Is the US a dystopia?

if the boy blood makes you sweat that fucking profusely - it might not be good!

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Sleeve otm

Thiel’s response reminds me of this one time I took a huge bong hit and then tried to describe how parenthood had changed me.

lmao

Also reminiscent of the time Mitch McConnell saw the devil and received instructions from him for like 25 seconds straight

Pretty weird to have two different right-wing-approved vigilante killers named Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry. I bet they're going to be getting each other's invitations to CPAC conferences and inaugural balls.

DJP is a right-wing assassin? Wtf I was gone ten minutes

lol if someone from here did a famous assassination and then news started reading out their opinions about albums where the best song is the last song

"...the suspect also allegedly posted on threads dedicated to which second song was the best of a second album, which third album was different from the first two albums in a critically pleasing direction, which third album was the only one recorded with a different lineup than all the rest of a band's albums (minimum of 6 albums in career), and which was the best second song of the second side of an LP, along with the companion threads "which is the best second song of a third side" and "which is the best second song of a fourth side of a 2xlp release), along with the well-received "which is the best second song that starts with the letter...B" series, which is now entering numerical stages"

their IP address was flagged by MI5 after some questionable ballots came to light, they contained such questionable album choices it was assumed they must be coded messages to domestic terror cells

Thiel -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjZSIX1lYsM

Are those veins or scars on Thiel's temples? He looks like he's about to blow up, Scanners-style.

Thiel, Elon and RFK in a battle for who can have the most off putting way of speaking

honestly he looks like he’s coming out of a K hole

Apparently Luigi was actually at an MDC show?

haha

mike thompson was a nazi
he liked to play ss
he had a picture of adolf old boy
right there in his ceo vest

and yeah he’d deny your mama
and he’d torture your pop
and yeah he’d march you up to that wall
and deny your claim after crushing your balls

he was a nazi
but he’s not anymore
he was a nazi
luigi evened that score

Though it would be tempting to add to the MDC meme, Luigi going mod ska dancing, buying funny sunglasses, etc … if someone has already done this, post it please

<3 xp

Xp <3 tabes & sleeve

for context:

https://i.imgur.com/X7O33p0.jpeg

Lol table

i realized his name was Brian Thompson. oh well lol

I think Thiel's being poisoned by his barber... the guy clearly hates him...

bands photoshopping Luigi into their concert pics Where's Waldo style would be the move

Can I just say that having a bunch of asshole murderers share or approximate my name is only slightly more upsetting than sharing a name with a prolific dragon pornfic author

I was going to say the bright side is it keeps your own content way down the search engine results but I could see where that's also not ideal for many reasons

Yeah, I’m not looking at the dude who killed a BLM protester and going “at least no one is seeing my Lana Del Rey hot takes”

oof

Diddy's top attorney, Marc Agnifilo, is married to high-powered attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who is representing Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. pic.twitter.com/n5xv1rMQOr

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) December 16, 2024

Diddy & Mangione both have access to $$$.

I imagine these high-profile cases are good advertising or resume boosters

Walmart employees are now wearing body cameras in some stores

Can I just say that having a bunch of asshole murderers share or approximate my name is only slightly more upsetting than sharing a name with a prolific dragon pornfic author

― DJP

shit i'd love to share a name with a prolific dragon pornfic author

some of my best friends are dragon pornfic authors

well, one, but i mean, isn't that enough?

i used to have the same name as a Legendary Auteur

it was cool except that people kept thinking i _was_ the legendary auteur for some reason

or that i was somehow impersonating the legendary auteur

it was a lot of pressure. i didn't need that kind of pressure.

anyway now i don't have the same name as anybody famous, because women aren't allowed to be famous

i kinda wish women were allowed to be famous, because the non-famous woman whose name i have seems pretty cool

(mdc at portland, oregon concert meme)

goddammit i miss all the cool shit that happens in this town

why do i even live here anyway

ok my brain is now telling me it's because i'm "too lazy to move"

i used to be cool you know

no, not really

i used to have the delusion that i was cool

Just putting this here

Vice President J.D. Vance

(mdc at portland, oregon concert meme)

goddammit i miss all the cool shit that happens in this town

why do i even live here anyway

ok my brain is now telling me it's because i'm "too lazy to move"

i used to be cool you know

no, not really

i used to have the delusion that i was cool

https://theonion.com/you-know-i-used-to-be-kind-of-cool-once-1819583601/

I can relate tbh … though as my ilx-documented research in the field of hipster studies shows … cool is relative.

