#Threat class A

[skysensei07]

Lego 2k Drive apocalypse AU: Prospecto valley

Ever since things took a turn for the worse for Bricklandia, many of the biomes that were once great locales to race, have now become incredibly dangerous due to the increase of violence. For Prospecto valley it was a grim sight to behold, from lustrous tress and flowing rivers, to decaying foliage and polluted waters, the valley's environment had decayed over the days during the cheater's reign. not only that, but the valley's economy had also taken a huge hit ever since Z's takeover as he had taken most of its resources (especially the gold) and used them for his vanity projects which also worsened the biome's state even more. not to mention. it's also seen a huge increase of crime due to the collapse, thanks to those like the Thief at sea (Smugglin sally) plundering wandering boats and the Crazy old cat lady (Bertie backfire) unleashing his swarm of cats on anyone who even dared entering her domain. so, if you're thinking about taking a vacation here, then you're better off somewhere else.

The Gritty Gold-dweller

Real name: [UNKNOWN]

Threat class: A

Track: Gold-mine labyrinth

Gate key: golden nugget

similar to the Skull baron, the origins of this mine dweller are completely shrouded in mystery. some claim that he was a worker that got lost in the mines, others say that he's actually beloved prospector rusty nuggets underneath the mask, who had volunteered to enter the mines in search of its last pieces of gold since most of it had been seized by Z and his cronies. but regardless of what you believe in, if you've been in a gold mine and know what it feels like, then the Gritty gold-dweller is a good example of what living underground for far too long can do to someone. since rusty nuggets' disappearance, things have gotten way worse for the surface. frequent earthquakes, giant holes everywhere emerging at every turn. so, when a group of people try to go underground to fix it, they came back completely shaken and utterly traumatized, unable to recover from what they just witnessed. those who stayed on the surface aren't sure why, but the group claimed that they were attacked by a mysterious old man who wore a brown miner's outfit and gray gas mask wielding a pickaxe, before trying to chase them out with what they described as a giant vehicle with a mouth made from two large scoop buckets, mechanical arms with drills that looked like they were made of gold and a cargo bed holding tons and tons of gold situated on the back of the vehicle. this came about when the group tried to take bags of gold from what seemed like a broken-down machine before they were attacked by the aforementioned miner. since then, nobody has ever gone down into the mines after the incident, and it's not because they wanted to, but because everyone has become too scared of what lies beneath. and if the miner won't get them, then at this point, we don't know what will.

The Thief at Sea

Real name: Smugglin sally

Threat class: A

Track: Stormy riverbend

Gate key: Golden bar

If you thought smugglin sally was already bad enough, then things certainly got even worse with bricklandia's collapse. now, it's no secret that sally is a thief, that's pretty much in her name. if there's something she likes she'll gladly take it, even if she's being chase by the police or just snatched it out of their hands while drinking tea. sure, it did start off as simple harmless theft. once the riots started flooding bricklandia, her kleptomania had gotten worse over the course of a few minutes. as resources began to slowly dwindle, she started to resort to more violent kinds of crime in order to survive, from piracy, assault to even grand larceny of an old ship she now sails on. now that the police weren't there to stop her, she was basically allowed to do whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted. now equipped with a flintlock pistol, cutlass sword and an entire crew backing her up. she still sails the valley's rivers to this day, ready to steal anything they can get her hands on.

The Feral stallion

Real name: Sal the stallion

Threat class: A

Track: Farmland gauntlet

Gate key: Lucky horseshoe

Sal has always been such a carefree horse since he first moved to the farm, from manual work, galloping in the fields, to winning races in his horse-sized vehicles. life was fairly relaxing for him and his farm-family. that is until the riots started happening, and things took a major toll for the farm. at first, it started off fairly small and was manageable. but then pollution started to seep into the valley's soil and the crop started to wilt away. soon they were barely scrapping by, living on nothing but mere pennies, Sal's farm tried to salvage what was left of their farm, but that wasn't enough to feed the entire family, and they were forced to cut down on portions every night. eventually, when money and food finally ran out, the owners decided to just give up and simply abandon the farm and go to the resort above the sky. Sal of course was not happy to hear the news, after everything they went through as a family, they were just gonna abandon the farm just like that. this act of betrayal proved to be the final straw for the already strained horse, and something inside of him had snapped. without warning, he and the other animals attacked their human owners before destroying what was left of farm. their house, barn, and entire field of crop. ransacked by Sal who now felt nothing but pure rage towards those he once considered family, the only member that survived the attack was Haley who now lives atop the resort in the sky. ever since the collapse, no one knows where Sal is now. rumors say that he and his army of feral farm animals had escaped into the deeper parts of the valley, occasionally leaving their spot to steal food and supplies from anyone they come across.

