mitch

My understanding is that he's hooked on ephedrine. Seriously, the guy is like the essence of the entire 80s, frozen in amber for all eternity. Can't even abuse stimulants right.

Guaranteed, Trump has a Members Only jacket in his closet.

They're all over AliExpress and TEMU. People use them mostly to cheat bridge tolls, lol.

Always how it is. Philly is an amazingly, deeply progressive place that started what we would consider today's interpretation of "progressive" way way back in 1812. Racists and bigots absolutely exist in the city but for the most part, every instance of political violence in the past 10 years has either been actual Nazis (Patriot Front) shipping in via U-Haul, or goobers from the outer counties driving in specifically to shoot guns at windows and signs and drive out of the city with their plates covered, using one of those friggin remote controlled piezoelectric tint plate blockers

Nothing can prepare you for what it's like when gross dudes suddenly think they're in good company and let slip some shit that is so heinous that you can't even react for a few minutes.

Conscious cismen and transmen know what I mean.

I am genuinely not sure how that kind of outreach would work, or how to protect anything that is out there from bigots weaponizing it, but I recognize that there's a need and that cis men like myself (especially those of us with some height on us) have a surprising amount of power to prevent other cis dudes from fucking around.

I am not much for toxic masculinity, but I've spent enough time embroiled in it to know that groups of guys will back off anyone who they think might have a weapon. Hell, I've personally seen gangbangers actively ward other gangbangers off from cat-calling a woman wearing a wedding ring. I learned later that this is common wisdom because the potential damage that a scorned husband can cause is ridiculous. I think there is something to just utilizing that effect for, y'know, good instead of evil.

I wish there were a group of cis men who would be willing to open-carry where it's legal, on demand, and accompany any trans person to and from anywhere they gotta go. I'd do it if I weren't a pacifist, but maybe it's still useful even to just have a walking buddy.

It's a shame that this is where we are as a society, but then again, I'm just using the same argument I've been fed my whole life about guns being critical towards creating a more polite society.

Brendan.

I saw Loren say once that the basic premise of the show is that "Bob can't win." Like, that's the rule. He has to lose, because that action is what endears us as an audience, but also creates a plyable space to inject the kind of schmaltz that the Simpsons used to be known for in its earliest seasons.

Y'all, the denial of power happens on every possible level. We gain power with every single Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway sign that gets "accidentally" knocked down with a car bumper. Or every Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway offramp sign that gets suddenly redesigned overnight with a can of black spray paint. Deny them quarter on every single front.

The Wheezle! Propaganda, buuuuuuuuuudddddddy.

There is no ethical consumption under Capitalism. Just do the best you can with what's available to you to reduce suffering and heirarchy. All of this is a fight fought on many, many fronts, some of them mental.

Man, this is just going to encourage people to just watch it on YouTube. I know I will.