This. This. A thousand times a thousand times, yes. Nobody should be blindly trusting their safety to Amazon, one of the worst abusers of trust and privacy.

(Plus they’re the most common hardware… Guess what’s getting targeted for mass exploits?)

Almost anything is better than giving Amazon access to your home.

They should do a poll how many wanna never see Trump’s ugly face again?

Y’know after the douchebag stuck his mugshot on the “America the Beautiful” National Park pass, people selling stickers to cover his stupid ugly face raised $13,000 towards National Parks.

So…that’s kinda a poll, and it sends a pretty stark message! :p

The government said it could void the pass if people “deface” the cards by covering Dear Leader.

Given that seeing his face is basically visual molestation, I can see why tons of people “who buy a pass every year” opted to not bother.

It says “…Of Americans”, so the optimist in me says “25% of people didn’t know about or answer the poll.”

Wow. I dropped it too early then.

I kinda rolled my eyes and was like “Is EVERY Viking story just an endless circle of killing fathers killing sons killing fathers again?”

Maybe I should give it another chance…

Yeah I’m kinda terrified to watch that one, not gonna lie. I get an emotional overreaction just looking at the cover…

It’s definitely a tight rope. I was a bit of a “gun nut” as a teen. Mostly by way of fiction and research.

But the difference, and why I’m probably alive and with all my fingers today, is my dad constantly and heavily emphasized safety alongside exposure in controlled environments. They were something to fear and respect, but not be afraid of.

I worry about this as a soon to be father myself. We might be in a situation where arms become necessary, God forbid.

An interest can be healthy, but we definitely need to put the ridiculous carelessness and violence-porn power fantasies into the “outrageous stupid entertainment in moderation” box, rather than glorifying it as a core part of our culture.

I still feel really curious about getting around to that one.

The most unsettling thing is working at my local library, and that movie’s been out for a long time now, and I see it circulating CONSTANTLY.

That speaks volumes about what’s on people’s minds, I think…

“Would you like to play a game?”

I’m so scared to play that game. I also am very much not willing to engage in real warfare, so, I guess it’d be preaching to the choir… But yeah…

Dice. Definitely dice.

And also highly fatty meats. It’s usually just butter. So much fucking butter.

Anthropology: The study of mankind’s quest for readily available fat.

LOL I learned so much from this, thank you.

And also: Fume and dust extraction is no joke!!

Also, can’t help but think about who the Trump administration is actually sending to the most densely populated areas to carry out these raids, and what happens to them if Trump has to kick off a civil war while they’re there…

Unfortunately, I seem to have an answer for you:

Slate.com: You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof

But also capitalism will gladly sell you the rope with which to hang it by. . .

The images speak for themselves, but every boot-sniffing, spineless suburbanite who conflates what ICE is doing with "law enforcement" and “protection” from “criminals” should take a good hard look at exactly where that leads. Every time.

It’s this right here. Uniformed thugs with rifles getting rid of State-declared “undesirables.”

“But they wouldn’t come after me.” They tell themselves, as that old quote goes.

The cops are doing this too, to the surprise of nobody. I guess terrorism isn’t against the law anymore, as long as you’ve got a uniform and an acronym, apparently.

The fact anybody’s okay with ANYBODY being treated like this on their own soil is a mirror into the rotten depravity that’s taken root in their souls.

They’re totally sleeping on

“We’re gonna build up Walz, and make Trump/ICE pay for it!”

I think we were all hoping that some loveable genius was quietly subverting their surveillance state and getting a view of the outside world via Team Fortress 2, but, yeah, if it’s not North Korea’s fattest man, it’s probably a high ranking military crony.

. . .Hey just musing here but that sounds like a kinda hilariously easy doxx. You don’t think they’d keep state secrets on that same machine? . . . Surely. . .? Noooo. . . 🤔

Ohhhh I think I might have misread your original comment. Were you saying 2/3rds didn’t vote for this , but aren’t meaningfully opposing it?

(In which case me getting updoots on that one for being wrong is a tad confusing but lol internet I guess?)

I would partially disagree in that case though. There’s a lot being done but it’s definitely more quiet than all the damage they’re doing, and the opposition has to move carefully.

There are certainly a lot of weenie politicians that are sticking with the age old strategy of “I’m not like those guys” while tacitly supporting the corruption at the same time, and they need to be fired and replaced as swiftly and ruthlessly as possible with fighters.

My over-generalized understanding is that it’s more like 1/3rd, but because of exploited political geography their votes were “more special” than the rest of ours, so suddenly we arrived at:

“The whole country wanted this!”

(Historians’ note: No they didn’t.)

In a world that made sense, U.S forces would also say they’re ready to join with Denmark in defending Greenland.