niktemadur

the problem is fear mongering by the likes of Fox

And that’s how you keep rednecks from red states feeling superior… through outright lying.

Back in the Cold War days, Albania was the poorest and most undernourished country in all of Europe, yet the population believed they were the richest.
The method for spreading this type of lie has been adopted and polished by the right-wing propaganda machine.

Who’s doing the work in the fields?
Immigrants, mostly from Latin America.

Blatant hysterical lies do not fall under “news” nor “entertainment”, rather under propaganda.

aRe ThE sAmE!

Then every time Democrats try and pass something meaningful, but are blocked and sabotaged by republicans who have way too much power because of lazy idiots using “all or nothing purity” as an excuse to not vote, those same lazy idiots - who didn’t bother to even do a cursory glance to see how Senators and Representatives voted on bills - go bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe again. And again. And again.

Potato - potatoe, tomato - tomatoe.

You see 196 as

queer and especially trans friendly

I see it as a garden of shitposting delights.

Halfway between a pizza and a pineapple!

Starshit Poopers

I would like to know more.

I see what you’re saying. But what if we tweak things a little:
Math is real, it is numbers that are invented, the discreet packets in a ruler, a measuring stick. Like an imaginary line in a grid, such as the tropics and equator.

They are incapable of understanding that it is the lack of progressive policies that keep their region a neglected backwater.

I know a Reverend Kolunda reference when I see one.
It’s Insane, This Guy’s Taint:

“Be kind, rewind… re-wind? Who fights the wind?”
“The Windbreaker!”
“Precisely! Let’s go!”

Meth and cousins is what gets the job done in those there parts.

Then the terrible roads must somehow be the fault of "those libruls’, when there’s not a liberal in sight as far as the crow flies for a couple of days at least.

When you turn on Fox News for news about foxes, but turn into a conspiracy theory-following reactionary right-wing imbecile.

HEAR HEAR!

there’s /r/StarWars and /r/SaltierThanCrait over on Reddit

Those two spaces had differing stances.
There also the case of InterestingAsFuck as opposed to DamnThatsInteresting, because why the fuck does “Fuck” have to be in the title?

But then there’s shameless karma-farming duplicates, like ComedyCemetery and ComedyNecromancy.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter! imitation social network spread.

Echoes of The Graduate…

“I’ve got one word for you, Benjamin. One word only. Are you listening?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Plastics.”

Meditation is better advice. By which I mean doing the exercises to approach grounding oneself in the present, sensing and feeling things from that perspective, instead of the YESTERDAY and TOMORROW clashing storms inside our minds.
But one can’t just start meditating one day - “from zero to sixty”, so to speak - and expect immediate results. It’s a discipline, like brushing your teeth every day.

You know… I’ve never really thought about it that way, but my three favorites may be the same most watched.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Empire Strikes Back
Miller’s Crossing

Sometimes I’ll watch Miller’s Crossing with English subtitles/captions, just to take in all that insane and masterful dialogue, it truly is as if William Shakespeare had written a 1920s mob tragicomedy.

You ain’t got a license to kill bookies and today I ain’t sellin’. So take your flunky and dangle!