They don’t give a fuck they are gonna sell everything for parts after it’s “proven unprofitable”

Also the worst retail customers when they are either finished with lunch or waiting to be paged for their table

It was “The Art of Racing in the Rain” for a solid 7 months

I don’t even belive in god but bless you, your local bookseller is infinitely grateful to you even if they don’t say it.

You know very well Trump don’t care about that

Closing in on 20 for me, I still have flashbacks about being asked “I’m looking for a book, I don’t know the title or author, but I know it’s blue and was on the table by the cafe last Christmas, do you know that one?” And then hating myself for knowing exactly what they meant half the time

Barnes and Noble? Cause I feel you

There is straight up no time to get the wheels properly in time to prevent significant effects. And once the feedback loops kick in there’s almost no way to stop the cascading

This ludicrous reality would be slightly more tolerable if people would stop acting like this is business as usual

He doesn’t give a flying fuck if it’s real or not, he’s a dictator and dictators want to bend reality to their will and be praised for everything whether they actually did anything or not.

I honestly can’t tell anymore if he’s just so committed to the lie that he has hair to preserve his ego. Or if he actually has become so delusional that he believes he still has a full head of hair at 79. This reality is stupid and I hate it here

I’ve been thinking this about the last few of these but I’ll be shocked if these go without some sort of catalyzing incident

I 100% agree with the overall point that there are very bad outcomes to getting this wrong, but my point is that we are out of time. Even if we manage to pull off a general strike with mural aid and civil disobedience we could eventually all have to come together on a direction or course of action going forward and I dont see that happening and even in the best of circumstances I think the country balkanizes/otherwise dissolves after a series of geographically and ideologically independent insurgencies rise up from the chaos that’s about to happen.

I’m not trying to be a doomer, but I think the time to steer into the skid has passed

At this point I’m tired of people trying to give a prescription for the ‘right way to do things’

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” Hunter S. Thompson

The beginning of that dudes life was fucking crazy, he’d be a legendary figure in history if it weren’t for every other thing he did after WWII ended.

Not soon enough, he’s got 5 years at best

Legit too drunk to really converse on this in a satisfying way right now, both agree and disagree with things you said here. I intend to come back and readdress what you’ve said

I swear to gods I’m gonna read an article in two weeks describing how Jon Oliver was thrown from a helicopter in his final show and it will characterize Trumps behavior as “troublingly close to Pinochet”

If I somehow live long enough to see the other side of this shit show I’m never going to psychologically recover from it

The housing crisis is not a problem of lack in supply. More than enough houses exist in the US for everyone to have a roof over their heads. The houses they are building are not going to go to houseless people or even bought by renters or families trying to expand their spaces, they will either be rented out at rates the houseless still can’t afford or used as tax havens.

I get what you’re asking but just building new buildings without programs to make sure they get into the hands of people in need it’s just spinning wheels. Things like what I just described combined with rent control and regulate the use of real estate as an investment would go a long way to fixing things.