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Bryan Lefler posted a new article, <a target="_blank" href="/article/126184/shacknews-culture-25-years-of-shack-lols-and-memes">Shacknews culture - 25 years of Shack [lol]s and memes</a>

They better start believing it, because being unable to believe that these are your neighbors, your family, just regular people is a really big fucking part of the goddamn problem

Specifically mentioning getting only six hours of sleep and working 100 hours are huge red flags.

I know many of us are divided on Star Wars in these threads, but can we all agree that bringing back the Emperor was the dumbest fucking shit ever put to film?

The whole point of electing Joe Biden is so we don't need to have a thread.

I don't think you need to bring it up in a conversation.

This is the most America post ever.

It's astounding, mind blowing that you people put up with that shit. Utterly and truly mind blowing.

We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/

Trump came to power as the repudiation of the Republican establishment. But the conservative political class and the new leader soon reached an understanding. Whatever their differences on issues like trade and immigration, they shared a basic goal: to strip-mine public assets for the benefit of private interests. Republican politicians and donors who wanted government to do as little as possible for the common good could live happily with a regime that barely knew how to govern at all, and they made themselves Trump’s footmen.

Like a wanton boy throwing matches in a parched field, Trump began to immolate what was left of national civic life. He never even pretended to be president of the whole country, but pitted us against one another along lines of race, sex, religion, citizenship, education, region, and—every day of his presidency—political party. His main tool of governance was to lie. A third of the country locked itself in a hall of mirrors that it believed to be reality; a third drove itself mad with the effort to hold on to the idea of knowable truth; and a third gave up even trying.

shelter in place doesn’t mean “make other people assume the risk to get things you need to survive,” it means “don’t go out for bullshit you don’t need.”

That's some pretty decent activism on the creators behalf tbh.