The Crazy Old Cat Lady

Real name: Bertie backfire

Threat class: B

Track: Cat-scratch Lake

Gate key: Ball of yarn

It's no secret that Bertie is a cat person, so much so that that her house is full of every type of feline you can think of. grey cats, white cats, black cats, calico cats, any kind of feline. this may seem harmless at first, and frankly it was (aside from having to clean up their messes everytime). until the collapse happened, and her obsession with cats had gotten even worse. from day one she began collecting cats left and right, claiming that she was doing this to "Protect them" from the horrors of Bricklandia. some people believed her cause at first, but slowly, they became alienated by her obsession, most of them leaving because of it. soon, her house and by extension the village had become overrun with cats, so much so that the residents were forced to move out of their homes even Bertie's own daughter had to leave because of her. Bertie on the other hand wasn't doing good mentally, time hasn't been kind to her since the collapse, lack of human interaction, constant cat scratching and awful smells and tending to their needs had drove her to the point of insanity. but despite that, Bertie still believes that she's doing the right thing protecting these cats. with how bad Prospecto valley had gotten, these felines needed someone to protect them from any kind of harm that comes their way. and if people don't understand, then she'll make them understand one way or another.

The Wandering bureaucrat

Real name: Chamfered bricks

Threat class: C

Track: Polluted Floral zone

Gate key: Pocket watch

Greed hasn't always brought out the best of people, especially when the apocalypse has started. take Chamfered bricks for example, a greedy logging mill owner who took advantage of every kind of White-collar crime you can think of. Embezzlement, Bribery, Fraud, Tax evasion, and so much more. not to mention the partnership he made with Shadow Z, just so he can continue to fill his own pockets. from that alone, it seems like bricks was set for life. then the collapse happened, and thanks to a certain cheater backstabbing him, he'd lost everything. his wealth, his company, even his own pride had been shattered. now left with nothing and sent back down to Bricklandia, Chamfered was now forced to defend for himself against people he once looked down on. however, Bricks' time within this now hostile world had made him humbler over the last few years. a bit that is, he is still the same filthy opportunist he was back then, but now that he has a better view of the world, he's more willing to give up everything he has. If defeating Shadow Z means Bricklandia will get better, then by all means he'll take every necessary measure to see this through.

The Phantom foul

Real name: Laumina foul

Threat class: B

Track: Switchback theater

Gate key: Other half of a porcelain mask

Laumina had everything you could ever dream of. fame, fortune, a racing career, a music career, even a loyal fanbase by her side, literally anything a person could ever want in their life she has tenfold. however, after Z's Takeover, things started to take a turn for the worst. at first, it started fairly small with him constantly hitting on her and asking her out, but when Laumina continuously turned him down every time, that's where things started to escalate. eventually, this led to Shadow Z purposely setting a room on fire, with Laumina still in it, leading to her getting some nasty burn scars on her body, including half of her face. this broke her significantly, both mentally, psychically and socially. she couldn't sing very well, has a hard time eating her meals, she barely makes any sort of appearance for fans, and when she actually does, she's usually hiding her face behind a mask or a veil. then, one fateful day in the Switchback theater, during one of her performances, her mask suddenly came off, exposing her burnt face in front of everyone in the theater. what happened next felt like a blur to her, all she could hear were people laughing at her even calling her names, but then the laughs quickly turned into screams (even including hers) as well as the sounds of a stuff collapsing and attendees evacuating in droves. before she knew it, she was now trapped inside the theater, no way in and no way out. to this day, nobody knows what became of Laumina after the theater collapsed, rumors say they can hear the faint sounds of a woman singing a melody from it, while others say that she's still alive, but chose to isolate herself in the now abandoned theater.

