i’m in america and i’ve had to intentionally avoid it for my mental health. and no, there aren’t many places you can go to get away from it. i just drastically reduced my daily internetting time, but whenever i take a peek–yup, american bullshit front and center

pretty much if a 4 panel grid seems nonsense/incomprehensible…it’s usually loss

But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

-1984

next up (unless it happened first): no more data collection or research about statewide dental health

“i just needed to pop in here and mention that the terrible/wrong/evil thing in the post doesn’t affect me at all, like it does for you suckers ROFLMFAO…but also: LOL”

a retired University of Baltimore law professor and expert on government contracting law. “Their terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.”

it’s hilarious how these high ranking highly educated experts are all completely baffled by everything the fascists are doing. when the actual objective of obliterating us democracy is complete, will they still be saying “butbutbutbut they said they were trying to save money!!!”

fucking come on.

fuck ap too. find someone to talk to who will address what these chucklefuck fascists are doing, rather than their 100% bullshit explanations for what they’re doing

nobody knows what would happen then

people need to do a quick review of 1920s-1930s european history

dude just look at the taliban and know that’s where we’re headed. except jesus flavored. divorce is irrelevant if all you have to do is accuse your wife of something and…“redeem your family’s honor”

and if the (forced into marriage) wife wants a divorce? “LOL shut your filthy whore mouth and get back in the kitchen”

the quotas aren’t there to get all the illegals out, the quotas are there to get the illegals AND the legals out

i went this exact route a few months ago–along with anna’s archive, best investment ever

yea…fucking hilarious how maga sheep all of a sudden seemed to shut the fuck up about egg prices

the least oppressed people in all recorded history whine the loudest about being “victims”

don’t forget about data obtained by your insurance, who’ll jack up your premiums, and then jack them up again if you surpass the donuts purchased per month threshold

every country is either out of reach financially, or also swerving far right, or just doesn’t want americans. or all the above

lol wtf

it’s like making a black history memorial sculpture of a kkklansman

lol ok, video games and reading

but i think you’re mistakenly assuming that because you’re deeply concerned about having everyone’s approval for what you like, then everyone else must be too. i’m not.

sorry, i sometimes forget how sensitive sportsball fans are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

classic “us vs them” cult mentality, see also JW, scientology, LDS, etc etc

true, capitalism shits its pants over a declining birthrate, but still, babies will happen regardless. what they can’t tolerate is women going around giving other women ideas about any kind of self-autonomy or control.

in other words, they can’t force people to get pregnant YET, but they’ve always been able to force women to do as they’re told-- hence the threats over women choosing to sterilize