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- Comment on Why not 1 day ago:
- Comment on unforgivable bad bad mommy 3 days ago:
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 1 week ago:
For some reason pirating music libraries is really hard. Probably bc everyone uses Spotify
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- Comment on This should be true 3 weeks ago:
This movie (John Q) is so fucking sad and could not happen in other countries. I always remember the wife yelling at John to “Do something!” when the hospital was sending their son home.
- Comment on Got my pumpkin today. All ready for Halloween 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 weeks ago:
Pepperidge Farm Remembers:
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 weeks ago:
How does this formula account for the fact that I can’t do math? Bet you didn’t think of that.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 weeks ago:
Bonus: Image
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- Comment on Brickshelf 4 weeks ago:
That’s one way to use your free will…
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- Comment on They know that is NOT what people will use them for. 1 month ago:
Obligatory “salid mixer” adult swim skit:
- Comment on Perfection. 1 month ago:
The widest of backs
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- Comment on nooooooo 1 month ago:
- Comment on choice 1 month ago:
Turn anything into poo: turn plastic waste into manure/fertilizer. Millionaire pretty quick.
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- Comment on Elephant 1 month ago:
In early stages, the meditator sharpens their powers of attention. In later stages, the meditator no longer has scattered attention (i.e., “monkey brain”) and can focus effortlessly. So the monkey disappears. Excerpt from “The Mind Illuminated”:
The Ten Stages of Meditation: The monk is the meditator. The rope he holds represents vigilant, alert mindfulness. The goad in his other hand represents strong intention and firm resolve. The elephant represents the mind. The black color of the elephant represents the Five Hindrances and the Seven Problems they give rise to. The monkey represents scattering of attention, and the black color represents subtle and gross distraction, forgetting, and mind-wandering. The rabbit represents subtle dullness. The flames represent vigilance and effort, and when effort is no longer required, the flames disappear. The length of the road between successive Stages indicates the relative time required to progress from one Stage to the next. The Stages come closer together until Stage Seven, then they begin to stretch out again. Because the road folds back, it is possible to jump up to higher Stages or fall back to lower ones.
- Comment on Elephant 1 month ago:
This man is on stage 9 of the 10 stage path
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 month ago:
Yes, the decline of our institutions is more blatant now. But it’s a difference of degree, not of kind.
- Congresspersons, on the left and right, have been insider trading for decades.
- The SCOTUS ruled that corporations are people that have unlimited “free speech” with their money.
- Trump bombed Iran without congressional approval but before this Biden bombed Yemen.
- Bush started targeting terrorists with drones and now the U.S. president can order drone strikes. (Some have called Obama a war criminal due to excessive civilian casualties resulting from drone strikes. But Americans don’t really care about this.)
- Bush sent “enemy combatants” to Guantanamo Bay without due process. Now Trump sends “illegal aliens” to detention camps without due process.
- The CIA has brazenly declassified many covert operations to stop the spread of communism. Including installing brutal dictators and interfering with democratic elections. (They admit to doing this but, again, Americans do not care.)
- Questionable wars in Asia and the Middle East that feed the military industrial complex and make a well-positioned few unimaginably wealthy.
- Bush and Obama both bailed out corporations that are “too big to fail”.
You likely disagree with some of these examples. But my point is only this: Trump is the symptom of a disease that we have ignored for far too long. We all pledged allegiance to the flag in school. We are learned that America stands for liberty, justice, equality, etc. for all. But this country has never lived up to those professed ideals.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 month ago:
When has the United States government ever been ethical? The older I get the more I realize that I live in the Death Star.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 1 month ago:
What a time to be alive
- Comment on The duality of man 1 month ago:
This country has been going to shit since Ronald fucking Reagan. Yes, that means Republicans are terrible. That also means the Democrats are either complicit or powerless to stop it.
- Comment on The duality of man 1 month ago:
When you look into the history of this country it’s fucking horrific. And not just in the obvious “we used to have slaves” or the “we bombed the Vietnamese” way.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 month ago:
Most people understand that becoming a billionaire requires a ruthless pursuit of your own interests. Regardless of the impact on small business owners, the environment, employees, etc. the billionaire does what it takes to beat the competition. And even though everyone has done good and bad things, the propensity for billionaires to harm millions of people in search of endless profit makes them particularly immoral.
In this regard, global superpowers are like billionaire but on the world stage. American atrocities are particularly bad because American geopolitical hegemony has harmed millions of people both domestically and abroad. We can acknowledge this history while agreeing that every country has done immoral things.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 month ago:
Is your point that America is better than other countries? Or that every country is bad?
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 month ago:
There has not been a single year in American history that was great for all groups of Americans. This country was founded on the murder of natives and the exploitation of slaves/immigrants: that foundation has reverberated throughout our entire history. Government and corporate policy, often racist and sexist, works to maintain a permanent under class of exploited workers that provide cheap labor for the ruling class (e.g., Jim Crow, redlining, denial of reproductive rights, etc.). So while I wholeheartedly agree with taxing the rich, taxation alone did not prevent injustice in the 20th century.
Not to mention the devastation that America has inflicted on the developing world. Obvious examples include millions of civilian casualties during our wars in Asia and the Middle East, foreign resource extraction that provides us with cheap consumer good (e.g., banana republics in South America, slave mines in the Congo, etc.), as well as CIA operations that have been brazenly declassified (e.g., overthrowing presidents, installing dictators) because this country can’t even pretend to live up to its professed ideals. Any serious study of American history suggests this country has never been “great” in anything beside our wasteful military expenditure and our inexhaustible favoritism of the wealthy.
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- Comment on Here's the top 50 most played games on Steam Deck for August 2025 - with Hollow Knight the champion 1 month ago:
It’s got great reviews, I’ll check it out!
