Notices by 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans: (ladydragonfly@universeodon.com), page 5

The endgame of election denial is to convince the American public that elections are no longer desirable or necessary.

GOP politicians and media are currently actively urging violence as the only solution to solving our differences and enacting political change.

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Thoughts and prayers to Jared and Ivanka Trump who are about to experience Episode 1 of Schitt's Creek

If Trump goes to jail and his fans riot, the appropriate punishment should be to make them finish middle school.

If Taylor Swift is what it takes to finally, once and for all, beat MAGA, then sequin my ass and call me a Swifty.

It's less of a "news cycle" these days and more like that one Battlestar Galactica episode where the Cylons attack every 33 minutes.

Actual photo of me defending Dr Who

Sometimes you think you know your friends and then they go and do something like clap on 1 and 3. It's hard to reply to their texts after something like that.

Problems that were overhyped:
- quicksand
- people offering me drugs
- the Bermuda Triangle

Problems that I was underprepared for:
- nightly existential dread
- remembering all 17,392 passwords required to do my job
- arguing with robots about whether or not there is an unexpected item in the bagging area

At some point, Republicans are going to start believing in Covid-19, and when that happens they are going to start pushing for things like taking away vaccines from immigrants and cutting hospital staff in poor/black/gay neighborhoods and we are going to miss the denial days.

They call it "woke" because calling it "basic empathy" unmasks their cruelty.

🇺🇲 I have a great idea! What if, instead of paying for our people's healthcare, we didn't do that.
🌍: You can't do that. Your people need healthcare!
🇺🇲: Oh they'll still get healthcare. They just have to pay an insurance company a monthly premium first.
🌍: Oh whew. You worried me there. But at least the premium will be less money than a simple tax right?
🇺🇲: Oh definitely not. They'll have something even better. Freedom!
🌍: The freedom to...?
🇺🇲: Get healthcare or not!

If you feel bad for the Nazi when Nazis get punched, you are a Nazi sympathiser.

That's what the words mean.

If I had a superpower, I would definitely do some evil with it. Not a lot of evil. Nothing like slavery or genocide type evil. But definitely a little bit of evil.

Something on the order of putting a little dog hair in every burrito of the first person to say "I'm not racist but..."

Or forcing the originator of the "I identify as an attack helicopter" hate meme to actually, literally, genuinely internally identify as a 24,500 lb, 64 foot long Blackhawk UH-60.

During the SAG/AFTRA and Writer's Strike, while other actors are scabbing, John Oliver joining his striking employees and going back out on tour doing live stand up shows so he can continue to pay his striking employees while they're still all on strike. So if aliens come and ask to be taken to whoever is in charge, I think we take them to John Oliver.

Every woman you know has:
- taken a longer route
- doubled back on herself
- pretended to dawdle by a shop window
- held her keys in her hand pointy side out
- made a fake phone call
- rounded a corner and ran
- texted her location to friends just in case
- walked home scared

Every woman you know.
Every single one.

@georgetakei "I barely know Eric. He's just a coffee boy."

- Donald Trump probably

@RickiTarr this is worth examining in detail. "Trickle Down Economics" was always designed to move vast quantities of wealth from the younger, usually poorer class to the older, property-owning, usually wealthier class. It wasn't a single law, either. It was an entire ecosystem of laws. A defining ideology for an entire generation, with the goal of the deliberate redistribution of wealth to benefit them at the cost of us.

Its entire philosophy can be summed up in its mission statement. "Give the wealthy more money, and that will (might, but actually won't) allow a tiny trickle of that vast wealth to reach the poor."

It absolutely floors me when people claim that TDE "failed". No. It succeeded. It was always designed to do this. And it did it efficiently, and even provided an in-system justification for its own cruel purpose.

Name a nonfiction book so good you wish you could read it again for the first time.

I'll go first.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadfter.

It's a bit of a journey, and a tough read in certain sections. I recommend taking it one chapter at a time and really letting it simmer before moving on to the next. But it will completely change the way you think about your own brain and how it works, and the payoff at the end is ridiculous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

@GottaLaff I don't know why I have to keep being the one to say this. The GOP has ceased to be a functioning political party, with political goals and political means of achieving them.

They want to kill us. That's the platform.

@GottaLaff maybe it's starting to break through the noise then. Feels like I've been screeching this into the void for coming up on a decade now.