PhilipTheBucket

I take it from the sudden massive influx of "AOC BETRAYED US ON ISRAEL NOBODY VOTE FOR HER" narrative, that somebody somewhere thinks she's a candidate who would cause problems if she did run

Yeah, pretty much.

Every single American except the 1% used to work in conditions much worse than an Amazon warehouse, and then they spent several decades fighting for better, and after a while it worked, and that's why your grandad had a union and could buy a house in his 20s.

Black people used to not be able to vote and could be killed for more or less no reason but "uppity," and then everyone fought for better for several decades, and long story short one of them became the president.

My point is, you can fight for better, or it can stay as shit (and in fact get worse). Pretty much all those select places and select people were created to at least some extent by the people that came before them fighting against the injustice and corruption, instead of just saying "what a bunch of bullshit, there is corruption and there shouldn't be." You can't always make it happen for you but over time it happens for the next people up. Or it goes down.

There have been plenty of times when if you're in the right zip code and you have the right ethnicity, it's honestly a pretty great place. It just doesn't stay that way automatically, and where it goes if people don't keep fighting it into shape is pretty horrifying.

During the 1960s civil rights movement, some civil rights workers disappeared in the deep south, and federal cops went down and started investigating and started searching the local swamp to see if they could find their bodies.

They started finding tons of bodies. They had to keep going for quite a while before they found the specific bodies they'd been looking for, and some of the corpses they found were never identified.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250731-how-the-mississippi-burning-murders-sparked-landmark-change-in-the-us

US history is not always a nice place to be.

Years upon years ago, I was working as a laborer, and my GF at the time learned that I loved little kids' snacks, fruit snacks and gummies and things like that. She started packing for me little packets of treats in my lunch, which I enjoyed.

One time I made the mistake of offering one to one of my burly Romanian coworkers. I didn't want to be rude and bust out snacks without sharing them. "Want some lucky duckies?" I said, and offered him the little packet of cheese crackers shaped like ducks. He looked at it, confused, and asked, "What is this?" I explained. He looked back at it with pure contempt and said, "No. I do not want this."

His loss man, lucky duckies are fucking delicious.

If he just had his buddy do the second part of the story instead, it would have been believable. But, it would have missed the emotional payoff that way.

It is rare for me to read something on the internet that literally knocks me back in my chair a little

Yeah, probably so. I am 100% serious when I say that I think 4chan getting behind Trump early on and making him the meme candidate had a huge amount to do with his eventual success.

Seriously. This is the kind of thing that made 4chan great.

"If you can't say 'fuck,' then you can't say 'fuck the government.'" - Lenny Bruce

"If you can't say 'Keep punching her as hard as I can / Gets to a point where her face is a pool of blood' then you can't say 'Let's go after Scientology, what a bunch of dickheads'" - old 4chan

IDK what new 4chan is even doing.