Fun fact, Alex said in an interview that this is a picture of him having a panic attack. Just shaking and desperately trying to keep calm as adrenaline pours through his system.

Definitely correct. My brain does not want to interpret 50501 as making anything being maybe a zip code. That’s my bad.

Definitely correct. My brain does not want to interpret 50501 as making anything being maybe a zip code. That’s my bad.

Definitely correct. My brain does not want to interpret 50501 as making anything being maybe a zip code. That’s my bad.

I read the comment above as, “Our anti-Nazis are baby stuff compared to during Hitler’s rise. They legally organized in Germany and still failed. One day a week protests aren’t going to cut it. We need to shut down cities all week, all month, all year until the Nazis in our government are removed.”

But hey perspectives I guess.

EDIT: You know what everyone is right. I had to Google it after waking up. I struggle so much with recognizing 50501 as literally anything other than a string of numbers. But the 50501 movement is definitely anti-nazis. And now I read the comment differently. My sentiment still stands but the other person’s is more questionable in my brain now.

Edit 2: Our Nazis are baby stuff compared to Hitler shit. --> anti-Nazis are baby stuff compared to during Hitler’s rise.

Let’s celebrate Canada’s mountain West too! I guess I’m not saying this is unique to the US just that it is something that is genuinely worth celebrating. That’s actually the question you were asking, what is genuinely good.

There’s a lot of bad to focus on. The Rocky Mountains are both gorgeous and worth protecting and the ancestral home of native people that our ancestors murdered in order to claim.

And yet, I think it’s cool to actively look for good things, not as a distraction but to try to understand what we want to have more of and what makes something special. Especially with the US feeling unsafe and unstable.

Legitimately, the Mountain West. I am super biased because I grew up in Colorado but I think the Mountain West is something in America that should be truly celebrated. The small mountain towns are incredible. You get roughly 6,000-10,000 people together living in a valley and they decide they want bike paths and rec centers and decent bus service. The towns are small and walkable and there is a lot less sprawl. Property lines might be defined but people are more lax about things and walking past someone’s house to get to a trail isn’t a terrifying adventure in will they shoot me or not? And then the outdoor space. Everywhere I lived outside of Denver I could walk down the street and be in a National Forest in less than 10 minutes. Some places I could walk off the property and be in a national forest.

It’s crazy to live in a big city now and I feel less safe riding my bike to the store despite it being 10x closer. Getting outside and walking is so much easier because there is space that isn’t “owned” by anyone. It’s freeing for the mind and soul.

There are problems but when I moved away a few years ago even the people on the trump train we’re still community members looking to support everyone including gay people, trans people, and women. All the opinions I heard were summed up by, “Well, it’s their choice, it don’t affect me.”

Which Aussie is this?

Whoa, I didn’t think you were telling the truth, why’d it shut down?

You are very correct, it’s the gun laws that are at issue. That’s not too say that or police don’t need to fuck off, but they are a result of the problems with our gun laws. It’s not even that most people are actually walking around armed, it’s that literally anyone could be armed.

Over here we have all heard stories of the calm, relaxed dad, mid 50s who coaches little league and is a nice guy who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then he gets pulled over one day and calmly speaks to the police officer then calmly proceeds to shoot the officer dead and drive off.

You can then imagine any football fan with a small penis and an even smaller brain getting all pissed off because his team lost and going off to shoot the other team’s fans.

I could go on but the point is literally anyone could be armed and that’s bad for all of us, in many ways. Police are not the only people worried about pissing off the wrong person. Anyone can be armed. We get treated like a threat by police, well anyone can be armed.

I got into an argument in Australia when someone nearly hit me with their car and I was only worried about being punched. It would have hurt but it makes the confrontation feel less traumatic in my memory than any argument I’ve had back home. I’ve worried about dangerous situations when overseas, but overall I feel so much safer in other countries where I don’t have worry that I’ll get a gun pulled on me in traffic or at the grocery store or when interacting with police.

Nah, it’s just a dumb meme.

Honestly this meme is dumb. It seems to pretty clearly show that given enough time we’ll find something.