No no no. That’s a typo. Hexs picnicing. He’s spread a table cloth on some grass and is now eating large amounts of food by himself. He brought a bucket of big macs.

Me three!

Really thought you were going in a whole new direction with that.

It might be. His attention span is like a gnat.

Remember when he wanted to bomb Ohio in 2017? Most people don’t. He probably doesn’t. He sent 1 tweet, that if any other president said that would be all that president would ever be known for. Here, it doesn’t even crack the top 1000 list of craziest things he’s been part of.

Nobody I know even remembers that.

I’m 42. Which means I’m part of this very specific micro-generation known as Xenials. It’s not quite as cool as the X-Men, but it kinda sounds like we could be.

Anyways, it also means that I’m part of the last generation that did atomic bomb drills in elementary school.

I remember being 6 years old, and hiding under a desk, with my fingers interlocked behind my head, on my knees, nose touching the floor.

We had these drills for a few years even after 1990. By 1994 we seemed to have stopped. Not sure if thats just because I started going to middle school, or if it was because the adults realized that 1994 was not exactly a threat for Russia to nuke us. And the Soviet Union didn’t exist anymore.

Anyways, I can remember asking my teacher in the 80s when I was still in 1st grade, I said “Why are we doing this?” And she said “To be prepared to survive atomic fallout”.

I’m not sure if it was her policy, or the schools policy, but they never said “bomb”. It was always “atomic fallout”.

Well my dad loved watching the History Channel. And back then EVERY week was nazis week. So they’d inevitably aleays end with the Japanese side of WWII. So I knew all about the nuclear bomb.

So when my teacher told me I was on the floor, protecting my head, squished down in an uncomfortable position, I asked “Well if we’re preparing for the atomic bomb…why are we doing it on the 6th floor just a few feet away from windows? Shouldn’t we be in the cafeteria? I don’t even think that would save us, but it’s better than being here if the entire city is being blown up.”

For reference, our cafeteria was in the basement, and built in the 1950s as a nuclear fallout shelter. The walls were solid concrete. We were 20 feet underground. No windows. Big open floorplan that fit the whole school of 900+ students. Plus it had lunch tables we could hide under. Which were waaaaay stronger then our student desks.

So when I asked why we weren’t in the cafeteria, I got told “Ok, fine. Pretend it’s a tornado drill. It’s the same exercise.”

To which I replied “Well with a tornado, we should STILL be in the cafeteria. Didn’t you see Wizard of Oz? Dorathy got pulled away because she wasn’t underground in the bunker!”

At this point I think she was just getting upset that I was using critical thinking instead of blindly following. So she snapped “FINE! JUST PRETEND IT’S A FIRE DRILL!!!”

To which I asked “In a fire, shouldn’t we all leave the burning building and go outside?”

To which she yelled “GO TO THE PRINCIPALS OFFICE!”

Problem is, I didn’t understand what I was doing there, and she sent me to go alone. So when I got to the principals office, she wasn’t even in her office. So when I spoke to her secretary, she asked me “What’s your business with Mrs Loraine?” I just said “I don’t know. I think I’m either supposed to hide under her desk, or pretend her office is on fire. I’m not sure which one we’re doing yet.”

To which she told me, I was being disruptive and rude. A claim I still deny to this day. I was told to see the principal about our drills. I wasn’t told what else to do. I simply showed up, and provided the information I had available at the time. Not my fault teachers and principals and offices and whomever else don’t communicate, and then get frustrated by being outsmarted by a 6 year old boy.

See boomers? This is why no one likes you, and the whole world is just waiting for you to die and free up all that housing.

Careful. You might find a bunch of linux users pretending to be windows xp users if you’re just offering up free dom services.

Tell your friend to switch…to Windows 3.1!

Israel is the only country even marginally close enough to be mistaken for the target.

And they would know we’re not going to fire upon them. We’re apperently sucking their dick politically.

None of that would make sense for any of those countries to think it’s aimed at them.

Let me put it in baseball terms. You’re looking at an infield pop fly, and worried that the outfielders might catch it. Or in the case of Russia, a fan in the upper bowl of the bleachers. The trajectory doesn’t line up for that to make sense.

MAYBE Israel, but again, they know they’re safe from us.

Iran has no nukes.

War agsinst a non-nuclear state onlu needs 2 things to be quick.

