HumanOnEarth

This should bump the stock up another $50-60 tomorrow!!

That looks like it is super comfortable for the kitties.

So we're ok with demanding bosses in our capitalist paradise, right up until Prime Minister. We wouldn't want the leader of the entire country to run a tight ship now, would we?

In case it's not obvious to conservatives, whatever a liberal is, it's the incorrect thing. How do you not see it? If Carney was known to be a laid back boss, we would see the exact same people complaining about that instead.

More predictable than the sun rising.

Yeah, no. Fuck no.

It's offensive this is even being said. Makes me think they're already envisioning Canada as an integrated US state.

They're going to try. If things continue the way they're going, mark my words.

That was a really good take on the whole thing. The Oatmeal is my people.

You sort of answered your own question in your last sentence.

I don't have all the answers. But what I do know, is you are literally living in a country where 70% of political experts polled say the United States is no longer a democracy. You are clearly not just seeing backsliding but full on marching towards absolute fascism.

So if you want the real answer, it's that people are going to have to die and people are going to have to get very uncomfortable in order to turn this around. That, or (and the country is currently doing this) just accept fascism and hope it never comes for you.

If I was an American citizen, I would have been stockpiling food since January. I'd be spending as little money as I possibly can, squirreling away some savings. Most people can, despite what they say, if push really comes to shove. I'd be talking to like minded people and discussing what skills may be able to be traded for in a general strike or emergency.

I've laughed at for all of this multiple times, so I don't really expect it will happen much. But the boots will be on your necks first, even if they eventually come for mine. I'm already planning my life on the assumption it's coming for me. And I'm not even there.

Why? Really?

Because as a nation you've already decided to roll over and accept fascism. No not all of you want this, but collectively, you are a failed nation and we are about to see the final act.

People are clinging to hope, even if unjustified, because the only two options are the law and the system prevail (currently all evidence says no) or people are going to get very uncomfortable and more people are going to die. Either by their choice now, or courtesy of MAGA later.

The truth doesn't matter anymore, proceed accordingly

No shit, but no one gets it. It's to my advantage though, and anyone else who understands what's happening.

Just remember, he who smells smoke and exits the building first doesn't get trapped when everyone else figures it out.

Good God get outside and touch grass

They got really, really fat, drunk and horny off the American exceptionalism post-WW2, and they never came down from the high.

This is that, catching up with them. They're not taking it well. Most of them still refuse to believe it.

What a great way to put it.