It's really fucking common in the internet wild. It's even common offline.

"Just pack up your entire life and move out of here if you don't like it here. No one is holding a gun to your head to stay." smuglord

Oh, I did, but it took years of planning, preparation, savings, and an early retirement with the penalties that entailed. There was no gun, but I couldn't whisk myself out of Bazinga Land in CA any faster than I could sell a flooded house to Aquaman.

That's it. That's the post. No one held a gun to my head to post this, but I did it anyway.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    1 month ago

    This is how the right gets STEMLords laid.

    This is also how domestically violent grillman types maintained their abusive and toxic family arrangements for decades without challenge.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        1 month ago

        It's the rock-solid spiritual core of the MAGA movement, I nonjokingly believe: monsters that feel their cozy little monster lairs feeling vaguely threatened by the possibility of change. grill-broke