ChunkMcHorkle
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- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 2 days ago:
No “btw” about it. Massie DID support Trump. Massie also DID legitimately and tangibly act to support the victims of Jeffrey Epstein not just once, but throughout his term – and Trump DID fuck him up the ass for it, openly working to primary his seat out from under him.
You got a lot of laughy faces for something that isn’t funny, given that many innocent people have died because of this administration. At least Massie’s using his learned lesson to do something good. What are you doing?
As for me, the enemy of my enemy tends to be my friend. It’s not that hard to hold conflicting views about one person for most of us. I’m not shocked so much by your response as by your position; your inability to handle nuance and/or people that are not easily divisible into black and white/good or evil figures is not uncommon, just far more readily found among the locked-step Republicans you decry.
But this thing where you run around a thread screeching at anyone who doesn’t wholly reject one bad guy doing good things doesn’t get you fans. It gets you blocked. But I’m guessing you with your fourteen day old account already know that quite well.
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 3 days ago:
That’s honestly so shocking I wonder what alterior motive he has.
Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna led the bipartisan effort to get EFTA I passed in 2025; in retaliation, Trump did everything in his power to get Massie primaried this year and succeeded, so now Massie is a lame duck with an even bigger grudge against Trump. Massie can do whatever he wants now, without fear of losing his already lost seat, until January when his replacement gets sworn in . . . IF Congress is allowed to come to work by Mike Johnson. Cue the long vacation.
Massie is also, depending on who you believe, also responsible for Mitch’s long unexplained absence: there are those who maintain the reason for absolute silence on McConnell’s absence is because had the Senate vacancy been confirmed, Massie – also from Kentucky, and also newly available because he’d recently lost his primary – would have grabbed it in a special election. (As McConnell declined to run for reelection, his seat will be filled in November’s regular election anyway.)
I’m not a fan of Republicans or Republican policies, but this is a rare one who is refusing to march in lockstep on the subject of Epstein. I don’t doubt he has a shitty record on unions and/or work reforms, all Rs do. But he’s one of only four Republicans with a spine who crossed the aisle to get EFTA I passed, and this long Congressional break Massie is highlighting, posted by OP, is a direct result of Mike Johnson doing whatever he can to stop EFTA II from coming to a vote.
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 3 days ago:
The reason Massie is calling this out is because he is trying to get a discharge petition (a process that allows a bill to get to the floor for a vote despite a Speaker’s blockade) going for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, and Mike “I Protect Presidential Pedos” Johnson can’t let him do it because votes are public.
So Mike Johnson is keeping Congress out until the day after the midterms because he can’t let his delicate snowflakes go on record as either voting for the act (which will make Trump very angry) or voting against it (which will make sentient beings with active consciences very angry).
It’s that simple. Yeah, Massie’s a Republican. But he’s literally trying to do the right thing here, and it’s working so well that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, is choosing to fucking shut down Congress than let a vote on EFTA II come to the floor.
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 3 days ago:
Yep. Massie is specifically calling this out because of the Epstein files: Johnson can’t let the house remain in session long enough for Massie to get a discharge petition rolling on EFTA II.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 3 weeks ago:
The primary difference between a logged-in user and one who is not logged is the absence of any contractual agreement that legally binds the anonymous user to terms assigned by Google.
I haven’t read a Google EULA in some time, but as I recall it was long and full of rights and waivers and privileges and protections you assign Google in regard to anything wherein you might possibly have legal standing. The log-in request is not universal, nor is it random, so it’s safe to assume as a hypothetical that for whatever reason, Google wants that in this specific scenario, in this specific geographical region.
On the other hand, if you’re not signed in – AND Google can’t link your anonymous use to an actual agreement you have with them elsewhere – Google just doesn’t have that same comfortably protected legal situation. (See Disney’s recent legal behavior for an example of why, if Google can still link your non-signed-in behavior to an existing EULA elsewhere in their walled garden, you may still be fucked.)
OP’s map seems to be located in the EU, which makes a legal difference as well. We already know that Google does whatever the fuck Google wants in the US, but in the EU laws tend to have more teeth as well as legislators very willing to go after violators.
All that said, I am not an attorney in Spain and I damn sure don’t work for Google, so don’t come at me lol.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 3 weeks ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on Declaration of war 3 weeks ago:
This whole shitpost (complete with set up) is very sadly underappreciated, even more so given that this fine shitpost is literally in a shitposting community. Well done, I say.
