Keyword: “Financial”. I would rather inherit nothing than lose my folks before their time. Money is fake anyway, they are not.

Preamble: OP asked for optimism. If you reply to this comment trying to kill the vibe, I will burn your house down. Also, I can only really speak about the US; I live there, and don’t know enough to say much about anywhere else.

These dark times are not natural. They are sustained in no small part by a cult of personality and a gigantic propaganda machine, both sustained by dark money & evil billionaires.

That sounds rough, but it means some good things! The personality at the heart of that cult is wandering off and shitting himself, publicly letting his brain leak out his ears. It is the destiny of all machines to fail; money is powerful, but it can only buy so much. And those same billionaires are unpopular and insane. I fully believe part of the reason things are so bad right now is because the bad guys know things are going to get much harder for them very soon.

Additionally: much ado has been made about polarization these days. And yes, right wing extremism is incredibly visible and dangerous right now. But, good radicalization is also happening. We had some of the largest protests in the history of this country last year. Things like police brutality and class consciousness are inching ever closer to being mainstream issues among voters. Millennial democrats are getting elected more and more often, and they are getting more and more progressive. The fascists may be behind the wheel right now, but you know what fascists are fundamentally? Losers. Small, simple, evil men and the opportunists & sycophants that throw their lot in with them. They actively select against competence.

Look, things are bad right now. People are gonna be hurt, lives are gonna be ruined, and it’s gonna be a big fucking mess to clean up in the future. But we’re gonna beat 'em, 100%.

So try to help who you can, look out for your mental health, and stick around. A better future is possible!

When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bites. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning.

1. This is not an “incident”. This is not an “accusation”. An ICE agent shot a fleeing woman in the head in broad daylight, on camera. The language of ambiguity here is dishonest and cowardly.

2. A citizen accused of a crime is an order of magnitude more likely to face consequences than law enforcement. A bad outcome for a cop accused of a violent crime is getting fired. A citizen who only loses their job will probably call it a win.

3. Presuming this is true, why do you think that is? Do people randomly hate cops for no reason? Or have there perhaps been numerous high profile examples in recent memory of police abusing their resources and power & facing no repercussions, even when caught red handed? Of cops showing preferential treatment to other cops, white people, and the wealthy? Of police departments getting armored personnel carriers and grenade launchers while “school lunch debt” is a concept that exists? Of incompetent morons kicking in the wrong door and flashbanging a baby or killing a random person in their own home? Any of that sound familiar, pig?

Nah bro we can pivot right and get moderates. Please bro just one more drift to the right I swear bro, we’ll get the moderate republicans this time!

If I wanted to learn to play piano, I would need to put in a lot of work. Find a used keyboard online or at a secondhand store, watch some YouTube tutorials, and put in lots of time practicing and teaching myself in between work, chores, and other responsibilities.

A billionaire could buy a mansion with a grand piano, have their people take care of moving in furniture and tuning, get someone to hire the world’s best teacher, pay them enough that they drop all their other students and move into the mansion, and spend 12 hours a day learning to play piano while doing no other work & being waited on hand and foot. With the enormous hoard of resources at their disposal, they could teach a chimp to play Mozart.

So when Elon Musk fails to be funny, I have to imagine it’s pride. He could learn stand up, improv, whatever he wanted. He has the time and resources if it’s really that important to him.

But that would mean admitting he is the least important thing in his own life. Anyone else with his resources could do the exact same thing. No talent, no dedication, nothing required from him has a person. He’s not a super genius; he’s an awkward, immature geek who got incredibly lucky. His position has everything to do with his wealthy parents and him happening to get lucky with PayPal. If he had to do it all over again, he would fail.

He is desperate for something that makes him special that isn’t his checkbook, and I think the idea that there isn’t anything like that scares him. For the rest of his life, he will be the smallest and least important part of anything he accomplishes.

Very cute! Lots of personality, love the style!

Because the second you pull that trigger, your life is over. If you don’t have an organized movement to back you up (we don’t) you’re fucked if you start shooting. Anyone who depends on you for care or income or support is fucked. Organizing an antifascist militia in a post-COINTELPRO America is really fucking hard, even in places where the bootlickers are few and the guns are many.

Trump raped kids.

Nothing about the way he has handled the Epstien investigation makes sense UNLESS he raped children.

There is no word in my vocabulary that captures how disgusted I am with Mike Johnson and the rest. They know he’s a child fucker. They’re not stupid enough to believe otherwise.

Soulless, inhuman, evil pieces of shit. Every bad thing that happens to him for the rest of his life will be less than he deserves.

It’s fucking depressing that immigration is only at -5 for him. Masked men abducting people into unmarked cars, taking them God knows where, denying them due process, and sending them to countries they’ve never been to before (including a torture prison in El Salvador). That should be a bigger deal than the fucking price of eggs!

Self-made millionaires tend to have a few distinct qualities. For one, their relationship with money can differ from that of their friends. They might focus more on long-term financial goals and be more stringent about saving.

When Lane Kawaoka became a millionaire by buying rental properties, he realized his newfound wealth was making him feel lonely. Much of it had to do with differing mindsets.

Ah yes, self-made. Generating money from the aether thru the purchase of real estate. Not hoarding housing and leeching off of the value created by others.

Personally, I don’t give a shit if someone came here legally or not. Crossing an imaginary government line on a map somewhere isn’t a real crime.

The full compensation would only be delivered if Musk vaults the company from its present value of $1.1 trillion to $8.5 trillion, a figure that exceeds the current combined market values of Meta, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet, the filing says.

So he has to nearly 8x the value of a company that’s already massively overvalued? Yeeeaaahh, not holding my breath for this one.

Don’t disappear anybody actually!

Eighty years

Class war

That shitty old bitch is barely lucid. The reaper is laughing at this “plan”.

We informed the parent that documentation such as a chromosome analysis could be considered to help support or verify eligibility in accordance with policy.

I cannot imagine being the dumbass who said that with a straight face.

Good Samaritan

Lesbian

Barbarian

Plenty of words we now use today started out referring to people in a specific time and place.

Further, what’s the use of remembering the horrors of the Nazis if we don’t recognize the early warning signs of those same horrors today? The “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” was around for over a decade before they started the holocaust. It seems like too little too late to wait until the genocide begins to start drawing parallels.