The famous red wastes of Brazil.

When you’re looking for a sign from the universe on what you should do next…

Gotta take it in before that UV hits it. What if it accidentally developed some color or flavor?

When you add beans to the plate for some color…

Fuck. Off.

Small breasts, no breasts/flat chests, medium breasts, big breasts, gargantuan breasts, perky breasts, torpedo breasts, saggy breasts, lopsided breasts, natural breasts, fake breasts, reduced breasts, post-mastectomy breasts, big areolas, small areolas, fake areolas, dark areolas, light areilas, little nipples, long nipples, thick nipples, innie nipples, puffy nipples, lactating nipples, black skin, brown skin, white skin, tanned skin, tanlines, wrinkles, tattooed, in a bra, in a sports bra, in lingerie, in a handbra, braless under a tight shirt, bra less under a loose shirt, hard nipples poking through a shirt, only one breast out, downblouse, pumping, breastfeeding, bouncing, swaying, jiggling, laying, dropping, flashing… bro, there’s a porn site for every single possible combination of those you can come up with. Boobs are great.

Well you’re certainly helping your own case by demonstrating unintelligent discourse. Denial without cause, assertions without supporting reason or evidence, vague implied claims that can’t be refuted because you didnt give enough detail to understand what you’re even really claiming, a call to action without any actual suggestion of what action to take, personal attacks (apparently using talk-to-text “question mark”), and then your mic drop was “I’ll help you through this” without doing anything helpful whatsoever. Wow. What a spectacularly useless comment. Impressive in it’s pointlessness.

The President being dumber than any president before, and frankly dumber than most people in many ways, doesn’t mean that humanity as a whole has become collectively stupider.

In the 50s doctors had recommendations for the healthiest cigarettes. In the 70s, they thought they could give people drugs to unlock superhuman mental abilities. In the 90s, people thought mortal kombat was responsible for gun violence. In the 2010s, we thought that social media would free the world from corporate media control and misinformation (and not that it leads to shit like Trump). And today we have people who outsource their every thought, question, and task to an AI chat bot.

Now that last one will almost certainly lead to dumber people. Average IQs fluctuate, and are in part dependent on good health and nutrition and the ability to regularly exercise logic and critical thinking at a young age. As people outsource more of their critical thinking to a robot, they may very well get dumber. But on the whole, as it is now, we’ve always had smart people and we’ve always had dumb people. Your bias towards seeing more dumb people is just that, a bias. You’ll see what you’re looking for. But a single point of reference is never going to be a good judge for the whole system.

I also don’t think he’s so much tricked by them as he’s an opportunist that sees MAGA as his fast track to the Oval Office, and he’s happy to sell his soul and lie through his teeth to do it. But also, yeah, he’s not stupid, per se, but neither is he particularly intelligent or competent.

And faces, hair, neck, bellies, hips, and legs… basically everything is a yum to somebody.

People arent dumber. People have always been dumb. The difference is that the internet exposes this idiocy more, makes it easier for idiots to organize and influence the world, and uses marketing and propaganda to take advantage of this dumbness. But the dumbness itself isn’t new or increasing.

You can get the local pricing for their products on their website menu by changing the store location. I jumped around a few locations. My hometown, Chicago, Houston… I’m seeing it at 3.99, 4.49, 4.99, and then OP’s 5.39. How do they justify such a spread in pricing? 3.99 to 5.39 is a 35% increase in price. The town where I gre up and my current home are about 90 minutes apart and they are priced at 3.99 and 4.99, respectively, within the same state. So there is no way that distribution costs or minimum wage are causing this difference. Seems so arbitrary.

What a stupid fucking timeline this is.

“She’s a movie star” yeah, we know. Lesbian stuff, right? How do you think Jeffrey found her for his boy Donny?

I certainly wasn’t saying that it isn’t a good option for some/most. It definitely can be. I’m saying that “just move” misses a lot of nuance, hurdles, pitfalls, and priorities. Like you said, you nearly ended up homeless. Even though you made it in the end, you were lucky you didn’t get stuck in that situation too.

