Republicans have proven they're willing to burn themselves alive, as long as their never ending list of enemies burn beside them and they get to watch.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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oh, but that think they're not burning as badly as us. I strive to have more fun than they are
Not even that, they do it because they don't have to watch or be accountable. "It's just someone I support the policies more of, the policies that I won't say specifically."
"...I just shrug it off, comment 'lol' and go back to work where I slave off to a billionaire and pay taxes to a fascist government"
I am really annoyed at whoever taught him the word tariff.
Waking up everyday and it’s a different “thank god I don’t live in the USA” I say, usually after reading any news related to the usa
I would invite you to consider that a fascist government with access to both the largest nuclear stockpile as well as by far the largest stating military is now in power
So it might not be your problem today, but it will CERTAINLY be your problem at some point
because the territory greed of fascist governments are never sated, and now who can stop us?
Seems like it is no fun living in The Best Country in the World™.
Typical leftist, won't even show a shred of empathy to the profit margins of the American cock and ball torture device industry!
(/s because I have lost faith in people)
Why are libral killing the torture industry??
Just live out of spite
Thats how I'm mentally gaslighting myself nowadays
Can't believe you've got me supporting something hypothetical Trump did
Why the fuck would you support 2500 % Tariffs on anything?!?!?
Ohhhhhhhh. Nevermind.
He'd just be doing that to harass women for breaking the rule.
Meanwhile in an unnamed hobby room: "nh hmmppf mpf hmml hwwmm?" ("Is the mandatory torture worth the tariffs?")
Bullshit!
The tariffs on the tools required for the mandatory cock and ball torture would be set higher than for everything else imaginable.
In previous news there has been this EU initiative of adopting cute twinks and offering honest woodcutting work for tomboys, maybe it is still up
i suggest leaving.
it's better outside.
I have no intention to leave because this is my home. These naive fascists think America is just the government and economy, but those have always been it's worst features. I'm gonna stay and I'm gonna enjoy myself until the bullet passes through my brain. I'm gonna make sure it stains their nicest carpets and finest dress, because I know they love seeming civil and clean.
nobody is going to make you leave, I'm offering advice and encouragement for people who do want to leave or feel hopeless about their prospects.
couple things here:
"I'm gonna stay and I'm gonna enjoy myself until the bullet passes through my brain. I'm gonna make sure it stains their nicest carpets and finest dress,"
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it's much easier to die for a cause than to live for a cause.
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you can do a lot more damage alive than dead.
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your life is worth a lot more than inconveniencing somebody's carpet.
as an example, if you travel for 11 months out of the year, you don't have to pay earned income tax, and taking away revenue from the government is going to do a lot more harm than you being dead.
especially because I don't see any evidence for this:
"they love seeming civil and clean."
I don't think they like being clean so much as they don't care about being dirty in public anymore.
Oh, but I do want them to be filthy and dirty in public. In fact, I'm almost pleased that they're so unhinged nowadays, because it's not an issue peace lovers can ignore anymore. They put off real resistance for too long.
The main reason I'm prepared to die isn't because I don't want to live. I'm just planning on living as obnoxiously and proudly as possible. I want queer people to be an issue no one can ignore, and being visible in today's world is very very dangerous. I don't want to die, but I will never live quietly. I'm gonna dance on the carpets of the rich and nothing but lethal, blood staining violence will stop me.
"...filthy and dirty in public.'
they really have been for a while now.
you got your wish.
"planning on living as obnoxiously and proudly as possible."
go for it, my concern is that you won't achieve what you want this way.
"I want queer people to be an issue no one can ignore,"
I think this is another goal you've already achieved, queer people in general are an issue nobody is ignoring already.
on the good side, the prevalence of queer culture is higher than it's ever been, even in conservative enclaves like the US.
on the bad side, the most powerful people in a few countries like tge US are so afraid of glitter that they're trying to override the other two branches of government in a vain efforts to shove the fancypants genie back in the bottle.
but that's the thing about genies and bottles, though.
"being visible in today's world is very very dangerous"
in some places, it is.
in other places it's totally normal and accepted to be as visibly queer as you like, as it has been forever because other cultures have never been binary.
I support whatever course of action fulfills you and hope your activism achieves the further goals you are working toward, and also hope you're aware that becoming a martyr is not the only or possibly most effective way you can be useful to your movement.
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