I personally support the criminalization of feelings! Once the ruling class finishes compiling its list of acceptable feelings ("hate" is NOT ONE OF THEM), we need to incarcerate those having feelings not on the list. Only then can we call ourselves a free country.

There may be one problem.

Florida's statute, 836.10, requires a threat to be transmitted in a manner that another person can view. And in Dominguez v. State (2026), a Florida appellate court emphasized that the prosecution must establish a genuine threat and the defendant's intent to make one.

If she didn't send it to the target, it wasn't a "threat". It was a feeling. That's why we need to criminalize feelings NOW. It's the closest we can currently come to our ultimate goal of criminalizing thoughts.

Safety will remain an elusive goal until we can stop bad things at the "thought" stage.

Stop it. Get some help.

Did it work? Did it make the cognitive dissonance go away?

Aw what the hell, I give you permission. You can call me the N word. You know you want to. Anonymous Cowards is what they used to call the Klan too.

I guess that you conveniently forgot to mention the Southern Strategy to your daughter and what changes it had on either party.

On no, I didn’t forget, I told her that Democrats did not really run the Jim Crow South because the Southern Strategy retroactively changed all of that. I also told her not to look at things like black incarceration rates or the wealth gap since Democrats began paying lip service to civil rights, because, well, let us face it, it makes it look like they advanced their racist agenda far better while pretending to care about black folks. I also did not mention the largest expansion of the wealth gap taking place under Obama. Ditto the decimation of the manufacturing based that turned many inner-cities inside out. With supposed friends like Democrats, who needs enemies, huh? The Southern Strategy absolves all of that, though.

Do not worry, I told her that Republicans did all that stuff, especially after Trump led the bloodthirsty insurrection where he tried to take over the world and hold it hostage for one . million dollars, not to mention he let a bunch of filthy foreigners influence our elections, then forced Hilary to type a bunch of embarrassing stuff even though the real outrage was that the riff-raff got to read it. Since when do deplorables read, amirite?

I also did not mention the number of Democrats who anre self-described anonymous cowards. I figured that would just be going too far. Besides it would just be misinformation, or maybe a conspiracy theory.

Yeah, imma go with conspiracy theory.

I take it you're in favor of reparations, then.

If you’re offering, sure. Do you need to know where to send the check?

You apparently believe that guilt is carried by groups across generations, even when none of the current group was alive

You just described the basis of affirmative action.

Democrats take more flights and fly more miles every year than Republicans. In fact, the more affluent one is, the higher the carbon footprint on average. Yet, if you hear them tell it, Climate Change is not caused by their pollution, but by the disbelief in their pollution by the working class.

For the last several decades, Democrats have attracted affluent white voters by promising them that they will scapegoat the working class for their sins. My kid came home the other day and asked me why Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Act. When I explained that Democrats formed the majority of opposition to it, she was stunned. Even more so when I told her that Democrats had an ex-KKK member in congress into the 2010s. And ran the Jim Crow South into the 1960s. And fought a war to preserve slavery.

So now it’s the evil working class and their disbelief in climate change that is posing an existential threat to the planet. Couldn’t affluent progressives take a big chunk out of the problem by just, you know, polluting less themselves?

Well, yeah, but why would they do that? It’s not about the climate. It was never about the climate. Do you think they really care what kind of temperatures your great grandchildren will have to endure? They hate you deplorables, and want you to die of any number of things covid, gun accidents, insurrections, adverse weather it serves you deniers right but gosh darn it, they care about problems that will reach their peak long after they are dead and buried. They just do, dammit, they just love and care about people. Oh, and our democracy. That thing they ridicule people for being patriotic about? Yeah, well, it turns out that nothing means more to them personally, and guess who is the biggest threat to THAT?

Why, would you believe THAT is being threatened by the working class too? Golly jeepers, what a coincidence. Not the people who tried to keep the current president off of the ballot, no, not those people, it is the working class that is a threat to their beloved democracy. They know this because everyone they associate with tells them so. And gosh darn it, they believe it.

