Stay at home, or don't I guess. We're not your parents.
This No Fuck's Giving, what is one thing you don't give a single fuck about?
Physically I'll be alone on Thanksgiving, though I'll be video chatting with family and will be eating food we mailed each other. It's a weird time. We're doing our best.
America is a fuck but I'm glad chapo chat is around. Fuck it dude I'm saying it: y'all are okay in my book.
roommates family is doing a 40 person get together for thanksgiving in a separate state :doomer: at least got my roommate to come up with a work excuse so she wouldn't have to attend.
I honestly can't believe I'm thankful for my parents only having direct family this year. I expected so much worse
My cousin just buried his stepfather who died from covid this week, and today he is hosting a thanksgiving for at least 20 people -- some who live in nursing homes.
Mormonism...
It all but guarantees an excuse to get together next year for a funeral.
The Macy’s parade is just an extremely dumb capitalist equivalent to the May Day parades in the USSR
Socialist May Day parades were/are gigabased. May Day is really big in Cuba and they have speeches, music, and marches with over a million people every year. look at this shit
Reminds me of Solemani's funeral with CIA redditors saying that the million plus crowd was forced to attend.
If you all don't have anything else to do the Thanksgiving parade is hilariously poorly produced and weirder this year than normal.
Edit: it's honestly like a bad dystopian movie. Like all the people who are normally there were raptured away and those who stayed are forced to perform this awful parade for no one.
The entire event this year has the same energy as the last time the Soviet anthem was played at an army parade in 1990
Capped off by the fact that Macy's will almost certainly go bankrupt within a year or two, IMO. Department stores were already struggling big time before COVID, don't see how they'll survive this. The subtext is all too blatant now.
And it's all just so obviously corporate. There's nothing fun about it. I watched it for only a few minutes and all I saw was a giant Boss Baby balloon, the fucking Jolly Green Giant (mascot for crappy canned veggies), and some bullshit float with a massive "New York Life" (life insurance) logo slapped on it. And of course the icon of American Capitalism himself, Ronald McDonald.
"Authoritarian" regimes get to have cool parades of infantry, anti-aircraft systems, nuclear warheads and tanks. The US gets parades of donut scarfing cops on Harly Davidson Fatboys, Ronald McDonald balloons, department stores, and cultural appropriation dialed up to 11 as if to pretend US hegemony is a genuinely intersectional coalition of the willing.
Isn't the parade a huge waste of helium too?
A non-renewable gas essential for many medical services.
you've got my attention on helium economy
does helium decay? where do they get it in the first place lmao? can't they just get it back outta the air?
Helium doesn't decay, but it does rise to the top of the atmosphere, and then slowly escapes into space.
It mostly comes from radioactive decay in the earth. An alpha particle is a helium nucleus, so anything that alpha decays is slowly making more helium. I think we get a lot of our supply as a side product of natural gas extraction.
I was watching the spits verizon stream and they played shitty generic jingle music instead of the music from the performances. It's an absolute trainwreck. not to mention how super depressing it is too
Sharing this because it truly disgusted me. This is a short video reporting on a police brutality event that happened last Saturday in France.
It's in French, but basically:
- A music producer is in the street in front of his recording studio. He's a black man. He sees a cop car in the street and doesn't have his mask on, so he immediately goes inside his recording studio.
- The cops saw him; they stop the car, and move inside the recording studio (which they had absolutely no rights to do without the French equivalent of a warrant).
- They start beating the producer senseless, totally unprovoked. He does not fight back (which must've taken some willpower). All along, they're calling him a "dirty <n-word>".
- He does shout for help, and some young people come up from the basement to see what's happening. At least one of them is a minor.
- The cops go outside the recording studio and call for reinforcements.
- At least 20 additional cops arrive; they break the glass of the recording studio and throw a tear gas grenade inside (extremely dangerous and of course widely illegal). They unholster their guns and order the producer to come out.
- He comes out, gets beaten again in the street. Meanwhile some of the cops go fetch the other young people inside and start beating them senseless too.
- At this point one of the cops in the street sees that a neighbour is filming it all with a phone and shouts "camera". They stop beating them as a result.
- They bring them to jail in their precinct. The parents of the one that is a minor are not told about this. The producer is left bleeding for 48 hours without seeing a doctor (also extremely illegal). They're all released after 48 hours.
- All the cops lie openly on their reports. Except it turns out, the music producer had a camera inside the studio and they didn't realize that. The producer is therefore declared completely innocent of any wrongdoing based on the footage. Were it not for that camera, he would've been sentenced to jail.
- The police headquarters announce, a few days after, that they now have absolutely no record of the whole incident. So 23 cops went there and there's now no trace of it.
This all comes a few days after a new terrible law giving police much more powers and preventing people from filming them easily. I'm fucking disgusted - though not surprised.
Just had surgery #8 today. Person doing my wound care says it looks like I got shot. Doctor said I can't carry more than 10lbs for a month but carrying heavy things is literally in my job description. Probably gonna lose my job or risk messing up my health further. Gotta love capitalism. Hope y'all have a decent and safe thanksgiving.
I'm a seasonal employee so I don't think that applies to me. By the time the month is over, the season is pretty much over. I'm pretty sure they'd keep me if it could make it through the season though... thanks comrade!
Amazing that some people will literally die because they wanted to get a door buster deal on a cheap tv that's not actually marked down.
one cool thing about my family being mostly czech is we dont give a fuck about thanksgiving and just use the free vacation time to chill and eat traditional czech dishes while being bewildered that people eat turkey
turkey sucks so much. so dry bland and stringy, not fit for human consumption
If brined and sauced properly it is fine for about a half hour after cooking.
After that you have to add so much fat to it, it is not worth it.
Same thing happened to some Instagram van lifers who were in Morocco. Took the state departments "rescue flight" back to the states cause there were two confirmed cases in the country.
I can't stop looking at TheDonald.Win. I need to be pulled away. It's off the charts levels of cope never seen before in the history of mankind. I wonder if they're still going to be pretend Trump is President in March.
sidney powell 'dropped the kraken' like 10 minutes ago
One highlight from the reaction so far:
–Olivepw 14 points 20 minutes ago +14 / -0 What if the typos are on purpose. The msm won't cover this lawsuit but maybe they will by criticizing the typos
permalink save report block reply –spinometer 4 points 12 minutes ago +5 / -1 figure out which letters are involved in the typos and see if they spell something interesting
q always says thay misspellings are important. maybe sidney follows the same rule.
parent permalink save report block reply –BoilingEnema 7 points 16 minutes ago +7 / -0 More like a small legal team that probably hasn't slept much in the last three weeks and is working on reviewing thousands of documents and statements while trying to throw >multiple lawsuits together at the same time made a small error.
parent permalink save report block reply –quell 2 points 12 minutes ago +2 / -0 "Distroict" is underlined by red in nearly any word processor app, though.
parent permalink save report block reply –GulagCheerSquad 1 point 7 minutes ago +1 / -0 Is it tho if in all caps?
Lmao, "Are the people we worship actually just grifters who are phoning it in at this point? Nah, there's gotta be some deeper meaning behind their fuckups."
nah, I wish tho it's a good one, there's a few comments I see on there that could be comrades trolling
i do not give a single fuck about how my obese cat is pretending to be hungry
melons aren't gourds, gourds are New World plants and melons are from West Africa
wildly innaccurate. melons are all gourds but not all gourds are melons
unironically thankful that there's a bunch of online lefties, you are all pretty cool, ngl
How do people in America have any right to call life in the USSR soulless
