Because autodefenestration. :)

Autodefenestration? I never miss an opportunity to use that word.

nah, that’s gotta be like ⅔ to ¾ the coat.

$700 to feed my family, gone.

steak and shrimp, amirite?

Because of Poe’s Law, I do have to clarify that I am being EXTREMELY fucking sarcastic. I’m sorry for your struggles. I have lots of struggles of my own, but food security is not one of them, thankfully. I’m sorry <3

I hope the Dems are able to do more than we fear they won’t and are able to fix some of this shit.

Fuck fascism.

Wow, so you’re saying they could make it twice as accurate?

Well figuratively fuck you then! :)

Okay, hot shot. Prove that you exist.

Jason got it? Jason figured it out? Well, this is a new low. Yeah, this one hurts.

The last such bullshit I put any faith in was a pamphlet titled something like “88 Reasons Jesus is Coming Back in '88”. A decade later and I was at most deist (with a pagan phase dying down) well on my way to atheism.

(worth noting this is in the linked article)

Have you heard of Charles Dickens?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally

Well, okay. :(

Oh, I thought you were talking to me for a minute there.

;-)

I was born in Pascagoula. I think of myself as Texan because I have one single memory of Mississippi before we moved to Texas, before my 3rd birthday. But I still have family there.

…Family I’ve had to block after they threatened “we have the guns and know where you liberals live”, mind. I love Natchez where I have family… or at least, I used to love until I couldn’t take the racism and tea party bullshit. I’ve mourned the loss of that part of my history since.

I don’t feel like I have my state back, but I am proud of what Mississippi has accomplished this election cycle. And let’s be frank, it was the blacks. Thank you, my fellow Americans - my real Americans. I want to be, like, slightly racial (not racist) and say - hey, I liked Obama as President. I’m happy to have more blacks representing us. And more latino/latina, more from all over who are American like me. <3 <3 <3

(now, just ignore the stupid religious text on there)

Can’t find any news either. Be nice if it’s true, though. heh

The thing that worries about these people is that I don’t think we’re really sure how many of them are out there and how far they can be radicalized and how far they’ll go.

I don’t intend to fearmonger, but honestly state the above. But with the above comes the flip side: While some of these types of people have gone on murdering sprees, there haven’t been many, and it’s usually been that they’ve selected some target and some of them succeed and some of them don’t.

The thing that actually worries me is that I think we may face an uptick in the rhetoric that drives some of these people to go out and shoot people; we may see groups like Proud Boys decide to go shooting instead of intimidating.

I don’t know. I’m not saying these things are going to happen, but it’s the thing that worries me most about that background level of nationalism and the people building up incel communities.

That said, this election gives me some hope. For a good while, I didn’t really see a path out of fascism, but if we can get enough actual progressives in power and force the establishment Dems to be more progressive, get enough going to give us a blue President in two years with enough in Congress to get shit done AND if there’s enough progressives in there to help real change happen, we might be able to show the American people that government isn’t broken - just Republicans and establishment Democrats are. IF, and by damn that is just about the hugest if of all time, IF we can pull that off, maybe we can pull back from the brink of fascism - and by brink I mean more like we’re already over the edge hanging on to a comically small tree root hanging out the side of the cliff with our fingers losing strength.

I’m hopeful that this low-level rumbling of fascist nationalist racist bullshit will remain low-level.

Haha, das ist urkomisch. Wenn das hier das Deutschland der 1920er-Jahre wäre, würden wir Deutsch sprechen – tun wir aber nicht, wir sprechen Englisch. Warte mal, tun wir das etwa nicht? Ach du Scheiße! Ach du Scheiße, du hast recht! Oh, fick mich doch, wie kommen wir zurück nach … na ja … bloß nicht nach 2026, suchen wir uns ein anderes Jahr aus. Vielleicht 1990, und wir machen dieses Mal einiges anders?

Yeah, that was my reaction to the title as well, but the article makes it clear that there is a fresh new uprising by the Christian Nationalists to try and truly take over. They’re a part of the MAGA idea, but a lot of Republican politicians are less about nationalism and more about serving their corporate masters.

So if this truly is nationalists moving to take over the party, it could really be a big deal.

Or it could fizzle.

I don’t know how much actual support these fascists have, but THESE are the people champing at the bit to shoot their guns at “libruls”. So it’s really not a Good Thing™. But as to how serious a threat, I’m honestly not sure.

Far-right activist and pardoned January 6 rioter Jake Lang, however, is planning an event in DC on January 3. It is unclear how many people are planning to attend, but one of the Christian nationalist pastors listed by Lang as an official speaker has said he won’t be speaking.

Lang, who spent last weekend disrupting a cat convention that he thought was a furry convention, did not respond to a request for comment.

Here, kitty kitty!

Tell them they’re a good kitty and I said “pspspsps” :)

Mine is naturally more like a 28-32. Deep sleep for like 10-12 hours, be awake for 20 hours. But sometimes wake up fine after like 4-6 hours of sleep, be awake 12-18 hours, or who knows, it varies, but that’s common enough to list those two as scenarios. lol. Unpredictable ones, mind.