- Comment on wish 4 weeks ago:
*pissing into
- Comment on Got fired over a peproncini today so expect a lot of bullshit for the next couple days. 1 month ago:
Yeah, that does suck. At least you tried, and there will be no regrets: there’s literally nothing more you could have done. From where I sit it’s their loss: good workers don’t grow on trees, and they’re idiots to let a known good employee walk out the door in favor of an unknown. At least the hesitant ones, if needed, could be approached for a reference should you ever need it.
But in the meantime, you have a great attitude, the kind that sets you up to make the most of opportunities that come your way, and I am certain you’ll do well. That kind of thing comes through when you’re looking for jobs, and it’s a plus when someone can look at a shitty situation in prior employment and hold it in realistic proportion, however unfair it was. And this was indeed unfair. I genuinely wish you every success, and soon.
- Comment on Got fired over a peproncini today so expect a lot of bullshit for the next couple days. 1 month ago:
Dude. If you still want the job, you really had no obvious part in the disrespect, and the owner wasn’t part of the immediate rage firing, give it a day, let it cool off, then go see the owner directly.
Just be straightforward and honest, speaking as his equal (because you are): “I meant no disrespect, I really was just there and not a participant, I understand offense was given, but that was not my doing or intent. I liked this job, I enjoyed doing it, I thought I was doing well at it, and I can’t believe it’s gone just because I happened to be in the same room when this happened. Is there any way this outcome can be reconsidered, or is it set in stone?”
Professional, straightforward, calm. If the owner wasn’t a part of it you might be able to change his mind. I’m saying this because if I were your manager, the way you wrote your text would make me at least question the decision, and I’m hard to convince. People do shit in indignant rage they regret later, restaurant kitchens are wild places anyway, and I don’t know this guy and I don’t know you, but if you want that specific job back then it’s worth a shot. Good workers are worth keeping.
But you may not want it back. If not then just ignore this, chill for a day or two, and start looking for the next thing. Whatever you decide I hope it all works out for you.
- Comment on yes 2 months ago:
Yes. Yes, they do.
- Comment on yes 2 months ago:
That is correct. Most states have the governor appoint replacements to vacant seats, but McConnell himself got that law changed in Kentucky in 2024. Now, in Kentucky, a vacancy triggers a special election unless it is within three months of a general election, which in Kentucky is the first Tuesday in August.
I just wrote a longer comment elsewhere more fully explaining the situation: it’s complex, and the Kentucky law is itself badly written apparently, so no one is even very certain if it’s (state) constitutionally valid.
- Comment on yes 2 months ago:
Another old fart here. Yeah, I remember it too. That motherfucker. If it involved human rights of any kind, he was fully against it. And I’m still fucking salty about all that hateful “AIDS quarantine” shit that rolled out of his mouth.
But I temporarily lived in his district for a time right before his retirement, when he was visibly going downhill, and even then local people revered him. This is not an exaggeration. I didn’t get it until somebody explained it to me.
Simply put, Jesse Helms – and Strom Thurmond too, come to think of it – took constituent services to a very quietly insane level. The number of people I personally met who were like, “Yeah, so-and-so had this problem, Helms took care of it, we’ll always be grateful,” would blow your mind. EVERYBODY had either had his office help them personally, or knew someone who had.
That’s why the rural folks who literally believe that someone like Trump personally cares about them can still think that: this is what they’ve lived with. Someone like Jesse Helms who was a snake in a skin suit but if you called his office, he took care of you and you gave him your undying, eternal allegiance.
That actually gives me a tiny bit of hope, because it’s only the much older legislators that do anything like that kind of constituent services now. The new ones are just riding on their fumes, and even those are running out.
- Comment on yes 2 months ago:
When the EMS/CPR news came out, the source I read had John Thune saying he’d talked to McConnell the following morning and “sounded good,” all that shit.
No, lol. 84-year-olds who have had EMS pounding on their frail ribcages do NOT in fact “sound good” after that, as a rule. That’s when I knew McConnell was dead or dying.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 2 months ago:
shitting on someone else just for being unlike you and having different standards for yourself
Isn’t that exactly what you yourself are doing?
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 2 months ago:
In the same way that being trans is not a choice but came with the human experience of that person, being of a certain age is also just not a choice. Getting randomly bitchslapped for it as I skim through comments is unpleasant, which was clearly your intent.
I’d expect someone who knows what it is to be othered as a matter of rote to also refrain from using othering terms.
Guess I expected wrong.
- Comment on Most 80s interior 2 months ago:
This is certainly a 70s interior, but not the most 70s interior.
In the same way that the Mariana Trench remains mostly undiscovered, I don’t know that anyone will ever truly plumb the depths of 70s interior design, but I can offer this as a counterpoint.
