initial assumptions.

the conservative right, finding that buying and owning the GOP isn't getting them the fascist oligarchy they dream of, is trying every trick they can find to try to stymy the democrats. 

 @2a70c54d 

indeed. my tiny amount of schadenfreude at seeing how he is  suffering after getting his "dream job" is completely drowned under my anger at all the damage and chaos he and his dysfunctional/idiot party are doing to so many people. the blast radius from GOP cruelty is just staggering. 

 @2a70c54d 

:blobscream:​

the only folks that benefit from training vids are the ones paid to product them. i have never done a mandatory training video in which i learned anything other than how to get through that particular broken tech as fast as possible. 

 @2a70c54d 

not worrying about catching covid is like playing russian roulette, with adding one more bullet each time you catch covid and play again. i don't get the "oh, what's the big deal" attitude so much of the world seems to have. 

 @2a70c54d 

belladonna was a cosmetic. ;) 

 @2a70c54d 

i'm at the other end of the spectrum. the speaker was torpedoed by the lunatic fringe for not being crazy, destructive, and disruptive enough. the two most likely replacements are definitely even more crazy and destructive than mccarthy but the GOP won't ever unite behind anyone that isn't; too much of their caucus are also wingnuts.

it boggles my mind that we got here and that so many folks still don't see the GOP for what they are and what they are trying to do. yes, they own the press and shape the story but who, with any brains, is buying what the mainstream press sells these days? it's not like the lies are terribly clever or plausible.