See, now this is a stance. I only had to skim your second reason because I already knew all that, fuck it’s even outdated. You could have just linked to the musk Nazi salute or a screen shot of a search for “musk naxi salute” showing that everyone here refers to it as the “salute controversy” like he used the wrong arm or something.

The thing is, this is a terrible way to actually do that. Not only is a meme not going to share anything heavy enough to stick, but the rest of the dipshits in this country already don’t do anything about our Nazi President. It might actually buy points for Ukraine to know he’s less of a Nazi than ours it.

So I see a lot of personal attack here and absolutely no answers to my questions. I’m a middle aged dude in Kansas, I’m not pretending to know shit about global politics and I’m well aware my few sources of media are probably equally corrupted by propaganda.

As it stands, the information I have to work with is that Russia attacked Ukraine and now it’s a war. I’m a simple man, when one guy punches another the aggressor is the first one that threw the punch. Nations is just bigger scale not denser complexity. Russia threw the first punch, Russia started the fight. I’m not against new information and will take any peer review proof you have to the contrary. Again, I’m genuinely asking because I want to know.

Now for Nazis. I hate Nazis. I think being a Nazi should disqualify you from having civil rights and proof that you’re a Nazi should be punished with death. So far beyond the line of tolerance am I that I do not even need a level of cognitive dissonance to simultaneously hold this view and the view that anyone can overcome their evils. I do not believe anyone who is a Nazi deserves a chance to redeem themself. Now you come here and say Zelinski named a battalion after Nazis and I yout to understand that this is a thing I have to deal with every day. The leader of my country is also a Nazi, the richest man on the planet is also a Nazi, as it turns out no one but me seems to care so I guess I’m one guy that hates Nazis in a panet of fucking Nazis. So I ask in ernest, with no malice or dismissal, why it should matter that one guy is a Nazi if being a nazi is the standard? I do not condone it, but if my Nazi president likes Russia and “good guy Ukraine” is Nazis, then at this point I’m sure Russia is Nazis too.

And finally, my stance at the end. While I understand it comes across at dismissive and sarcastic, but again it is delivered in complete sincerity. I am the product of a lifetime of disillusion, taught about my inalienable right to religion by the teacher that told me I belong in hell for using it. I watched a society that begged for a tyrannical government to overthrow became the loyal army of the fascist regime and now bite at the leash to hunt people like me for sport. I made piece with being molested as a child only to learn that actually that’s what we want in this country and my true failing was not going on to molest in turn. There is not a day I wake where I am spared the realization that the evils I believed were the flaws in the machine were actually the intended outcome all along.

So I know that no one tries this hard in a tiny little niche forum site on the ass end of the corporate internet for free. Wither it means something to you personally or you’re being paid to do it. If it’s the prior then say it with your whole chest. Give me more than a stale meme, show me a person that cares about a fucking problem because I’m so fucking tired of being the only one. If it’s the later, then just fucking say so. My every day is so crammed full of propaganda. Every ideal I’ve ever held was a corporate product to offload the blame on the common folk. Every year of my education was a regurgitation of lies about the world. Hero I’ve had has been a monster wearing the face of a saint. So if your being paid to make these half assed arguments then tell me what the orders are how well they pay because I’m so fucking done that a foreign actor could buy my loyalty with a modest retirement account. I will sell out for anyone that will pay for the dental care I need.

So what is it? What has you so motivated as to come here day after day and post dated memes about politics when you could literally be doing anything else? I actually want to know.

I don’t get the target for this stuff. I’m inclined to believe that Russia is the aggressor in this conflict, it’s larger, had a better military reputation, and has been treated as such by everyone but the US president. So I’m already predisposed to side with Ukraine because they didn’t start the fight.

Associationing Ukraine with Nazis feels like a way to weaken the support, but anyone in Europe is going to be close enough to walk over and ask if they’re actually Nazis so I can’t imagine it’s going to work on any of them. Meanwhile in the US, let me remind you that the owner of everyone’s favorite social media platform did the Nazi salute for our president who is currently putting people in concentration camps with his own gestapo. If anything, Ukraine being secretly Nazis is just going to strengthen the support.

Can you just give me your manifesto or a copy of your orders if this is some sort of psyops? I’m honestly too busy not dying of poverty and American healthcare to decipher a poorly made meme. Like, if you want American support you could just offer to arrest the Epstein clients or give us real healthcare. Literally just lowering this cost of gas would have half this country committing treason.

Tell me you’re not punk without telling me you’re not punk…

Why will this kill startpage? I only just found it because it’s the default for waterfox and I’m quite happy with it. DDG has been getting worse and worse

My experiences have shown that anyone who wants to govern others isn’t someone who should. Any organization made of such people is undoubtedly responsible for an amount of attricities. That amount probably averages out to the same by age of country across the board. So I doubt there’s any country that’s genuinely better than another because at it’s very core they’re all run by assholes who should not be allowed power.

