Always kept short and clean

In most instances I’d agree, but I’m sure that in America they’ll find people willing to stick by them in the promise of future riches when they (the rich cunts) have risen again

I have seen them in action. They’re not successful because they can do stuff. Most of them are practically useless, but their skill is in getting the best out of people

That’s actually not a bad thing. A leader (I’m going to use military as an example) doesn’t have to be the best marksman, the best at hand-to-hand, the best at getting a track back on a tank when it chucks one.

The reason they lead is because they are the best at getting their team to do what they need to do

I’m a natural sergeant.

I’m better at some things, not as good at others, but I get shit done and can understand the bigger picture, and also advise those above me with field experience when appropriate about what will actually work in the field

I recognise that those who are really high up the chain have talents

But psychopaths are different. They only rise in business because it doesn’t matter if their men don’t trust them

Oh, it’s definitely not

It’s superficially flashy, but it’s built on slavery and horrific abuse

It’s a “nice place” for people who are wilfully ignorant

I hope every single person who has, or ever will, buy a cybertruck a lifetime of misery and misfortune

May they stub their toe on every step for the rest of their life

There’s a reason why the civilised world sneers at 'Murica…

Betteridge’s law in action!

No

Because of this broken system, the real power is now in the hands of those who will do anything to keep it. People dying because of greed isn’t abhorrent to them. Nobody gets that rich without a disregard for anything other than gathering more.

The tipping point was passed a long, long time ago

It’s going to take a global catastrophe or something, one where money is proven to actually hold no value, where the rich starve just the same as the poor before anything will change

And even then, I’m not convinced.

I get it

My fiancée lives over there

Long-distance relationships are hard enough, but it’s worse knowing that she’s living in shitty, dangerous part of the world. We’ve been talking and I’ve heard gunfire in the background, and I absolutely hate the way her employer treats her, but there’s nothing she can do about at the moment

We’re working on getting her here. It’s a process, and it’s going to take time, but we’re making it happen

I get to see her again in a matter of weeks, and I cannot wait

I live in Tasmania, which is easier to get a visa to move to because it’s considered a part of regional Australia. There’s a desperate need for nurses, and life here is quite amazing (property is expensive though, but that’s true for all Australia)

I’ll vouch for you

Oh, I absolutely do

There are so many wonderful people in the US, but there are loads of lunatics, and an unfortunately large cohort who could have voted against it, but didn’t bother. They’re just as responsible

Australia

I’m glad to be a long way from 'Murica

My country just held an election where convervatism and populist bullshit were soundly defeated

The idiot who had his arse kicked tried playing from the Trump deck, and it was the single most stupid thing he could have done

The US isn’t unique, there are loads of shitty countries like Hungary and Argentina who have made stupid decisions too, but it’s definitely not the “whole world”, because contrary to popular opinion, the world is not America

Americans have been beaten down

I’ve never seen such learnt helplessness at a societal level before

Too little, too late

Hey, the entire Southern hemisphere would like to point out that we have always thought this

Here’s what to know:

Vaccines work, measles is a fucking awful disease and too many people in the world, but particularly America, are fucking stupid

Senility

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Because Texas is a dumb place and Musk won’t act unless he’s forced to

Whoops! Tennessee!

Autocorrect. My phone confused one stupid state for another stupid state

Congratulations on being a part of the problem

Constant pestering attacks of small and cheap drones at airports would be a massive disruption to Putin

I imagine that better military minds than mine have considered it, but given the cost of cheap drones and the money it would cost Russia, it seems like a relatively easy way to be a headache and cause problems with their international interests