Azal

Live in Missouri. Our state legislature liked to for years vote down a pay raise for themselves. They made sure to stand up and wave "Look at how good we're doing."

If I wanted to run for legislature, I would have had to taken a cut in pay and I am definitely not on the top 50% of the state, much less the country.

Cool cool cool. So this means we shouldn't vote for them.

My trans friends on the Kansas side of the border had their drivers licenses pulled because the veto-proof Republican Supermajority in one night made all drivers licenses that had gender not of birth null with no warning and that's still currently being fought in the courts. Same time they put through a bathroom bill that has a bounty on it for people to call in where someone will have to go to court to prove themselves.

Somehow frankly shocked our Republican supermajority in MO hasn't done the same, but they're busy trying to take away our ability to pass laws because we managed to keep abortion legal. Oh... wait... they're using trans people as the way to entice people to vote the outlawing of abortion again this election.

But we shouldn't let the dems win.

I think a lot of yall saying this don't live in red states where the water is already boiling. Best of luck to you, we're trying our hardest to survive over here.

40 now. Growing up had the adults bemoaning that we all wanted to sit inside and watch TV and play video games all day.

Of course bunch of kids at a park got police called on them, stores installed high pitch noise machines that was irritating (this was the time when kids were putting high pitch tones on their cell phones that teachers couldn't hear as well), and every other practice to make sure that it was understood they really didn't want us anywhere.

Trump is an ass, and this is absolutely not how thing should be done. But here we are.

So if I have to go through this shitshow, I can at least laugh my ass off that he's doing this to Cotton who's been one of his supporters. That's what he gets.

Lets be frank, by "Americans" he means him and his chronies. He's only worried about his not chronies because election is coming up.

As an American, fuck it, let the consequences pile. Many of the people who actively wanted this are hurting the most.

Republicans when talking about min wage: "We can't give out money, or else inflation happens, learn something!"

Republicans when voting comes up: "HAVE FREE MONEY!"

Something has to trigger my memory, but there are things in my head that are easily pre-Internet.

The cool 90s S is the one that comes to mind.

Ooh, I need to bring that one back into my rotation. I loved that one.

Aren’t most farmers voting for team red?

US here, yes. The Ag industry is heavily Republican and you can tell it by all the handouts they keep getting from them. They're also a bunch of millionaires who cry the second anything goes sideways then comes out better. The mom & pop farms that people think of are almost nonexistent, especially after the last time the republicans convinced them to do a farmers strike decades ago, which lost a lot of small farms to big corporations.

One of the very rare moments of AI being used completely for good.

Steam is a good service compared to the alternatives, but corpos will always be corpos

This. I was telling friends back when Google's motto was "Don't be evil" because the rule is never trust a corporation.

Then again, I grew up around the home of WalMart so I guess I may have been used to shitty tactics with the veneer of "helping the community"

This is kind of my problem here. There's a lot of hobby based communities in Reddit that hasn't made the move and pretty dead over here so it's what keeps dragging me back.

But gah, the new style is completely unreadable to me.