Take that nature! We know who’s the dominant species!

Lots and lots of beer

Yeah, I can’t even enjoy The X Files anymore after learning about this. The evil conspiracy is real but it has nothing to do with aliens

He was an amateur radio operator who picked up some encrypted signals from a nearby air force base.

Rather than admit they were just encrypted transmissions the USAF created a program that convinced this man that aliens were real and he was being pursued by the government, including sending Men in Black to harass him and hiring a woman to believe everything he said.

He died in a mental hospital, estranged from his family and suffering from paranoid delusions.

I used to think MiB was a fun movie until I learned what the USAF did to Paul Benowitz.

Bold of you to assume you’ll retire

You can buy cable modems cheap, too. No reason to use their crap at all.

Private jets, for one.

Also yachts.

There’s evidence that being wealthy does indeed change your brain

He’s going for the martyr angle already. Shame…

Does getting health care mean leaving your basement?

If so, young men aren’t doing it.

Hell, I leave my basement frequently and don’t want to get health care because I’m sure it will bankrupt me.

If someone callled me an ambulance I’d fight them because I don’t have ambulance money.

There’s no hate like Christian love

Vote your heart in the primary

You mean like I’ve been doing for the last 25 years as shit continually got worse?

Even when he’s a lizard bartender on The Orville

I’ve voted blue no matter who because I know America is too terrible to stop a genocide.

No I misinterpreted this section of the comment as a call to action rather than pointing out the obvious.

If it’s not then the only way shitty Dems get out of office, is giving the seat to a Republican.

Are you saying we shouldn’t vote blue no matter who?

Politics is one of those claw games where they rig it to barely be able to win. Just enough that you keep shoving quarters into it, but not so much that you get something you actually want.

Except I’m forced to play and get berated when I say it’s a stupid game designed to frustrate you.

He had influence because of a terrorist attack and being a dumb lickspittle to a con man with Russian mob contacts. New Yorkers hated Giuliani before it was cool.

I refuse to have hope.

Oh you mean like Rudy Giuliani? Mayor of the biggest city? The Mayor of America?

Unless we’re going to back to polities like the ancient Greeks NYC thinks too highly of itself.