[transmechanicus]

I know some people have unfathomable beef with the term but i really don’t see the issue with transmascs describing their specific experiences with societal mistreatment and persecution as “transandrophobia”, like i think it’s good to be able to discuss specific experiences and articulate the problems you’re facing actually.

[calcified-fluorited]

Hot take, season 2 feels like piltover apologist propaganda

Piltover has been oppressing and exploiting zaun for who know how long, but the timeline where everything is good, all that had to be different was for hextech to not exist

at several points in the story, including Cait's poison gas mission, enforcers go down there to brutalise people in pursuit of jinx, but all of that unnecessary violence is brushed aside because there is a new Big Bad that we all must unite against. How convenient!

the Big Bad (Viktor) was from Zaun, and we need Piltover's police force to save us from this zaunite. Actually, the previous season's big bad was also from the undercity

zaunites come to help the people who treated them like animals their entire lives AND THEY PUT ON THE UNIFORMS OF PEOPLE WHO OPPRESSED THEM? I'M SORRY WHAT

Sevika who conveniently hasn't spoken a line since what, episode 4? her opinion isn't important, just be happy that she's on the council now.

entirety of act 3 actually

the "dirt under your nails" line. ????? Who wrote this? I want to talk.

[homkamiro]

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! I need to tell just how running blind fanfiction by @thetriggeredhappy fucked me up

I'm not joking when I say that this is my favourite fic ever made, I literally don't, everything about it is so perfect, so detailed and so emotional,, i cried a lot, i laughed a lot, and I was really amazed by some of the plot twitsts

EVERYONE needs to read it, and if you don't imma bust yo damn kneecaps

[bonefall]

I haven’t read these books in years WHAT is the angel fetuses. What is happening

LMAO yeah there's actually been three instances where Warrior Cats made fetuses into StarClan characters. We're joking about Moonpaw's absorbed fetus twin (Starpaw/The Voice) meeting with Clear Sky's first dead wife's unborn kids.

The first time they did this was in the last book of DOTC, on Gray Wing's deathbed. Bright Stream, last seen in early pregnancy and being carried off by eagles to be gruesomely eaten alive, shows up accompanied by Tiger Tail and Pale Sky. Her embryos.

Because they show up in this big fanservicey montauge of all DOTC's fridged wives happily living as eternal mothers in StarClan, I sardonically call them the Dead Angel Fetus Children.

(It's dark humor to cope with how much the concept freaks me out)

And with Moonpaw, I have to explain how fusion chimerism works.

There are a few types of chimeras, but when a single individual is created from the combination of two fully fertilized zygotes, that is called fusion chimerism. That's what Moonpaw is.

And you have to understand, we're talking zygotes as in cells. The fusion of haploid gametes. NOT embryos (developing major organs) or fetuses (has major organs). When multiple embryos or fetuses are detected during pregnancy, but one vanishes, that is called Vanishing Twin syndrome (VTS).

There is actually very little linkage between VTS and the chance of a baby being born with fusion chimerism. At best it's an overstated link. At worst, it is a general misconception of Vanishing Twin syndrome.

Fusion Chimeras can happen in a lot of different ways, most of them fertilization errors, very few of them involving the multiple embryos of VTS. Likewise, the vast majority of VTS cases do not result in fusion chimeras. I explained Chimerism in-depth over in this post, and I encourage you to follow my citations to learn more if you're interested.

Sooooo... we're not even talking fetuses for Starpaw and Moonpaw. If they ever were separate, it would have been as embryos at best.

Which means that Moonpaw is haunted by cells that hadn't even developed major organs.

Ergo, we're joking around about how peculiar it is that Supernatural Utero Ghosts have happened thrice.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 252

“Sir, we’ve… There’s been an encounter with a Reaper class entity.” 

There were several classifications for ecto-entities. Several ways the Ghost Investigation Ward classified each. Several common ones that they could easily destroy, easily study. Others however… others were dangerous. Incredibly dangerous. 

