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If I'd ever been shot in the head I can only assume it wasn't a damn bear that did it. But sure. I should piss my pants at the sight of a wild animal. And pay no nevermind to the actually dangerous creature.

Like the bears ain't scary around here, but we do see alligators often. Still less scary than a random man in the dark when you're alone.

My husband calls in the middle of this and I told him I usually don't see these sort of shit takes here and then I remember I'd been browsing ALL, for crying out loud. Go to see what fucking community it was... and it's memes! My bad even commenting here probably, but complaining that memes don't adequately capture the whole picture and may not be the best way to address the issue seems a little.. I dunno but something - here in the literal meme community.

Y'all ain't being thrown under the bus. My husband gets it. He is also an ally to women. But y'all ain't there "standing up in solidarity with women" when we are being molested, raped, or murdered. These things happen to women ALL THE GODDAMNED TIME. You weren't there in solidarity with me any of the times when I was actually harmed, but when I have something to say about how scary men can actually be, you are here to stand against me. Or at best, get me to think of your feelings instead of my own safety.

I would also prefer guys who are not rapists to stand up in solidarity with women against the rapists, instead of being thrown under the bus with the rest of the women that make men feel uncomfortable by reminding them of the things that actually happen in women's lives.

#NotAllMen

#ButWeDontKnowWhichOnes

To me the weirdest thing isn't how they still support him, it's how little it seems the rest of US could care.

It's like the thing with Nigerian scammers and how they weed out the folks who aren't gullible and get fat off the rest. The flamboyant absurdity that turns off normies is what attracts his victims (this is the first time I've actually thought of his voters as victims). I'm also reminded of whale sharks and how they filter out water and get fat off the plankton.

But where are the Democrats in this? There's no adversarial someone out there between a scammer or filter feeder and their prey. And sure, the people that are going to vote for him aren't going to listen to a Dem. But what about the entire apathetic electorate? That's the seawater Trump is using to filter feed on his victims. Without that apathy he can't win. If only there were some way Democratic electeds could reduce apathy amongst the American people. Some way that wouldn't upset donors, that is.

sigh

I'm afraid it'll be voter apathy vs whale shark scammer this November.

As someone who's lived in the southeastern US nearly all of my five decades on this earth (tho I admit.. only a couple years in Mississippi, back in the eighties), I'm not sure they don't think what's happening in Gaza is a genocide. The counterprotests are less because they care about "antisemitism" and more they think peaceniks should shut up already, especially about dead Muslims. Like, this ain't pro-Israel, it's pro-genocide.

But yeah, they've failed a lot of tests.

But how? Democrats have been trying to get the media to discuss what they want when they want for like 4 decades now. Mainstream media has decided it's on the side of business and Dems are bad for that (I disagree, but then I'm not a CEO, just someone who can read a chart), so how do you get them talking about the benefits of (D) actions instead of just the drawbacks they want to highllight in the 3 minute segment they only agreed to just to show how unrealistic or expensive or whatever they think those actions are?

It would be sweet, if Trump's downfall comes

That's not what racism is.

If they ain't up to the task, then they could just quit. I don't see the problem.

It is now

I stopped caring about Apple a few decades ago.