As a progressive my optimism has always been based on the fact that we outnumber regressives. They have to pull all kinds of shit to make it harder for us to vote and stop our votes from counting. What I failed to consider is that when it really mattered, really REALLY fucking matters… a lot of us would just decide not to show up.
Ive been hearing my whole life that Women, Minorities and young people are sick of their lives being run y old white men.
They ran a young educated black woman against a old white billionaire in his 70s and they still didnt turn up.
Obliquely related story.
My wife was briefly an actor, and they were running The Cask. During one rehearsal, the guy playing Montresor was doing the brick laying, and he started going:
“One brick… ah, ah, aah!
Two bricks… ah, ah, aaah!”I don’t know if you had to be there, but I almost died laughing. Now I can’t read or see a reference to The Cask without thinking about that.
Threeee bricks… ah, ah, aaaah!
For the love of God, Montresor!
Yes, for the love of God!
This was my first exposure to “laconic wit” that I remember as a kid, and I fell in love :)
False flags are a real thing and hateful people often hide behind emphatic opposition of what they would rightly be criticized as being.
Puts me in mind of this story by Poe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cask_of_Amontillado
I know that’s what the comic is referencing, but I prefer to imagine they’re giving him the Henry treatment
Didn’t know Thomas the tank engine had sad endings
That was a pretty brutal ending. He didn’t get sympathy at all from those other trains.
Well, Edward would still peep “hello” at him, at least. But, yeah, Gordon just laughed and said “serves you right” when he passed.
Idk seems like a stretch
The Cask of Amontillasshole
What if the real treasure was the friends we made along the way.
Is it too late to put them on a boat and send them to hunt for a different continent?
We did that and look what happened.
This has been me with Facebook since 2020
For the love of god Montressor
