Polydextrous

I mean…he wasn’t exactly a paragon of health before this

“Outlaw,” which is a fucking incredible name for a police commissioner, is really just saying the quiet part out loud. “It’s very difficult when the details of a case change, and change in such a public way.” Like…difficult for who, you fucking monster?

This murderer is on a paid vacation. Because he murdered someone in cold blood—AND THEY ALL FUCKING LIED ABOUT IT. THEYRE ONLY GETTING CAUGHT BECAUSE THE FAMILY HAD THE RELATIVELY GOOD FORTUNE TO GET A DECENT LAWYER. WHAT THE FUCK.

This isn’t about the individual murders. Of course it is, but in the larger sense, how the fuck can these fuckers just keep perjuring themselves, and then when they get found out just paint the issue as, “oh, well, we are working to get the details straight.” MOTHERFUCKER, YOU ARE THE ONES OBSCURING THE GODDAMN DETAILS.

God fuckin dammit this is so incredibly fucked up. This is so, so, SO clearly a fucking system-wide problem. It’s not just the trigger happy cops. It’s the entire policing concept, it’s the entire concept of hierarchy, it’s legally protected murderers and liars and—honestly, just some fuckin assholes. No one should have this power. Yet here we are trying to figure out how to continue the problematic part without the ultra problematic part.

Your fiancée is a lizard?

But raising taxes for the richest is a small band aid on a massively flawed system. It’d be like getting a second, even smaller bucket to bail water out of the titanic. After it’s broken in half.

There are so many incredibly serious problems that higher taxes for the wealthy wouldn’t fix. Liberals tend to cling to this option because it worked back in the 20th century. But capitalism has kept getting more and more “streamlined,” fucking over the working class more and more. Because the concept of endless growth has continued through multiple decades of massive changes to the game that only favored the wealthy, changes to the tax code being one that happened so long ago that it’s an entirely different concept at this point. Outsourcing, vertical integration, the explosion of invasive advertising, data mining, the explosion of privatization, the infestation of private money dictating policy, the infestation of private interests writing policy…this is a small list of the most visible things that have become so entrenched that a wealth tax would almost be nothing.

That money would get funneled right back into their pockets, even if they somehow let a wealth tax bill through—yeah, they LET a bill through. As you said, a massive stumbling block that only goes to show how deep this problem is.

Interesting example on the importance of proper N- and M-dash usage

Please tell me it wasn’t the toilet I’m sitting on

Woke moralist: wait—you guys are getting paid?

Yeah, they very much started “using the revolution to sell their band” while masquerading as using their band to sell the revolution. Bush was in office and they literally changed their clothes and their sound to…capitalize on it. They became pop punk, whereas before they had found an organic sound that landed somewhere between punk and more traditional “rock.” I mean, dookie was a masterpiece that entirely captured the landscape—lightning in a bottle. And then everything that came after was still pretty good for a few years. But like a tv writers room that starts to lose the thread and starts writing a show that resembles the show that came before, like a copy of a copy, the quality starts suffering.

I haven’t listened to any Green Day since Warning. But you can very easily track the progression from their punk roots in (two thousand something) smoothed out slappy hours and kerplunk!, to a slightly more polished (mixed in a little grunge/rock) in dookie, (Slight stumble/“sophomore slump” at insomniac), picked up the thread at nimrod…and then the new millennium brought warning and it was sort of the beginning of the end.

Now, this is me remembering the band’s trajectory as I experienced it growing up. Dookie was my first tape, the first time I ever said the word “fuck” was because we showed our babysitter the secret song at the end and I didn’t understand, so I repeated it, they were my favorite band since I could have a favorite band. But I grew into adolescence and they…gave up. They tried to stay relevant and their quality took a nosedive. I mean, there was also a story of young kids who made it big, got addicted to drugs, and cleaned their act up as they started families and just became middle aged rich guys. So, a capitalist success story. But a typical punk/art/music failing, in my eyes. But that’s what capitalism does to art. Chews it up and spits it out.

You should try to find out what’s making you so angry. Because it sure wasn’t me having a misunderstanding with someone that wasn’t you. This isn’t healthy behavior.

You jumped into a conversation between two people to be a dick over a misunderstanding. My reading comprehension and the fact that spell check doesn’t recognize the word “jeepers” are not the issues that need discussing.

Find something better to do with your life. Also, just stop being a dick. It’s entirely unwarranted. All you’re doing is making the world a little shittier for other people so…you can feel superior? Yeah, I just double checked. That makes you a dick.

So…stop being a dick.

I bet you the answer would be “yes.” There’s actually not a doubt in my mind. Most problematic Christian’s I know don’t think what they think because Jesus. They think what they think and use Jesus as a bulletproof vest.

Was it awesome? I feel like I remember green day falling off sometime around, like, ‘97