feels wrong if the americans don’t wager something. florida, maybe.

all the fuckers in charge read dystopian scifi, and think ‘oh this is cool, lets do this.’

they always were kind of the same country.

again; I’m not saying I didn’t vote.

that said: there is no voting. there was an election last year, and, fairly or unfairly: you fuckers stuck the landing, snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. past tense. done. MOVING THE FUCK ON

I don’t know if there’s going to be another election, or, if there is, whether it’s going to be real or fake. I think counting on that is foolish. I think obsessing over electoral shit instead of the actual mechanics of community and machinery of power is why we’re all in this mess.

so please touch fucking grass, talk to your neighbors, and do something that will literally ever matter.

not just deflection. repeating lies.

this is one of the many reasons there is no point in talking anymore. they can’t be reasoned with, they refuse to be negotiated with. they will kill us if they are not stopped.

you’ve never had the poor judgement to talk to a cop have you? they have all always been like this. if you read old 40s german nazis, they sound like this too.

just looks like a person trying to talk to a cop.

this is one of the reasons you don’t do that btw. the other is that they’ll lie about what you said and use it to convict you of stuff, and every judge believes them. but this is a pretty close second to that.

remember, when you see these company’s products in stores, they can be damaged easily. accidentally, even. be careful!

murrca.

there are no commons.

I think the reason it’s not a problem is there’s agency you can take over that stuff, and it’s not deferring to a blatantly malevolent system designed to crush you into dust and extract the value for things like sleeping inside and getting the ever diminishing treats that make you not kill yourself while you’re doing that.

whereas when it’s cold your body does stuff by itself to heat up, and there’s usually more you can do besides to fix or at least emotionally cope with the problem in healthy ways-warm clothes, blankets, wood chopping, chimney maintenance, something inadvisable with nichrome wire, etc. When you’re fighting a nazi, you have to be moving or carefully still, and the moving actually matters and maybe you kill or escape the nazi before it kills you. your actions actually matter, even if the base situation is more outwardly harrowing.

there’s no cognitive dissonance to survival issues, no worrying about how you’re seen, no helleresque bullshit. nothing even stopping you from acting but your own assessments.

I do have terrible crushing problems money can’t solve.

but I would be a hell of a lot happier with lowish 6 figures a year.

without the genocide and harris’ being simultaneously a woman of color (alienating fascists), a cop (alienating anyone with a conscience), and an arrogant symbol of the establishment that let it get so bad? yeah, fine red mist. it was a really good strategy. and they just stopped it, probably because a wealthy donor said it made them uncomfortable.

very different question, but the UK isn’t necessarily more sane than the americans, just less dangerous.

who says I didn’t vote?

and if you vote for the democrats, and they decide to NOT take office after winning again, like they did 25 years ago, then you’ve done worse than waste your vote-not that it was ever worth much.

if you vote for the democrats, and they throw that shit, you’re basically saying "I am okay with these dipshits who will always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when it’s most important, and will never actually fix what’s been damaged, they just won’t damage it quite as deliberately’. which is not good.

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for some.

IBM: the machinery of government (and the various things they’ve enabled over the years) and just a really warm fuzzy folksy time lapse montage (mid-late season)

exxonmobil: burning tomorrow, today. slogan after a couple minutes of horrible disaster (natural and otherwise) footage and a park ranger drinking to forget, with a translucent exxon logo on screen. then you flash up the slogan at the end. (mid-late season)

it’s true, the coke idea could use some work, but these are all pretty rough.

honestly, if walz had been managed competently, I think he’d have been a pretty good folksy VP candidate. especially if he’d kept up on the ‘weeeeird’ stuff.

harris was just a terrible idea, and she didn’t even push her strengths. it’s like she, and the people who put her there, were all trying to lose.

okay, I edited in an alternate structure that might fix this. tell me you wouldn’t watch that, with stressed brand managers panicking over what they’ve gotten each other into?