#sobering

[zigdirty]

This should surprise no one. The US has shown the world who it is and who it wants to be for far too long for anyone to claim ignorance.

When people tell you who they are, listen to them.

FUCK THIS COUNTRY

[doctorslippery]

Sobering

You are archive glomming. Just skimming through looking at the cool shit someone posted.

And you get to a point somewhere in 2020…and it just stops. No, I'm moving on to other pursuits. Or I just don't have time/real life got in the way.

And you really hope it was one of those reasons.

COVID cut a swath that we don't truly recognize. We aren't far enough away from it to see the scar. We've still got bruising and swelling around the wound site.

[slutdge]

could you imagine trying to navigate this bar drunk, this is the 9th circle of hell

[icedille]

woagh irl gore on the dash

[zigdirty]

Absolutely all of this.

Being complicit doesn’t absolve you of guilt.

FUCK PEOPLE WHO VOTED TRUMP. I hate you with all my heart and I hope you burn in hell.

but most importantly, FUCK PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T VOTE KAMALA HARRIS.

You thought you fucking did something by not voting, well guess what, this is partially your fault. You allowed this to happen. By not voting for Trump’s opponent, you let him win. I hope you’re fucking happy with yourself. Good fucking job.

Now everyone will suffer the consequences of your actions. Not only you americans, but people outside of the US as well.

You thought you stopped a genocide supporter, but you allowed another one, who by the way is much much worse, to come into power (AGAIN). You keep talking about how the system needs to be changed or whatever, and you joke about overthrowing the government, and that votes change nothing. Yet you don’t do anything. You want a revolution? Then fucking start one. Come on, change the system. Overthrow the government, go ahead. “Both candidates are evil and I don’t want either to be president!” THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Oh, you don’t actually want to do that? It sounds scary and impossible to achieve? Then you better at least fucking vote next time. Make a difference.

You achieved nothing, and only made things worse.

[metawriter]

My Testimony of a Sobering Life in Christ

Life is ups and downs. Do good. Do bad. You run into the ills of life somewhere along the road. But those of us who believe in Jesus and turn to do his commandments gain a faithful friend who helps us as we struggle with living. He faithfully promises, “call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory” (Psalms 50:15), in Isaiah 46 verse 4 “I will sustain you…

[zigdirty]

Just something that popped into my brain I thought I’d post in the void.

A new way to know that conservatives are always full of shit and every word out of their mouths is either a lie, a confession, or both: they know exactly what it means to defund things they don’t like, and how to most effectively do it to ensure it crushes whatever they don’t want. They just claim ignorance when something they want is on the chopping block.

The IRS? Defund that shit so they can’t enforce tax laws!

Public schools? Defund that shit to keep the base uneducated and gullible while also getting to selectively choose curricula and “acceptable topics” in the private schools they pay off. (Translation: no evolution, no slavery, no gay rights, no women’s suffrage, etc., taught to their children, but absolutely Christianity taught to them.)

The EPA? Defund that shit so they can make even more dark money from their worst and most corrupt donor companies like OPEC.

There are obviously way more examples, but just wanted to throw this out there as yet another reason to NEVER vote for a Republican. They don’t give a shit about anyone else but themselves and they can never be trusted.

At least voting progressive means there’s a CHANCE you would get a decent human.

[starryvomit]

“647 days sober”

-S.

[zigdirty]

By the time I got off work this year, I’d already seen that the election had been called. I already knew the results.

Normally I have the tradition of watching this spectacular film every Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th, so I can enjoy it all over again, but also do I am always aware of how easily fascism can take over.

The irony of this Election Day being on Guy Fawkes Day, and the stakes of said election, were not lost on me. Not in the slightest.

But having been unable to watch it before I went to work Tuesday, I planned to at least start it before the end of the day. That is, until I saw the news.

All I could hear in my head was the speech broadcast across the emergency channel:

Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly, there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. They were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic, you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words; they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

This has played on repeat in my mind since I learned of the election results, searing itself into my psyche.

We are now at that place. We are now the people to whom V was speaking in the movie.

I cannot bring myself to rewatch this marvel of live-action film. I do not believe it would bring me joy any longer.

We have no one else to blame but ourselves.

And we have a long road ahead of us out of hell.

V for Vendetta (2005)

[drops-of-universe]

Guys i’ve found a way to make it through the loneliness!!! substance abuse

[coloradomcpoeticslave]

It's Sobering

By Daniel Paiz Word vomit is sometimes what a writer or poet calls the process of getting everything out of one’s head and innards and seeing what’s what. That is partially what is going to be read below, but it’s also a slew of thoughts and reactions as well. Cathartic is the process of writing. Whether it’s in poetic form, rhyming away like an emcee who hasn’t unboxed a mic, or it’s a few…

[zigdirty]

Every single person that let this happen could die the most painful death right in front of me and I wouldn’t lift a finger to help them. It doesn’t just include those that voted FOR the Orange Shitbag: those that didn’t vote and those that voted for a third party are also absolutely to blame.

I will have to continuously check my wrath to not contribute to their situation; I’m that livid.

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[zigdirty]

As if 2024 wasn’t already off to a bad enough start… now there’s a double whammy of cicadas that only occurs once every 221 years!

Plagues of locusts descends on the U.S., I wonder if the timing is relevant at all…?

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[slimsnipes]

wine tasting

[zigdirty]

The US was never trustworthy with the power, money, and influence that it had in the global stage.

This is the tipping point where the rest of the world needs to readjust to survive without the US.

The average MAGA voter feels they are hurting from an economy that helps others who are unworthy, so they voted for the most virtueless billionaires who specialize in greed to save them.

Suckers and loser.