Uriel238 [all pronouns]

What is curious to me is why billionaires don’t start massive civil projects that would get their bronze statue in every state park?

Musk had several opportunities, except he then had to figure out a way to monetize it so it profited him.

For me, seeing corruption and inequality lead to major depression, but I figured out early I didn’t want to cause harm.

What hit hard is learning deception and exploitation is baked into the system.

The problem is, it’s plausible they are ice, and in the US hoodlums gathering near a van before pulling a heist are rarer than unmarked ICE guys waiting to acquire a target, so if this isn’t a movie set, they’re most likely ICE.

If they are this obvious, I’d see if I could get a flash mob of civilians with phone cameras.

Either they move, or if action goes down, there’s going to be a big protest soon.

Also we’ll know who they took.

Someone should meme this up as a bunch of dudes about to get jumped by Spiderman.

There are some pepper sprays that are mixed with red difficult-to-remove dye for the purpose of identifying those involved in an incident.

Legal in California!

Never let the assailant take you to the secondary location.

Urban self defense classes have been teaching this since the 1970s, at least.

On board with the mushroom kingdom

I’m making an executive decision and declaring this to be the slang for the position of seeking to end the current healthcare system for public healthcare. And to save Mangione from state justice law.

They did before in 1789, hence the immediate outcome of the Estates General of 1789.

And hence the response of the French public immediately following.

We quickly moved into the Joffrey Baratheon period of this regime, which is typically stopped when he pisses off the wrong powerful people.

As for us on the bottom, we suffer as the high lords play their games of thrones.

In the late middle ages, nobility would wear make up, false moles, or adopt the verbal inflections of the monarch as a part of courtier parlance.

If there was a way to encourage Washington culture to get everyone to wear orange makeup, we totally should.

Not that our federal government isn’t already a parody of itself in countless other ways.

Oh they’ll come.

The US will have to go to war to keep down unrest. Whether Trump makes good on Canada / Greenland / Poland, the world will have to form a coalition against us, and it’s likely China will take the lead.

There will be Chinese bombers over Washington just as there were Russian and American bombers over Berlin. Not that we’ll be around to enjoy it, and those that remain will suffer as collaborators (whether they were or not).

We really don’t want to let it get there. But then we really didn’t want it to get here, and we knew in the early aughts with George W. Bush’s administration this is where we were headed if someone didn’t chance course. Obama, who promised to change course, did not.

Yes, the link is this:

When all the adults in the household have to work 40+ hours a week, plus commute, plus all the adulting…they get sad since this is fucking toxic.

Also no one has time for civics.

Also no one has time to parent, so the kids are sad too.

If we’re looking at mental health problems, lets look here first.

Now wondering if there are six-year-olds in Africa using M16/AR-15 style rifles as part of some warlord’s army. I guess they don’t get to go to kindergarten, though.

History teems with famines, and with famines you’ll find cannibalism.

This is what we expect after the world runs out of water to run our farms. Mad Max with fewer cars and more cannibalism.

You and several nations full of people, friend.

The thing is Stephen King recently told a story in Billy Summers about how a triggerman fades into the woodwork after a pro hit. And King is someone who only does a bit of research (contrast someone like Chuck Palahniuk).

So yeah, someone who is not quite dressed like the guy getting caught on camera and then held up by police as a suspect sounds like the police being lazy.

It’s a hired killer. Follow the fucking money.

I, too, am Spartacus.

Quintessence cyberpunk dystopia moment.

And match the red on the poster!