StanBark007 - Hey! Wha'Happened?!?

StanBark007 - Hey! Wha'Happened?!?

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It's encouraging to hear that Canada 🇨🇦 smartly and overwhelmingly rejected the separation of Alberta. My hat is off and hope that we Americans can bookend your success by taking some of our country back. Awesome work, folks. 🤟🖖😍

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Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?” Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power” #bbclaurak

"Owning the Libs" is a mental illness. It has infected this country to a point where millions of people will undermine their own needs to get the better of someone they disagree with. The ultimate self-immolation in order to get the scorched earth that would show "the other" that they're not worthy.

It is the mental illness that blinds objectivity and critical thinking in order to make truth subjective. It allows people to do more and greater heinous acts to justify a stubborn philosophy. It is an illness that urges you to turn your back on your neighbor because they're different...

or believe differently. Until we address this mental illness, and show people that "owning the Libs" is just another retread hatred, we will never advance as a country or a society. "Owning the Libs" is patient zero for our current lack of rationality and narcissistic focus. We need help.

I saw a post on here from a person in Greenland that basically laid this whole mess at the the feet of Americans, even those "...who didn't vote for him". It has disturbed me since I saw that post how correct they were. We like to insulate ourselves in our silos...

claiming distance from the cruelty and chaos that's affecting the US right now. My brain hurt and tried desperately to find a way to separate myself, but I couldn't. I had to come to the sickening conclusion that, despite ideology, we're all Americans, and we're all responsible for what happens.

But we can also make this right. We can make our voices heard. We can demand more of our leaders, elevate the ones who fight and eject those who don't. We are Americans. We are strong. We can get whole again and let the healing and rebuilding of the American brand begin, but we need to be strong.

When this is all over, and it will be, we will need to put ALL these people on trial. From the bulldozing of the East Wing to the extrajudicial killings of supposed "drug smugglers", this administration is wholly criminal, and any healing will have to begin with it being held accountable.

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Grateful for the group chat in which I am now scream-unloading a lot of vociferous frustrations that I will perhaps address more calmly in this space at another time of my choosing. Anyway! It’s really been A WEEK!!!!!!!

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Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.

"Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way." -Ezra Klein. Fuck Ezra Klein. Charlie Kirk justified school shootings, saying it was "worth it". Charlie Kirk called for deporting tens of millions of immigrants. And Ezra eulogizes the guy, which is fucking evil. Fuck Ezra Klein.