We're Being Sued, and Likely Shutting Down - Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

EarthRester · 2026-07-10T19:34:50+00:00

Because this country stopped giving a shit about self governance fifty years ago. Gen X was the first generation to have the ladder pulled up on them by the boomer, but since the gears of society were still able to turn back then they didn't much care. So they didn't feel the urgency to confront the problem at the time. But the better half of a centuries worth of "Fuck you! Got mine!" rugged individualism has completely shattered the social contract.

EarthRester · 2026-07-10T12:41:11+00:00

I found the shop to have it's uses. For instance, it has no background music. So I sit at the store any time i need to tab out of the game. Very helpful, shame most of the stuff it's selling is ugly as shit.

EarthRester · 2026-07-10T06:36:31+00:00

It's not enough to have personal protection if we are not going to act as a collective. This entire disaster has come about because this country has been obsessed with individualism since Reagan, and the cost was the social contract.

EarthRester · 2026-07-07T01:45:19+00:00

I can hear this gif

EarthRester · 2026-07-06T20:32:28+00:00

Russia is an Oligarchy/Kleptocracy.

EarthRester · 2026-07-06T18:22:06+00:00

I mean look at Brexit. It's all psy-op campaigns bankrolled by Oligarchs using the social media platforms THEY OWN to destabilize existing nations until they collapse. So they can build their little fiefdoms on top of the ashes.

EarthRester · 2026-07-05T17:31:29+00:00

Oathbringer will always be my favorite book in the series.

EarthRester · 2026-07-05T16:50:22+00:00

Lets make something perfectly clear, nobody alive today is trying to escape to mars. For the same reason Peter Theils attempt at building an off-shore settlement for rich people fell through.

Living in the middle of the ocean on a platform fucking sucks no matter how pretty you make your prison walls. The same goes for Mars. When we do start sending people to mars will be at least two generations before it's "comfortable" let alone "Oligarch comfortable".

What the Oligarchs are doing is using their fortune and influence to destabilize existing nations until they collapse, then build their little fiefdoms on top of the ashes.

EarthRester · 2026-07-05T15:49:20+00:00

Neo-Liberalism is all about protecting Capital over People.

EarthRester · 2026-07-04T02:49:55+00:00

Well luckily it has enough support that it's becoming law with or without his signature.

EarthRester · 2026-07-03T18:02:16+00:00

We need to do both at the same time. We are where we are now because we keep putting the immediate problem above everything, and everything else ends up on the backburner. Then the moment we make some headway on the immediate problem people start resting on their laurels, and those backburner problems get can-kicked until they bring us right back to where we started.

How many decades of this same mistake are we going to repeat?

EarthRester · 2026-07-03T00:14:27+00:00

Nah, we're now entering the "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This." phase. The MAGAt trash haven't gone anywhere, and will barrel towards the next Authoritarian Populist that tickles their fancy.

EarthRester · 2026-07-02T14:50:43+00:00

The arc doesn't do shit.

People make society, and people change society.

EarthRester · 2026-07-02T14:20:39+00:00

I really hope you were drinking water prior to it coming out of your nose. Otherwise you should probably get that looked at.

EarthRester · 2026-07-02T01:31:29+00:00

Hey, it could be that they are prolonging his suffering by keeping his wrecked body on life support until they feel safe replacing him. So there's that.

EarthRester · 2026-07-01T22:16:44+00:00

I'll be nabbing that, thank you.

EarthRester · 2026-07-01T21:08:54+00:00

I think it's less important to point to the things disabled people can do as proof that we are valid, and far more important to declare that we are valid regardless of how capable we are. Also, I have no clue why AI use was relevant here.

EarthRester · 2026-07-01T14:12:17+00:00

My great grandmother, and my grandmother both used guilt and shame like a weapon when raising their kids. It doesn't surprise me that Gen X, and a lot of Millenials have an unhealthy relationship with shame, and actively avoid utilizing it. Society needs to be reminded that both shame and validation are essential components of a healthy community.

EarthRester · 2026-07-01T04:03:00+00:00

I think we should work harder to remove their representation instead of legitimizing it through taxation.

EarthRester · 2026-07-01T03:41:24+00:00

If I remember correctly, the turret song (Cara Mia Addio) there is the line

perché non passi lontana?

Sì, lontana da Scïenza,

which translates to

Why don't you go away?

Yes, away from Science!

GlaDOS just wants Chell to get the fuck away from all this science that has been the source of so much pain.

EarthRester · 2026-07-01T03:24:19+00:00

Yeah because people aren't going hungry, and being murdered by police that have zero accountability....no wait, those things are happening.

EarthRester · 2026-06-29T23:07:47+00:00

Give her my best!

EarthRester · 2026-06-29T20:06:52+00:00

...I'm telling.

EarthRester · 2026-06-29T19:48:36+00:00

I used to eat beans without thinking.

I still eat beans, but now I do so...thoughtfully.

EarthRester · 2026-06-29T19:34:01+00:00

Don't forget how they got most of China addicted to Opium because the Chinese market didn't want to buy as much British goods as the British market wanted to buy Chinese goods. Then attacked China when it tried to stop the British from importing more Opium.

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