cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/43965177

An ex-DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” could end up receiving the highest civilian honor in the United States, placing him in the company of luminaries such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.

Somehow the dumbest timeline just upped the ante

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      23 hours ago

      If we do live in a simulation, can I be taken out by a corrupt memory allocation, please?

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      19 hours ago

      It’s just them feeding the constant news cycle with bullshit and nonsense. I say JUST but…idk I’m getting to the point where the psy-op has worked and I don’t want to pay attention to the news anymore. I might make myself a old RSS style feed for like Reuters or something but getting my news from social media has been nothing but devastating. It’s gotta be somewhat intentional. Not that it’s not happening, but that it’s always some new stupid thing that is just the right amount of outrageous that it diluted the important stuff. I don’t care about some kid called big balls. That’s just a symptom. The keys they jingle to keep it so the doctor with the needle is half-forgotten. Maybe they won but at least I’ll be happier.

      I kinda get why the guy at the end of 1984 didn’t give a shit anymore by the end.

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      19 hours ago

      Fascists were killed to fucking death 80 years ago. And I’ll remind us all, the men who fought were around 20 then. The youngest would be 100 now.

      The Smoot-Hawley Act was 95 years ago, exacerbated the Great Depression. Not to mention the stock market greed and lack of government controls that started it. Today no one remembers what that kind of poverty was like in America.

      Everyone who remembers is dead. This is simply history, we do this again and again. Our turn!