Wawa

Whatever building you were born in is the only building in your life that you left without entering.

You're a swell guy Revenga, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

He's an unimaginative cringe troll, but the rebranding isn't even the worst change. The blue checks that anyone can now just pay for and how they're always the top comments (mindless ones 99% of the time) takes that mantle.

Letting France and Germany spread their hideous flags via bots is a huge distraction and I won't allow it, Reddit staff was onto something.

Forums when I was 24, servers when I was 20.

Biking or jogging on my days off.

Still playing Diablo 2: Resurrected before I eventually pick up Diablo 4 on my PC. Brotato was my last favorite game on my Steam Deck, now it's TMNT: Shredder's Revenge.

How fucking drunk are you?

I find this video very insightful regarding the history of Burger King's advertisements from their early days to present day. This video is a must share amongst your family and friends:

The US is currently averaging more than one mass shooting per day right now, outrage is minimal, and Jordan Neely's killer is being popularly labeled as a 'good samaritan'. Meanwhile, Serbia has 2 mass shootings, everyone takes to the streets, and their government tightens gun control as a result. We allow poverty wages the same way we allow mass shootings to happen, the same way we allow homelessness to happen and the dehumanization of the homeless to happen--we are the most propagandized people on the planet to the point where exploitation and oppression are normalized instead of villainized.

Anarchist/libertarian moment.

I believe you're confused about who I am, I do believe in and practice personal accountability in my life, it's one of the reasons why I have such a healthy relationship with my wife. When an issue arises and I'm not satisfied with the result, I ask myself "what could I have done to make this right?" instead of blaming others. As it pertains to work, I just prefer to be happy and comfortable at my job, again where we spend most of our lives, while prioritizing my passions in life for my free time outside of work. I could have had a better life financially, but I chose my current life instead and it's nobody else's fault but my own. I'm still financially stable today, so I don't regret my decisions, and I'm staying true to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' So then why do people like me throw my hands up and say 'da gubbament'? Well, because even for 'hard workers' like you, they're doing a shit job serving us. Why are most of our tax dollars going to a hyper-inflated defense budget and militarizing police forces instead of education or infrastructure? You say "sometimes life hands you a bad set of cards," what if we can make just one of those cards a good card for every deck across the board in the form of say, jobs programs for example? Any policy that results in one less degenerate being taken care of so they aren't jacking off on a sidewalk by my house or being a threat to my personal safety just because I want to go for a stroll at night is one worth my tax dollars. You call it a free pass, I call it being safer, 'a rising tide lifts all boats' in this case. Finland has open prisons, does that mean their people are encouraged to commit crimes? Denmark pays McDonald's workers $21+ an hour, does that mean everyone in Denmark wants to work at McDonald's? Regardless of what you think about people who are in poverty because of their decision making, addressing poverty has a positive impact on all of us while criminalizing it has not tackled the problem. If you don't want 'bad people' to exist, then shut down the 'bad people' factory. If you took every bad person off the streets right now, the problem still wouldn't be solved because you'll just have more bad people being put on the streets due to shit policies. You can't 'if only they accepted ultimate responsibility' your way out of this problem, the only solution is systemic.

