Dumbasses so desperate for just a small hit of copium. You think that over the course of the last fucking decade, something would have sunk in for idiots to realize they’re being fed horseshit, but no. They’ll keep believing the house of cards is totally going to fall down any day now because they read some bullshit tweet and are too fucking stupid to look up facts for themselves.

I’ve seen like half a dozen articles asking questions like this in the last week.

Money.

The answer is money.

The answer has always been money.

The answer will always be money.

There is no point in asking this question because everyone already knows it’s money.

Boiled in a big pot with potatoes, carrots, and a large slab of corned beef for several hours.

If it’s all propaganda and nothing happened, then why the fuck is China so draconian about preventing any and all conversation about it?

I mean, if it was all made up lies, certainly they would want people talking about the truth of the matter, rather than banning and prosecuting anyone who dares mention that it was anything other than a normal day.

Now, some people might see this and easily be able to tell that something stinks and clearly there is something they are trying to cover up. We call this “Not having the critical thinking skills of a dead goldfish”

Do they? I mean, I’m sure some people do. But some people also think shoving chili peppers up their anus is pleasurable. We don’t go around saying “People now think shoving hot peppers up their ass feels good.”, because while it’s technically true, it’s disingenuous considering how few people fit into that category.

Part of me agrees with this, part of me thinks that these people are too far into the weeds to know what’s possible. Change brings chaos. And when you’re at your stressful job with a shitty machine that you are constantly trying to keep running, eventually you reach a point where the thought of turning off the machine is unthinkable.

From an outside perspective, it seems obvious. The machine is bad. We should get rid of it and try something different. But that concept is terrifying to the people who work on the machine. Turn it off? But they’ve spent years learning how to work with the machine! They know how to sometimes get the machine to do what they want! If they replace the machine with something else, what if they can’t figure out how to work the new system? Maybe someday they can replace the machine, but right now? In the middle of everything else? No, no, far too risky. Best to try to keep working with the same old machine.

Who do I tell? Their answering machine? Their poorly paid staffer who has to answer calls?

Maybe I should just go talk to my front door knob, or quietly whisper my complaints into a pillow. It would accomplish the same thing.

Yea, it’s an honest mistake that could happen to anyone! I mean, who among us HASN’T ordered an online prostitute who we thought was barely legal that turned out to be underage? There’s no way to avoid it!

I want you to do a little thought experiment with me…

Sports make a shit ton of money. They have advertisements crammed anywhere they can. When you go to a stadium, the shots of crowds are almost always pre-recorded, or actors, so they can package the emotions they want to convey without risking a genuine moment from genuine fans not going exactly how they want it to.

They gouge you with ticket prices, they gouge you with food/drink prices, the gouge you for parking. If you’re watching at home, you have to subscribe to their specific streaming platform, and even then it doesn’t guarantee you’ll be able to see the game they want.

They recruit kids in high school and college and use them knowing full well that less than 1% will have anything resembling success. They spend millions upon millions exploiting these kids.

They give quasi-legal performance enhancing drugs to their athletes. Ones that are labeled as supplements and aren’t technically against the rules, but do the exact same thing.

They hide studies that say their sport causes long-term injuries. They bribe local officials to get huge tax breaks on building new stadiums. They have teams of lawyers and PR personnel to cover up all but the most extreme controversies from their players. They have people working night and day to find new ways to keep people’s attention and have them consume more. They found a way to make gambling legal again and have been pushing HARD for it.

Now I want you to look at all these underhanded and slimy tactics they use, and really ask yourself: “Are the games themselves rigged?”. If your immediate answer is “No, of course not! They would never mess with the integrity of the game itself!” why do you feel that way? Why do you trust organizations, that have shown they hold nothing sacred if it means more money, to NOT mess with the game itself? You know they would if they could get away with it; and with the state of the world today, do you really think they COULDN’T get away with it?

A 144hz monitor has been the biggest upgrade to my computer since switching from an HDD to a SSD. It’s that big of a difference.

Same punishment as a brick, or acid, or a bunch of razors. Really makes you think.

Sorry, they’ve been defunded. Best they can do is have a guy from Fox News with no scientific background waddle out and claim Climate Change is a hoax made up by the demoncRATS. Maybe blame it on the Jews too, if AIPAC hasn’t been donating as much lately.

Because it’s the New York Young Republican Club? It’s not any actual politicians calling for this. It’s a bunch of incel trolls jerking themselves off to videos of Andrew Tate and having wet dreams about how fucking funny it is for America to do a fascism.

No they aren’t.

They are untouchable. They may lose power. In a fantasy scenario, they may even be barred from office. But there is no scenario, even in fantasy, where these rich fucks will spend a single day in prison. The best we can hope for is them dying from old age, or quietly fading away.

They’re not going to be held accountable. There is no scenario where they do.

There is literally nothing that he could release that would affect MAGA. Nothing.

a lot of American soldiers will refuse to commit atrocities against their fellow citizens

Tell that to Kent State.

American soldiers are soldiers. Soldiers follow orders. Soldiers without critical thinking skills follow orders without question.

There is no real history of holding the forces of fascist regimes accountable. If you’re thinking of the Neuremberg Trials, I urge you to look up how many people actually got prosecuted and faced justice compared to the total number of Nazi officials. Spoiler: it wasn’t many.

Thinking that members of ICE or supporters of this administration will face ANY legal consequences for their actions is delusionally naive. They won’t.

Even in a magical fantasy scenario where MAGA loses all power, progressives get into office, and enact wide sweeping change to undo all of Trump’s damage and ensure it can’t happen again; the only thing that would happen to these people is that ICE loses funding and they have to find a new job. That’s it. And in reality, even if a progressive takes office, ICE funding is never going away. Just look at the TSA, we were promised it would be a temporary thing in response to 9/11. Does anyone really believe it’s temporary anymore? Does anyone expect even the most progressive politician to push to defund them?

Yes, everyone knows if the majority of the military is untrained and lacks critical thinking skills, they could never successfully oppress their population.

That’s why African Warlords with armies full of child soldiers famously never commit unspeakable atrocities on their citizens.