And that forces you to treat people without cars as sub-human? No sympathy, or even empathy, for people who have to navigate such a landscape without one?

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I’m convinced that to many Americans, there’s no difference, and that their mental image of a person includes four wheels. (And that a human without a car is not a person, as in, not deserving of moral comsideration.)

Sure, lady, explain that again when they want to put Ivanka in the Oval Office after her old man croaks.

English isn’t that far off. Animal has the same root as animate, which is the Latin anima, “soul” or “breath.” The English word plant has synonyms and general connotations of fixedness or non-intentionality.

Hot take: The euphemsism “flipping burgers” is so dismissive of the physical and emotional labor of working at a fast-food place that anybody using it unironically needs a punch on the nose.

Aye, that is the one silver lining of this fascist take-over: Miller et al. have attached themselves to a demagogue who has a looming expiration date, so they are speed-running the creation of the fourth reich. Our best hope is that they’re doing it too quickly to really take root. (And that they can’t find another demagogue to step in when the orange one bites it.)

True, but like that famous saying goes, we do not negotiate with terrorists.

Rich people and islands, name a more iconic duo.

Are there still people out there moaning that “Americans won’t vote for a woman,” despite, y’know, Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote in 2016?

And windshields/screens.

As well as tires, lubricants, tools, etc I guess. People tearing around the desert in vehicles with flawless glass is maybe the most unrealistic part of that image for me.

I’d like to point out feckless Democrats that while Citizens United is bad… money ain’t everything.

I started the day with the news that Dick Cheney is dead. Now I’m ending it with news that Zohran Mamdani is mayor. It’s been the best day in a long, long time.

Ah geez, I meant that the Constitution is irreparably broken, and that the nation it created is gone, but yeah, you’re right. I hadn’t even thought about him trying to rename the nation that we have now, but it makes total sense.

Don’t they get it yet? The United States is over. That country doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m forced by the government to give up a bunch of money so that people can feel important rolling around in their $50,000 toys with heated seats and entertainment systems, while simultaneously destroying the planet.

Nothing like rush hour to get away from people and their bullshit, amirite?

Erm, cops fit that description.

They all should have been on a plane to Gitmo before the sun set on inauguration day.

Nah, worse than that. The root of the conservative pathology is self-hatred. They fear that they are worthless, shit people. A person who believes that they are better than everybody else can sit smugly in the corner and be superior in peace. Conservatives need near-constant reassurance that other people are worse than themselves, hence the performative cruelty they crave.