A real win would involve fElon and his dogebois being given a one-way trip to Gitmo.

Such an apt analogy - this actually happens all the time in corporations. IT tends to just get treated as a cost center, most especially if everything is running smoothly. Stupid people at companies will often just look at the price of that and think it’s time to fuck with it…

It’s almost the same thing with vaccines. A whole lot of dumbasses think vaccines “never did them no good”, because vaccines are a victim of their own success, and most people alive today have not really seen how bad it can get without them [1].

Idiots can then try to pin the state of health we have, largely thanks to vaccines, on other things like septic systems, “eating healthy”, etc…

[1] I’ve anecdotally noticed that for the most part, you didn’t see older generations going for that anti-vax shit. It seems to have started with some (younger) boomers, a lot of Gen-Xers and on down. But again, that’s because it’s an out-of-sight, out-of-mind kind of thing. Some of the older people (like Greatest Generation) saw how life can be incredibly cruel w/o vaccines…sadly, all that wisdom is dying out and our education system sucks, so this wisdom was not passed on to enough people. Critical thinking is probably as bad as ever, and we are probably on the verge of FAFO…

Hey, believe me, I understand the sentiment. We are all quite worn down. I just wouldn’t give up on humanity or the country. That’s what the fascists want.

Don’t give them that power.

Well, strawman arguments and calling me names is certainly a good argument. I guess?

This is exactly as the Blessed Saint Ayn Rand and her agent in government, the Blessed Saint Ronnie Raygun (PBUH), would have envisioned Galt’s Gulch in its most perfect state.

All these “job creators” - who were made rich due to being corporate welfare queens - move right into government agencies and set up their Galt’s Gulch, because they are Special Beings and obviously all the wealth this country creates is something they are entitled to just hack into and steal.

It’s such a shame the Randroid fathers/mothers aren’t around to see their rotten fruit being harvested…

Thank you, I will check it out. I actually sub to tech won’t save us already, but am so far behind…

Here is one I did listen to that deals with fElon - Elon’s Spies.

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/elons-spies

If the cons don’t fuck it up (and they want to do that), you absolutely would collect. And any “shortfall” would be easily remedied by lifting that regressive cap on it.

I’ve been hearing all of my life that it won’t be there when I retire. And the way the cons are gunning for it, I now do doubt I’ll collect. But if it wasn’t for people trying to ACTIVELY destroy it, it would be just fine.

They can colonize Mars, along with fElon.

They’ve been saying that all along, haven’t they? These are the same people that think “teach the controversy” is a good slogan to repeat over…checks notes…evolution?

Remember how the radical right, most especially of the more Randroid type was saying that talking about Gilead states was hyperbole and hysterical, etc…?

Then they reversed 50 years of Roe. And now this insane piece of shit is back in the office, throwing red meat to the crazies that think this is a xtian nation (or that it should be one).

Many of [the voters] stayed home, and some of them voted for Donald Trump," he said. "But they are now feeling very clearly that they made a big mistake. And, you know, sort of like the kid who gets in trouble and his parents send him to his room and he goes out there and starts throwing stuff around… in a pique of anger. All he’s got is a mess and that’s what we’ve got here.

Now that some of them have (maybe?) woken the hell up, I’d like to see a shit-ton of apologies from those that bought into the concerted gEnOcIdE narrative to put donvict into office.

I am pretty sure that most of those pushing that narrative are not going to apologize, because I know the type, and they are very stubborn. They pretty much got what they want - many of them are, at root, nihilists. And that’s just the ones that are not Russian trolls, who have mostly clammed up for the time being.

I just saw someone on Lemmy say the other day something along the lines of “he’s only been in there a month”

Hell, at that point it was barely 2 WEEKS.

That’s what these assholes want. Nihilism.

Don’t give in.

At some point, I expect donvict to sign an EO requiring everyone to use racial epithets against the kinds of people donvict hates. These people screaming about “DEI” just want to be able to say the n-word with literally no consequences.

Well, that’s a very stupid take. This is what the elitists want - getting people to turn on one another, including one age range against another…

Don’t fall for it. The boomers paid into SS and are completely entitled to it, just like everyone else after them, too.

Dipshit kept saying his terrorists attacking the Capitol on J6 was a “day of love”.

Never did. I wish I could boycott something I already don’t give a fuck about, but…

This is catering to the king of snowflakes.

I mean, if they vote for Democrats, they might turn gay or woke.

Seriously, only people permanently stuck in adolescence with bullshit Libertarian notions about government believe that you can BREAK government and things will turn out well.

Only a dumbfuck Randroid type (or maybe the random leftist veering on wrapping all the way around the horseshoe) thinks that burning it all down is going to lead to better things…it’s easy if you are totally ignorant to think that “government doesn’t do anything for ME” as an actual thing you believe.