Good. WotC is wretched hive of scum and villainy.

It’s very simple.

Any time you set something down, keep this thought in the back of your mind: If you can put it down, you can put it away.

I don’t have many happy memories of my father growing up. All he knew his entire life was hard work and he leaned into that, because his dad died when he was eleven. I am grateful to him for a few things he did that made a major impact on my life:

• He and my mom got my eyes fixed when I was four years old, before which I was legally blind.
• He put the first $1000 I ever saw in my hand to pay a college tuition bill so I wouldn’t have to quit.
• He made sure I had everything I needed growing up in terms of material needs.

But there are a wealth of shitty memories too. He was drunk for most of my childhood and adolescence and verbally abusive. There were times he’d show up to my baseball or soccer practices and games and beer cans would be falling out of his truck. (Never had an adult intervene there, though.)

Most annoyingly, he and my mom have “borrowed” my car for a year to work for DoorDash. They’re too old now to get jobs anywhere else and have to survive.

The best thing I can say about him now is that I know he regrets all of it. On the rare occasions I have him over he always has a gift of some sort. It’s usually something small, because they’re very poor. Last time it was a container of oatmeal. It’s his way of saying sorry, because his stoic, 1940’s and 1950’s upbringing produced a man who doesn’t know how to actually say he’s sorry.

High thread-count sheets.

Agreed.

I like it here.

Oh yeah.

Let me eighty year-old parents borrow my car so they could drive for DoorDash a year ago with the stated intention that they’d save for their own.

Still waiting for that loan to end.

Important safety tip.

Thanks, Egon.

Yes.

There are some retailers that put a lot of money into making the experience of shopping enjoyable and more pleasant (Nike, Lulu Lemon, Apple, etc.) and their storefronts thrive.

Walmart, the store you pictured, thrives because they sell cheap.

This wasn’t part of Next Fest, but I devoured ‘Tainted Grail - Fall of Avalon’. Excellent demo.

But yes. Please tell me how I’m an Ideologue.

I don’t have to.

You said it yourself, you want conservatives in charge. Going back 40 years, we’ve seen them time and time again as active participants in this march to fascism. Apparently you just didn’t mind it when the targets were a generation of young gay men or Muslims or immigrants. Now it’s becoming harder to deny that fascism is coming for you personally.

Ideologue: Someone who doesn’t care that fascism happens as long as their team is in charge.

Here are a few:

• Shifty Schumer
• Shrinkage Schumer
• Hopeless Hakeem
• Panicky Pelosi
• Dastardly Democrats

In the local elections, there is gerrymandering to make sure minorities doesn’t actually get a voice in the decisions of the state.

I know. That’s what I meant by ‘institutional hurdles’. (Among other things.)

I don’t think I’ve met a single POC that has faith in either party after 2016.

Nailed it. Also why 10,000,000 former voters opted not to miss a day’s work in 2024.

Part of it is institutional hurdles to voting.

The other part of it is the Democratic Party making big promises and then doing jack shit to fulfill them once they’re elected.

I think it’s a human problem.

Absolutely. I completely agree, and anyone who disagrees hasn’t read a world history book.

It’s the defining trait of America, not conservatism, ever since Columbus stepped off the boat and wrote in his journal how the native people were so kind he could literally seize everything they had.

Why do you think we have two capitalist ruling parties if not for selfish people?

Yup.

Because P25 can’t control Donald. No one can.

Donald’s already said the quiet part out loud in public. A few weeks ago, he mentioned foreign countries are kissing his ass over tariffs.

That’s what it’s about. It’s not that deep.