Shag carpeted walls, even all the way onto the ceiling. Even Graceland has it (here’s the entrance to the Jungle Room) though these days they claim it was installed for “acoustic shielding” lol. No, it was the style, like conversation pits and unmatched plaids and avocado or harvest green appliances.
And carpeted walls weren’t in every house, but they weren’t uncommon in the US as far as I know. At one point in my misspent youth, I lived in a house that had a den lined with lime green shag not just on the floor, but up and across the entirety of the far wall, while the other walls had matching green palm frond wallpaper with a chrome/mirrored background. This wallpaper visually delivered the carpet wall to you on the ricochet: even if you weren’t looking at the carpet up the wall, you were looking at the carpet up the wall. It was, mercifully, a dimly lit room that did not get much light anyway.
My spouse remembers similar. It was a thing. There is a reason there are so few pictures of it left.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 3 months ago:
Truth. I had a friend who worked at MS (not in Redmond) back in the early 90s post-IPO when Ballmer was CEO and when most of the people working there were temps so MS could avoid the legal repercussions of the toxic workplace culture they’d built and get around paying benefits or overtime, and even then Ballmer was the most personally repugnant trailer trash CEO imaginable. People put up with it because it was Microsoft and endless fountains of cash, but he was an even worse CEO than he was a human being, and that’s quite a low bar to limbo under but he managed.
- Comment on Amazon laid off 30,000 workers while CEO Andy Jassy got a 30% pay bump 4 months ago:
Well, being a member at Augusta isn’t cheap, Andy Jassy gotta pay those billionaire club dues somehow . . .
- Comment on The Meatstorm 5 months ago:
It’s a baby shower. Wanda’s meatstorm already came.
- Best GFY I've seen in ages - Cam Anderson from Blacktail Studio on the age gap in his new relationship [1:56]www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening: 5 months ago:
Oh, yeah. Another one is Sad Eyes by Robert John, telling his his temp girl that his real girl is coming home today, she knew it was going to happen and he doesn’t want to see her cry. “I never used you,” lol.
There are quite a few of them. One that’s been in the news lately is Lola by The Kinks, which Moby called unenlightened and he’s right. One I always found creepy was Cat Stevens’ Wild World saying goodbye to his lady, because whatever he’s wishing her it’s not well. “I’ll always remember you like a child, girl.”
That’s not even starting with all the underage lyrics.
The 70s were amazing for music, but there sure are some clunkers in there.
- Comment on Saint Mercury 5 months ago:
It is a righteous text.
It’s hard to believe he’s been gone 35 years.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 5 months ago:
Yeah, it is bizarre. I’m on desktop so I opened the pic in a new tab, opened it to full height, and there are what look like a set of dark brown horizontal slat blinds compressed at the top as if raised, behind them another set of lighter brown horizontal slats down the right side as if lowered, and a square of glass in front of both.
Their decorator was . . . conflicted.
- Comment on In this house 5 months ago:
“Can we at least wait til he finishes?”
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 6 months ago:
That stache addon is gold. “When you care enough to send the very best.”
- Comment on Tune a fish 6 months ago:
Dad joke or name of a great album. That the the dad joke came first is pretty much beyond dispute, lol.
- Comment on What are we being distracted from? 6 months ago:
This is the real goal, right here. To get individuals so bogged down by a controlled firehose of propaganda that we will all just keep working the daily grind for less and less because there’s nothing we can do about it . . .
Yeah, no. That’s total bullshit. We can each do something, and it only matters that we each start somewhere. A lot of little things add up, like you said. Don’t give into the helplessness: there is meaning and action beyond it.
And conversely, don’t give in to rage, because the opposite end of this elite stick is to delegitimize any growing movement by calling it the whining of the disgruntled and the vandalism of hooligans. There’s no faster way to get your movement off the front page, shut down, and ignored by the world than giving into violence when provoked. Note all the non-US comments even on Lemmy that are trying to provoke Americans into fighting in the streets: it’s not because they want us to win.
OP, you’re on the right track. You’re already seeing for yourself that it’s just not adding up anymore. But like Cabbage above me said, don’t stop there. Find whatever thing you can do to help, to be a part of change. It doesn’t have to be great or massive, but find your niche. Look into what’s going on already in your own community, and see what people who live near you are already doing. You’ll find your part to play, and you’ll be so glad you did.
If you’re not sure where to start and you’re in the US, look at what’s happening near you:
- Comment on Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News 7 months ago:
Not the Epstein files, but Sascha Riley. Stabbed in the ass with a tent stake.
For those who don’t know who he is, this is the original reporting: …substack.com/…/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find
A partial overview of the same reasons I personally tend to believe him: …substack.com/…/a-new-survivor-speaks-epstein-fil…
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Me and mine sure are.
