I love the sources everyone is throwing at me. This is great, thank you!

This is going to be a deep dive, I appreciate the info!

I’m not a tankie/communist/socialist. In fact at this point, I’m afraid to ask for clarification.

Between my wife and I, we make pretty solid money. We own our home, we don’t live paycheck to paycheck, have good health insurance, and have solid retirement accounts.

I would not complain at all, if that shit burned to the ground omif it meant an end to this bullshit system in place today.

My wife and I also grew up poor as shit. My single Mom fed us with food stamps and government cheese.

I’ll gladly live that life again if it meant no more dragon hoarding billionaires using their money to dictate politics.

And the stock market is just another way for the top percent to continue to siphon wealth.

You misunderstand. I went to from the A71 to the 6. I am only recently on the 9.

No, they absolutely are not.

For example. Zohran Mamdani is a god damn patriot

I am glad you have had a better experience than me. I am pretty happy with Pixel now but I am going to try the Graphene route this weekend.

I appreciate your response.

It was constantly giving out mistaken SOS messages. It would lock up and I’d have to constantly reset.

The final straw was when I was travelling to a work site I had never been to before. It locked up with a static screen and refused to reset. I had to stop at a gas station, at 4am, actually talk to another person and buy a map.

It was slow, buggy, constantly trying to get me to use their Samsung store, .etc…

When I moved to Pixel, it gave me the iPhone experience where shit just worked. And it integrated more things for me, which was convenient at the time. (But now I know it is scraping the fuck out of everything I do/see/hear.)

I just upgraded to the 9 and assume it’s scraping every bit of data it can from me. I will do it this weekend.

Sorry, no way I am going back to Samsung. I had the A71 and it was a TERRIBLE smart phone. I switched to the Pixel 6 and it was night and day.

I just need to get off my ass and install Graphene.

Yes this is an example of capitalism and not free market.

It is why the system needs to be burned the fuck down.

Don’t get me wrong. The Iran - Contra affair was a terrible circumvention of U.S. law and North deserved to go to prison and Reagan should have been impeached.

However, this post is a mischaracterization of that event.

This was part of an overall plan to get American hostages released.

That being said, we sold arms to Iran, who was fighting Iraq (a U.S. ally at the time), and one of the intermediaries we used was fucking Israel.

Yup, Israel helped us sell arms to Iran. So Iran can turn around and use them against an ally.

North was then made a fall guy.

I was younger when this happened but I recall, at the time, it was characterized as we just sold them parts for their airplanes and defensive arms.

Man, we just can’t stop fucking our face with our own foot.

It blows me away how fucking easily my fellow countrymen are led by their god damned nose.

Closet fucking fascists, all of them, and too stupid to recognize simple fucking fallacies.

My life sucks, ooh it must be because an illegal committed a crime. Even though immigrants have a lower crime rate than our ever present white trash.

The patterns are so similar that it is kind of pointless to try and identify. All the damn different gopher snakes too.

Every freaking snake that isn’t a black snake, in Texas, seems to look like this.

Just treat them all as venomous, leave them alone, and go about your day.

There is a scene with implied sex, when Ilsa goes back to try and convince Rick to give her the letters of transit.

Fun fact: USN Aircraft Carriers have their own ICAO code.

Dude, how many stories of Muslim father’s that go fucking crazy over their daughter seeing an “infidel”, have you ignored to not understand that there is a real risk she could be under?

Ooh, more baseless claims of China’s technological advancement.

I’ll file this in the bullshit folder with the rest of their bullshit claims.

Google has gotten so fucking dumb. Literally incapable of performing the same function it could 4 months ago.

How the fuck am I supposed to trust Gemini!?

I am turning 50 this year and laying in bed next to a woman who just cheated on me again.

I wish so fucking hard I could turn back time.

I parked my car in the garage, rolled down my window and went to sleep. I was shocked/disappointed I woke up when the car was running out of gas.

It sucks so fucking hard that you love this person and you have given so much, but then you realize they don’t feel the same about you and then realize you don’t even know who you are anymore.

Are you even someone without this person?

Take it day by day. You need to find out who you are again.

I’m sorry you don’t have support. No one to validate how you feel, help you heal.

Please stay strong. Please keep looking.

Please find yourself again.