Hi dramafrens!!

Have any of you heard of this obscure little indie game company called Valve? You may have heard of them from niche titles such as:

Half-Life

Portal

Only the biggest gaming platform of all time, Steam

But today we're talking about a game very close to my heart: Team Fortress 2! Valve's hit first person class-based team shooter is an iconic game, earning it a place of glory amongst all vidya and entrenching it in internet and meme culture, and even a somewhat recent meme trend depicting the TF2 characters as buff, totally heterosexual Wagnerite Ziggers has produced some of the shiniest gemeralds of all time

(video courtesy of @CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM_fan17)

It's really close to my all time favorite game and definitely my most played. Countless hours were sucked from my childhood as baby me learned to use my first slurs whenever I came across a particularly annoying enemy Demoman

Which is why it's all the sadder that I'm now talking about its spectacular fall from grace.

The Beginning of the End

Meet Your Match

TF2 had a reputation of being a quite regularly updated game, with a major content release happening around 3-5 times a year. Besides usual gripes from boomers these updates were pretty well received, and I certainly have held a positive view of almost all of them although that could just be me yearning for my teenage years.

However, on July 7th of 2016 the most controversial TF2 update to date released: Meet Your Match.

Before this update all TF2 players would play the game through a generic server browser. Valve ran their own public servers right alongside all the community made ones, and filtering for a server you wanted was incredibly easy and streamlined. You could filter by player count, full/empty, whether or not the server used the shitty Valve Anti-Cheat, whether custom decals were allowed, you name it. Everything was hosted on the server browser, it held everything from official Valve servers to servers run by the dregs of society. I fondly remember joining a server when I was about 11 running a map that had furry porn plastered all over the walls you never forget your first time, !furries.

So what did Meet Your Match change? Well, it didn't remove the server browser. Not outright. But it did take all official Valve-ran servers off the browser and move them into a shitty matchmaking system No longer could you filter for a specific Valve server running your favorite map, you now have to queue up for matchmaking in a party with up to five friends (no more just joining your friends through Steam or the server browser!), have a certain list of maps selected, and pray to god it lands you in a game within the next 15 minutes. Even worse, since the matchmaking system's job is to get you into a game by any means necessary, it could land you in a game with no players or a game about to end and switch maps to a shitty one you don't like. Additionally those official Valve servers got way shittier, due to the removal of the ability to switch teams, removal of sprays (basically the ability to plaster a custom image onto any surface you want ), and the increasingly outdated Valve Anti-Cheat system being easier to exploit by cheaters. Oh, and those five friends you get to party up with? They will only be on your team, meaning you can only have friendly competition with these friends if somebody gets auto-balanced (which remember is a necessity since you can't change teams manually to even the balance )

That server browser still exists, but it's been relegated to its own separate tab and no longer has any Valve-ran games on it. That would be fine if you don't like Valve servers, (and who would? ) but the average TF2 player is just going to hit “find game” and not bother with the server browser, leaving a bunch of half-empty, struggling community servers—not to mention that most of the community servers are shit themselves, but for other reasons; no way in heck am I downloading 13 trillion Touhou reskin mods just to play on a shitty weeb server!

The update understandably made a lot of people upset, me included! But we had no idea how much worse it was going to get.

Jungle Inferno, or, Pain of Neglect

Released on October 20th of 2017, Jungle Inferno was a pretty bog-standard update, as far as things go. A few new weapons, some balances, a few new maps which were mostly shitty, we've all heard it before. The problem? It was the last time Valve would do anything significant with the game. Any updates past Jungle Inferno were repeating seasonal events, and the last Saxxy Awards (the TF2 community's version of the Oscars, where people would create kino animations using Valve's Source Filmmaker) ever to be held to this date

“But Shelly,” you might ask, “you said there were still seasonal event updates! Surely stuff was being added then, right? ” Well, yes. But it wasn't Valve. Every Halloween and Christmas Valve would have some intern scour the top rated maps, cosmetics, weapon skins, and taunts from the community workshop. So surely game's health is in the community's hands, and doing alright, yes? Well…

All of this shit was just bad, frankly. Often times the skins had missing textures, the cosmetics were r-slurred and unwanted or even outright broken, the taunts didn't work, all things that could go weeks without being fixed. Besides, hats and skins don't affect the gameplay!

Well maps do affect the gameplay. But they were all shittier even than the skins! A prime example is Wutville, a community made Christmas map. I think I'll let this image of the first attacker spawn and the known bugs list speak for themselves.

So we have a map that is basically a long, sniper-heaven corridor with no flank routes, tons of bugs, and is a visual fricking mess to boot! And this is just one extreme example of many broken community maps; don't even get me started on Bread Space, which started the defending team out facing the wrong way, so half the team would obliviously walk the entire way back to their last point in the setup phase! It was obvious that Valve was not bothering to playtest anything they were putting into the game, let alone make it themselves.

Why was Valve refusing to work on such an influential title? Despite all their decisions the TF2 player counts were continuing to grow, almost suspiciously so… (more on that later ) surely if Valve put in the effort they could bring ever more players in and just get that much more money from anyone participating in its famous economy. It has a lot to do with their company work philosophy: on the outside, they claim to avoid “treadmill work” and prioritize employee freedom by letting them work on any projects they had passion for. Beneath this stupid pseudo-commie work structure however everyone knew Valve operated on the principle of “Do nothing and let Steam make us infinite money.” They didn't need to work on TF2 because it made them zero billions of dollars.

