I really wish the mainstream media would describe this with historical context. Alfred Hugenberg gutted the German bureaucracy when hitler took power to allow the Nazis free reign, and that is absolutely the point of DOGE today.

I quit smoking and drinking a year or so ago and I’m no happier than I was before I quit.

Ooh, look at these fancy assholes who expect to “retire” someday!

I can’t recall if it was in the Behind the Police miniseries or a more regular Behind the Bastards episode, but there was a breakdown of how even once you’ve completed the police academy, you have to train for a year (IIRC) under a training officer, and if the TO thinks you’re not cut out for the force, you are not permanently hired, and other forces will probably not give you a chance. TOs, by the bye, are typically drawn from officers who have been taken off normal duty due to numerous complaints, like the ones made by people who have been harassed or assaulted by cops.

It’s not just the academy, the whole system selects for bastards.

Get ready for bacon as a meme again and 3-for-a-dollar ham sandwiches.

I’m not forgetting that, that’s why I’m angry: a bunch of fucking banana slugs hold the levers of power in this country.

It makes me so angry and sad that we could literally end this in a week. If the US just said “no more aid to Israel until apartheid ends” that would be it.

I think after decades of the term “oligarch” being used in popular culture and nationwide news coverage, people in the “forgotten middle” know what oligarchy is. She’s doing the exact thing “liberal elites” get accused of doing all the time which is insulting her constituents’ intelligence.

It is hard to read that kind of statement without thinking about a wide variety of toys and things to do with them.

Hypocrisy is the water conservative “Christians” swim in.

Talk about complying in advance.

I never became a discord guy, but it seems like IRC (not federated the same way lemmy/mastodon/etc are but functionally similar) would meet the requirements.

Reading this is like reading anti-drug propaganda from the 90’s. Like, sure there are concerns about young people, especially boys, getting radicalized online. But the coverage is so lurid and skewed that it loses credibility.