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@georgetakei On one forum site, we have a sort of meme about paper towel tubes that involves Jerry Sandusky, in which one poster was using them as an analogy to visualize that the heinous acts were infeasible.

@augieray The downside to that is that “economic recovery” benefits the people with the most money and sometimes/often screws over the less well off among us. Numbers are a horrifically incomplete story.

@jordan_guiao

@Lottie FTN. The Democrats are bad, yes. The Republicans are not "bad", that word does not even come close. The Republicans are "loathsome", "deprecable", "vile", "emetic", "malicious", "detestable" and, quite frankly, UNjust.

@Lottie Eighty years ago, Americans were encouraged, even paid, to kill fascists and nazis. Some got medals for their efforts.

How far we have fallen.

@JoshuaHolland Stats: it was the 291st shoot-em-up since newyears day (shoot-em-up defined as 4 or more people experiencing unexpected abrupt lead poisoning); over fifteen hundred people have stumbled into one of these gunfests, and over 300 did not make it home. There have been 9 more since that one. It was, meh, a typical July afternoon in the US. Not sure why it should be considered different from all the others.

@yurnidiot Is the cat named Bing?

@JuliusGoat here, let me tone it down

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@QasimRashid It was only the 291st shoot-em-up in 2024 (as listed by gunviolence.org). Over fifteen hundred people have experienced an unexpected lead poisoning. Meh, why should it carry an special weight?

@dangillmor The camps will be in Missouri: they will just add an "-er" to one word in the state slogan.

@mastodonmigration On the upside, after saying Joe the President was not capable of contemporaneous speaking, House Speaker (not-much-more-than-a) Johnson excused himself from the podium because the TelePromTer was not working.

@malcircuit “Freedom” is a lie. John Muir talked about how you pick up a thing in nature only to find it is connected to everything else. Instead of “thinking outside the box”, burn the box.

@wdlindsy I have long thought that schools should have the kids hang out old folks every week or two, to improve the lives of both.

(Also, old people should get training in how to fall – like is taught in martial arts – so that when they do, they are less likely to hurt themselves.)

@Huntn00 And he will actually accomplish these things? Last time, we were saved by his incompetence and need to run things. This time, who knows?

@JuliusGoat I have been trying to, but these right-wingers keep striving to drag me (all of us) backwards. At least the conservatives grudgingly tolerated some progress.