We’d have to spend a fortune on defense.

We’d suffer massive losses from being cut off from interstate trade agreements.

We’d have to deal with massive immigration issues.

We’d probably get our shit pushed in from all the federal military bases within the state.

I think it’s waaaay easier to just oust the current leadership and remove all the Congress members that aided and abetted.

** record scratch noises **

See the really big feet and the long beaks?

These are baby Rails:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rail+chicks&t=fpas&ia=images&iax=images

How does it work? Never heard of it.

Not should anyone, honestly. They are a travesty.

To clarify, my comment specifically is about superficial movie reviews, critiques, & recommendations.

Criticism within the context of a movie discussion, presuming everyone involved actually engaged with the movie, is part of healthy dialogue & idea exchange.

I’ve had my point of view changed plenty within such discussions, and brain dead people do not usually bother to participate in such forums so it’s a win-win.

I think blatant cash grabs are fair game for harsh criticism.

Movies are made to tell stories that the directors and the producers feel inspired to tell. And unless they are a Marvel or DC movie, they aren’t always meant to appeal to every audience member, and it’s childish to think that movies should always cater to your every whim-- especially when people are so goddamn quick to judge things others worked really hard on so goddamn harshly.

And before the “but mah money, tho!” shit-- that’s fucking capitalism, and not unique to movies.

Not every movie is going to be to your taste, and that’s cool. What’s not cool is shitting on a movie just because you didn’t like it or it didn’t make sense to you.

Reviews are meant to help you choose which movies you want to bother watching. Using the terms in the green column is helpful in giving the reader a sense of what to expect from a movie while avoiding a negative personal impression.

The red column is very reflective of modern online critiques:

Harsh. Impulsive. Thoughtless. Black & white.

Often made without fully engaging with whatever is being critiqued:

“I haven’t watched the movie, but based on the trailer I bet it’s trash.”

“I hate Darren Aronofsky movies because they don’t explain what is happening and they’re stupid.”

“I heard this movie was great, but I watched it and it sucked. Therefore, everyone else is wrong.”

It’s nuanced due to the nature of the work, so the gravity of the situation would only really stand out to those in the public accounting industry.

For example, we provided payroll services for dozens of construction companies in the area receiving federal grant money, and that payroll could not be completed in time without me.

Before I created the database, client contacts, client billing, project status, and client login credentials to reporting portals & financial institutions were being tracked in an unsecured Excel spreadsheet (as is tradition). I built a database in MS Access and it was pretty straightforward. The owner ended up hiring his nephew who was studying CS, but since he didn’t have much experience or an accounting background, he was of little help.

There was further worsening as my colleagues started leaving for other opportunities, whom he replaced with questionable people until the firm was sold about a year or two later.

We used to refer to him as detestable Michael Scott, as he was always blundering and blaming others for problems he caused.

Lol, I worked for one these assholes once. He bought the small public accounting firm I started my career at.

He loved to go on and on about “business is a warzone, you must be ruthless” bullshit, liked to make it really hard to get any PTO approved or obtain new hires.

Before he came along, I had built an entire database for that business even though my job role did not require it, simply because I got tired of doing things the stupid way and the previous owner made it worth my while.

One day, the asshole new owner pissed me off when I asked for time off to go camping and denied it citing business first, so I simply resigned on the spot and took off to the mountains. He was like “you can’t fault me for putting the business first” and I was like “whatevs, I’m putting myself first”.

Stupid motherfucker called me all week, dozens of times each day, because nobody but me knew how the fuck you build and maintain a database.

My coworkers, who are still my friends to this very day ten years later because they are awesome, regaled me with tales of the clusterfuck that ensued after my departure. Turns out, it’s really hard to find someone with an accounting and a computer science degree.

I still cackle to this day.

I just hiss as I retreat under the bed.

Please read the introduction of this book. This book helped me a lot, and I think it could help you as well:

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Dang ol’ Wallace over here. 😂

Not sure why you got downvoted, this is a space where reasonable questions should be encouraged.

Here ya go, my dude:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58102252

Tell ya partner to slack and steal as much time as possible from his employer, make careless mistakes, and cost the operation valuable time and money.

That’s how ya fight capitalism: by making it unprofitable.

Worried about getting fired?

The truth is that boomers are dying or retiring, and there’s not enough people out there to do the work.

Hiring and training new people costs a lot of money, and a new hire would want a salary just as high as a current employee, if not higher, due to inflation.

Source: I work in public accounting. The rich do nothing but steal from the working class 24/7.

“Tell me you don’t know what a fascist is without saying you don’t know what a fascist is” speed run challenge.

1. Adobe for being greedy fascists.
2. Nestle for committing crimes against humanity.
3. Starbucks for being union busters.
4. Walmart for being union busters and exploiters.
5. Coca-Cola for being the biggest plastic polluter in the world.
6. SC Johnson for knowingly selling asbestos tainted products to unsuspecting consumers.
7. Oatly for suing a small family business that also made oat milk.
8. Airbnb for driving the housing crisis that plagues the entire world.
9. Chevron for selling oil stolen from Palestinians.
10. Meta for being fucking fascists.
11. Nike for using sweat shops to make products.
12. Uber for exploiting drivers and interfering with public transit development.
13. Whole Foods for being union busters, same as their parent company, Amazon.
14. Apple for using exploitative labor practices overseas where they escape accountability.
15. Wells Fargo for rearranging the order of transactions in order to cause overdraft fees.

I could go on and on…

Trader Joe’s for being fascist union busters. Amazon for being fascist union busters. Target for being fascist hypocrites. Chick-fil-A for being homophobic fascists. Google for being fascists. Microsoft for being fascists.

That’s the one, thank you!

Oh I saw a great quote about this, but I can’t remember who it was. It said something like:

Orwell worried about a future of censorship and thought control, but [???] worried instead of a future where we have every distraction we could ever wish for, that we just get too distracted to combat our own exploitation.