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My point with Mace is her transition on public stance - she ran in part on a more tolerant, realistic view than most. I don't remember rowling speaking of any tolerance before she showed herself as a villain - she just went from quiet to loud.

We need to speak more regularly about how these people obviously have kompromat on them and are being actively blackmailed - no sympathy as they are garbage humans regardless, but these changes in stance are so swift and violent. These people often have a history of not caring or even supporting these issues, before they become over the top, performative hate mouthpieces - it's so obvious that they were basically told by Republican operatives at some point, "you're gonna do what we say or we are going to fucking end your pleasant life". Again, no sympathy there because the underlying subtext is that these people do shit horrible enough that they can be blackmailed with it. But this is Mace as recently as 2023:

"I'm pro-transgender rights," she told CBS News' The Takeout in May 2023. "I'm pro-LGBTQ." The Republican lawmaker made the comments while saying she opposed gender-affirming care for minors. "Sex change surgery, the hormone blockers that sterilize our children, we shouldn't be doing that," Mace said. "Now, if they want to take on a different pronoun or a different gender identity, or grow their hair out, or wear a dress, or wear pants, or do those things as a minor, those are all things that I think most people would support. Be who you want to be, but don't make those permanent changes when it's a child," she added.

Not a perfect position by any means, but centuries away from what she is today.

And here is after she was first elected in '21:

She was one of the only Republicans to sponsor the Serving Our LGBTQ Veterans Act in 2021, which proposed establishing a Center for LGBTQ Veterans within the Department of Veterans Affairs. That same year, she even called for “transgender equality” while asserting herself as a pro-LGBTQ+ rights lawmaker. “I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality,” Mace told the Washington Examiner. “No one should be discriminated against.” “It isn’t a black-and-white issue,” Mace added. “I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I’m also a constitutionalist, and we have to ensure anti-discrimination laws don’t violate First Amendment rights or religious freedom.”

Oh, you see, you fucked up like... three words into your comment

He has two tricks:

1. Accepting deal wins that aren't wins - So a child had two cookies, you took them both, he starts crying, you give him one of the cookies to soothe him and you eat the other in front of him while he laughs and thinks he's winning. In this examples, trump is the baby.
2. Or, unseen solutions to imaginary problems or problems he created himself - Covers your house in gasoline, sits in a chair and throws lit matches towards it. Then says loudly, NOBODY IS GONNA BURN THIS HOUSE DOWN, YOU GOT IT! And then waits for you to thank him.

Is it downtowns or state capitols?

First they came for...

Yeah, you can still get something from the odd crank, but used to be much more practically useful for day to day needs.

If you feel any kind of meaningful trustworthiness from a Facebook profile, you've probably got some other things to worry about...

What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur... I'm your guy. I don't watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven't seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.

This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time

God... remember how fucking simple craigslist was when it hit it's peak? The fact that Grandpa could take a shaky flip phone picture and post a thing you needed right around the corner, no fat or other frivolous horseshit...

Craigslist is still simple last I checked, but the user base left and now dominated by spam from retail and drop shippers masquerading as local people selling goods from their garage.

Nothing gold can stay

I don't actually. Read the last sentence. Try to start from a place of unity instead of division in your replies, friend.

Reach for that high ground all you want, your musing about semantics on the rule of law while the president, his wife, his son, his son's dipshit friend and the religious grifter who prayed at his inauguration all simultaneously launched and are rug pulling individual memecoins to steal Grandma's grocery money. Ohh... and concentration camp at Guantanamo.

GRRR WAKE UP.

[while it rains flaming shit] "So I'm not actually sure if this umbrella fully meets IP68 waterproofing standards, so I say we all just stand here and take it until someone can confirm otherwise, beyond a shadow of a doubt".

You're here, buddy... It's happening. You're waiting for an official red letter to arrive in the mail while the actual notice was tattooed on your forehead months ago. Start throwing every god damn thing you can grab at it, because you don't know how many levels deep you are in the "first they came for..." this time around.

Underrated comment. #SwansonWasAPsyop

Swanson was what libertarians think they come off as, and not what they actually are - Which is a disappointment to all people, always, on either side, of every issue. Keep driving on those publicly funded roads though and using that fire department during everywhere, libertarians. Oh, what's that, your sovereign cruise ship is overflowing with shit and sinking? Well at least you and the boat didn't have any contracts between you. Swim free, little buddy. Be sure to refuse that coast guard rescue, don't let them dictate how (if) you live!

I hope you survive, so that you can live to purchase your weight in "decentralized" currency, sold by... The government?

If you're an American citizen in a red state, that looks visibly Mexican/South American and speaks fluent Spanish, you should lean into this! Go put on a serape, a sombrero, some chanclas and sell tamales or tortillas in front of the local mall right now while singing "Feliz navidad" - just be the full, lead-huffing boomer racist fantasy caricature. Get arrested and then get yourself a FAT settlement for civil rights violations... while we still have courts and judges who don't have spray tan stains on their white collared robes.

Sure, but there was a reason that strike was threatened and unions said that Costco had been intentionally slow walking at every turn. Even waiting until the last second here was likely calculated and considered down to the dollar versus lost sentiment in public perception and PR spend to attempt to recover image. Very cynical, but happy if it ultimately worked out. If...

Does anyone know if there's a monkey paw angle on this, or genuine win for the workers?

Due respect, your take is obtuse at best or you're a shill. The company, with current leadership in place, just cannot come back from the first statement, it illustrates a fundamental detachment from objective reality, to the point that you've lost any and all credibility, permanently.

In a business based on trust, this is just so clear. Poop

I'm a boatman, and a tanman.

But I digress... Sorry, we were discussing cowardly, billionaire sycophants vigorously licking fascist balls in public.

For those claiming to be upset about body shaming in this specific instance, nazis believe they are literally genetically superior specimens - that's like one of the main parts of their deal. It's party of why they perpetually want to SLAUGHTER millions of people, to rid the world of what they see as less superior genes in the pool.

Therefore, it is HIGHLY appropriate in this case to point out, frequently and with enthusiasm, that elmo is a very divorced and bloated potato, soaked overnight in a bath of drugs and one of those middle school colognes that you wear because you desperately hope people will like you more if you wear it - ketamine and kool water.

So it's not at all inappropriate to point out that the world's international shame, our oddly lumpy elmo and his be-diapered old vice president, are tremendously far from a physical fitness ideal condition. They are infact, very proud membersof the Master Race (to Krispy Kreme). So feel free to confine to state that he is certainly a member of the Master bRACEsiere or that he takes his Master raICE CREAM with extra nachos on top - fuck nazis, without exception, and the people who apologize on their behalf.

My heart goes out to you.