We’re actively eating our own face off, as a country, because we refuse to even taste progress.

I used to think along the lines of the Churchill quote of “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Turns out that was giving us way too much credit.

So, let’s just do nothing about guns? Just give up and let public shootings happen as an unavoidable fact of life, but only for the U.S?

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Orlando, Virginia Tech (handguns, but guns are guns), I could go on, all purchased their weapons specifically for the purposes of what they did with them. The people you are talking about tend to be the most responsible and respectable owners of guns, statistically. City folk with a history of mental instability and their freshly purchased assault weapons are overwhelmingly the problem, not people that were raised around guns used for hunting animals and taught to respect and safety use them from the time they could hold one.

21 Grams. Benicio Del Toro.

If you do a holocaust then you’re not one of the good guys. It’s pretty simple.

We know.

It’s always the people you most expect.

Whatever helps you sleep.

Thank you!

Can I bother anyone in this thread to help with suggestions for a Linux distro that works for a gaming PC that won’t require me to have a computer science degree? I’m not afraid of some troubleshooting here and there, but I’m kind of dumb.

Edit: I should have known there’d be a shotgun load of different distros, good thing I’ve been gifted with e-“waste” for years, I’ve got some tinkering to do. Hyper-fixation, here I come.

I’ve worked apartment maintenance and the amount of people who were intimately watching the war room while I worked in their apartments proves this assertion woefully wrong. You’ve got neighbors and acquaintances that are balls deep into that shit.

I apologize for nothing.

Anything from Quentin Tarantino, his writing style just bugs the fuck out of me, he is so far up his own ass and it shows with every stupid pretentious monologue.

So much sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Has he, though?

As someone who has grown up and lived among the Mormons, I really have to disagree. They are dense, brainwashed, sexist, culty mother fuckers who will value nothing more than conformity.

As I said, if they decide to stop fucking us over I’ll decide to stop fucking them over. Also, my state was taxing enough to line the pockets of the conservative representatives that are bleeding the state dry on every other front of politics and social structure and ecology on top of this, which is why nobody had to face any music over the bullshit they’re continuing to pull, if they have problems with people not paying five bucks to go ten blocks then that is a problem they created and a problem for them to solve. And with the price gouging they are doing with the sea of university students having to bus or train from three districts away because they can’t afford dorms or housing in the city, my 8 block jump to work isn’t taking the food off of anyone’s table.

I pay my taxes, which I’m told goes to public transit, and there was a huge scandal with the transit department in my state a while back where we found out they were fucking everyone over and skimming a fucked up amount of money and the state did pretty much nothing about it, so when the transit department is stealing less from public transit than I am I’ll consider it, but I also feel that public transit should be free, especially if I’m already paying for it.

People pay to ride the train?

This is the reason that time is a flat circle that consists of only about 100 years.