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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Voting vs other actions isn’t a dichotomy - you can vote for the lesser evil to buy time, AND do the things that will make a real and lasting impact.

    In our current system though, red team vs blue IS a dichotomy - using your vote you can nudge the counter a tiny bit closer to one side or the other; or opt out / vote third, which both equate to doing nothing and letting you’re countrymen choose for you, but the potential results are the same: red or blue.

    So, you can use your vote however you want, but I’d recommend pitching that nudge away from the more blatant Nazis. …but also build those guillotines for use against hostile actors regardless of party.

    What folks 100% should NOT do though is vote and then consider their ‘civic duty’ satisfied, which is ofc the sentiment OP is aimed at.


  • Surgical tech here! This is one of those ‘prank the new guy’ jokes you see in the OR. I’ve seen play out almost verbatim to the OP a couple different times.

    Original OP may well be quoting Scrubs, but I’d wager this prank predates Scrubs by a hefty margin too.

    “Go get me a jug of elbow grease” kind of shenanigans.



  • On one hand, yes… but on the other, I think that’s part of why they’re so successful. We constantly give Trump and people like Trump the village idiot pass - we don’t take them seriously because we wave off their malice as just stupidity.

    If Trump actually behaved competently, he’d have been in prison ages ago.

    …it’s the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory, but it’s happening in real time.




  • Might be more of a developmental impairment. For children, magical thinking is normal and expected. They might sincerely think they can cause something to happen by thinking about it or engaging in some kind of paranormal way. Like, if a 4 year old points at you with a finger guns gesture and yells ‘bang’, they might just be trying to be silly; but they might also be genuinely trying to kill you. You’ll know if immediately after, they look down at their finger-gun with a wtf expression cuz they’re actually surprised it didn’t work.

    Again, normal. Unnerving, but normal.

    They should grow out of that shit by about age 7 iirc.

    Lots of people never grow out of it, they just compartmentalize that kind of thinking as religion… they know they can’t kill you with finger guns, but Jesus? His finger guns are real!!.

    Those people need a fuck ton of therapy.