yet again the reddest states benefiting the most from govt handouts vote to eliminate govt handouts and are now surprisedpikachu

what’s hilarious is they could be out on the street freezing and starving to death and they STILL will bleat their praises for dear leader trump, rather than admit that maybe they’ve been completely utterly 100% conned by the con man everyone’s been calling a con man for the last several decades

lived in Louisiana

i could be wrong, but with the abundance of delicious fish sources in LA, i suspect they don’t want people fishing and eating well for cheap instead of buying food at the store. also everything would be fished out of existence

lol i really hope the fishing licenses go from ~$10/year to $14.99/month (OR save money by buying yearly! only $120/year!!!) while it’s nothing but republicans in charge

standing still trying to get a gun out of wherever they might have it

this is why i said “get capable” in the first comment, which for some reason too many people think just obtaining the gun is enough to be able to use it safely/correctly, and that’s not the case.

fair points about the “stand your ground” stuff though. i live in a rural bumfuck area and am always telling out of towners don’t EVER drive up on someone’s property if a) they don’t know you and b) they’re not expecting you. the census bureau couldn’t even hire anyone to do exactly that to collect census data; they started with an offer of $15/hr and had to keep raising the offer. it ended up at like ~$20/hr

he likely would have been killed instead of just getting getting wounded

you are basing that on…what? the fact that he was only wounded is irrelevant. he could have just as easily been killed. or the shooter could have missed, in which case it probably would have never even made it to the news. either way, this vapid argument of “having a gun = you’re going to get killed, therefore, don’t have a gun” needs to go away. if someone’s going to shoot you, they’re going to shoot you. and the number of those “someones” is increasing by the minute.

again, do what you want. i’m packing

it’s like that south park episode where prof chaos is trying to come up with an evil plan for world domination, but can’t because the simpsons already did it

except instead of south park it’s real life

if you have people who depend on you being alive especially kids, elderly parents, friends/family who are less than 100% white/straight/male/documented/evangelical/etc-- it’s really time to get rid of the anti-gun mindset

yes, zero guns = zero gun crime

but that’s never going to happen. what we’ve had and will have for the forseeable future is a fascist state, full of “patriots” just waiting for a reason (or no reason) to shoot someone with impunity, as evidenced by the OP article and countless others. will justice be served? probably not. should you bring a knife nothing to a gunfight?-- NO.

your choice is your choice. but a lot of the noble ideas of making society better-- no guns, better healthcare, better environment, better education, and on and on-- that’s all out the window for now, and it’s time to think of survival. because people are still getting shot in the back for no fucking reason whatsoever.

get armed. get capable. do not let decent people become extinct because of “nO gUnS eVeR” stuff—that’s exactly what they want

we are all doordash drivers

if you need, or might need tech in the near future, BUY IT NOW. not just because of the price hike, but because there won’t be anything left to buy

10 years ago i was a lot dumber. i’m the first to admit: i voted jill stein because i didn’t care for hillary, but she was going to win. trump was a laughingstock joke even back then, and the polls and the hype around hillary bamboozled me. not that my vote would have changed it, but clearly a lot of people thought the same

that’s when i learned my fucking lesson about voting 3rd party. never. again.

education. eliminate the humanities from the curriculum (also book bans) = no empathy = racism/“i just smoked a dude”/etc. eliminate science/critical thinking = unquestioning obedience = muh paw is a preacher and says _________ are bad people, so we shoot’em

the list goes on…honorable mention: absurd “my AR15 is who i am” gun culture

no one’s ever given me a compelling reason why i should give a quantum of shit about who’s the best at playing with balls, so 99% of sports are boring. if i’m in a specific mood i can sit through boxing or other hand to hand fighting. but it has to be on mute

edit: lol sorry i always forget how sensitive sportsball fans are about their ball playing games

i hope every fucking 3rd party voter has to choose between rent and eating along with all the pridefully ignorant bumblefuck maga knuckledraggers

edit: LOL i love how the “vOtE 3rD pArTy!!!” chuds have literally nothing to say anymore–can only downvote.

“i DoNt WaNnA vOtE fOr GeNoCiDe!!!”

great job, fucko. now we have genocide in gaza AND in america

enjoy your fucking tariffs. and if you’re less than 100% white/male/straight/evangelical/republican, then enjoy all the things that go along with being “other” in a fascist state (hint: fucking genocide)

there’s another pointless bullshit stone age tradition that’s long overdue for going the fuck away forever

christopher hitchens (R.I.P.) says it better than anyone ever has or will:

https://youtu.be/Xx_ov2NiNo4

democrats in a nutshell: get nothing done, but complain when someone suggest we get someone in the job who will get something done. of course too many of them are bought and paid for just like the entire GOP, but still hilarious that they think they’re going to push back against criticism after losing to a fucking blatant con man fascist.

it’s not about being out with the old and in with the new. It’s about being out with the ineffective and in with the effective.”

fuckin. a.

can’t wait to see how knuckle dragging trump voters try to spin all of this to somehow be biden’s fault

people still absolutely SHOCKED by fascists doing fascism

when is every media outlet going to stop playing along with this stupid “saving money” narrative? it was never about saving money, or efficiency, or literally anything any trumpistan official says it’s about

shift the conversation around the fact that they are deliberately destroying the country, and maybe something productive can happen. this whole “hey waitaminute!?! they’re nOt SAvInG aNy MoNeY!!!” is such a fucking waste of time

people who don’t really do tech besides the very basics

i’ve been building my own PCs since the 90s and have basic hardware and network certs, and want to try linux, but it seems daunting to me