Miles O'Brien

This is the shit you would read on /b/ at 2am on a Thursday in 2007 while two users have what they think is a “deep” conversation in the middle of one-handed browsing.

“So bow to her if you like, bow to the queen of slime, the queen of filth, the queen of putrescence. Boo! BOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Still fits here, tbh

Honestly even if I liked something, telling me not to boo it will make me want to boo it.

BOOO!

🤮 What a fucking terrible day for eyes.

Still every day I hear “it’s not all black and white we can’t act rashly” shut the fuck up cletus you’re just a brain-dead tongue happily licking the shit off MAGAs boot.

Lol American here and that’s all anyone around me was talking about yesterday.

Hmm I was gonna bring my safety glasses to do science, but I don’t have a poster telling me if I should or not.

If only there were some form of vaguely threatening poster and woman named Carol to better instruct people!

But it also does the dishes without using as much water as you do.

I’m starting to believe that the pizza gate stuff, QAnon, and the “trans are groomers” rhetoric were all planted in public just to muddy the waters around Epstein; to confuse people.

… I’m just insanely disappointed in the united states as a whole, because I don’t understand how anyone can be “confused” here, and yet I personally know people (and believe we all know someone) this describes perfectly.

Actually I don’t have anymore at all. I’ve unfollowed and ignored pretty much everyone in my life over the last few years. It does suck to not have any IRL friends

Ugh, same. The few that didn’t just drift apart over time showed their true colors over the years, all the way back to marriage equlity. Then there was the first trump term, the George Floyd protests, Ukraine, Palestine, second term, and now all of this…

I knew I grew up in a red state surrounded by cornfields and expected some to have differing opinions on hard-cutoff issues, but I didn’t expect the people who were seeing the same things I was to straight up deny reality.

And since I’ve become more withdrawn in recent years, I’m basically only friends with whoever my wife is friends with and that’s about it. I don’t have what I would call “real” friends anymore.

As everyone should.

Nobody should ever be looking at the 2nd Ammendment and think to themselves “oh god I just can’t wait, please lemme do it now”

It should always be “please don’t make me do this”, while preparing to do this.

The sad truth is a lot of religious people believe that the end times won’t come unless the earth isn’t livable anymore.

A even LARGER group of religious simply think their sky person will give them a new earth that’s perfect so why bother protecting this one.

They and their supporters are complicit in the murder of the planet at best, and are trashing everything on purpose, trying to claw back any and every support of things that can make it a better place.

“Freeing slaves just isn’t realistic. How about letting them out for fresh air first? How about a 3/5 compromise? Ridiculous”

Too Dumb to Be a Cop

That’s unpossible.

Gotta shift those goalposts.

I’m sure if we ever manage to organize a national, indefinite strike, there will still be people like this saying it’s not real action so it’s irrelevant.

Some people won’t be happy until they see bodies of dead Americans in a bloody civil war, but they just don’t have the courage to come out and say it.

“but whatabout…”

It’s a goal if you’re so fucking disgustingly rich you can buy a private island and haven’t seen the poors since your office was close enough to them you could faintly make out a small dot.

Because you’ll have enough wealth to survive the shit storm, and then there’s nothing those dirty plebians can do to stop you from basically deciding how things run from now on in your little corner.

I’m making an assumption here that you aren’t disgustingly rich and therefore the thought of “fuck 8 billion other people if I get mine” didn’t come naturally to you.

I’m sure that England has been glad to be rid of us for quite some time. We haven’t been very good allies in my lifetime, let alone before that.

I’m also equally sure plenty of Americans today would rather be somewhere in the UK.

Nationalists will attack anyone who doesn’t hold their exact narrow worldview from their narrowly defined area, regardless of which nationality they hold.

American nationalists are just called “republicans” (although plenty of democrats could be considered nationalists, it’s a bit of a “not all squares/rectangles” situation)

My parents are definitely in the “resist status-quo change” group, but I would argue they do understand “the cause” at least when it comes to American politics. They’re vocally against fascism in private, but any sort of resistance is illegal and therefore wrong. And it’s too bad these politicians are doing fascism, because they’re supposed to be good God-fearing types who just want abortion to stop.

Without an ounce of thought behind it, my mother will say medically necessary abortions should be allowed, and vote for someone who loudly tells everyone they won’t allow any at all. Will say ICE shouldn’t be executing people, but will happily support funding for them. Doesn’t like that the US keeps putting its military boot into other countries’ doors, but still says “support our troops”

I don’t get the fascination with sports either, but I get emotional about the stories in video games. I imagine someone who loves sports but doesn’t care for video games might view my tears over pixels as pathetic. My outrage at imginary injustice from a judgemental npc as ridiculous.

I have all these feelings for random collections of pixels on a screen. They can have their feelings for random groups of people.

I have to stop myself from mocking my brother in law for yelling at his TV on apparently bad plays, because I definitely have yelled at my screen before over a death, or plot twist.

Next they’ll ask why red barrels explode when you shoot them…