Sports are games.

Games are supposed to be inclusive and fun.

Society taking games deathly serious (and equivocating it with academic merit, aka serious pursuits) is the problem.

People rioting and murdering if the game didn’t work out for their team is the problem. Putting billion dollar stakes on games is the problem.

Trans people or any people wanting to play games with their friends should be what society fosters and nurtures as the entire fucking point of society’s existence. Something something… planting trees something something knowing they’ll never sit under…

Nope? let’s bring on the climate change induced extinction then. If our values are hyper competitive, dog eat dog bullshit from labor to fucking games, we should go extinct.

“a great economy” for the top 10% being supported by a massive underclass.

An American tradition to be sure. Slaves to Jim Crow to immigrants, but now most are that underclass.

And they’ll still call this a healthy economy, lol, as only those of capital means are human to the capitalists. Everyone else is livestock. Welcome to Panem.

https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/24/higher-income-americans-drive-bigger-share-of-consumer-spending/

May the capital markets burn to the ground. At least climate change will do what we should have in a couple decades when it doesn’t matter anymore.

Americans betrayed one another since Reagan under the capitalist call of “you can get more, just fuck over the fellow Americans that you don’t like” for over half a century. When’s the last time a party has said a god damned thing about solving a relatively easy problem for a wealthy nation: ending homelessness?

The incoming pain is well earned.

I’m going to think of all the burgeoning socialist regimes we’ve destabilized through soft power and military action, places that wanted to be societies of people that lifted one another up, in the name of keeping exploitation markets open to our capitalists, now that the bill for our mass cultural malice both within and without has come due when I’m feeling the pain.

How about you? Will you acknowledge our nation’s decades of unrepentant malice when your family is hungry? Or blame it on the for profit media pushed powerless scapegoats dejour like the homeless or immigrant neighbors we’ve failed and often ironically vocally resent?

He’s doing this on purpose so the oligarchs can buy the dip and own even more.

Don’t mistake malice for incompetence, or vice versa. Trump is often incompetent, especially in live interactions, his tariff game ain’t it, it’s part of all he’s there for: self-enrichment.

He already called them on and back off once this term to do just that. Calling such moves idiocy instead of a plan to further drain wealth from the many to the pre-informed few plays right into it.

Yet another example of why the capital markets are the bane of human civilization in innumerable ways, undermining and sabotaging entire societies to accelerate short term growth/metastasis.

The capital markets will be destroyed either by the people out of self preservation, or by capital market made climate change after it doesn’t matter anymore for humans. I take solace in knowing this con game won’t last another century either way, as the tumor of unchecked human greed will destroy its own host if not cut out by force.

I have ideas about a targeted solution that would leave about 99.5% of the population better off, and provide the other 0.5% a peace they prove constantly on no uncertain terms by how they live they would never be capable of attaining in any other way.

I wish I was allowed to say it.

The gallows funniest bit about this whole situation is that the ones perpuating it aren’t happy either, even in victory. They could have 50 quadrillion dollars and their own space station mansion, and they still wouldn’t be satisfied, because our civilization rewards a very specific kind of dangerous mental illness.

They should be getting care in secure mental health facilities to keep society safe from their avarice, the kind they defunded for tax cuts through captured government.

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It really should be policy to allow at least the seat(s) next to the deceased (I understand not moving the body for coroner/investigation reasons, though they did in this case at which point why not put them in a bathroom and guard It you have extras) use any surplus steward seats or those staff seats in the cockpit for employees.

Just basic decency in the event of an extreme circumstance.

Republican women: dehumanizing themselves to pwn the libs since Reagan.

Certainly not plenty, given what’s happening.

And I don’t mean empty rhetorical reverence.

Reverence would mean having a zero to positive net environmental impact. Like the Native Americans. They weren’t perfect or necessarily peaceful between one another, but they practiced reverence towards the natural world.

Those with practiced reverence towards the natural world don’t fare well amongst our species. We take humble coexistence with the Earth as weakness like clockwork. We jail them for ecoterrorism and genocide their cultures because they get in the way of economic and population metastasis, sadly because we consider our God to be subject to us and not the other way around as we’re going to learn in the coming decades by our own actions and hubris.

I mean “learn” loosely. Sadly many wouldn’t admit to themselves we were wrong or abandon currency as their god even if a CAT 6 just hurled a bus at their head.

To me it’s ridiculous that we have no reverence for our actual, objective God: the living Earth.

All the fairy tale imaginary sky daddies people kill other people over while actively desecrating our factual creator with abandon.

We’re so weird. We have a creator. The natural world. And we’ve been in a hot war with that only actual God of humans for about a quarter millenia, lol.

We’ll lose handily. And life will go on.

I don’t care if China steals my data or uses my router as a vector for a DOS attack at this point. My fascist nation already has domestic back doors to spy on me if I was interesting enough. My opinion of China is roughly the same as my opinion of my own red white and blue shithole, about as low as you can go. In fact, their regular people on the street seem a hell of a lot more prosocial and EMPATHETIC than I’ve ever seen here in the US going by Rednote. I’m on nobody’s side geopolitically because nobody is on my side.

Besides, we destroyed ourselves already. Checkmate CCP! Have fun spying on the ash heap. Spoilers: we’re largely poorly educated here by design, so enjoy the stream of "…evolution is just a theory science is fake education is a scam pull yourself by your bootstraps stop virtue signaling it’s not greed I’m rationally self-interested… "

As a filthy leftist, it would certainly pwn me if they did. I would be very pwned.

Like I would cry so many tears, which are incidentally fucking delicious, if anyone were so inclined to want to drink them.

Awesome idea for an app!

The capitalists will “efficiency” aka be greedy and pocket what they should have spent on their app’s vetting process into being useless, basically opening the door to hiring potential heroes who wish to do the right thing being given the capitalist’s location and being invited to show up armed.

Five stars!

If God exists, I doubt even they’d have enough divine power to pull modern Republican’s heads out of their shameless asses.

"Antifa somehow made my first born drop dead as I was teaching him confederate histry! Then they turned all my guns to locusts! Then they replaced all the water in my pipes with blood! Then they used their Jewish space laser satellites to make that deafening ‘LOVE IMMIGRANTS AS YOU LOVE ME, REPENT!’ sound around the world!

Fucking leftists and their false flag attacks."

Demand an executive order by the President declaring himself a pigboy.

Can you imagine being loudly fired as a corrupt drain on tax dollars after years of expert service, having them call it a victory for America that you’ve been fired, having your badge deactivated and being kicked out, and then having them come back saying “wait no, we need you for a little while longer so you’re unfired for now… Now get back to work until we figure out how to have Grok do your job poorly!”

Anyone who would go back to their job after that is a spineless nitwit. They just want you to solve their immediate need and fire you in a month. Let them suffer and answer for their self created mess. They wouldn’t be calling you back if there wasn’t something that would make them look terrible or interfere with one of their grifts/schemes.

I’m genuinely shocked it was taken down at this stage in our self-destruction

That’s literally like half of marriages.