You say that as a joke but I’m pretty sure this clown is also one of the quacks who regularly talked about the “health benefits” of butthole tanning.

Tell that to the advertizing companies.

Not a programmer but at my last job I couldnt count how many times I would walk into our engineers office and start explaining a problem only to stop mid sentence and say “wait, I’m an idiot” then walk back out. Sometimes talking about it is all you need to make the pieces fit.

being desperate for “relief” somehow made them more attractive to women

We all know that the thing women are most attracted to is desperation. /s

When did I say new? I still have no idea how anyone who isn’t a millionare or more could buy a new car. I’m decently above average income and even the cheapest new cars still cost an impossible amount of money. Yeah loans are a thing but that also confuses me because why would any bank give anyone a +$20,000 loan for a fairly rapidly depreciating asset which could be totaled the next day by a random deer or bad driver. Yeah, insurance is a thing but the cost of insurance on new cars is also inconceivably expensive. Even if you ignore the cost of vehicle itself, how do people even manage to pay the insurance premiums and registration costs? Some people must be buying new cars of course but I genuinely have no idea how or why.

$20k is still more than I can ever imagine spending on a vehicle. The most expensive vehicle I ever bought was $3k and I really had to think on that one. Until there are +20 year old used electric vehicles for sale, they aren’t an option for me. Unfortunately it also looks like they are being built like every other piece of tech and designed to be tossed out every few years so I don’t know that +20 year old electric vehicles will ever really exist. Not that new gas engine cars are any different in that way either of course.

Electric cars aren’t unattractive because they’re electric cars. They’re unattractive because they cost 1/4 the cost of my house and come preenshitified with subscriptions. If I could afford an electric car I would get one. Let me know when you see one selling for under $5k.

Getting the orange bastard out would be a major win but they are a symptom, not the root problem. We need to rip the oligarchy out root and stem. Until that happens the same issue will exist, just with a different figurehead.

As far as a general strike goes that’s great. I could start striking tomorrow however I would just wind up jobless, homeless, and hungry while having acheived nothing. A general strike requires planning and commitment from a large portion of the population. We can’t even get that many people to agree that raping kids is bad. So until a general strike does happen the best I can personally do is overcharge the large corporations I do work for and undercharge smaller local businesses.

ITT, OP is about to start complaining about how actual unpopular opinions get downvoted despite not actually engaging in good faith.

I’m aware, but there’s not a damn thing I can do about it so there’s nothing really to do except keep surviving. I just keep plodding along and treading water for as long as I can. It actually feels quite a bit like what I imagine being dropped in the middle of the ocean feels like. Everything is clearly fucked and there is nothing to do but continue existing.

Sure I could theoretically leave but in reality I don’t have the resources/connections to do so and even if I did where would I go? Everywhere seems to be on a fash spiral. The US is just the center of attention right now because it’s a “global superpower” and it’s leading the pack on the downward dystopia slide. No mater where I go the same shit seems to be on the horizon, it will just get less media attention.

Same here. Started a computer science degree because I liked coding and was good at it. Then I got a job writing some software and realized that if I had to do that all day every day I would jump off a building. Dropped out the same year. Now I’m a refrigeration mechanic and loving it plus making way more money than I would have as an entry level comp sci major.

“Expats”

It is a pile as soon as one grain of sand is resting solely on top of one or more grains of sand.

Lynch mobs generally don’t target mass murderers.

The state has other methods of dealing with people. A vigilante really doesn’t.

The man was a mass murderer. But because he wore a suit and did it from an office it was OK. If a gunman put down any other mass murderer noone would complain.