Big Bad Politics!

@Exhumed Legume  
Yes.
 
Especially considering how ridiculously addictive nicotine is (cocaine levels, IIRC; the difference is cocaine physically fucks you up rapidly and obviously, while nicotine just makes you into an irritable asshole).

@Barhandar  
I (vaguely) remember reading, years ago, that getting completely rid of nicotine dependency takes about 15 years on average.  
Messing with your neurotransmitters is such a great idea.

Bite me is supposed to give a speech in front of a joint session of congress. News didn’t say if this is the official State of the Union or not. Expect either a shitshow or the greatest deepfake ever made.
 
Technically the SotU doesn’t need to be a speech, most presidents just delivered a written report. Here’s George Washington’s report. He had beautiful handwriting, by the way:  

@UrbanMysticDee  
What the fuck is an “accefsion”? I’m assuming he meant accession. I guess that lisp from those oversized wooden teeth translated to his written speech.

@Officer Hotpants  
That’s just how cursive S was written at the time. Same as “United Ftates” in the title.

@Barhandar  
I’ve heard about that before. But there’s an S right next to it.

@Officer Hotpants  
>cursive  
S lead on from S looks like S, S lead on from other letters looks like F. Same way r is written backwards in cursive because otherwise it’d look like n.

@Barhandar  
I’m not sure how an R is supposed to be backwards in cursive. But then a cursive R doesn’t really resemble the letter’s print form (lowercase, that is).

@Officer Hotpants  
Cursive r looks like a ч.
 
@UrbanMysticDee  
Is it possible to train deer to attack people on command? “Idiot anti-gunner mauled to death by deer” would be an absolutely hilarious news title.

@Barhandar  
“Idiot anti-meat activist gored by bull” would be a good one too. I heard rumors there was a group going around setting farmer’s cows loose in the middle of the night.

@Anonymous #372F  
Regrettably, bulls aren’t kept in the same places as cows.  
Not regrettably, farmers are often kept near the cows, so the double combo of robbers (farming and ranching is high cost, low profit margin) and animal abusers (NO farmed animal is suited for life in the wild) will die to lead poisoning and will be missed by absolutely no one.

@Barhandar  
>bulls aren’t kept in the same places as cows  
Depends on the time of year.

@Anonymous #372F  
Most farm animals in areas where rabid “animal protectors” live are artificially inseminated.

@Barhandar  
Not that I’ve ever seen.

Welp, this is it. I’ll be getting my second pfizer vaccine dose soon.  
It was nice knowing you, bros..  
Just to be clear, I’m not an anti-vaxxer, but if it wasn’t for the fact that I still need to find a new job and that they’re most likely going to make me take the vaccine before they hire me, I wouldn’t even bother. With how quickly this vaccine was put together and approved for public use, I find the whole thing sketchy and risky.

@Humble Oriathan  
*mRNA treatments aren’t a vaccine, they’re a pile of shit that corpos for some reason want to push even though previous attempts have been cancelled due to excessive complications.
 
Also taking the covid “vaccine” (of any kind, they’re ALL underdeveloped shit, just with different levels of you-die) BEFORE you’re put before the choice of “no jab, no job” is stupid.

@Humble Oriathan  
@Barhandar  
The problem is they have lied to us so much, on so many different things. If they want vaccine skepticism to subside they needed to get their act together long ago and admit mistakes. Their messaging needs to take account of authoritarian fears that many of us have, otherwise they prove us right.
 
Right now, do I think the vaccine is safe? Yes. Logically, if they were any big side effects they knew about and were letting slide, they wouldn’t due idiotic stuff like halting the JJ vaccine for a tiny amount of blood clots. What they might not know about though is somewhat concerning however.

@TheBridge  
Considering how otherwise healthy people are falling ill or dying with similar symptoms right after getting the jab, and doctors disregard said injection as a possibility right off the bat, yeah, not safe. Disregarding non-obvious possibilities (i.e. one thing is to go “it’s not a fracture” when it’s not a fracture, another is “this healthy person fell ill with symptoms of internal troubles after getting the vaccine, VACCINE 100% COULD NOT BE AT FAULT FOR THIS”) is malpractice at best, active maliciousness at worst.
 
Additionally, regardless of how safe the actual vaccine is, Pfizer and others refusing ACCOUNTABILITY (i.e. “we’re not liable for any complications that arise from our vaccines” clause) is an absolute dealbreaker.  
bonus: astra-zeneca has the same blood clot problem as JJ

@TheBridge  
That’s my biggest issue, though not my only. You don’t get to lie to me and lie to me and lie to me and lie to me and lie to me and lie to me and lie to me and lie to me about the same subject and then call me crazy for not believing the next thing you tell me about it.

First he cut wamen down to size and made them compete on a level playing field, then he agreed to abide by Trump’s withdraw from the forever war (he even used the term in his speech), and now based Biden says he will close private prisons? I’m surprised he’s doing so many good things.

@UrbanMysticDee  
But now how are the rich supposed to produce goods for free?

So, I just watched the Us The Government Address at work today. Yeah I know, a few days old but I had a slight backlog to get through, and wanted to see if for myself before I heard any of my usual commentators give their takes.
 
So, Biden just admitted to being ideologically fascist on national television. His government will have an ethical agenda to shape it’s citizen into useful tools of the state from cradle to grave, in service of those walled off from you in DC.
 
And looking at a thread arguing over George Washington’s choice of cursive font, I can’t help but feel like I’m the only person who noticed and/or cares.