They’re engineered to be as obnoxious and often deceptive as possible.
I don’t mind adverts that show what a product is and what it costs, but those ones apparently underperform compared to the flashy/loud/clickbaity shit that’s infested the internet and any other space that gives them a route to invade your field of view.
Ad blockers are a must now-a-days; any video that shoves that “and now a word from our sponsors!” shit in the middle of it gets a thumbs-down; and I’ll actively avoid products I see on billboards / physical adverts.
Republicans are gonna have to square their “law and order” worldview with voting for a CONVICTED FELON.
That’s not how republicans work. The shit they do is always about the cruelty. The “law and order” shit was only ever to cheer on enforcement on people they don’t like (dark skinned people, women, non-christians, etc).
You’ll drive yourself nuts trying to do things like point out hypocrisy on their ‘law and order’ or any of their other paper-thin dogmas because they’re all made to be bullshit in the first place.
The cruelty is the point. Once you start considering their actions through that lens, they become much more consistent and predictable.
An impeachment is just an investigation; if it doesn’t lead to a conviction (as his didn’t) it doesn’t mean shit. Agent Orange just got himself a felony conviction - what that means in terms of sentencing, idk - my hope is they throw the book at him and make him do some actual time. I doubt that’ll happen, cuz he’s Trump and always seems to find a way to weasel out of this shit… but then, he didn’t weasel out of this one, so who knows.
I’m interested in what having a felony conviction means in terms of political candidacy, which might require setting some new precedents, since afaik we’ve never had a felon run for president before.
In any case, this isn’t like those articles we’ve beein seeing for fucking YEARS exclaiming how he just took a major legal blow only for nothing to come of it - a felony conviction is a MAJOR leap forward, and gives me hope I haven’t felt in years that he’ll start facing some real consequences!
I mean, apparently that’s a lot to ask in today’s world, so your SO isn’t wrong, but having a kid for that purpose is ethically questionable, and cruel as fuck to the individual kid.
“Sorry lil Timmy, your world is absolutely FUCKED but you’ve been chosen as a bucket of water to throw at the wild fire… good luck!”
The idea of having a kid is just mean. Or at least whipping one up from scratch is - adopting and raising the kid to be a decent person is the best case scenario here, but that’s obviously a gargantuan undertaking that very few (absolute badass) people are willing and able to do.
He always supported Israel… I think the ‘until’ is in reference to Israel’s more recent and more blatant attack on Gaza - prior to that, Biden’s support for Israel wasn’t nearly as flagrant as it is now.
Like, no one would bat an eye if I told them I support my wife’s decisions, but if she started breaking into the local NICUs and stomping on people’s babies, my continued support for her decisions would be a tad sus. …especially if I regularly said “honey could you tone the baby-stomping down a bit?” as I handed her a new pair of baby-stomping boots.
I’m not a both-sides’er (unless I’m talking to a trumpanzee in an attempt to steer votes away from Agent Orange). My vote is going to Biden and I encourage anyone reading this to do the same, but our complicity in the genocide on Gaza is genuinely upsetting, partly because it’s complicity in a fucking genocide, and partly because this WILL cause voter disengagement and could hand that other dipshit the presidency on a silver platter.
The planet is on fire, the nazis are back, we’re taking leaps backwards in civil rights, genocides have become normalized, and the purchasing power of our labor has been hamstrung so many times that it’s a double amputee.
Who the fuck looks at that dumpster fire and thinks “This is a great environment for a child!”?