More realistically it’s a documented immigrant family with silent transphobia which is gradually toning down over time tbf.
Right? Hell, give me a strung out addict passed out on a park bench, or someone yelling to themselves, or even (deep breath) someone listening to pop music out loud, over a maga shit - at least the former don’t care who I fuck.
I believed MAGA is actually a small select movement that is loudly amplified by billionaires and their huge propaganda machine. Although FOX News is leading in viewership and Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan are all usually in the top ten podcasts.
It’s not Americans really want to lose all their benefits and give all their money to rich people. It’s just that a big machine (that might as well have wah-wah-wah sound effects and brain beams) has convinced a lot of people to disregard their eyes and ears and faculties and vote for the blonde orange god-king dude.
77 million voters voted for Trump. I lost my mind to that revelation. Rich people literally made a zombie machine, and they’re already zombieing at victims and killing them, and putting captives in internment.
I think if we can counter this, we can actually move towards community-based societies and reach for the stars. I also think if we can’t do it in a timely manner, we’ll choke ourselves out as greenhouse emissions light more and more of the world on fire.
The problem with local community organizing is that not every community is equal.
My local community are normal friendly people mixed with secret racists/homophobes who are also mixed with blatant racists/homophobes. Because I live in rural bumfuck.
Sure, I could try and connect some of them but I could get a shit spewing hate surprise, or run into someone who is bigoted but keeps their bigotry private with a friendly face, so by being friendly and cooperative I’m enabling them.
I intend to move ASAP to a moderately more progressive area soonish but its a more expensive place so it’s taking me a long while of personal austerity to save up to comfortably make the move. And a lot of good people don’t have the finances or opportunity to escape these wretched awful places. They’re a lost fucking cause.
I agree. As a vampire who immolates in the sun (well, gets sick after about an hour of light sun, or twenty minutes of August desert sun in 117°F) I’m not made to wave signs. Also I’m not great with crowds.
So for the No Kings rally, I figured: park me under a pavilion and I’ll hand out water bottles! Or put me on the cook line and I’ll stuff tacos! We are giving out tacos and water bottles right?
Not even water bottles in a major municipality. WTF?
With further research I found that the only food-centers mutual aid organizations are a couple of food pantries. In Sacramento, California.
Disappointment! Disappointment as far as the eye can see!
This isn’t really a fair comparison - I’d rather have a LITERAL garbage dump next door than a MAGA.
A happy family with different life experiences to share? That’s a GOAL to HOPE for.
When i grew up we had shit bag neighbors and they would occasionally threaten to do shitty neighbor things like cutting down property line trees and such. The threat always include we are going to sell to an Indian family or else… My mom would say do it, we would love to have good neighbors. These people are so backwards that their threats are a progressive changes that we would like to have.
I mean, it could be worse than a garbage dump.
Flaming sanitation depot.
Sewage treatment plant. It’d still be better than a MAGA neighbor. At least you can get used to the smell of sewage.
They’re both full of shit, but at least one provides value for the community. That’s why I’d chose the sewage plant.
I got a MAGA across the street from me who reported my thistles because he thought my plants on my property were devaluing his property.
This is the same guy who got drunk, smashed up his son’s car in the street with a sledgehammer, then drained all the gas and oil out of his motorcycle into the storm drain and left the bike lying in the middle of the road.
lead headed antics
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such unrealized potential of web content to be fault tolerant, searchable, and not ableistThey’re not mutually exclusive. What about an undocumented immigrant family (with happy trans kids) of white supremacist, racist MAGA lunatics? Is that a numberwang?
You would probably be safer.
Definitely, at least excluding the possibility of stray bullets when ICE shows up to fuck with them.
Yeah no shit. I’d rather have a happy family living next to me that just wants a happy life than a pile of shit nazi family.
From reading all of these comments, I feel like that should be a new thing. Talking about all the terrible things we’d rather experience than have a MAGA person living nextdoor (an immigrant family with trans kids not being a terrible thing, of course).
I’ll go next, I would rather have a painful pimple right at the crease/transition from your leg to your butt that has to be popped every day, which is excruciating, rather than live next to MAGA person.
I hear that’s what happens if you have sex with a MAGA
Dude you must hate MAGA person
My dad, once a brilliant rocket scientist is now a full-on MAGA disciple, and in the past few years (when I was still arguing politics with him) he started submitting FOX News talking points as if they were his own.
