Pretty sure it falls into the category of "forces that once unleashed are borderline impossible to control," like violence to a lesser degree of harm.

Though, I suppose if the alternative to weaponized narratives of unreality is literal weaponization, it might be worth it?

The "positive" version of what that poster is suggesting is that we must defeat the GOP's current attempt at regime consolidation with all available means (or none of this matters anyway), then clean all this up in the prosecution-heavy aftermath (including for the media). Not sure that pans out tbh

Pundits taking the traditional economist' job of predicting 14 of the past 9 recessions, smh.

We've been "freedom fries"'d and we deserve it.

We can wait 5 billion years for the sun to kill us... or we can strike first.

They still do!

Not defending sweatshops in developing countries, but the reason people work in them isn't because of the machinations of Western Capital, but because it is straight up better than subsistence farming, which is often the alternative.

As an American, I hope it's everyone else telling the US to fuck off, and I don't think saying so diplomatically with work with our assorted chucklefuck representatives.

A high only matched by the low of struggling to get back to sleep in the same instance. May it be never so.

Meme has never been more hollow when the current admin is publishing hype reels of blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean after Biden brought drone strikes to their lowest level since their introduction to the American arsenal.

Create an internalized version of yourself that wants you to succeed and is upset at you putting yourself down.

The "Cool Zone" is essentially a state of internecine violence (triggered by admin violence, state rebellion, whatever), described as such ironically because it would be very Not Cool to have a civil war rip the country apart.

Leisure and hospitality lost jobs, so that's probably part of why.

Also, compared to the last 3 Octobers, these numbers are down ~148,000 jobs on average (though this figure is seasonally adjusted).

Themperor Shit.

(Men can also cure their loneliness by better socializing with other people in a non-romantic context and not all solutions to the male loneliness epidemic are about getting laid)

Like what the fuck are we supposed to be when Biden's signature achievement in office was literally called the "Inflation Reduction Act" and every commentator ostensibly on our side keeps pretending he nominated Ru Paul for Fed Chair.

You brew espresso at home for the same reason you brew beer at home; love of the drink.

It is probably important that I resist the urge to literally yell at these people when I meet them IRL, but God is that a hard thing to do.