Oh, but listen, do not scapegoat an unpopular group for all of societies ills. Cause that is a working class thing too. And do you know how their politicians prefer to do it? By enforcing the immigration laws that a democratic congress and a democratic president made the law of the land.

Assholes.

My god I hate them so much. And you should to. They changed the climate. While good caring progressives were sitting around and minding their own business, the stupid poors went and literally changed the fucking climate!

Somebody needs to spread the world about this!

I know, let’s make a website!

Divide and Conquer - Primary Method of Governmental Control in the USA

Race & Identity Politics in the U.S.
                Play: Constantly elevate racial, gender, or cultural grievances as primary.
                Effect: Working-class people of all backgrounds stop uniting around shared material concerns (wages, housing, healthcare, corruption) because they’re too busy fighting each other over identity labels.
                Who benefits: Political parties and corporations who never have to address systemic wealth concentration. As long as people are screaming at each other about pronouns or statues, they’re not demanding tax reform or campaign finance changes.

Two-Party System Entrenchment
                Play: Lock discourse into “Red vs. Blue” so tightly that no one considers alternatives.
                Effect: Even when both parties support the same war, the same bailouts, or the same surveillance laws, the population still sees them as polar opposites.
                Who benefits: The political establishment—because dissent gets absorbed into the “lesser of two evils” trap instead of threatening the system itself.

Fortunately for us, Democrats are far too educated and intellectual to fall for any of it.

they're not trying to dismantle democracy

This! When Republicans tried to keep Trump off of the ballot in 2024, it was the most anti-Democratic thing we had yet to see. Especially given that Trump, for better or worse, was the choice of the working class. And how Republicans replaced the their Colorado voters choice of candidate with the choice of a bunch of wealthy elites. Or how Republicans held a bunch of unarmed protestors in prison calling them insurrectionists and impeached the Democratic president for saying fight which their own candidate said over 200 times, complete with fucking Soviet-style show trials. Or how Trump pardoned his family and staff for blanket crimes going back 10 years while people sit in prison for the exact same offenses. Yeah, real Democratic assholes!

Democrats do not do that shit! They are NOT trying to dismantle democracy.

That right there is a huge difference!

Wait

The FTC side it with consumers right up until Donald Trump became president and replaced a few of them.

Greetings:

You seem quite confident in your statement so I wonder if you can point to where the FTC stopped siding with consumers on this issue?

Do you think it's even possible for you to realize that these things happen because of your brainwashing and worship at the alter of divide-and-conquer? Or is the Trump thing your cognitive dissonance remedy of choice? After all, as long as it's his fault, it can't be yours. It just can't be. Right?

Land of the law prioritizing protection of businesses over protection of the people. Money is all that matters in “The best country on Earth”.

True, but look on the bright side. Now that we're circling the toilet bowl with increasing velocity, I find it at least mildly enjoyable to put both hands in the air and yell "wheeeeeee!"

If you stop following the law, it's a slippery slope until it all falls apart.

Except that it happens all the time, but only individuals are ever punished, while corporations go almost completely unpunished. For instance, Moss-Magnuson is raped on a daily basis, and many of the tactics used to deny cancellations are fraudulent.

Everyone talks about "the law" this and "the law" that, as the ignore it's complete and total selective prosecution.

That said, I wholeheartedly agree that YOU should be ripped off. If you are going to argue for own mistreatment, then I say give it to you. Unfortunately, WE all get the government that YOU deserve.

at the end of the Biden term we had full employment

You want to know what white privilege really is?

White privilege is thinking, genuinely, that we had "full employment" at the end of the Biden administration. Just 6 short months ago, happiness and prosperity for all reigned supreme throughout the land .... and then HE took over.

Now look at us.

I personally know white people who have lost their jobs. WHITE PEOPLE!

