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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • My dad (silent generation): Back in my day, a guy could get a job at a gas station and be able to own a house and support a stay-at-home wife and kids. I dunno how you kids make it.

    Me (gen X): Back in my day, a guy could get a job at a gas station and afford rent and food. I dunno how you kids make it.

    I’m not sure when the guy in the comic was born. Medieval times maybe? Because economic conditions for working class folks have been getting steadily worse for the entire lifespan of everyone alive today, at least in the US.





  • Once upon a time, Republican leadership were smart but evil people who fed lies to their base but understood that they were lying. Since they weren’t actually delusional, they could choose the most politically useful lies and abandon the ones that didn’t poll well.

    Enough people believed their lies that the new generation of Republicans are True Believers. They’ve lost the ability to tailor their message to the political climate because it’s no longer seen as just a bunch of crap to please the base, but TRUTH. Except that it’s not actually true, so their policies fail.

    This is the inevitable result of governing through falsehood. Objective reality can not be gaslit, and abandoning it never works out well long-term.