Oh no!

Anyway

Hey, give the guy a break, cult leaders aren’t known for their grammar.

(Check OP’s username)

A rat done bit my sister Nell.

(with Whitey on the Moon)

Her face and arms began to swell.

(and Whitey’s on the Moon)

I can’t pay no doctor bill.

(but Whitey’s on the Moon)

Ten years from now I’ll be paying still

(while Whitey’s on the Moon)

I used to think this, but here’s the problem: new resources to extract mean absolutely fuck all under the current global paradigm.

There’s enough iron out there to make several tons of it available to every human in existence for whatever they need or want to do. Will that happen? No. It’s not profitable for the owner class to do that. Instead, they will fight amongst themselves until someone has an effective monopoly on asteroid mining, and then limit the supply so they can generate maximal profit (De Beers, anyone?)

We have the capability, right now, to feed everyone on Earth. To clothe everyone. To house everyone. We don’t. Any resources out there that we might find useful will be gated behind the same greedy, psychopathic group of leeches that currently control everything else.

The planet isn’t being destroyed because we had no choice. The planet is being destroyed so a bunch of MBAs could show off a nice graph at the quaterly meeting. It is very much delibrate. Any resource extraction in space will solely be done in that it is more profitable than doing it on Earth, climate be damned. We need to fix that problem before asteroid mining for the good of Earth and humanity is even an option.

This is a bit, right?

Too bad.

Really? That’s funny, I seem to remember the DNC canceling the primary last election. Huh. Odd for a party where, “the voters decide who makes up the party”.

Shooting drills

Empathy for others should be a legal requirement

That’s exactly how I curate my feed. Do you have any idea how many sports sublemmies my instance has? It’s the Midwest. It was a lot.

Lmaooo I will stick to turning down all the settings on my shitbox computer because apparently that’s the same experience hahah.

Bring back guilds.

I could go either way on this. Having a bunch of armed people and vehicles running around unfamiliar territory basically guarantees you’re gonna have accidents. Heck, people die during training in as controlled an environment as we can manage.

OTOH, that amount of accidents compared to only a few acknowledged combat losses is a bit suss.

King

Rattle 'em, boys!

But we can’t have healthcare. That’s too expensive.

Buddy, we’re at war. It’s just that only one side is fighting. Every homeless person dying of exposure is a murder. Every child dying in a drone strike is a murder. Every person in the Global South that dies of malnutrition and lack of healthcare is a murder.

Violence is already the answer, it’s just a matter of who’s wielding it.

They haven’t enslaved or genocided any cultural groups so far

This will last right up until all the right-wingers get pissed they’re being identified as teenagers based on their 5th grade writing level.

I’ve heard Element and Root talked about for those purposes. Haven’t tried them myself yet. My friend group talked about resurecting our long-dead Mumble server, but that’s a last-ditch option.