There’d only been two other Reaper-class entities confirmed before- both contained but barely. RP-1, a large knight-like entity seemingly made from shadows, and RP-2, a child-like creature that could near perfectly mimic a human. 

And now, there was a third. A third entity that could- and judging from the reports coming in had- killed. Had done so several times even. Which meant it needed to be contained yesterday. 

“Send out the teams- I want this thing in Site X Now!” 

[wishchip106]

i genuinely think if moira didn’t interrupt them this scene would’ve built up to a kiss scene

GAHHSHRHEHHW

once again back on my moira mactaggert hate train

erik should’ve shot her the gun is right there

who cares what the president has to say let the gays have their moment! god woman give it a rest!

IM SORRY THIS IS MEAN BUT SHE PISSES ME OFF WHENEVER SHES ONSCREEN

the first time i watched this movie i actually cheered when erik started choking her

crying

does anyone have any fics where they weren’t interrupted? there’s probably a few but idk what exactly to search up

moira has some kinda plot armor

knock charles out and then kill her idk

need to call up magneto for this

they couldn’t show the rest of the mutant road trip cause they were getting touchy feely with eachother 🤨

erik went to go cry in his bedroom afterwards

moira gives me “move over boys! let a real woman deal with this 😏😌” vibes WHILE SHE DOES NOTHING

for some reason i can appreciate moira in other things like the animated series or maybe the comics (i haven’t read many) but with the movies i want to bring back public execution

people write her way better in fanfics honestly

anyway gonna go buy a dart board then print a picture of her and use her face as target practice toodles

[weezerlvr228]

i love this photo sm they’re so cutie

[dramatic-dolphin]

heyyo, sorry if it's a bother but I remember you mentioning somewhere (in the tags of something?) that hungarian might even have more than 18 cases if we count it a different way and I lost that post but I'm still very curious, could you tell me more about this or point me to a source? I love terrorising international friends with the hungarian case system

It's NEVER a bother to talk about linguistics :DD This is gonna be a bit long tho.

The reason for this is that Hungarian has like a million suffixes and not all of them are created equal. So there is a bit of debate over what, exactly, constitues as a "case" here.

The currently accepted safe list of the 18 Hungarian suffixes that are definitely totally cases looks like this:

This is already hilarious, because you, as a native speaker, have no idea what these terms mean, and also because there is nothing at essive-modal in this example. Because we just do not decline the word jég in that case.

(Essive-modal is the -ul in "jutalmul" and "[beszélek] magyarul" btw. Is 'jegekül' a word that exists and makes sense? Discuss.)

These are the "bare minimum" of cases that fit both of the two (currently accepted) rules that 1) a case can be a compulsory argument of a verb (aka you can have a verb that you have to use a specific case with, like "beléptem a házba") and 2) only cases can follow other suffixes (I actually can't think of an example for this rn lol).

Thinking about it, you might even get by with saying we have 17 cases in a pinch, since essive-modal is such a weirdo and useless for like most nouns. Don't quote me on this one though.

Anyways, if you're a bit more daring, you can look at all the other suffixes and say "well, why can't these be cases too?" Like come on, this is missing genitive. Why is it missing genitive? So you put in genitive (embernek). And if that's in, then why can't the others be there too? Which is how you end up with off-the-wall cases like temporal (ötkor), sociative (kutyástul), locative (Győrött), distributive-temporal (hetente), and so on until you reach like 34, or however many suffixes there are. Every suffix can be given a fancy overly specific case name to horrify poor non-Hungarian speakers.

Wait, did I say the bare minimum was 18(-17) cases? Actually no, the bare minimum is ZERO cases. Because you can take the enlightened opinion that "case" as a concept should not be applied to agglutinative languages like Hungarian, and Hungarian cases are actually better understood as postpositions affixed to a noun. (Funnily, this is actually how some of those suffixes became suffixes. Ex: hodu utu rea -> hadi útra.)

So, there you have it. The number of cases in Hungarian is a number between 0 and 35. But probably 18. Unless it's not.

[justmenoworries]

POV you're the poor nymph working at Olympus Starbucks and you just told her she can't have a free refill.

