if he didn’t waste his money on politics, he wouldn’t have to worry about the taxes 🤪

eh, but they’re in the right here. Volla is a mess that is just offering a change of dealer.

I did the same thing. I was bad about wasting time on reels. Now, I’m much happier enjoying reading, gaming, and little diy projects. All the giant social media apps are vying for your attention. They’re designed to grab your attention and retain it. For those of us with addictive traits, it ends with mindlessly scrolling. The act of scrolling is inherently easy, so you put no effort to consuming.

I feel this makes you less intelligent, in a way. You become so trained to have instant gratification, that when things take longer in real life, your brain starts panicking. It gets stressful much quicker, because the world isn’t instant. All that to say, I’m about to delete Discord too and just call it all off.

surely, this is the move to save our troops in the war.

This is true for an interesting reason. Clyburn reps SC-6. That area encompasses downtown Columbia, specifically the areas that are more black, all the way through Orangeburg and North Charleston. Now, that Orangeburg vote is what brings a ton of votes to him. He’s gotten federal funding for a lot of projects in SC for marginalized black people. I absolutely despise what he does in the federal level to hinder progress, but he’s done a fairly good job of taking care of his constituents, at least the Orangeburg residents. Cola and North Charleston get boned by him all the time. He just shows up in an election year, says some dumb shit and leaves.

I get what he’s saying, probably because of my upbringing. But he’s saying that she made conservatives look a little right wing (normal Trump) and little like nut jobs (crazy). So, hes just going an extremely round about, redundant way to say she made them look crazy. Folks in the south view conservatives as old money republicans. Even some of the newer southern dynasties have caught flak for not being hard right enough. That’s why Trump was so big in those areas. They viewed him as someone who was challenging the people they felt had left them behind; take notes dems. They truly believe he’s doing something different. They’re just ignorant enough and stubborn enough to not see he’s destroying the country.

What is interesting to me is, he’s losing support with old money republicans. I’m still a part of a lot of inner circles, and these folks are done. A lot of them want to go back to talking about just money and leaving all social issues in the dust and use it as negotiating tools for more money. But younger republicans, aforementioned in the article, tend to care more about those social issues, while also believing trump has their back with the economy; ignorant.

A lot of fractures are happening in state houses across the South. You have younger, very hard-line republicans at war with the older, more manageable republicans. I saw one meeting where a speaker said, “I swear if you bring up abortion one more time, I’m shooting you on the floor. You won your little battle, we’re gonna only discuss the budget now.” I think the primaries are gonna go hard this year lol

that’s the thing that blows my mind, is we can’t even talk about solar as a supplemental energy solution. the administration in america has been dumb since it’s founding. except my boy teddy, I’d die for Teddy.

exactly why I believe it tbh

I’d recognize SMTIV anywhere. what a great game

edit: wait! is it III?

the s&p is specifically being propped up by overvalued companies. there’s a lot of money being thrown at the market and not a lot of material to show for it.

slowly approaching officers…they tased him.

ACAB

not exactly, while Fairness did provide equal time for political views, it also kept anchors from just outright lying, or obfuscating the truth for a story. once that was killed under Reagan, conservative talk radio blew up. and then that brings us to today.

so, does big Hollywood end up eating itself and collapse underneath it’s own weight?

this is pretty much me, although I do listen to music outside of the house, but that’s through my iPod.

Yeah, I remember Amazon the book store. I still had my mom take me to the local bookstores, cause I knew them and the people, so I was comfortable lol. I remember when Prime launched. I don’t think anyone was expecting that, at the time. Free 2-day shipping on so many products was insane. And all for $89?/yr? Especially, when everywhere else online charged anywhere from $5-10. It was truly the Walmart of the online world. They ate shipping costs, which killed them, and put hurt their competition until AWS became such a powerhouse and they had a monopoly on online marketplaces.

I’m curious as to why? CD’s are the ultimate form of audio purity, in my opinion. I’ve got a kickass stereo set-up with a CD and vinyl hook up; also a cassette, but she don’t work so good no more. I always rip my CD’s to FLAC so I can put it on my iPod.

well, not exactly. weather can be bad enough to ground commercial flights. but private, federal jets, with a qualified pilot, whose probably ex air force anyway, could. commercial flights take way more precautions in weather due to liabilities. so yeah, this seems like a pretty big fuck up.

depending on the severity of the weather, its quite possible commercial flights were delayed anyway.

So, after reading through it; it’s a clever idea. One that I think is ultimately fruitless, for the most part. For one, the federal government holds higher authority than the state. Things will end up drug out in court for so long, there’ll have been at least two elections. As far as the PAC stuff goes, what’s to prevent a corporation from taking the hit on tax breaks and incentives, to far out fund their puppet politician’s opposition and just become the new cost of business? It seems like you could create a brand new power disparity with that. We need action, far faster, than state level legislation can give us. How many of these will die in sub committees? We need to turn the midterms, priority one. Full stop. Nothing else matters until you have the right people at the federal level now.

Step 1 to utopia: get congress to pass something for the good of the people.

I don’t know, seems easy enough.