Signtist

That’s why Trump’s smart - he knows that the American people are fine with invasions without any explanation at all!

A few years ago a piece of snow that had hardened from the cold flew off of the top of a guys car and hit my windshield so hard that it spiderwebbed. Snow flying off of a car can also completely blind you for several seconds, since it often comes off all at once like an avalanche.

Bud, what? We’re talking about people who were working day after day without being fired who suddenly had enough and decided to leave. They weren’t in imminent danger of being fired prior to their resignation. So, the morning when they come in to turn in their (unexpected!) resignation, they do what they can to fuck things up a bit beforehand. Yeah, you’re right that the government could go after them for it if they weren’t smart enough to cover their tracks, but let’s be honest - the current government will likely go after them for leaving regardless.

That’s why I mentioned damage done in a couple hours - you’re not going to be fired until you do the thing you’re being fired over. It’s not like they automatically know when someone is planning to do something they’re going to be fired over; even if they somehow immediately knew you were up to something, you could probably at least attach some sensitive documents to one email before they grab you and throw you out of the building.

What I mean is that you’re already on the inside, an opportunity a lot of people would love to have. Even if all you do is call one person to warn them they’re being watched before putting in your resignation, it’s better than quitting without doing that.

I work for a normal company, but even I’d be able to do a lot of damage in a couple hours if I really wanted to screw over my employer before leaving. Information is a big part of any conflict; even just sending whatever sensitive information you happen to have on hand to some interested parties can really throw a wrench in the works.

Well, you’d at least be able to do one good thing from the inside to earn that “not contributing” badge of honor before you leave. Better than leaving without it.

Growing up I always held onto the previous Gameboy model whenever I upgraded so that when my parents would take away my video games I could just sneak into their room when they weren’t home and swap out the latest model for the older one. They never noticed.

It’s one thing to say it doesn’t matter, it’s another to actually try to go out and make it not matter, because the way our society works right now - especially in the last few years - it absolutely matters. The only way it’s going to change is if we go out and fight to earn equality for everyone, and even when we do that we’ll still need to be vigilant to make sure shit like this doesn’t start happening again.

Haven’t lived there for a few years, but I’m proud to call it my hometown!

It’s clearly Spanish for Big Aryan.

Yeah, I can remember one or two specific instances of people choosing the worst place to stop and have a conversation, but the reason I remember them is because they happen so infrequently. I might need to say “excuse me” every so often, or squeeze by someone who didn’t leave a lot of space, but it’s never inconvenient enough to warrant remembering.

Resign? How does that help?

“There’s a lot of injustice happening here, so let me step aside to allow for more injustice.”

It’s not going incognito from the browser and websites, it’s going incognito from your computer and the other people who use it. Did people actually think incognito mode was some sort of vpn?

With regards to the people at the top of the government, the laws they’re meant to abide by only apply to the extent that the individuals themselves care about them.

To the people occupying those positions right now, those laws are nothing more than words on a paper they’re never going to read, and as a result, that’s all the power they have right now.

There’s no point in reciting laws to people who don’t know them, don’t care about them, and won’t be held accountable for breaking them.

Took me a while to realize it’s a reference to how birds feed their young. At first I thought it was some sort of body snatchers thing.

My buddy’s parents were like this. They’re very religious, and damn near disowned him when his younger brother snitched to them that he saw a condom wrapper in his trash. This was despite the fact that their older brother was born full-term less than 9 months after their parents got married…

“Coward” implies that they want to do good, but are too scared to do so. There’s no reason to think that, and indeed we shouldn’t. They want money and Elon makes them money; that’s all there is to it. If ethics mattered to them at all, they wouldn’t have been able to climb to the position of CEO of a major corporation in the first place.

Show me any truly successful protest in the last decade. We’re getting record attendance numbers but seeing no change because nobody cares to listen. We stopped succeeding when we stopped coming armed.

The authority to stop this was an uncorrupted government that cared to stop it, which we haven’t had in a while. Hell, we’ve gone so far past it that they’re actively encouraging it now. While this symptom is relatively new, the disease has been progressing for decades. Once the government stopped keeping the police in line, and the people stopped caring to fix the government to get that back on track, it was inevitable that we’d need to revolt to bring things back. Now the question is whether or not that will be enough. I hope it is.

It’s an amazing evolutionary trait that served us well back when danger was around every corner. We likely wouldn’t have gotten this far without it. But people in power will always exploit any weakness they can in order to keep us subservient. You can see a similar scenario play out with regards to our tendency to make groups of “us” and “them;” it was a beneficial trait back when we were small tribes competing for limited resources, but now it’s a tool for bad actors to exploit.

It’s important that we recognize and acknowledge the pitfalls of the mental traits we’ve evolved to have, so that we can better recognize when they’re being exploited. Overcoming our own base instincts isn’t about ignoring them or pretending we don’t have them, because we will always have them - it’s about seeing them, knowing when they’re being used against us, and making the conscious choice to take another path.