Highlighted just the key points of your response to respond to: I said I met the hardest working people in food service because that's literally my life experience, something you'd also have if you've also worked in food service and did so in the most densely populated state in the US where food service workers rarely have a minute to enjoy free time. Conversely, I'd have your opinion on socioeconomic matters if I lived through your life experiences instead of my own when considering our different spawn points, ancestry, environmental factors, impact of people around us, and biological/chemical makeup. If you agree with that, then we'd both be Jordan Neely if we lived exclusively through his life experiences instead of our own. If you don't agree, then empathy comes into question. ... I got my CompTIA Network+ certification when I was 15 and built my first computer at the age of 16, even added a custom watercooling setup to that same computer when I was 17 using an old car radiator. I had every opportunity to pursue a helpdesk job at the very least and use that as a launch pad for other opportunities, but decided to keep that only as a hobby instead of a career because I didn't see myself enjoying it as a career. Does that make me a dumb motherfucker for pursuing only what I enjoy as a career versus trying to make a better living off of skills I only enjoy using in my free time in that moment of my life? You would have made a lot more money working for 10 years in a country like Denmark, which pays McDonald's workers $20+ per hour instead of the $15 or less in the US that you worked for, despite your position that "your paycheck is your compensation for what you’ve worked, you agreed to it." Does that make you a dumb motherfucker in that moment of your life because you didn't negotiate for a higher wage that the company that you worked for could afford to pay you? ... And speaking of dumb motherfuckers, I've worked with many of them--people who can't hold down a job and simply don't have the attention span or mental compacity to retain any training in even the most lenient of time frames. So what should we do with idiots? Do we just abandon them and leave them on the streets? It is literally in our best interest to keep people, especially these, off the streets for own safety, but since you'd rather idealize about what 'hard work' is, homelessness is deserved and 40 hours per week of labor doesn't earn basic necessities. Meanwhile, you'll have no problem giving actual parasites and leeches on society, like landlords, a pass because 'they earned it'. You'd rather dehumanize people who work at McDonald's while at the same time giving those who add no value to society and more closely embody welfare a pass.

I'd reclarify that to if work, then get what you 'earned', the word 'deserved' was not the best way to put it, I'll admit. Anyone that works 40 hours a week has earned, or at least should earn from their labor value, basic necessities. That's not a reward, I'm talking about the entire working class i.e. wage-earners having their basic needs met so they can continue to work 40 hours a week without the deterioration of their material conditions and consequently their physical and mental health. Ableist comment, the working class is very diverse and not built the same. I've worked in fast food/food service for close to a decade and have worked with people from many different socioeconomic backgrounds and physical/cognitive conditions--they are definitely putting an effort into their lives, as we all are, but the 'build a skill set' expectation is not always realistic when some of us have a much lower physical/cognitive ceiling than others (disabled/autism/etc.). I personally know people who could have been like Jordan Neely if their conditions in life were just slightly tweaked for the worse, that's why I believe in seeking for systemic solutions instead of resorting to shaming the same people (homeless) that the system has failed, which ironically makes their mental health deterioration worse. Obviously, the criminalization of being homeless hasn't been a success, so it's either use a systemic solution or accept the status quo. The people I worked with in the fast food/food service industry were some of the hardest working people I've ever worked with in my life. Not only that, but even as a Manager I was still expected to work just as hard and pick up the slack when these workers called out. Now, I make significantly more money operating machinery, a job anyone can do if adequate training is provided, than I did as a Manager in food service, despite the fact that I busted my ass off in that role while my direct lead right now literally gets paid more money than I do to just make sure I'm working while not doing any real work himself. Who is 'skipping class' here? Also, "then as you get towards the finish line demand the next generation and the rest of your country subsidize your poor choices for the last 50 years" is pretty comical considering our grandparents were literally the only generation, the generation thanks to the progress of the labor movement after The Great Depression and WW2, where you could support a family on a single income. "I did an essential job my entire life, spent my free time outside of work doing what even PMC people do and what lots of people do in general in the form of watching TV or gaming, and never once thought about how the system doesn't work for me and instead works against me to keep me being poor as expensive as possible, when am I going to organize in my workplace?"

Nah, I'm not an anarchist. My political philosophy is simple: a society that spends 80% of their lives in the workplace deserves their basic needs being met such as housing, healthcare, food security, etc. We should also strive to become a fairer, collaborative, more egalitarian society instead of a hyper-individualistic narcissistic one that condemns the victim of a murder for being homeless despite the overall majority of the population being one healthcare crisis away from being Jordan Neely. If that makes me 'Establishment Bad', imagine what that says about our current establishment from both parties.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/11bkiih/the_presidents_play_competitive/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 This one is better but my boomer ass can't embed the video properly.