More people need to play BioShock to understand why this is a bad idea.

Fantasies.

“If conservatives were in charge, everything would be easy.”

None of them understand economics, civics, or science and they don’t care to.

Conservative chucklefucks ain’t got two brain wrinkles between the lot of them.

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Another aspect I really liked were the creepers.

I thought they were a creative envisioning of a sentient alien species adapted to the harsh environment of Niflheim.

I did think the translators were an unnecessary plot device since the motivations of the creepers did not really need any explaining-- they were behaving as you would expect a social creature to behave.

We did have a laugh after the movie because someone in a group sitting near ours made a comment about how it was stupid that the creepers cared that much about two of their young dying.

I was so dumbfounded someone would arrive at that conclusion so I asked what humans would or should do, and pointed out there’s tons of movies out there were two random kids get kidnapped or killed and there’s a whole-ass manhunt for them.

The person, Tom, argued that was to be expected of humans but not animals. I rebutted that not only are humans animals, but there’s tons of species out there that will get completely outraged about their young being endangered even when they are not the direct parents, such as elephants, gorillas, whales, crows, monkeys, cows, etc.

It led to a great conversation about the movie overall and I gotta say I really missed that type of discourse and analysis with strangers.

Normally, I usually just dread finding out just how fucking insane a stranger really may be, given the current sociopolitical environment in the USA.

I saw this movie yesterday with a couple of friends and it was a great watch!

One of my friends is a violin player and the other a bassoon player-- we were all in agreement that the music was absolutely delightful.

I am a big fan of “Moon” by Sam Rockwell and I was really excited to see more exploration into the theme of cloning as a gateway to human labor exploitation in space.

Mickey-17 had many elements that reminded me of Snowpiercer, so it was more playful and campy whereas Moon was a lot more melancholic and just sad. I really enjoyed Snowpiercer, so I didn’t have a problem with that.

My friends are younger than me, so I was very happy that they were picking up on the movie’s themes in a way that was entertaining and relatable to them. They definitely made comments about recognizing Elon Musk with his whole deal about sending people to Mars and how problematic it would be to enforce labor rights far away from Earth.

That in itself is why Mickey-17 has my gratitude, as it is hard enough to explain to them why they have to set strong boundaries at work and protect their own health.

Do exactly what you are doing.

More Americans need to be taking to the streets to protest. They are not showing up and they won’t show up until it really starts hurting.

Election fraud.

I do not think it is saying we need to give up fighting.

I think people like me need to hear these messages because we have conservative friends and family we haven’t given up because we think that once things get absurd enough, they will finally see the error of their ways.

We still believe they are good people, but they are clearly not.

There’s something really wrong with them, and it is not within our power to remedy.

What we can do instead, is redirect our time and our energy towards others in our communities that are ready to flight.

I know they are brainwashed.

I don’t even hate her.

I feel bad for her because she’s legitimately fucked without our help, but I cannot continue helping her when she cannot even acknowledge that both my life and her own life are so much harder because of her vote.

She cannot even say she is sorry because she legitimately believes she has done no wrong.

She’s blowing up my phone to ask us to please continue walking her dog but I cannot do that anymore.

The mask has fallen off her face.

One thing that worked with my partner was asking them if they had a racist or a mean relative and asking them how they felt spending time around them when they were kids.

We haven’t talked to his parents since November and he says he ain’t missing them at all.

Toxic-ass motherfuckers.

Just went through that with an elderly neighbor recently.

She broke her foot and is in poor health, so we were walking her dog twice a day cause we are nice like that. She was always praising us for being such good people and a godsend to her.

One day, she made a comment that she thought Trump was doing a great job and I gently tried to explain to her that he was ruining our lives and countless others out there.

I was hoping she would have a moment of introspection, but no. She just immediately went on about the democrats, how we get offended too easily, and how she thinks I swear too much but she doesn’t hold it against me.

Everything except: “I’m sorry. I didn’t realize.”

Told her we no longer feel comfortable walking get dog.

Cue the waterworks and the “What about me? I can’t walk!”

It’s not worth engaging with these people. There is something broken in their brains.

Woosh.

A simple no-buy for one day boycott led to the way to Prime cancellation.

More than one, actually. I talked to my sister about it and she ended up cancelling hers as well. A couple of our friends did as well.

I used to buy a ton of Amazon stuff. Mostly art supplies, pet supplies, clothes, novelties I didn’t need.

One day, I was browsing Reddit and I was like-- “what is this boycott thing all about?” and then I started by not ordering for one whole day!

Then one whole week!

Then one whole month!

Anyway, I ended up cancelling my Prime subscription, deleting my Amazon account completely, and cancelling my Prime Store credit card.

Then at work, for Valentine’s Day, we each received a $200 dollar Amazon gift card as an employee appreciation gift.

I spoke up and said that I would prefer to receive cash or nothing at all because my values did not align with Amazon-- which caused many of my coworkers to decline theirs as well.

It was so perplexing to leadership, that they decided that going forward they are just going to give us a $200 cash bonus on our paychecks

So anyways, that’s the impact one of these “pointless” boycott posts had on me.