I’m on suicide watch this year.
Okay, I should clarify, so as not to scare:
spoiler
Some really bad life-altering shit happened in November 2024, and I wasn’t prepared for it. This includes the 2024 General Election, in which 77 million people voted for the let’s-do-a-holocaust guy, who campaigned on nothing less than a coup d’etat and a massive purge of undesirables. So far, he’s following through.
Human beings are expendable, according to the people that are held up by society as inspirational. The mere existence of CECOT tells me that I was just plumb born to the wrong species.
The chart below (courtesy of the CDC) shows where I am. It’s not actually that uncommon right now for people in the United States to gravely consider whether it’s worth suffering existence, and wondering if they’re needed enough to justify their resource footprint.
My suicidal ideation is continuous (at least once every hour, which is off the charts for most suicide treatment programs) but it is passive: It’d be better if I never existed; It’d be convenient if I slipped down the stairs, or if one of the countless motorists in Sacramento could do me the service of running a red at freeway speeds. I have a number scale regarding my suicidality. Since 2015, it’s averaged 3 or 4, and this year it’s at 6-7. On medications / coming down from medications, it has gotten up to 9.5
There are still some persons (including my cat and my dog) who need me, but at the point I can no longer care for them (say, if they get killed by ICE before a SWAT raid, or if my benefits are cut) then it’s high time to look for the emergency exits and escape the burning building.
I’m still open for other causes to chase or reasons to live, but ten months later, I’m still mad enough for tea 🐰🎩🫖☕🎀, managing with a post-COVID-19-lockdown psych-sector. That is, overrun with patients and burned out. I can’t tell if my treatment providers are just too busy or they don’t care. Maybe they can’t afford to care.
In the meantime I’m watching the institutions of my society, a nation and community I believed in, get smashed to rubble or worse, subverted by a kleptocracy that steals for profit and uses force to hunt political enemies and bogey-men
It’s not a great time to be trying to unfuck my head, and not a bad time to be a raving lunatic. 🐺🌕
To be fair, I knew he was a bastard in 2003 when evidence of the CIA extrajudicial detention and
tortureenhanced interrogation program was published and came to a head. Staunch Republicans were party-signaling by announcing that torture of terrorists was right and proper, and waterboarding wasn’t really torture. My dad made such assertions, and went on to say all CIA captives were organized terrorists and guilty of violence (entirely untrue, but we wouldn’t know that for a couple of years). At the time I didn’t know about the Scharff interrogation techniques that informed US methods since WWII (Named after Luftwaffe Master Interrogator Hanns Scharff). We haven’t yet seen the full U.S. Senate report on CIA torture, incidentally, and I’m still sore about it.My father really does deserve a corpse of a son, and I’m still striving to choose other than giving him one.
I’m too old (and gentle, actually) to become Hugo Stiglitz once the civil war comes, but if my fury, resentment and disappointment were given material form, it’d look something like that.
brother your vent is way too influential ngl.
:::Depression rant, a little graphic
I don’t know if I am suicidal or not but I do wish I didn’t exist, almost daily and that too very elaborate, like eating a bullet and meeting the pavement head first from a height and I am very mentally disturbed, like when I am depressed really I imagine myself rotting in dumpyard:::
And I ask myself why am I living? The only answer I get is, myself. Thinking about politics and the worsening state of affairs just make me want to day dream about ww3 and post apoc situations … and see worsening mental health
Yeah, in my case ECT (shock treatment for the layfolk. Zapping my brain.) is on the table, and the research I’ve done on it is not reassuring that they know what they’re doing.
So I’ve thought about this at extreeeeeeeme length and with a philosophy background could probably argue before a judge… assuming the court wasn’t corrupt.
If they do I’ll regard it as suicide-lite: They’re destroying parts of my brain so that my behavior is less offensive. I’m sure I’ll love Big Brother will all my heart.
Ernest Hemingway and David Foster Wallace both got ECT, and decided they didn’t like who they were after the fact, eventually taking their lives. So if I go that route, it will be an absolute last resort.
Yes. MAGA can fuck right off. Every single one of them.
I don’t even wanna brush by a maga at the grocery store never mind live near one
As someone who recently moved to an r area I 100% agree. I miss my old neighborhoods.
@LadyButterfly
It’s not an either or thing… I’d rather anybody else than a MAGA racist.Agreed!
Low key ? Why would it not be good to have a trans neighbor?