No longer are all affluent white people employed. No, now he's playing to his blue collar base, unlike Biden who played to us! The educated and affluent. Trump and his white trash followers are going to ruin everything. EVERYTHING. Just when we thought we'd rid this nation of the yucky blue collar industries, HE wants to bring them back. Well HE makes me sick.

HE is trying to bring non-white jobs back. Factory jobs. Immigrant jobs. Minority jobs. Do YOU want to work a minority job, shoulder to shoulder with actual minorities?

Do we really need to endure three more years of this? Do we have to watch HIM cater to the deplorables over and over again. We need to get our people back. The people who look like us, talk like us, smell like us .... not someone who thinks about the others.

Democrats fought a war once to preserve slavery, we birthed the KKK, we promoted eugenics, we ran the Jim Crow south, we formed the majority of opposition to the Civil Rights Act, hell we had an ex-KKK member in congress until 2010. We didn't come all this way just to watch WHITE TRASH and Negrottoes realize higher employment. Who does the president work for anyway?

He works for US! Not THEM! That's why he's so unpopular! That's why he lost the election (or erection as the Japanese call it).

I say we send this blue collar butt-kissin, nigra lovin, son of a one legged hermaphrodite back to New York City where he came from. They don't even know how to make good picante sauce there.

Come on, who's with me?

Did somebody say impeachment? Russian colluder? Pussy grabber? Insurrectionist? He insurrected against the government and against my beloved Democracy! In 3 years there will be no more Democracy, only a Stalinist dictatorship! Why oh why couldn't Biden have been president for life?!!! Why! Everything was perfect then!

I want you all to go to your windows, open them up, and scream "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Go ahead, I'll wait! Go, go now! Hurry!

The only way Trump is going to be able to move manufacturing to the US is to destroy the middle class. To kill office jobs, and basically force people to find manual labor instead.

Oh yeah, all those unskilled workers in cushy office jobs, I forgot about them. The ones who were hired on as CEOs when Flint and Detroit went tits up with their jobs were offshored. Yeah, good point.

It remains interesting that Democratic positions in 2025 are not that different than they were in 1860.

"You want to work those damn cotton fields yourself for two cents per hour? You want your children to work the cotton fields for two cents per hours? Or do you want the nigras to work those fields for the cost of a bowl full of grits? If you want to actually PAY people to work the field, and pay people who will demand a living wage, and probably benefits too .... go ahead, be my guest, free the slaves. Or, keep everything like it is, keep your job in the big house, and shut your holes. We don't need no more instigating."

Hell, you guys did such a good job when you decimated the manufacturing industry, that's why most US inner-cities are, frankly, the best parts of US cities. Sll those people put out of manufacturing jobs are now working nice, cushy office jobs like you are. I mean, think about it, if god loved the unskilled, he'd have made them born to affluent parents.

For the few that do go hungry, let them eat cake.

The iPhone isn't made in China because of the cheapest labor.

Do you actually believe this or did you just get caught up in the moment?

TFS is missing an important pretext:

Excuse me, sir, but you are mistaken about the law. Apple loves the law and supports its use where appropriate, and you seem to have an incorrect view as wo what the law requires. This may not be entirely your own fault, if I may ask, what color was the Kool-Aid you were given to drink? Can you confirm that it was purple, with a slightly grape flavor?

Some people have some residual original thought, especially in the early days of Thinking Different. While unpleasant this is nothing to worry about, unless it continues, in which case, I assure you we will try to figure out what the problem is. By any chance are you poor? Less than upper-middle class? Do you use our products to do anything other than consume content sold by Apple? Has it be more than 30 days since you have offered someone your thoughts and prayers?

User error is another possibility, specifically attempting to bypass our thought protection measures, which is against the laws of the State of Delaware. With that being said, we here at Apple believe the most likely cause is that someone gave you an incorrect cup of our delicious and healthy beverage, in which case, please report to the nearest Apple Store, where a genius will be more than happy to give you a booster dose. We are confident that this will fix the problem. Please remember, our beverage has what humans crave. It has electrolytes.