It’s not profitable to pay someone to drive a truck out to the most remote rural mailboxes in America, but we do it because if we didn’t then someone could die for lack of their lifesaving medications getting delivered. FedEx sure as shit wouldn’t run that route without it being prohibitively expensive for the resident.

See also: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

If an angry mob had closed a loophole around Richard Nixon’s neck after he received his pardon, we probably wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in today.

“Gambling and crypto” reminds me of when I was in DARE and they would refer to “drugs, alcohol, and tobacco,” and I thought “aren’t those all drugs?”

“Do you have money?”

“Yeah.”

“Right this way, you exploitable rube!”

Everything is overpriced so that the people making more money than us can make even more money.

SMBC

Surely they don’t have Willem Dafoe!

Hey, there’s still that mushroom-based coffee substitute!

I’m sorry for making light of a serious situation. I would also rather die than drink that cursed substance.

The Boats!

Reminds me of New Hampshire’s Old Man of the Mountain, a famous rock formation that looked like a man in profile, which was so identified with New Hampshire that they put it on their state quarter… and which collapsed within a couple of years of the quarter being released.

The F-35 is not just an aircraft. It’s a system of systems. Software updates, mission data files, sustainment logistics, and upgrade pathways are all tightly controlled within an American-led ecosystem.

There’s the slightest chance that there is no such person as Donald Trump, and he is in fact a projection into all of our minds by a powerful and malevolent telepath.

fucking losers.

Full of hate

finally finding an outlet

So, Nazis.

Edit:

Okay, but do we know that there aren’t people alive today who materially profited from these Nazis escaping prosecution? Like, a Nazi officer escapes with a bunch of gold fillings pulled from concentration camp victims, he uses that gold to start a business, and his family is still rich from that business today? That kind of scenario merits investigation, even if the original Nazi is long dead.

all new grittier griftier universe!

Okay, but let’s also notice this specimen of athletic supremacy over here.

The underappreciated weapon in defying fascists: “Fuck you, make me.”

There’s A Robert A. Heinlein book about how and why to be involved in politics called Take Back Your Government. At one point he talks about sharing his concerns that fascism was in fact more efficient than democracy with a person who had escaped Hitler’s Germany. The friend asserts that fascism is less efficient, because under fascism, everyone is afraid of the boss, so no one wants to admit when anything isn’t going according to plan, so problems pile up. Democracy, on the other hand, expects and encourages constant complaint, so the problems tend to get discovered and fixed sooner than under fascism.

You can see this process taking place right now: everyone is afraid of displeasing boss Trump, and as a result you’ve got all these clearly fucked up decisions being made while nobody is being honest about how bad of an effect they are going to have. In a functional democracy, representatives would be afraid of the consequences and do something to stem the damage to avoid being tossed out in the next election. In our current reality… we’ll see, I guess?