I remember when that was Russia’s and the US’s job. They’re taking our job!

They are going to tear it down and turn the remodel into a grift machine. I’ll be surprised if it ever reopens in his lifetime.

The grift is so bad that we won’t need to demolish anything to erase Trump. He will have torn down everything in order to rebuild it in his own image. Rebuilds that will never happen. He will leave craters everywhere for us to rebuild in his wake.

Can’t at this time but much later today.

That is, indeed, the one where you fell in love with the Pixies.

I used to think it was a good movie. But kinda dumb. But then something happened. My girlfriend would go to bed hours before I did[0]. For some reason when she did Fight Club was always on. It took me months to realize that this wasn’t an accident. She knew that I would be busy on the computer and never change the channel.

She, and others, always wanted me to start a cult. She was trying to turn me into Tyler Durden. I figured it out. She admitted it. And she kept doing it. Turns out that it’s not a good movie. It’s a great movie. Pacing, story telling, visuals, flips, surprises, foreshadowing, acting etc. On the level with Requiem for a Dream or Trainspotting[1].

Anyway, if you haven’t seen it recently it is definitely worth a revisit.

A drawing I did a little while ago for Inktober.

[0] this is a constant in my life.
[1] a double feature that will mess you up.

Company policy

Ask a Trump supporter why they want higher property taxes.

It was the one time my 8th grade civics/history teacher made a note that everything we are studying was the past but this one event is happening right now. He said that just a day or three before the massacre started.

The people there experienced it first hand. I experienced it on an 12 hour delay and the safety of not being there. You are experiencing it decades removed in the context of history already done before you were even born.

One day we will have to explain to kids the small differences between Baghdad Bob and Karoline Leavitt.

Okay, I was getting the vibe that you were denying that there was even a massacre to be talking about.

One YouTube video of many. The last 25 minutes or so should give you some ideas. The picture from 1h11m is one that is burned into my head from back in the day.

Sorry but to continue I need to do a vibes check. How many people do you think were killed at the 1989 Tiananmen Square event?

Also, and this is just curiosity, were you alive at the time and able to watch the reports unfold in real time?

It’s an issue of relevance. I know he climbed on top and walked with some other people off to the left and was never seen again. That’s irrelevant to the subject though. If he had just complied he would have never been there to create that iconic image. He certainly wouldn’t have climbed on top. We also know that while he may have vanished from history that street would later be covered in the bodies of others who were crushed by tanks and shot by their own nation.

It’s not ignorance. It’s taking in the whole situation.

Good for you.

“…long enough to become the villain.”

I’m kinda mixed on this. Girl boss flex but also a complete grab at more power.

Then we shall have to investigate the DoJ.

I miss it. SLRN and proper score file made it the best information tool on the internet back in the day.

It is impossible to convince a stupid person that you aren’t stupid. It’s built into being stupid and a key difference between stupid and ignorant.

That’s what Usenet was.

All demonstrations in support of an existing government are always peaceful. The government doesn’t provoke them into violence.

But would we just be fighting Denmark or would we end up fighting NATO. Not including former USA NATO member aircraft that’s something more than 10,000 combat aircraft. Which changes things a bit.

I’m fine with the topic of Tiannamen Square but that looked like a copypasta that didn’t address the compliance topic. They had something they needed to say and dropped it in with no attempt actually tie it to this post instead of TS in general.