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Cake day: December 4th, 2024

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  • the Overton Window is shaped by what is acceptable to voters

    No. It’s shaped by what’s acceptable to the media, politicians, and their owner donors.

    Much more often than not, the vast majority of voters don’t get to choose beyond harm reduction by choosing the lesser evil. Which is still an evil.

    Political policy is being dictated by forces other than what voters find acceptable.

    Yup. 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀








  • Except they’re getting neither the bread nor the circuses for free as a bribe from the government, like you would during the time where the expression originated.

    On the contrary, people are increasingly unable to afford enough bread for survival without going into chronic debt and are literally taking out mortgages to afford one night of (modern equivalents to) circuses.

    The only reason why the US hasn’t broken into several pieces DECADES ago is that keeping the rich and powerful from facing the consequences of their actions and upholding fundamentally corrupt and oppressive institutions is the only thing the US government is still #1 at.



  • Depends: 300 million what?

    If it’s dollars? Sure!

    If it’s feral hogs, I guess I better learn how and get to building ASAP!

    Edit: Oh wait, re-read it! It seems I get the 300 million feral hogs in advance?

    Yeah, I DEFINITELY won’t be able to construct anything while some lunatic desperately attempts to cram hundreds of millions of deadly swine into my 3rd floor apartment 😬