The "adventure" in adventurism.

Agreed, it just goes to show how people claim that respecting property rights are sacrosanct, but the wealthy can pull the right strings to basically lawfully steal from people through extortion. Take the landlord who will raise rent "because I can lol" and same with that asswipe who raised drug prices because "I can do what I want", the medicine did not become more scare, the high prices are just legal stealing. Textbook lawful evil

That reminds me,

if any of you non-yanks want to hear something cursed, in my seventh grade science class, we discussed climate change and some of its implications, but one of the "challenges" to actually fixing it would be "do we have to say goodbye to our American way of life?"

Even as a kid, I laughed at how anyone would think that American "culture" was worth an ugly, polluted planet.

: "Muh 13/50! Take that, librulz!"

In a country that openly picks and chooses what crimes to enforce, that quip means nothing.

Holy crap, Lois. Where do I even begin?

• Microsoft on my desktop. Want to try out Linux but even boomers would make fun of my tech skills. That, and more games are on Windows.

• Cars. Born in bumfuck nowhere, and cities with public transit are expensive as hell. If I ever get a better paying job, I'm selling that shit and moving anyways, because cars are also a huge money sink in and of themselves.

• Google. I'll give them props, it's a good search engine even in its enshittified form, some of the ads I can deal with because if I am looking for a new t-shirt or something, then it would make perfect sense a Uniqlo ad would pop up. But its privacy that's the problem, and I try to be as "normal" as possible in this KiwiFarmsified hellscape. In the panopticon, the winning strategy is to not be interesting.

• My iphone (inb4 avocado toast Venezuela). It would be silly to trash this thing now by principle, but once when its unusable, I'm going for a Linux Pinephone.

• YouTube. It's a Monopoly and my broke ass doesn't want to subscribe to curiosity stream. It's like Texas though, while it's mostly derivative cringe, there's small pockets of gold that keep me there.

• Linkedin. Pretentious garbage

• Suburban life. Again, I am not a suburbanite by choice, decent paying jobs are tight and it's even harder to find an apartment in a state I know I probably won't be killed in AND I can afford.

TL;DR: I REALLY need to start learning 2 tech so I can navigate tech alternatives. Oh, and I need to get my shit together in life so I can afford to live in a blue city.

All speech is free, but some speech is more free than others.

I know that you made this observation before, and I couldn't agree more. Right-wing parents see their children as accessories, and I think they intentionally sabotaged the job and housing market to maximize their children's dependency on them for as long as possible.

And we want these people to have a say in the means of production....

Help! I can feel the liberalism in me reforming!

: "Hey Hexbear, this is your dear friend GarfieldHeteronormativity, I sure do love brunch and hate le drumpf!

All this just because some teenagers on tumblr were mean to white men in 2011?

I never want to hear them to tell anyone to "grow a thicker skin" ever again.

American Christianity is basically Christians doing everything they accuse us Jews of doing....but it takes on a classy reskin because it's Christians doing it. Look at the Koch brothers, the Waltons, and every bloated pig-in-a-suit that calls itself an oil CEO and most of AmeriKKKa's citizens.

Does 4chan not realize that they are going to go into the gas chambers as well?

: "At least porky wasn't told what to do, better dead than red!"