I might need this. But I also have a cat.

I know that’s what I’d have done.

What Trump wanted far exceeds marching in step. But even just that requires regular practice, which the US military simply does not bother with. Exceptions being a few ceremonial guards.

I know this from experience. Perfect formation marching must be drilled constantly. The US military does not waste its time with it because it is useless beyond Basic Training.

The American military doesn’t train to put on parade theatre for a despot. No high stepping, no elaborate formations or movements. None of that pointless bullshit. If you see a military parade from NK or China achieving dazzling perfect performances, while impressive, that’s all it is; a visual performance. All they do is practice for those events. Those are not uniforms. They’re costumes. Those are not soldiers. They’re a dance troupe. These are completely different skillsets. Soldiers don’t need to know how to dance perfectly in formation. They storm the objective, execute the mission, and get the fuck out. You might as well send a marching band into combat, because that’s all they would become.

It’s funny how they want to force the US military into performing flamboyant pageantry, while also kicking out the gays.

All this time I thought it was the retromutagen ooze.

They have sonic weapons. They run over people with horses and armored vehicles.

Gotta clean and sterilize them.

Green lasers. Everybody should have one.

There was definitely a time when nobody pretended their favorite stick was a gun.

I have people who love me.

Exactly why I stopped so using it so quickly.

It also depicts racial minorities often kinda poorly, at least artistically. It’s been a while though. I don’t remember it treating them badly plotwise, just made some of them look like caricatures.

There are rumors that the deaf are able to make good use of text based technologies.

Oh spare me your judgement. My plate is full, and none of it is wasted. I described a thing I would like to do if I had the resources that some rich Lambo owning prick has. I get a bunch of suggestions which are not that thing, none of which I requested, and some of which leave me dubious. I do not trust charities not to enable rich pricks to hoard Lambos. I’m weaning myself off the internet, not seeking new ways to engage with it. I wasn’t soliciting for piddly little ways I could sit on my ass to be a better liberal. I was lamenting the sociopathy of those who have such resources, despite zero hard work, yet waste them.

I’m already doing all I can for the environment. What I normally go do is break my body daily in the field in one of the few trades where fighting climate change is central. That’s where most of my time and energy go right now. That’s why I chose this career. Considering the way this world is going, I don’t expect to live long enough to make the difference I intended.

Look, I know you mean well. Thanks for suggesting an eco-friendly search engine. Hopefully they take data security and anonymity with the seriousness we all need these days. Hopefully it’s not just another slush fund for some billionaire’s spoiled brat. But regardless, your suggestion probably doesn’t fit my wants and needs.

I don’t care. You can have that last word you so desperately crave.

It’s not good enough to get me interested discussing it further with you. You just keep repeating the same dumb, boring question. You think it’s a gotcha, but you haven’t thought about it even slightly.

Not good enough. You haven’t even wondered why.

If you had ever done a modest amount of the hard, actual, honest work of examining positions other than the standard one issued by your government, you would already be asking better, more interesting questions. You think that’s the only one you need to ask, don’t you?

I know you haven’t put the work in, because I have. I don’t owe you a debate. I doubt you have ever even changed your mind. So why should I give you the fruits of my labor? They wrote books, after all. Have you got the guts to read them?

Every single time, you claimed. Cite your sources. Do the work or fuck off, lazy-ass.

Somebody needs to learn not to blindly believe a century of capitalist propaganda. At least Wikipedia cites sources.

You made the claim. You said every single time. Citation required.