

Extrovert with social anxiety, maker, artist, gamer, activist, queer af, adhd space cadet, stoner
The Affinity suite is a suitable replacement. It's not quite as advanced as the creative suite, but it serves 90% of most professional needs. I switched about five years ago and haven't looked back.
I dunno, y'all burned down the white house once, so maybe start there?
I realized shortly after posting that comment there would be a low chance that canada would be a state. It'd probably be more like Puerto Rico, pay taxes, but not vote for anything that matters outside of the territory.
I was aware of the maga nuts in Canada, I didn't realize they had enough votes to actually matter though. Plus y'all burned down the white house once, I'm sure even the craziest canadian would be made about losing their sovereignty. Surely?
Does he not realize if Canada becomes a state a republican could never hold the presidency again? Right wing canadians are further left than american Democrats.
There is no destruction like self-destruction
New phobia unlocked.
What a bunch of noise. Why listen to people with such a pronounced case of poo brain?
Libertarianism is anrachism for people who don't read.
Fake, no way that chimp could afford mushrooms and black light posters
No, that's too real. 90% of that is true about him. I want to see more executive orders where he bans light beer because bud lite used dei to make an ad two years ago. Or an executive order renaming mount rushmoore to mount trump and charging the families of the presidents carved in it advertising rights.
Earlier that summer my father had made me clean a deer that had been shot in the gut and he did some hollywood style child abuse when I barfed about it, so I was pretty numb to the gore. What really bothered me was some of the dialog. I shudder 30 years later when I think about the line, "where we're going we don't need eyes to see."
My stepdad was horrified he'd taken his stepdaughter to see something so graphic and made me and my friends promise not to tell anyone what we saw and to downplay the gore.
I saw Event Horizon on my 13th birthday in theaters with some of my friends.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – Party slogan
That was my comment, I said everyone poops, lol
There are too many loop holes to the traffic lights. The jesus freaks would quote the bible about it and say, "The rain falls on the just and unjust alike." Personally I'm a fan of "everybody poops."
I would say pragmatist, rather than a reformist. Reform makes the least mess to clean up after and leaves the smallest window for a hypothetical Joe the Billionaire from starting an actual monarchy after the overthrow of the system. If I had my way we'd replace the constitution with a new one that establishes a strong, expanded bill of right and the power to enforce it at a national level and all other decisions would be made at a city or county level, with state governments becoming caretakers and losing all legislative, executive, and judicial power beyond what's needed to maintain the roads and grid(s).
Replacing consumerism as a means of validation and acceptance is easier than it looks. Alienation is a combination of disenfranchisement, social rejection, and a lack of agency. The "buy nothing, buy less, buy used, buy local" is part of the zine I'm currently writing. The idea is that you replace consumerism with community. Buy nothing groups, swap meets, farmer's markets, flea markets, craigslist meets all provide real human interaction and social validation. Actively trying to avoid any money possible going to billionaires and corrupt state coffers means more time spent shopping, specifically in meatspace, rather than online (where huge chunks of your money go to billionaires).
I've actually been working on compiling all of the zine and essay content into a website, I will make a note and drop you a link when it goes live (months still, but this year). If I wasn't already on a watch list (old crusty anarchist), I will absolutely be on one when that goes up, lol.
I think we're misaligned because my unstated goal is to reduce the risk to migrants and trans people from a tyrannical government. Reducing state power would greatly reduce their ability to round up immigrants and dick over the queer community. It would mean less money to pay police to be assholes at the very least.
It's also a safe in-point for people wanting to take direct action but afraid of the legal consequences of more glamorous activities.
Buying nothing, buying less, buying used, buying local (in that order) is easy-ish for most people, saves them money, and breaks no laws or contracts. Not paying your bills is a dumb idea, but not buying shit you don't need is a win win for individuals. It would take several years to build a critical mass and if people change their relationship to consumption it would be easier to sustain that pressure.
No temporary strike, protest, or other action will save us. We need long term personal change that will slowly starve out the billionaire class and their lackies.
I am trying to organize a national buy nothing campaign, but the only resources I have are grass roots tools, like rambling in internet comments and writing weird zines. I'd suggest trying to reduce your personal spending by 20% and encourage people you know personally to do the same, if everyone did that the powers that be will take notice and in 18 months we'd see change.
The government is a tool of the billionaire class. Weakening it weakens their power. Also any buying nothing movement would harm the billionaires much more than the government.
You know that "defeating" the billionaires would screw over everyone on earth more than toppling the government of Florida or Texas? They have so much power removing their wealth, especially suddenly would destroy the global economy..
Any solution to the larger problem of oligarchy is going to hurt everyday americans. Buying nothing would at least give them extra money in their pocket to adapt to the changes.
This case sets up a legal battle between Texas’ near-total abortion ban and New York’s shield law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution.

> This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.