I luckily saw this photo before I saw the original video somehow. It was still hella fuckin' sad and made my heart break, but if I had seen the original first I would have been bawling.

Instead I was like "Don't worry Punch! Your adoptive family is otw Little Guy!"

....fuck, I really don't want to go back in time 117 times to hold up a diner with a bomb looking for the perfect group of normies to volunteer to save the future world from the dangers of AI.

Shit sounds mentally exhausting and emotionally draining.

Oh good, we're another step closer to 1984 becoming reality.

We were in SF a few months ago, and wandered around the Union Square area. I snapped pictures around the city because I actually adored it and sent them to my MAGA parents, telling them they promised me human shit on the sidewalks and hoardes of homeless people harrassing me, so I wanted my money back. I told them I was also promised looters and cars being smashed into right in front of my face.

They were not amused and said something along the lines of: "Yes well Trump has been president so cities are cleaning up their acts!"

They both live on the fucking east coast and have never even set foot in CA for a second.

Thankfully this shit hasn't made it to my installation. I'm guessing these eight bases "world-wide" have to be targeting the USMC.

The Marines get the absolute bottom of the barrel treatment even as far military members go.

I mean, he would know how much the quality is lacking in Harvard degrees since he has one himself...

JFC HE'S SO FUCKING STUPID!

I'm a Wokester, I'm a Jokester, I'm a Midnight Tokester

My husband and I, who are both Enlisted, have been saying for years that the military is proof that a form of socialism CAN work in the US. It's not "true" socialism because we still have an owning class, but ffs, it's a goddamned start. And its not just Active Duty who gets taken care of. Its also dependents, veterans (to an extent), and retirees. So there is the proof that the model is scalable.

At this point, I honestly believe that the biggest reason reason the government won't let the US have free or even affordable Healthcare isn't solely because of profits. It's because they won't be able to dangle free healthcare over the heads of poor teens to get them to Enlist. Same thing with the pension for re-enlistments.

I feel like those two items are purposefully withheld from the public to keep the military stacked.

As someone who only recently got the opportunity to flee Texas to Cali: Fuck yes.

People who have never lived in a place like TX, FL, MS, MO, AL, etcetcetc have no idea what its like, and the purists who were against this move have zero idea whats at stake. The fact that this is time capped speaks volumes, and was intentional. Again, I urge people to look at how Texas did it. There is no limit, and the people didn't vote on it. You don't want that kind of government.

This was already legally happening in Texas. Cali did this in response to Texas being allowed to heavily gerrymander their state in Republican favor.

Editing to add: And it's a time-constrained deal. This new map will only exist until 2030 when the maps would be redrawn anyhow. Cali put this up to a vote. Texas just...did it without a vote. Its near impossible for on-the-ground voters to get anything on a ballot in Texas due to the way the state Constitution is written.