And that advice ignores the runaway problems that causes the affordability crisis in the first place, the same problems that are going to happen in places that are currently more affordable too. It is a short term solution for yourself to move. But when those problems catch up to you or your kids later, where are they going to go then? How long can the goal post keep moving before we stop it?

In what world do you think the general American public is in support of assassinating/couping the fucking Pope?

The fucking pudding brain in chief has surged 100s/1000s of the most villainous people in the country into positions of power faster that can even be coped with, and are doing everything in their power to end every semblance of decency, sensibility, and justice from our government. I was already mystified that Trump could possibly win again and terrified by what he would do with a second go at it. But even his first term didn’t prepare anyone for this shit. The evil bastard has accelerated the destruction of this country far faster than I could have even thought possible, and attempting to spread this destruction across the entire world. We’re drowning over here.

But glad you get to sit elsewhere and be a judgy bitch about my apparent complicity in this bullshit for not, I guess, protesting hard enough or getting myself killed?

It’s never for Ben himself, even if he did happen to somehow find this thread. He’s either a complete grifter that knows better or high on his own supply and has deluded himself about these things. Or both. Who it is for is the people that may see this as a “common sense” nugget of wisdom that may never examine it critically or those who are fed up with these over simplified “solutions” to their problems and just need to see that others aren’t taking this reversal of blame from systems and authority onto the individuals stuck under them without push back.

It doesn’t feel wrong to come to the conclusion that “if things are too hard to get by here and they are easier over there, then you should go over there.” That sounds entirely reasonable, because if the problem were that simple, it would be. But the problem just isn’t that simple and pretending it is is the grift. That’s why folksy wisdom like this is so rarely related to reality. Life is layered and messy and complicated and FUCKING EXPENSIVE. No solution in the real world is simple, and even less so when you are broke.

Yeah there is also the consideration that many that live in metro areas get by without a car, and are less likely to own a car or even have a driver’s license. Without reliable or even existent public transport in their new home, where a car is a basic necessity, that is another massive financial hurdle and even a skill/paperwork hurdle to make living there viable.

For context, he was speaking about living in expensive metropolitan cities, suggesting people move into less expensive places within the US, like the interior states. Ben says enough stupid shit to mock without isolating a quote from context to make it seem like he said/meant something else entirely.

Hell, there’s plenty to push back on with this quote and argument even understanding what he actually meant. “Just move somewhere cheaper”. Like that’s a much easier thing to say than do.

1. If you’re unable to afford living where you are, then you’re probably going to struggle to afford the costs of moving. Then there’s the logistics of finding work and housing wherever you move to from another state. If you don’t have money to coast on for temporary housing, gas and food, you either need a company willing to hire you and provide you assistance to move or a personal connection in the area that’ll let you crash on their couch.

2. Your field of work may just not exist in Guthrie, Oklahoma, or wherever. Leaving metro areas may mean changing careers. And those careers may not pay anywhere near as much either. Your costs may go down, but your wages might go with it.

3. Leaving your home city means leaving all of your support structures. Your parents, siblings, friends, peers, etc. Some people may really depend on those. Or maybe someone depends on you specifically. Maybe your mom isn’t healthy? Maybe you have a sister dealing with addiction? Maybe they need your presence to ensure their care.

4. There are political, legal, and health considerations in changing states. Do you have an active sex life and don’t want to be afraid that you’ll die from an unaborted ectopic pregnancy? Have a trans child? Are you not white? Then you may be more limited in suitable places to live outside of metropolitan city.

5. This sidesteps the actual problem here, the why of it all. Why they can’t afford to live in the city they grew up in. Why is pay so bad? Why is housing so expensive? Why are groceries so expensive? But no, no. We can’t question or address those things. That’s just business baby. Free market capitalism at work. Let it ride, unregulated. Just move your ass out of the way to Hastings, Nebraska or some shit.

There’s a very important distinction between a pedophile and a child abuser. The former is an affliction, the latter is a choice.