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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Agreed; the system is now so completely inverted and has been for a while. The extremely wealthy can actually afford to have huge families and not suffer a huge setback in quality of life.

    In agrarian societies where having more help around the farm was relatively cheaply done by having more babies, the poor would often have very large families. If most people are living in and near cities and very, very few have anything to do with farming, the cost per child is much different. People in the middle class that push children past something like 5 or so are almost guaranteed to be treading water or backwards, economically.






  • Yeah, in the case of Clinton, it was mostly about a stain on a dress, and everything else was one gigantic nothingburger, in spite of all the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’s efforts to make it otherwise…

    The proto-qons and the proto-teabaggers (in their pupa phase between Bircher and teabagger/qanon nut) lost their fuckin’ minds over both of the Clintons. Hillary drove them absolutely apeshit with being the stand-in for every 60s feminist they had hated for decades up to that point, and mostly because she did a bit more than just arrange flowers and have other women over for tea and meaningless meetings at the WH. And Bill drove them nuts for getting a blowjob.

    It still makes me chuckle to think about how some of them got so grrr mad that Bill couldn’t be removed for getting some lollipop love from Monica. One of them was huffing about this and squealed - “but Bill is MARRIED! This is infidelity!” I asked, “yeah, but is it illegal?” I’ve never seen one of these type look so impotent in my life when he sagged into his chair, red-faced with rage, and quietly said…“no”.








  • Probably cheap eggs is part of it. But yeah, the same type of dumbass was talking about getting everyone back to work - again, about the money and because they had a vision in their heads of 20-somethings all staying home and playing video games on the taxpayer dime, or not under the safe watchful eye of some mid-level manager in a cubicle farm or something. The work from home thing drove them crazzzzzzy(ier) - complaining about any sensible measures like social distancing, masks, and vaccines. The same type of dumbass was talking about how “everyone was going to get it” and that the “clot shot” was going to kill everyone and we should just all live our lives as normal.

    I suspect a major part of the ideology is also the constant undercurrent in this country, and that’s general anti-intellectualism and hatred of real expertise and the actual experts that have it. So we have lots of people “doing their own research”, like Brainworms.