We know we smell. Better off to pair up with another smoker. When I was young just about everyone I hung out with smoked so it was no problem.

You really don’t have to be such an asshole. Shit talking potential allies until they give up is not helping.

You may want to take a look at this if you have time. It may look suspect because it’s just some guy’s blog with a stupid cartoon image at the top but the data is quite real. If you want you can scroll to the bottom first where the author gives his credentials. I wish he’d put that at the top.

I agreed with you completely until last week when I read this

Yeah Democrats suck, Kamala was a shit candidate, etc. But the election was quite literally stolen. Over two million mail-in ballots trashed. If you are black, your ballot was nine times more likely to get trashed than a white person’s.

Please take the time to read. The author lists their credentials at the end.

This makes me want to switch but I’m ride or die Sync. I just manually look up the account age when I see someone spewing absolute bullshit. That icon would be helpful! How long does it last?

I was accepted, and my pick was Jean Lafitte. High seas pirates are allowed but maybe because I picked a real one and you picked a character! Try again.

Wow. That’s a take. Thanks for responding in depth, I certainly learned something from our interaction today.

I agree with most of what you say, but you’re really talking up Putin, who is worse than Trump so far. How do you believe the Ukraine war should be resolved?

Fair point on disabled people and mothers shouldn’t be counted for a year after birth. If rich people are unemployed yes they should be counted.

Yeah that’s the new one. Hugh Grant’s best performance.

I’d prefer a straight up count of individuals not in school, training, or employment age 18 to retirement age.

The unemployment rate is a lie. If you’re unemployed for more than six months you stop being counted.

That’s the crazy thing. If you explain leftist policies to them they will generally say that sounds good. But once they hear a trigger word like socialist or even Democrat they’re out.

You guys should watch Heretic.

My first smoke was one of my mom’s Virginia Slims.

Teaching American exceptionalism for over a hundred years then over the past fifty defunding education systematically. The fact that the country was built on slavery then had Jim Crow officially until the 70s. Unofficially it’s still around. The red scare that has caused people to automatically reject social improvements if they benefit everyone. Zero-sum thinking about literally everything - like if someone else benefits that must mean I’m losing.

So many reasons Americans are taught to be sociopaths. Both by our official education system and our general culture. We could go on and on. Yet at least half of us don’t think like that. But we have no power.

We were in a pretty damn safe society until a few days ago. But yeah you’re still right.

Protest day is the 5th at noon in your local downtown or better at your state capital building. Unfortunately it’s in the middle of a capitalist drone’s work day and I just found out today so I think it’s going to be a fail. Don’t let that stop you.

A group of us teenagers would go to a local diner similar to a Waffle House and sit, drink endless coffee, and smoke. We were there at least one night each week.

We made sure to be there when the ban finally went into place in my state. At midnight exactly, one of the waitresses came over, said put them all out. We did and she left with the ashtray.

I never went back.

Bring balance to the force.