I’m not on the jury.

Luigi Mangione was trying his best to close that gap.

Fuck it. More graffiti. Some trippy cats.

For anyone who is not familiar, Asheville is a very Left-leaning city in a deep red state. Last time I saw that many granola crunching hippies was in my mom’s photo albums of the Haight-Ashbury district in '69. I’m not saying the town hall was full of Democrats, or that Asheville doesn’t have its fair share of dyed-in-the-wool conservatives. I’m just saying that the general mindset in Asheville leans much further Left than the rest of NC, and that may explain why Edwards was getting so much shit from the public. Buncombe County (where Asheville is) voted 61% for Edwards’ Democratic opponent Caleb Rudow in 2024.

Here’s a pic I took of some graffiti while I was up there not long ago.

This goes a bit further than that. They are trying to make spray-painting “ASSHOLE” on a Tesla an act of terrorism akin to burning down a Tesla factory. The two are not the same. This kind of law would make every graffiti artist a terrorist. That’s not what anti-terrorism laws should be used for.

Not once the ball gets rolling, no. Plenty of Fascism has been averted through preemptive nonviolent action though. In fact, that’s basically how Democracy works; Constant nonviolent vigilance keeping Fascism at bay. But once Fascism gains traction, the only thing that works to get rid of it is violence. More people need to understand this. It’s like that Kyle Reese speech in the first Terminator movie.

“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!”

Definition from the FBI:

Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature

Definition from the US House of Representatives:

(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
© occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States; and
(6) the term “military force” does not include any person that—
(A) has been designated as a—
(i) foreign terrorist organization by the Secretary of State under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); or
(ii) specially designated global terrorist (as such term is defined in section 594.310 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations) by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of the Treasury; or
(B) has been determined by the court to not be a “military force”.

While you can argue that coordinated acts of destruction against Tesla dealerships could be defined as domestic terrorism, individual acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles do not fall under this definition, nor should they. Otherwise, you could classify someone like Banksy as a terrorist. Is that the kind of world you want to live in?

I was just thinking that. I wanted to scream at my monitor “you just fucking repeated what the sign said in your statement about why you’re removing the fucking sign!”

Probably both.

The question mark won’t matter. It detected the word “fight” and that’s all the removal was based on.

Oh they are already going after Obergfell. Trans hate was always a proxy for gay hate. Just like the whole drag queen story hour thing. They are all Trojan horses to remove the rights of anyone who isn’t a straight white Christian male.

Man I really need to get my eyes checked. I thought the title said “How do you deal with nude customers?”

I mean, my answer is the same regardless: Fuck 'em.

But yeah. I need glasses.

Most definitely.

I know exactly one trans person in real life. They are a super small minority of people. If trans issues dominate your life, then you are either a trans person, or a demented fucking lunatic who is obsessed with trans people.

Is this the same House GOP pressuring universities to expel students for protesting and pushing police to arrest and imprison protesters? That House GOP?

Sometimes it takes me forever to get these, if I ever get them at all. This one though… It immediately clicked.

I am in my “50 years old and working a shitty remote job as an expat because I just don’t give a fuck anymore” phase. I answer emails from clients regarding financial matters. Very boring stuff. There’s no community here for it, and thank Jeebus for that. Honestly, AI could do my job (and it often does, but don’t tell my boss).

Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in the ‘Evil Dead’ movies.

I fucking dare you to try to remake that with another actor.

Every character in that season was perfect. Even the very minor roles played by unknowns were all knocked right out of the park. The stars really aligned for that first season, and I am very much okay with that being a rare thing.

If you traveled back in time and told J. Edgar Hoover that in the future, the American public voluntarily wire-tapped themselves, he would cream his frilly pink panties.