― sarahell

see, i've always seen you as cool!

but yeah cool is a conundrum... i'm not really interested in being cool anymore, though i hasten to add not in some sigma-male "i'm too cool to be cool" kind of way. when i think of "cool" i think of this one girl i used to be friends with. she decided she was too cool for me and for portland and moved to brooklyn. being rejected by her, particularly the way that she did it, hurt, but looking back she kinda had... pretty low self-esteem and a lot of her behavior was her being pretty nakedly desperate for external approval. some people use a word for behavior like that and i wouldn't use that word, because it gets taken to mean that someone is a Bad Person, and i don't think she's a Bad Person.

when i think of cool i also think of lou reed exploding penn and teller with eye lasers and penn saying "you're too cool for us, lou". lou reed was definitely cool. would i want to be lou reed? no. would i want to hang out with lou reed? also no. i don't care how "cool" somebody is, if someone's being an asshole they're no fun to be around.

on the other hand, when i think of "cool" i also think of my neighbors who have a giant spider with laser eyes and fangs in front of their house. they change it around seasonally. this december the spider has a red nose and antlers and is holding a human-sized bundle of spider silk with a santa hat sticking out in its maw. they left a perfectly-working catapult out with the trash this morning. good construction, in perfect nick. it's mine now. i'd like to know them. i don't know if anybody else thinks they're "cool" but i do.

or i think of this lady i used to know back in the '90s who lived in medford. probably people don't think of anyone from medford as being "cool", it's one of those "can any good thing come out of nazareth?" places. i think this lady was cool. her dad was one of those sweet nerds who knew all the carny tricks. he showed me how to breathe fire. he could eat fire, too, and hammer nails up his nose, but that was harder. i guess hammering nails up one's nose isn't much harder than doing a COVID swab. i guess we all theoretically know how to do that now. sometimes i wonder if that lady's come out yet. she was one of those awkward nerd girls i liked (in an ambiguous way) who was kinda implicitly queer, even though we never talked about it.

Oh my god https://t.co/IlhzXIf5vm pic.twitter.com/or3ZNRqqaJ

— Read Abolish Rent (@JPHilllllll) December 18, 2024

Probably because they held their company Christmas party in the morning (like my employer)

he prob just figured the ceo needed a stabbin

i guess hammering nails up one's nose isn't much harder than doing a COVID swab.

Narrator: It is.

Omg that’s…there’s a decent chance I know someone who knows someone in Fruitport. I used to live there.

it was a manufacturing company, how else are you supposed to sell your boss on new methods for assembling technology

The largest pharmacy chain in America is accused of "unlawfully dispensing massive quantities of opioids and other controlled substances to fuel its own profits at the expense of public health and safety," according to a civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, which was unsealed Wednesday.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/cvs-knowingly-dispensed-massive-amount-invalid-opioid-prescriptions/story?id=116927855

^^^^ CVS soon to donate to Trump's inauguration

i go to CVS
and I see BS

its old news kinda. all three of the big chains made massive profits during the opioid crisis and when you read what walgreens did back then...its truly horrible. the whole not caring about people thing. hell, all those doctors overprescribing for all those years...i don't remember the AMA putting out an apology to people about what doctors did here. a chain like walgreens should have been put out of business. they should have had every license revoked. all these chains overbuilt thinking the opioid ride would go on forever and now they are all bankrupt and closing everything AFTER they put every independent drug store in the country out of business. its maddening.

anyway, now, the dystopian thing to me is just the not caring part. not on the part of the companies. the people who live here. the vast majority of people in this country do not care that almost everyone relies on these horrible chains for medicine. nobody is going to stop going to CVS after reading that story. nobody is going to stop using amazon after watching a scare documentary about amazon. that's that suicidal aspect of a dying superpower. people just kinda give up. they know things are horrible...eh...at least weed is legal...

i was reading/watching some thing about the 10 million or more men who have just stopped doing anything. they don't work. they don't go anywhere. it was bleak. also i totally saw myself in that cohort if things had worked out differently for me.