[arrowheadedbitch]

Imagining Denki being casted as the villain in a training exercise and after plenty of confirmation that he should be acting like a villain would 100 percent and he doesn't need to play nice and for the love of GOD Kaminari just do the fucking exercise already, he takes one of his classmates hostage during the fight to get away from the heroes (his other classmates)

Holding his fingers up to the classmates head, threatening to electrocute their brain into mush, even shocking them a teeny bit to show he's "serious", he actually manages to get his classmates to lower their weapons and shoots a truly harmless amount of electricity into his hostage's back to stun them as he pushes them at the heroes and makes a run for it

At the end of the exercise, he gets a really good grade for his skills in undercover work

Because if I can't give him my theatrics what even is the point

[skysensei07]

Lego 2k Drive apocalypse AU: Big Butte county

Ever since things took a turn for the worse for Bricklandia, many of the biomes that were once great locales to race, have now become incredibly dangerous due to the increase of violence. For Big Butte, not only did they had to face violent riots everyday. but also, continuous Sandstorms, falling rocks & the looming threat of food poisoning since most of its restaurants have been ransacked. then there's the matter of the other threats. Which has grown substantially thanks to the Skull baron: a mysterious figure that wears a skull above their face. there's also the astral smoke which can through any nook & cranny around Big butte, piles and piles of rotten pastry strewn about, some even getting into the river making it a major hazard. and then there's the little town behind the giant stone monument. which has become a magnet for continuous violence and crime.

in order to prevent the biomes from intertwining with each other, Clutch and a group of people his have created gates that can only be unlocked via artifacts belonging to each marauder. unlocking the gate is easy enough, but getting each artifact though is arguably the hardest part of the task.

The Friendly Dust-devil

Real name: Chip Howser

Threat class: C

Track: Dust Devil Dome

Gate key: Rusty Wrench

Even before the apocalypse happened, Chip has always been a really kind person at heart, in spite of how dim witted he was with all of his terrible ideas. however, he also had a bit of an inferiority complex as well, being the son of Brick howser, he always saw himself as not being good enough to be a part of her mother's legacy. so, when the apocalypse began and her mother had mysteriously disappeared, it was here, that he knew he had to put his best foot down if he wanted to protect everyone from big butte's dangers. as well as avenge his mother for who Z presumably did something to her.

The Disgraced frontier

Real name: Dr. Jette fastro

Threat class: A

Track: Astral Smoke Research Facilities

Gate key: Fastro's old helmet

Dr. Jette Fastro was one of the best scientists Big butte ever had, from time-traveling, studying rocket science and even Racing. with a track record like that, she clearly had a bright career ahead of her. but then the incident happened and before she knew it, everything she had was taken away from her. Fastro could not accept this reality, she really couldn't. so, in a desperate bid get her old life back, she started a new project that researched into gas and medication, days later she finally completed her big project, it was called Astral smoke. a painkiller type smoke that if inhaled can help relieve their stress and make them forget their problems. little did she know however, was that it had major side effects to it. such as hallucinations or making someone lose their sense of empathy. even becoming sociopathic. unfortunately, Fastro was too far gone in her delusions to realize this. having tested the smoke on herself. as a result, she became a heartless, uncaring woman that spreads Astral smoke wherever she went.

El Diablo De Las Especias

Real name: Fernando swerve

Threat class: B

Track: Drive-thru Danger

Gate key: Bottle of Extreme hot sauce

If there was one thing people would call Fernando swerve. it would be passionate and compassionate. but one thing people never called him was crazy and obsessed. ever since he and Maple Barr broke up and his recipes had become bland and mild, Fernando slowly became obsessed with spice, wanting something that could give flavor to his mouth. so much so that he even resorted to genetically alter various peppers to make them even more spicier. eventually when the apocalypse began, he figured that he might as well share his new spices to everyone in the county. before people knew it, fernando was serving them up hot on plates like wildfire. and for everyone who consumed these spice induced recipes, it literally felt like a wildfire was going on in their stomachs. but he didn't care if people's mouths were on fire, he didn't care if his customers couldn't take it, all it mattered to him was that his food had actual taste again.

