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Eight years of a relatively respectable and progressive Obama presidency was still Americans getting fucked in the ass. Then we got Trump, and the lubrication ran out. So now everyone is screaming, "No, no! Please! You can fuck me in the ass, just get the lube again!"

I dont care for American politics, and from most americans I have spoken to, they dont either

Not enough to vote when it matters. And we wonder why we keep getting stuck with administrations that either a) can't stop the other party from fucking up the country or b) fuck up the country.

[Moderate Democrats Suggest Working with Coronavirus to Find Common Ground]

Moderate Democrats Suggest Working with Coronavirus to Find Common Ground

https://thehardtimes.net/culture/moderate-democrats-suggest-working-with-coronavirus-to-find-common-ground

"It's our priority to find a solution everyone is happy with," revealed Sen. Chuck Schumer. "Nancy [Pelosi] and I have been meeting with the Coronavirus to try to work out a plan that both saves lives and kills people. We can't afford to be partisan or idealistic, and we have to be willing to make concessions. If that means giving up everything we want, so be it."

Presidential hopeful Joe Biden has been meeting with a team of scientific and medical specialists in an effort to strengthen the Coronavirus' chances politically.

I can't wait for four years of a Biden presidency to get steamrolled by an inexplicably still-Republican-controlled congress. I wasn't "Blue No Matter Who" during the primaries because I think it's fucking retarded to show your poker hand before all bets are in, but obviously I'll wind up voting for him because he's Literally Someone Other Than Trump™.

And I say four years because I have a feeling that somewhere around year three he'll forget that he's president and start telling everyone that Obama will handle everything.

you know, I haven't actually seen Road Warrior -- my impression is that it's set in contemporary Australia.

Mad Max is pre-apocalypse, when society is falling apart. The Road Warrior takes place after they finally drop the bombs. It's the best movie in the series, although I love Beyond Thunderdome almost as much (and in some ways maybe even a little more). But TRW is basically the perfect Mad Max film.

I can imagine a sci-fi genre (which probably already exists) in which the world is ending, but not uniformly, and not in a big dramatic crescendo. The world doesn't end due to wars or bombs or aliens or a big comet or anything... it's ending slowly, slowly being strangled by bureaucracy and reliance on systems that no longer function, or have long stoppages.

Like, picture Mad Max, but 7-11 is still open.

This is literally the very first mission in Shadowrun. It's called Food Fight, and it takes place as a random encounter with punks robbing a Stuffer Shack.

The Sixth World of Shadowrun is essentially what you describe. It's society still functioning in a quasi-post-apocalyptic dystopia. Corporations have become sovereign, and the story is about those who fall through the cracks of the system. Born without system identification numbers, they are the SINless. Desperate for work, they sometimes wind up becoming disposable errand-boys-and-girls for the very corps they can't otherwise be wage-slaves for.

It's one of my favorite things of ever.

Hypernormality. Truly pulling the wool over our own eyes. The map becomes the territory.

We're all engaged in a collective fiction, anyway. Probably always have been. The Noosphere can be so... hypothetical.

Toot toot!

The 9th is a Saudi Arabian posing as a conservative, and the 10th is a Russian posing as a liberal.

Two-thirds of those are double-agents for the CIA. Half of those are triple-agents for MI5.

The bartender says, "Why the long face?"

You're more like this pizza cutter, methinks.

I'm still rolling in dough.

Help people keep hijacking my posts you are all big meanies

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bwahaha I get so many replies, I must be teh popularist.

I see your assumption of mutual exclusivity and raise you a completely unrelated picture of Van Williams smiling and shirtlessly steering a ship.

Doesn't say much for the quality of your threads then if they fail to meet even our low standards for entertainment.

That must be why my posts get so many comments.

I'm mailing my whole life in.

When the X-Files was on TV, that commercial played every 9 minutes. I don't know why it's so burned into my brain. If I hear any one of those songs, the rest of them all fight their way in the door.

I still daymare about Sally Struthers telling me I can get my degree.

I'm guessing the name discord is meant to be ironic