…before attending the definitely voluntary after work drinks and trundling home to your shoebox out in the inaka.

You’re not wrong, but it’s an option, and they’d probably both deserve it more than most.

Better/worse depends on your frame of reference…

The UK is generally worse than it was 50 years ago, and better than it was 150 years ago. It’s generally better than Japan today.

Not being an arsehole is a pretty decent start whatever the case is.

Paedophile is when people I don’t like.

Meanwhile, these same people lose their minds at others using the dictionary definition of gender.

Believe it or not, the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world has room for both of them.

The Japanese work culture is an absolute dumpster fire - the reason all their media is focused on highschoolers is that high school was the last time anyone had a shred of freedom.

But broadly, yeah - there’s not much incentive to respect the norms of a system that’s completely fucked you, then demands compliance.

Damn lazy liberals kids conservative lawmakers just don’t want to work anymore - if they picked themselves up by the bootstraps and did their job of representing people, they’d be liked and wouldn’t need a taxpayer-funded armed security detail to protect their widdle feewings.

So much for personal responsibility.

Brought to you by the people celebrating Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero.

It’s enough to make you begin to wonder if accelerationism is a viable strategy - things don’t seem set to meaningfully improve any time soon…

You know the best way to get a teenager or a toddler for that matter to do something? Start by treating them like a person.

I bet you absolutely love listening to people as they refuse to treat you like a person, let alone acknowledge your bullshit rationalisation.

Try not to lick any boots on your way out.

It’s also the key to driving the hell out of your sales teams without having to pay them those pesky bonuses.

He travelled interstate to get a gun and went to that protest because…?

He put himself in that position, killed two people, maimed another, for his sins, he’s now being paid as the right’s posterchild for killing you political opponents - you’ll have to forgive me for not feeling too bad for him.

Oh look - the right is rolling out their poster boy for crossing state lines to kill your political opponents again.

Normal stuff that’s no cause for concern.

Travelling interstate to grab a gun and put yourself in a position to shoot others with the flimsiest of legal (definitely not moral) pretexts isn’t self-defence.

Which is fine - the problem is that everyone else has to live with the consequences of others’ stupidity.

It’s the scientific community giving an exasperated “we’re fucked”, my guy.

It’s all outliers and constant “once a century” weather events these days.

…in the most verbose way possible, with bonus points for referencing people out of context, cherrypicking their worst takes, or just deferring to lunatics in a ghish gallop too exhausting to be worth challenging.

I can imagine seeing Rudolph Jitler commit a genocide as the world’s larger powers run cover for him would fuel the kind of desperate anger that drives jihadis.

See also: fucking embarrassing.

Destroying your own economic interests and quality of life to own the libs.

My mistake.