The Rotten baker

Real name: Maple Barr

Threat class: A

Track: Rotten glaze river

Gate key: prized ribbon

Maple has always been a really sweet & hard-working woman ever since she was born. I mean she was raised well by her grandparents who took her in, got to achieve her dream of being the owner of her own Bakery as well as her own racing career, and eventually fell in love with the greatest chef she's ever met with Fernando swerve. nothing could go wrong with this, right? Except it did, she ended up breaking up with swerve due to both of them allegedly cheating on one another, she was also fired from her own business due to misconduct and was replaced with a more younger manager. it became too much for her, and later on, when riots in bricklandia were just getting heated, Maple Barr now enraged, created a pastry mix that consisted of less than fresh ingredients. she came back to her bakery and without warning, unleashed this rotten mix into the batter and somehow created a chain reaction that turned the bakery into a huge pile of rotten pastry. during this, she's also saved the last box of donuts she made before her firing. since then, maple was bent on protecting the last batch of donuts from anyone who try to get their grubby hands on them. even if she has to get her hands dirty.

Note: the red stuff on her Knife is actually strawberry jam, in case you're curious

The Intergalactic enforcer

Real name: Hugh mann

Threat class: A

Track: G.M.B (Grey Menn Base)

Gate key: parking sign

Trying to be accepted is one thing, but trying to cope with the apocalypse is another thing entirely. this was the case for Hugh mann, a benevolent alien who just wanted to be accepted for who he was but was given odd stares wherever he went. this made him anxious and uneasy towards those he's interacted with. he even felt like some people were stalking him at every turn, especially Fastro who does not trust him at all. when the apocalypse came, he tried to remain peaceful and humble as much as he could. but eventually like everyone else, he sadly snapped under pressure. unable to handle the stress anymore, he decided to take matters into his own hands and created a group called "The G.M" (Grey Menn) to try and at least quell the riots as much as possible. but while this goal started out quite noble at first, as time went on, the G.M started to use more violent measures in order the quell these riots, from laser gates, stun blasters to even using astral smoke in order to calm them down. as for Hugh himself, he isn't doing so well either, as with each passing day, becoming more violent and paranoid with each different threat his crew has to deal with. not realizing that he's become the very thing he tried to stop. so, whether people like it or not, he'll always be watching their every move no matter what the cost is.

The Skull baron

Real name: [UNKNOWN]

Threat class: A

Track: Skull fort

Gate key: Pipe wrench

No one knows where the Skull baron came from. some say he was a disgraced racer that came back for vengeance, others say he's a criminal that's escape from jail and created the group just to cause chaos. but some say he's the legendary stunt pilot Brick Howser herself. but regardless of what people say, when Brick Howser disappeared that day, the Skull baron came out to play. and boy he really plays rough. if there were three words that described him, it would be ruthless, fearsome and determined. equipped with a machete and an entire army of scavengers backing him up. he's considered one of the most dangerous marauders of Bricklandia, and for good reason, if there was something that they needed, then he'll get it through any means necessary. if there was someone that needed to be taken care of, he does it without hesitation. however, as of now, there is something (or someone) that he always hesitates on everytime they make contact, that being The Friendly Dust-devil himself: Chip Howser. no one knows why he keeps avoiding him, but if the theory regarding Brick Howser is true. then family bonds are bound to strain even further.

[coochiekrab]

How did you develop a fear of french accents? I mean no offense but I had no idea such a thing was possible. How does kuri react when Aubrey pronounces a word Frenchly

I took a French class in highschool and was completely fine but one day in college i just couldn’t hear anything French without having a physical and emotional Fear response LOL. It just happened one day. Nothing crazy happened. It hurts my ears and my heart races and my eyes water. And weirdest of all it makes me sneeze. There are like 3 French songs i can tolerate

[nando161mando]

Palestinian Artist Paints Murals on Gazan Houses Bombed by Israel

[eugenedebs1920]

What the actual f*ck!??? How is this even legal!? I guess I’ve never looked at my mortgage breakdown. I knew I had a pretty garbage interest rate, I was waiting for rates to fall and perhaps refinance. I am absolutely blown the f*ck away!!

