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What an absolute dystopian hellhole
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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Leopards Ate My Face
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"This isn't a joke," she said. "Why am I the only one doing all the work?"
Don't underestimate the amount of psychic damage this shit can do to someone. I'm trans, living next to a university in a solid blue county in Texas. I'm probably gonna be fine over the next four years. Probably.
Yet, I have the urge to live as though these are my last days because the world is overwhelmingly against me.
I know there's a very real chance that if I don't move, then I'll be fucked.
I know that, with my education, it really probably wouldn't be that hard to find a job that'll allow me to work remotely or that is based in a blue state. Yet I'm dead inside from all the hate and anger. I've managed to keep my head down and avoid most of the hate that'd be directed at me personally, but it still hurts.
Austin? If so, have a Cubico at La Condesa for me. I miss that thing.
Dallas. Not as blue as Austin, but still pretty blue afaik.
Well have a potato pancake at kubys on me. I don't drink much so don't know any good bars other than cidercade
[Scene opens on a wide, desolate savanna at dusk. The camera slowly pans over a leopard lying under a tree, its large body barely able to move. The sun is setting, casting a cold, dim light over the scene. Soft wind rustles through the dry grass. The leopard’s eyes are dull, its breathing labored.]
Narrator (soft, somber voice): In the wild, leopards are meant to stalk, to hunt, to climb. But for some, this is no longer possible. These are the leopards of the forgotten savanna... the ones who can no longer live the life they were born to lead.
[Cut to a close-up of another leopard, this one lying next to a watering hole, panting heavily. The camera lingers on its enormous, bloated body, its paws barely able to reach the ground. The leopard’s eyes seem vacant, devoid of the wild spark they once had.]
Narrator: Overfed and unable to move, these leopards have been left to a slow, painful existence. They can no longer hunt their prey, no longer climb the trees to escape danger, no longer feel the thrill of the chase. They are trapped in their own bodies.
[Cue the soft, mournful opening chords of "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan. The camera slowly pans over a third leopard, sluggishly trying to rise, but its massive weight prevents it from standing. It lets out a heavy sigh, its once-strong legs buckling beneath it.]
Narrator: They are the forgotten victims of a world that has abandoned them. Too fat to run, too weak to fight... These leopards are slowly fading, one breath at a time. They need your help.
[Cut to a shot of a leopard staring out over the savanna. The camera lingers on its face, eyes half-closed, its expression one of quiet resignation.]
Narrator: For just $3 a day, you can provide the care and support these leopards so desperately need. A donation will help give them the chance to live a life of dignity. Help them find their way back to the wild they were meant to roam.
[The music swells as the camera fades to black, and the words "Your donation can make a difference" appear in white text on the screen.]
Narrator (whispering): Please, don’t let them suffer in silence. The time to act is now.
[The music fades out, and the SPCA logo appears in the corner, along with a toll-free number and website for donations.]
Sky is the father in law who voted for Trump.
“All those criminals that Trump’s been talking about — the rapists, the gang members — that’s not you,” Sky said. He had heard Trump say that he would deport “the bad guys” first and possibly show leniency to immigrants who had been brought to the country as children.
“You deserve to be here,” Sky said. “To me, you’re basically American.”
“But I’m not,” Jaime said.
Aren't they throwing around numbers like 1 million deportations?
Does Sky think there are a million rapists and murders amount the 7 million that are here?
Article says he thinks it's bluster.
As if what Sky thinks matters to Trump and the people that will deport his son-in-law
They've been fighting against invisible monsters so long, they've forgotten that those are REAL people.
They never forgot. They never even considered them people in the first place. They're statistics.
loooooooota people next year gonna have the FAFO blues...
Why do these people play repeats. This same shit happened last time do people just forget? Do they hear about it happening to others and just completely externalize it? Fucks sake.
The worst thing progressives do is assume everyone is as informed as themselves.
Immigrants and first generation Americans more often then not have labor jobs, work unusual shifts with a small number of other people, live in districts with bad schools, and don’t speak or read English. They watch news on culturally oriented outlets like telemundo and only interact with other immigrants in meaningful ways.
It’s extremely easy to use that bubble to circulate disinformation. It’s coming from other people they love and trust and tinted with their own culture.
The internet exists. There's plenty of Spanish, or any other language, news coverage of anything you could want to know about. People have the responsibility of educating themselves. Failing to do so is just that, a failure. Don't give anyone cover to remain in ignorance.
Educated or no, doesn't take a rocket scientist for a blue collar worker to look at their grocery bills and see that they tripled, or to figure out that they can't afford to see a doctor or send their kid to college.
You know what's ironic?
Dems did this exact same shit in 2016. They learned nothing. They're still beating the Clintonite drum of praying that money from the rich will buy them enough name recognition to overcome the fact that they've ignored the descent into poverty that millions of their voters faced over the last four years. The same was true in 2016 when Hillary was running as an extension of Obama, and they just ignored that Obama presided over a foreclosure crisis.
And, from what you can see on this thread, apparently their plan is to just double down and lose some more.
I hope the grandfather has his kids and grandkids deported and never gets to see them ever again. He fucking deserves it.
Really sucks to be Jaime and his kids though. The wife should have looked into what she was signing up for, i've known for decades that if you want to be here legally you need to leave before coming back and there's no guarantee.
This country is so fucked up, they don't even have the critical thinking skills or knowledge to understand why our economy is so bad right now: Slashed corporate tax rates and media, healthcare and employment controlled by the ultra wealthy. We're just neo-slaves given less and less to make our owners more and more. Our health isn't the ownership's problem, and we're only useful as long as we are producing them more wealth.
Sky's daughter isn't going to see him anymore if her husband gets deported, because she would follow. In a long-winded way, Sky voted for her to be out of his life.
I hope the grandfather has his kids and grandkids deported and never gets to see them ever again. He fucking deserves it.
you want innocent children to be punished for something their grandfather did?
In the spirit of leopards eating faces: Sky is the one who should suffer, but his suffering - not seeing loved ones - isn't even remotely comparable to the suffering of those people who rightly should be here but who will be deported because of Sky & his friends' choices.
This is just tragic, how these people deluded themselves. Hearing what they want to hear and ignoring what they don't, and even now not believing that their imagined reality will not play out like they think. They're too committed to the cause and the cult to have regrets.
The ignorance of those who voted for dumpy knows no bounds. Cheering for the leopard to come eat your face is so fucking dumb.
I wish I had it in me for a higher quality response but the avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
It's an interesting economy.
In a closed economy, production that cannot be consumed (due a low household share of income) would result in production being shut down, lay offs, etc.
Being the reserve currency, with open capital controls and deep financial markets has allowed America to be the consumer of last resort through massive debt loaned by the rest of the world (particularly persistent trade surplus countries which themselves have weak demand).
It has resulted in massive government debt (which is trying to compensate the household sectors weak income share) and private debt.
Completely unsustainable.
The problem with these greed assholes is that while one of them can get rich by ripping off the public and low wages, if all of them do it, the public can't afford to buy their crap.