1. A shitload of nukes

2. Someone in charge of those nukes who has no morals or empathy.

At this point, the only thing making the war take more than a day, is the fact that somehow trump thought better of dropping 4,000 nukes spread out over the entirety of Iran. They’d probably call it something like “Operation Scorched Earth”.

Look. Trump has gone bankrupt THREE TIMES from owning casinos.

The man clearly has no idea how gambling works.

Haaaaaaang on.

Are you saykng that Iran has been supplying Russia with drones, and now they’ll be keeping them to use against the USA, for the explicit purpose of being destroyed?

So, wouldn’t this mean Russia loses their supply? So wouldn’t that mean it’s actually in Zelenskyys best interest to NOT help the USA?

If USA ends their war quickly, Iran starts supplying Russia again with drones. But until that happens, wouldn’t Ukraine have an easier time in their own war?

That is absolutely what has BEEN happening!

All throughout the 2010s there was a battle for net neutrality. We lost that fight.

Then they put in the scanners for TSA that take full body nude photos whenever you fly. You can “opt out”, but they intentionally make it a hassle, and make it feel like YOU’RE the asshole for not wanting yourprivacy invaded like that.

Then all the appliances in your home started getting smart, so the internet was slowly becoming less of a luxery, and more of a requirement. Let an entire generation grow up without knowing a world without internet.

Then comes the tracking. We’re entering this phase now.

And eventually you’ll be isolated from society if you don’t consent to being tracked.

I have never had a facebook account. Yet facebook knows my name, my face, my phone number, my address. All of this was never consented by me. You know who did consent to it? My mom. She put me in her contacts list on her phone. She willingly entered all that info, uploaded a photo, and saved it to her phones contacts. Then she downloaded the facebook app. Which promptly asked her if she’d like to import her contacts list into her facebook contacts.

And it’s true that officially facebook isn’t technically part of the government. However, these mega corporations are all in bed with the government. Whatever they want, under this corrupt fascist government, it’s theirs for the taking. Nothing a little bribe can’t solve.

And now you got ICE out on the streets, downloading databases of who they want to oppress, where they live, what they look like.

It’s ALL connected. You are a frog slowly boiling. You don’t think the water is hot because you keep getting used to the tempature increases.

Day 1: Age declaration laws.

Then the public gets used to it. It becomes the norm.

Day 30: Age verification digital ID laws.

“But I don’t have anything to hide!”

Society gets used to it.

Day 60: Always on live digital monitoring stream

“Well I’M not doing anything wrong, and it’s to protect children”

Day 90: Always live camera video/audio feed inside your house.

“Well I don’t have anything to hide! And it’s to help find child predators.”

Ect ect ect ect ect.

The thing to remember here is, they wouldn’t bypass child protection COPPA laws to install age verification if it really was meant to protect children.

Also, YOU don’t get to decide if you have nothing to worry about. YOU don’t get to decide if you’ve done nothing wrong. That’s for the fascists to decide. You won’t know until it’s too late.

Would the Trump administration lie?

Hmmmmmmmm…maybe.

…you want us to get together and moan with each other? Buddy! I didn’t know this was that kind of app!

looks around at a world run by pedophiles, fascists, and abusers

…yeah, but is that really the worst idea?

They all get nukes.

nukes EtnaAtsume

Here’s what I think the world needs.

Every citizen in every country gets 10 atomic bombs.

Ok so you falsely arrest this man. You don’t release him now, because he’ll just go get his atomic bombs.

But now his brother or his wife, or whomever, ALSO has atomic bombs. And they demand his release or else.

So NOW whenever anyone tries to do anything, they have to think. Will this make them use an atomic bomb?

And suddenly, police are a lot more careful. Corporations switch their gosls from profit, to citizen utopia. Can’t make anyone mad ever.

And in a strange way, I find that to be far more peaceful. Nobody is an asshole or a bully anymore, because we’ll ALL be blown up if one person snaps.

Maybe others are afraid of MAD. I was born into it. Raised in an environment where they say the russians could bomb us at anytime, and almost did multiple times.

I was raised to have nuclear bomb drills where they sound a siren, and thousznds of kids rushed into underground bunkers. We had fire drills, and tornado drills, and atomic bomb drills.

I imagine the kids who are like 20 today, are almost immune to fear of public shootings, because they grew up in the school shooting drill days. These kids could walk into a warzone, and dodge bullets like NEO. But nobody would even shoot a gun if anyone anywhere could nuke you.