Why are we paying rent at all?

I’m not normal, no. I can’t say I’m doing great. But I’m actually far more stable now than I’ve ever been. I’m preparing for bad times to help others as best I can. I’m not ready enough. I protest when I can. I try to read older books rather than the latest clickbait. My work actually matters, so I don’t feel drained from it. I mostly quit arguing with idiots, online and off. They’ll feel the pain soon enough. Good. I do mock them to their faces. If they change, I might help them. If it gets as bad as I’ve always suspected it will, I’ve already lived longer and better than anticipated. I’ve never feared oblivion. Sounds nice these days. If I die, I’ll die fighting the darkness. I’m content. Let them come. Good people will still live on. If we let the fools and psychos in power destroy our entire biosphere, well then we will have proved Humanity never deserved the stars in the first place.

If we make it, keep pushing humanity forward. We are all one people and we are worth the struggle. We are the only known intelligence in the Universe and we must learn to act like it, or die. Don’t let us down.

So that’s how I’m doing.

Cool. Who cares if the same thing happens to you?

The predictions were always the most conservative estimates. They were trying to avoid panic. The most likely scenario was that this would all start and hit hard within our lifetimes.

As an American, No.

It is not possible for me to care less about sports. I maybe gave half a shit here and there over the years, but now the world burns. Sports are just overpriced bread and circuses.

Millionaire CEO? Who is this broke bitch?

Not really. I have most of what I want and need. Now I just need to zero my debt, which ain’t gonna happen soon. So I don’t need new shit. I’m just hitting yard sales.

And none of that shit ever got me laid like they said it would.

Entitled? Nah, you’re thinking of business majors.

He doesn’t even know all the shiny shit he put up in the white house came from Home Depot and got spray painted.

I doubt she’d bother showing up for it. It’s useless pageantry and she has work to do.

Nah, Poland is the one nation in Europe that’s itching for a fight with Moscow. They’ve just been holding back.

It seems this asshole cares more about dollars he’ll never be paid than the lives of mothers and children he’ll never have to face.

The reason we didn’t have much European terrorism after WW2 is because we invested in and rebuilt those countries after the war. Jesus Christ, you so-called fiscal conservatives never learn shit from history.

You know what’s even dumber? That money you care so much about being “saved?” You’ll never see a penny of it. That’s all going to the ultrawealthy ruling class. They’re going to steal all of it for themselves. “Steal!?” you object. Yes steal. Oh yes, they might remember to make it legal, probably by executive order or some shit.

That money would be better spent helping babies and mothers in Afghanistan survive childbirth than going to the already filthy rich. Frankly I’d rather have them get it than the likes of even you.

Let me guess, you think you’re the next Charlie Kirk so we should have a “debate” now.

Well, you suggested to let them do it. I’m suggesting that they will not hesitate to commit massive human rights violating, nonconsensual nazi experiments, so no we shouldn’t allow them.

The fact that it absolutely won’t work is secondary.

Except that these psychos are definitely going to harvest organs from the so-called lesser races within their borders.

It can’t be anti-corruption because Xi is more corrupt than all of them.

Just, how?! How does this even happen?

Ok, you want to cut the quality of food with something cheaper. Why pick leaded paint? Does your cousin at the poison factory have too much waste sitting around at the right price? Bingo! Just stir it in.

Why not add flour, or even just sugar?

It’s fine. Surely nobody you know will feed it to their kids.

His guilded prison.

Neither of them has the chops to pull off such an act. They’re genuinely horrible idiots.

Money implies poverty.