The other guy gave a better explanation than I could have, but l will chime in emphasis that learning curve. I’m not great at computer stuff but I know my way around Linux and how to find a tutorial, home assistant is just not very user friendly. The ui is really pretty but not intuitive. Of wasn’t clear when I got into it that there’s a software and an OS version and they aren’t identical, the software is missing a lot of the things that the OS gives but the OS apparently isn’t great if youre running other things on your server, mine is set up primarily for jellyfin and I only wanted home assistant to take the stress of constantly dogging my kid about chores off my workload. Don’t let this dissuade you of you’re interested, I genuinely feel like it’s a great thing if you have the time to learn it, but it’s not something to start if you’re already struggling to juggle all your plates.

I have home assistant running on my home server. It’s default use is managing your smart home but my house is too poor to be smart so I use it to push notifications about chores to my kid.

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Among a lot of other things.

Not to side with the propaganda guy, but it’s illegal to commit suicide in the US. Not sure about other countries but I’m sure it’s common.

Gowlfing. You go bowling, but you put the bumpers up so no one can gutterball and you play for the lowest score. Everyone is equally bad at it, it’s hilarious to play, and it confuses the shit out of other lanes.

Speed minigolf. It’s minigolf, but if your ball comes to a complete stop you have to start back at the tee with all the swings you’ve already taken. The ball and the club have to be in motion when they collide or you start again. So it leads to everyone galloping through the course, shouting numbers as they swing and desperately trying to get the right angle on a moving target. Do not play when there are other guests.

Monopoly deal is remarkably fun for a monopoly spin off. It’s even more fun with two decks and everyone plays for 5 sets.

For a short while I had a ttrpg version of magic the gathering. Not the d&d tie ins, it was commander, but your commander is a character sheet with stat based rules to allow you to pick any card that meets the requirements. You start off with only a 2 drop rare, and as you level up you get perks that change that. Every game you play with that deck earns experience, and once a month we’d do a dungeon crawl as our characters, using our signature noncreature cards from our decks. It was fun while it lasted but life always gets in the way.

Twister. It’s twister, but you have to get up and spin around for 10 seconds each time.

Hand of Glory. It’s played with tarot cards because French tarot an poker aren’t intractable enough. Each player has 7 cards in hand, you have to make a set of 5 in classic poker values, with a 6th card that’s a major arcana and a 7th spare. Each turn you draw a card and discard a card. You may take the top of the deck or the top of the discard. A player may discard a major arcana when another player draws a card to trade it with the drawing player for the card they would’ve gotten. When you have a winning hand you declare your clutch, and the other players may play a major arcana that’s higher than yours to block you from winning. You may in turn block this by playing a higher card from your spare. If you don’t you discard your hand and draw 7, they take your losing major arcana. If the fool is played to block a winning clutch, all players discard their hands. If the World is used to block a winning clutch, that is a hand of fate and the blocking player is allowed to immediately play a winning clutch if they have one. If the world is played as the arcana for a winning clutch, that’s a Hand of Glory and can only be blocked by playing the fool. Conventionally, the game is repeatedly shuffled up and dealt until a Hand of Glory is played, at that point the player with the most wins is the Victor.

Beautiful.

Fair. I didn’t realize it was ain’t until you said so, I just like tentacles as an aesthetic.

Same! Just moved to graphene and it’s great!

Fuck it, I’ll cut it at 1mil. Doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter why. Even if you dug up 1mil in gold from your own property by hand, you’re a cunt for letting everyone else struggle if you sit on it and don’t so something.

Think of it like an expert playing dumb to catch someone lying about their specific field of study.

If I go out and say I’m a former government agent who had access to the must classified of classified documents, someone has to actually look into that on the off chance it’s real. If I follow by mentioning I know the truth about Kennedy, you can basically close the case there as there’s no “truth” to be known.

I think Kennedy is a mole trap.

It’s the most well documented conspiracy ever, literally the textbook example of conspiracy theories. Every detailed has been looked at time and time again by every pair of braincells ever interested in conspiracy. There’s absolutely no chance that the government doesn’t have every single facet of it fully understood. Instead of giving it a case closed and a pretty bow, they leave it out there as a test. Any time some quack comes out with “secret insider information” and mentions Kennedy, they know they can write him off because anyone that really knows would know the Kennedy thing is a joke.

Every so often an agent has to go stir thr pot by asking this question so everyone still thinks it’s important.

My money is on jared letto

Mulvad is the first group that really gets me. Good because they care about the idea, cheap because they aren’t trying to choke me for money, and they take cash.

There’s the ticket. Just set it to the 2k and forget about it. Something about the “no limit” setting makes it choke on the data.