I pay an extra hundred bucks a month as to just keep chipping away at the principal for the loan and still!! They’re telling me, that I’ve paid, coming up on $15k on my mortgage since I bought my house last year, but I’ve actually only paid $2,300 on the actual house but I’ve given the bank $9,300 for lending me the money to purchase this piece of sh*t home, that I’ve put tens of thousands of dollars into, copious amounts of blood and sweat remodeling this thing!?!?!! WHAT THE F*CK!!!?

When I bought this POS I purchased it in Jan 2023. The listing boasted an orchard, pear trees, apple trees, peach, pomegranate and fig. When I came to see the house, I knew it needed work, but fortunately that’s what I do for a living is remodel houses.

Come to find out the pear and apple trees are infected with fire blithe, an incurable disease.

I don’t think it was the last owners, probably the ones before them but, when I opened the walls and floor, HOLY SH*T! I didn’t know termites could do that much damage! Those f*ckers covered that termite wood so well, while at the same time cursing me with the worst “craftsmanship” I have ever seen… I used to think building inspectors were a pain in my ass. I’ve never respected them more than after purchasing a home on unrestricted land.

After nearly two years of busting my ass both to pay the mortgage, and renovating this dump, I go to check the fruits of my labor, see how much I’ve paid down the house, to find I’ve paid a month of rent in a city off the actual principal of the house, while nearly 4/5ths went to interest.

I’m shocked! I’m pissed! I’m crushed!

Two f*cking years of busting my balls! Two years of living in a renovation that includes replacing the floor joists and nearly all structural studs, both interior and exterior. Two years of chasing the “American dream”, which is having a small piece of property with a very modest house on it, to find that I’ve paid $2,300 on the house itself.

The rest goes to a giant bank who harbors billions of dollars, that it acquired because it speculated (a fancy word for gambled) with other people’s money, as well as making money off having money!?

Then there’s dumbass Eugene over here, being the f*cking tool he is, just a cog in the machine, a brick in the wall if you will, being a good little serf, “just keep working just keep working just keep working.” Paying into a system he despises, lining the pockets of undeserving CEO’s and oligarchs, then some people are shocked that most of us are like, “serves him right” when a CEO of a major health insurance company gets popped!

I’m an early millennial, late GenX, I feel bad for you GenZers and beyond! Home insurance is unaffordable in many places around the country. A bank won’t give you a loan without your home being insured (don’t get me started on shistey ass insurance companies either) which kinda makes sense, so if your home burns down and ain’t worth sh*t, you don’t just walk away like, see ya ✌️ That is leading to these MASSIVE real estate companies purchasing any home they can get there hands on, not only forcing the majority of the middle class to be renters, but also fixing the price for rent, which if any of you don’t know, in any moderately big city, is out of control expensive!

For a country that decries the horrors of communism there are certain aspects of capitalism that create a subjugated class very similar communism for anyone who isn’t wealthy.

How you may ask?

One of the main principles of communism is the lack of individual ownership. Not sure if anyone’s noticed but every year there’s more you spend, but less you own.

Music and movies are no longer physical objects that one has possession of. They are now linked to a streaming service or app that requires internet, or at best downloaded into a computer.

To purchase a vehicle, especially a new one, requires a loan nearly as extensive as what a home use to cost. Vehicles are $60k-$100k anymore!! If you don’t have the credit (which is a NWO conspiracy, and that’s coming from a liberal) you can’t acquire said loan, which leaves you with the option to lease. Again. No individual ownership.

Video games are more and more becoming software that you connect to the internet to play. In my day we had clunky plastic cartridges that we owned indefinitely. Some video games now require subscriptions to Xbox live, or whatever PlayStations equivalent is, to even play the game you don’t own!

So basically what we “own” is the clothes on our back and the various “toys” we have (mine being tools, which in cruel irony are for work). The rest is consumables. Food, booze, herb, vacations, healthcare. What’s the f*cking point!?

I’m telling you my fellow Americans, Republican, Democrat, Independent, if we don’t rise up against this inequality, we, and definitely our children, will live under an umbrella of capitalism where we stay dry from any of its benefits while the rest soaks the very elite with wealth they don’t need.

