OhWell [he/him]

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Cake day: September 29th, 2020

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  • The right is 100% going to win by election in 4 years unless they ROYALLY screw up. The dems are going to do absolutely nothing of material value over the next 4 years, and all the right has to do is get up there and hammer that home. Which they do anyways. Assuming the democrats DO actually accomplish anything, the right just has to get up there and talk about how that thing is communist and how it’s destroying America. Which they do anyways.

    So that leaves 2 options. Both of which result in dems losing:

    Option 1: We get another Trump like in 4-8 years, but this time they’re competent, and America collapses into fascism

    100% this. Yesterday proved just how easy it would be to pull off a right wing coup here in America. This felt like a test run. If Trump wasn’t so stupid and worried about his ego, he could’ve totally pulled this off. Those people yesterday had the backing of police and half of the GOP supporting them. Somewhere out there, there’s another fascist like Trump who is vowing not to make the same mistakes.

    Yesterday also proved how useless liberals are and I hope people now realize it when they go on and on about “radicalizing libs”. Amidst a coup, they’ll just get on Twitter and whine, moan and cry in the same smug, condescending way that they love. They’ll make ‘white privilege’ trend as a hash tag and try to explain away that what’s going on, totally isn’t the result of the system, and all we need to do is vote for another status quo loving neoliberal to get back to normal. Then sit there and wonder why the cops are protecting fascists and aren’t arresting them.




  • The 2008-2009 recession. I watched my parents nearly lose everything as the floor fell out from under their feet. Spent the remainder of my teens working to help them and later support them in my early 20s. Several years of adulthood wasted trying to make sure they could survive.

    When Obamacare passed, it hit me again when I was forced to buy insurance and looking over everything I was offered and suddenly realized it was a scam. The entire thing was a bail out for insurance companies. I could barely afford one plan and none of them covered dental. I will never forget going home, pulling up the actual bill online and reading it. I sat there for an hour thinking to myself; how the fuck is this supposed to help me or ANYONE who is poor? Only people being helped are insurance companies.

    I had a friend growing up who was able to travel the world with a church ministry. One thing he told me after we reached adulthood and it stuck with me in my mind. He traveled all over the world and said that he kept asking himself growing up; how come I see poor people everywhere I go? He left the church and started reading Marx and Stalin and I feel blessed I had him as something of a mentor to guide me.






  • These games have always been propaganda to recruit into the military. I have been playing Doom pretty much my whole life. It’s probably my favorite game of all time and a few years ago when talking about Doom with a friend, I realized something with how fucked FPS games have been since Call of Duty. My friend said “Doom is so great cause it puts you on Mars and you are blowing up demons and zombies. That’s better than murdering brown people overseas in some war simulation game”. I never thought of it like that and it hit me. Most early FPS games from the 90s like Doom, Quake, Turok and Duke Nukem 3D had you fighting demons, aliens, robots, zombies and in a more fantasy like setting. FPS games became military propaganda shit after 9/11.




  • California’s prison system is probably the worst in the entire country.

    They have completely segregated prisons by race and gang affiliation. Their prisons have always had a lot of inner politics with the gangs and inmates, cause the wardens and COs are notorious for playing them against one another with their yard politics and escalating violent tensions (this is also how drugs are often smuggled into prisons more often than not. With all their super tight security with visitors, it ain’t getting in from that. It’s COs and Wardens hustling). If there is anything I learned from Big Herc and his Fresh Out/Prison Talk videos, it’s that.

    Furthering on, they have built so many prisons in California that in the past 20 years, they’ve been moving the for-profit run ones out of state with California prisoners. These are the prisons built usually out in the middle of nowhere, in a de-industrialized rural small town somewhere in Utah or Nevada. The prison becomes the main source of a steady job in that local community and it beats having to work at a dollar store or McDonalds for shit wages, hence why a lot of people in these small towns will end up going into police academy and working to become a CO. It’s easier for them to get employed at for-profit prisons cause they’re ran like walmarts.

    And last but not least; the forced labor in California, indeed is as bad as a southern prison. They are probably worse than Louisiana when it comes to that.


  • They are definitely going to rehabilitate Trump and will start praising him for something, like they do Bush over his wars.

    “Yeah, I didn’t support him back then but Trump was really funny! And he said hateful stuff but at least he didn’t always follow up on it. Besides, he was right about calling the protesters looters and thugs, Biden agrees and that’s why it’s so great that he and Harris pushed to jail them indefinitely and push for life sentences”


  • It was more of a product of the disappointment in the middle of Obama’s first term.

    When that show came out, the Ron Paul craze was in full swing (there is a line somewhere in the show of a character just shitting all over people who were into Ron Paul’s movement) and it was also around the growth of the Tea Party. Occupy Wall Street also happened around this time too and ties into it. There was some serious anti-government sentiment growing in the US culturally at the time and it forced libs to admit that America really wasn’t all that great anymore, and who did they blame for it? Millenials for turning to the Occupy movement and being angry at the status quo.

    Obama’s first two years were wasted on him bailing out Wall St, banks and kicking off the housing crisis in the midst of the recession. The Dems wasted all their time reaching across the aisles with the GOP who flat out bullied them and this set the stage for the Tea Party’s huge wins in 2010 midterms.

    It’s forgotten in time now, but Obama’s first term was not really all that great as he is mythologized today (his entire presidency sucked, but his first term was different from the second for these reasons). His 2008 campaign was centered around this slogan of “yes we can” and you had the HOPE and CHANGE posters. The first thing he did was turn his back on the progressive grassroots campaigners that got him there to begin with and the disappointment was felt pretty early on when he bailed out Wall St and basically became the banks’ repo man when the housing crisis kicked off.

    In that famous clip from the show, the guy giving the speech about how America isn’t great anymore, words it around how the current young generation is some how at fault, and there was another clip of him going off ranting about millenials. Conservatives took this torch later on after Trump was elected, but it was liberals banging the drum in 2009-2012 about how young people were lazy and were more concerned about protesting than actually getting jobs and doing something with their lives. This whole deal with liberals frowning and mocking protesters goes back to the Obama years, they didn’t start plucking their nose at protesters recently.