How long before they’re turning American citizens away, making them essentially stateless?

They should be subject to a citizens police review board.

Like that’s ever going to happen.

Tough luck there, Pussolini.

When they’re arrested and disappeared in the first purge, they will express concern.

While I was in the process of disentangling myself from religion, the woman I lived with for nearly 10 years went off the deep end. Prosperity gospel. She became insufferable.

I made a much-needed escape, and met my wife a year later. She, like me, believes religion to be a social construct, intended to keep the masses docile and obedient.

Office with a public college, WFH 60%

And it’s one-two-three

What are we fighting for?

Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn

Next stop will be Iran!

It’s not social media per se. It’s capitalism. The Internet was this vast frontier, where you could meet anyone. Little communities formed, we all just talked, and self-regulated any bad behavior. It was a gift economy, we all freely shared knowledge, files, culture.

In the past 20 or so years, economies of scale took over. Corporations bought up the server space and aggressively shut down small communities. Community is discouraged, keep scrolling and click on the ads! Marketing killed the internet.

I’ve seen this movie before. “Iraq totally without a doubt has WMDs! Saddam Hussein is behind 9/11!”

And Americans are so mind-numbingly ignorant, they’ll buy it again.

Land of the free.

If your Big Mac starts tasting a little, um, slimy? That’s just a whole mouth fulla FREEDOM.

Not gonna happen. You wanted a king, you’ve got one, and World War III to go with him.

“But Honey, you know no one eats the Peanut!”

They want 90% of the population living in third world poverty, slaving at dead end service jobs, or as office drones at shit wages and no benefits.

If they’re not stopped, that’s exactly our future. And there’s no one to stop them.

He’s king. He can do what he wants.

“Ghina makes the best phones, the most bigly! And we totally won’t harvest your data! Believe me.”

Once again, MAGA dumbshits will spend money on this, then the service will go south, leaving them with worthless phones you can’t jailbreak.

Ya gotta remember. Shitgibbon’s grifts target the same people who send their disability checks to TV preachers.

Definitely Road Runner.

As for a rare one, Lost In Space. My spoiled brother had to have Batman, every week.

Like walking from a free society into a police state. Micromanagement, hidden rules that you were expected to know and obey, a culture of informants.

I don’t think he ever quite readjusted to civilian life after his time in World War II. He talked of it constantly, watched documentaries and war pictures.