The top 10% own 67% of the nations capital. That leaves us to split the remaining 33% between the remaining 90% of us. It’s f*cking absurd!!!

I know I ain’t the only dumb f*ck who works his or her butts off day after day after day, building wealth for someone else while we get but a fraction of the record profits the companies we work for make, and are told to like it or we can be replaced.

I thought I made this next thing I’m going to say up, I’ve been using this analogy for years, but just the other day I heard something similar, so I don’t know if my thought got out to the world, of if I unwittingly stole someone else’s thought years ago and claimed it as my own, but…

Let’s say we’re doing a study on a primate colony. In this primate colony there are one or two monkeys who gather as many bananas as they can, more than they could ever eat, hoarding and bogarting nearly three quarters of available bananas in this part of the jungle. The other 50-60 monkeys are left with a measly amount of bananas, whatever is left on the jungle floor that “trickled down” from these monkeys who are hoarding the majority of bananas.

We wouldn’t look at these monkeys as some kind of geniuses of bananas, or as titans of the banana industry. We wouldn’t look at them and wonder, what is wrong with these couple monkeys?! Gathering up so many bananas while every other primate in the colony struggles just to feed their baby monkeys and get by.

That’s where we’ve gotten as a society. There’s a handful of people hoarding all the damn bananas and we can’t hardly get any! Yet they’ve conned us, in a capitalistic fevor, to glorify them. See them as role models. Aspire to be just like them.

As of now there are 6 billionaires in trumps cabinet. How do these people have our best interests in mind? How do they have any basic idea what the middle class needs or desires? How can they be trusted not to focus on their bottom line as their top priority?

They don’t, they can’t and they won’t.

The last time the markets were deregulated and these “titans of industry” had the reigns, in 2007-2008, it was the greatest recession since the Great Depression.

Anyone who’s kept up with my writing might remember a study I often reference and think of. Getting a good sum of money fires off the same reward centers in your brain as doing a line or hit of blow. The same dopamine and serotonin are released in the same way.

We need to stop looking at the wealthy as people who know how to succeed and start recognizing them for what they really are.

Junkies. Looking for that next line of capital snorted up their nostril. That next hit off the glass rose stem of currency.

The whole while as they’re getting their fix from money, it’s done at our expense (no pun intended). Lessening our pay, the safety requirements we work in, our ability to collectively bargain, our employer healthcare, the labor practices, denying coverage, cutting jobs, automating jobs, working on skeleton crews, practicing predatory lending, gambling with pensions, privatizing social security.

We have to remember. Their obligation is to their shareholders. Not their customers, and certainly not their employees.

This will not change unless we rise up against them. I’m not saying with gun violence or necessarily violence in general. They need to know, that without a workforce, they can’t make money. Without a customer base, they won’t make money. Without money, how will they get the monkey off their back?

Workers of the world unite!

[abearinthewoods]

is the fbi tip just a really poor taste dry joke or

(cant fathom considering swatting someone over that) (wouldnt want people going Ham on you in the event its just a bad tone dark dry joke)

Nope, I did in fact submit the report. Not only that, I submitted it to the counter terrorism unit.

I even put my full name and current address on it.

I don't see it as swatting. That would require lying.

And its not a bad tone dark dry joke. the tag, "related to current discourse" changes it from a dark dry joke born out of transmisandry, "i hate trans men because xyz". Into terrorist threats. "Trans men aren't using the word I want them to use to talk about their oppression, so i'll just threaten them with vague wording and see how many fall in line" And her reblog days later made this more clear, asking her followers to spread it around more since its causing fear.

And its not like we haven't had a recent case of a radfem with the gender reverse of the bitter attitudes from the incel forum going on a shooting spree. well piralea is a trans radfem, she hates trans men the way radfems hate cis men.

So while i get that everybody here wants to pretend that because she is a women she is less capable of carrying out this harm, I do not share this illusion.

If I was god emperor I'd make anti-mens-advocacy reactionary bullshit (of any flavor ) a mandatory jail sentence and then raise the sentence until anti-mens-advocacy reactionary bullshit is eliminated from every fucking inch of society. at 34 years old and 24 years of being a MRA, I am flat out sick of it.