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welcome to 2023 :) happy out of touch thursday

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In middle school, my parents went through a really ugly divorce. My mom got a boyfriend during it, which pissed my dad off.

One day I was out shopping with my mom and my sister called us asking us to come home because my dad had come into the house and absolutely fucking destroyed it. You could hear my dad in the background screaming that my mom better come home or he was going to kill us all.

We took him very seriously and rushed home, because he was unmedicated bipolar, had already broken things in our home, had been physically abusive to us in the past, had PTSD from war, and had access to guns. When we got home, my dad threatened to kill my mom and his four children (age 8, 13, 15, and 17) right in front of us. The cops told my mom that they can't legally make him leave because he hadn't actually touched a person yet and his name was on the mortgage. What they did instead is ask him politely to leave the premises for the night. My mom called his commanding officer (Army) to try to get some help and all he did was make my dad promise not to kill her. Both the cops and his commanding officer told my mom that his feelings were just really hurt because she brought her boyfriend around the kids, and that it was probably a good idea not to bring him around us anymore.

They did absolutely nothing to protect me and my entire family from my father's EXTREMELY credible threat, where he was physically present, had already been violent, and was actively threatening to kill us.

But I'm monstrously relieved to know that they took down Brianna Boston with $100,000 bail and a potential 15 year jail sentence for her vague threat to a corporation in general. Glad to know a woman with no firearms, no intent, and merely speaking out of frustration was considered a credible threat. When our justice system says "serve and protect," they clearly don't mean women and children in domestic violence situations. They don't mean the average person who's just fed up with a system that steals from us and puts our lives at risk every single day.

They just mean rich, white men and corporations.

Brianna probably shouldn't have said what she said. But I'll defend her with my last breath because she stands for something that the vast majority of us already felt. That nobody is looking out for the average person. That nobody values our lives. That our justice system is unfair and will protect the rich fiercely, but not us. A rich CEO dies, and we'll support it and everyone defending it, because he was just one more person in the long line of powerful people that didn't protect us. He's just one more person who left us for dead when he had the power to help. And we are so sick and tired after decades of struggling that we just don't feel like we owe it to him to be the bigger person anymore.

Just so we're clear, this is not a threat of any kind. I have no access to firearms and I have no plans to, nor would I ever, harm anyone. This is not a manifesto or a potential motive. It is an analysis of the situation in context.

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give it up for girls with vaginas and boys with penises

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The #AllLivesMatter degenerates love the two-tier style of justice and complete disregard for children.

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Does anyone happen to have My injuries were so jolly I was Christmas for a month on hand

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❅ a very merry almost christmas ❅

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happy almost christmas everybody

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My conduct this year landed me on Santa Claus's fabled and controversial "Kill-at-all-Costs" List. Turns out the reason the big man and his people don't exercise that option more often is that they really aren't good at following through on it. Well outside their core competency. He's delegated to the elves, and they've got this ingrained assembly-line mindset that doesn't translate at all to the adaptable and fluid mindset needed for siege breaking. They just haven't adjusted their playbook at all from when they're doing rote deliveries. Armed Elves have been rappelling down my chimney one at a time into the roaring fire I've kept going nonstop for the last week. They haven't even thought to try my front door yet. Whole house smells like peppermint, which it turns out is what burnt elf meat smells like. Thought I was being super clever putting cyanide-laced almond milk out with the cookies as a last line of defense, but none of them have made it even the scant few feet to the side table where that's sitting. At the rate things are going the real danger is that I'm gonna forget what I did with that and accidentally drink it myself while I'm watching the show

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a vision

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self checkout wolves

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New kinda guy just dropped and I’m here for it

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Honestly, I like to think kusuo's fucked-upness reflects on his body in mundane and unexpected ways too. Like, no, it isn't normal or health that you can dis and relocate your joints with minimal effort. It's also not normal to get daily migraines. Every cardiac alert dog within your vicinity thinks you're dying.

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The funniest one star review of Wicked I've seen so far

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it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

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call me easily amused but i still think it's so funny to go "who said that" after saying something wildly horny