Attack of the Machines

The Sniperbots

In 2020, there was a source code leak, leading many people to fear the worst. A lot of rumors were in the air at this time, everything from exploits in the code being used to hack accounts to even in-game doxxing. While none of these ever really came true, there was certainly an opportunity for cheaters to exploit a vulnerability in the game. And exploit they did!

A bit of background is needed. Basically there are nine classes in TF2, but out of all of them none is more powerful than the Sniper. With two clicks he can instantly kill 5 out of those 9. In a game played by humans, the main barrier to playing Sniper is the human player's skill and ability to quickly land those instakill headshots. A good player can theoretically steamroll the entire enemy team only by playing Sniper, but nobody but the most turbovirgin autists could ever hope to reach the skill level needed.

A robot though…

With the game's guts on display for the world to see, people naturally quickly made programs that could run an account on TF2 playing sniper, which would proceed to walk straight into combat and land every headshot, wiping the entire enemy team but it wouldn't just be one, it would be five, ten, fifteen sniperbots with absolutely zero counterplay pooping up entire game servers. As expected, these bots were also equipped with the latest in slur technology and would frequently call votekicks on human players

It was a dark time, and still is. These bots are still running around, and the game is absolutely unplayable outside of peak hours. The bots don't stray outside of casual matchmaking so community servers are fine, but the same problems I already highlighted with those servers still exist today

Valve managed to “fix” the slur-spamming problem by removing chat permissions for all free to play players. I don't think I need to mention why this is a bad idea. In addition to that the bots aren't really fixed, they still flood casual servers and kick every human player out. To this day, it seems Valve has no intention of actually fixing this issue.

#SaveTF2

The problem eventually became Reddit's problem. /r/tf2 is the epitome of a modern day vidya subreddit, astroturfed to heck, filled with shitty memes and r-slurred redditors who think they can accomplish anything by making smug comments. Their solution to the bots, the content drought, and the general decline of the game? Be heckin' wholesome 100 about it, and start a hashtag

The SaveTF2 movement started with the general goal of getting Valve to fix their darn game. Get rid of the bots was the first priority, and after that people generally thought that Valve would notice TF2 as profitable with the surge of new players coming into a fresh, shiny, bot-free classic game! After all, TF2 was still reaching record numbers of concurrent player counts, () imagine what new heights it could reach from there!

It became fully Redditized incredibly quickly. Constant mentions of Valve and Valve developers on Xwitter, r-slurred “spread the word” posts all over reddit in unrelated subs, and getting the voice actors to go along with their shitty memes are just a few of the regular Keanu Chungus redditor actions you would expect from such a movement.

The Valve Response

In May of 2022, the TF2 Twitter account posted this:

https://twitter.com/TeamFortress/status/1529970640224018433

This lead many to rejoice in the triumph of the SaveTF2 movement. Honestly things were looking pretty… hopeful? Maybe the Reddit activism got to them? After years and years of total radio silence it looked like Valve might actually care about this ‘dead game' that continued to grow.

An update was promised and actually… delivered? In July of 2023, TF2 players got the Summer Update! What was in this update, you ask?

• Community-made cosmetics

• Community-made skins

• Community-made maps

Sound familiar? But hey, at least the wholesome reddit seal was added into the game! (No, I'm not joking)

This satisfied the redditors though, and the SaveTF2 movement gradually lost momentum, sputtered, and died. All the while, the bots still ran free.

The Coming of the VLTIMATE TRVTH NVKE

On April 30th of this year, a long time TF2 YouTuber by the name of ZestyJesus woke up and dropped the fattest trvthnvke ever made on the TF2 community:

For those of you who don't want to watch an hour long video, the TL;DR is that after scraping years of data from third party sites and even neurodivergentally collecting his own information, this guy came to a frightening conclusion… You know how I said that despite everything, in spite of the bots, the content drought, the shitty community made updates, in spite of all of it, TF2's player count continued to grow?

In the video, this guy provides pretty darning evidence that over 70% of TF2's reported players… are bots. But not those sniper bots I've been talking about previously! No, these bots exist specifically to sit in private servers with TF2 running in text-mode (no graphics to reduce RAM usage) and periodically receive item drops, courtesy of Valve's age old gacha system. These bots then sell these items for irl money, inflating both the in-game economy and the reported player counts. The actual player counts? Declining, and had been since Meet Your Match.

ZestyJesus took aim at the Redditors in his closing statements in the video, highlighting how much of a massive failure SaveTF2 was and what an embarrassment it was that the movement lost steam as soon as Valve threw them a bone that looked and tasted exactly like all the other bones they had been thrown for seven years.

So naturally, the redditors crawled out of the woodwork.

#FixTF2: The Redditor Strikes Back

Not taking any hints as to the actual point of the ZestyJesus, some clown by the name of WeezyTF2 releases this video:

Basically he's just saying the movement needs to start again with a different name. TF2 players, still stunned from the TRVTHNVKE fallout, have begun clinging onto this new movement as of late. It basically just involves a lot more whining, which at least does more than the reddit activism they were doing before.

Another YouTuber by the name of shounic, who mostly does explanations of the game's mechanics and code released this video a mere day ago, highlighting all the barriers to actually fixing the game and all the pitfalls this new movement could fall into:

And at around this time TF2 starts getting massively review bombed!!

At least reviews are an actual form of protest. But what about other Valve games? It appears that Half-Life 2 has also been the target of a few stinkers!

Surely this will go well.

Conclusion

Redditors suck and I hate them all. I hope Valve does something with my favorite childhood game but honestly I'm not holding my breath. I think Valve realizes they're probably going to make more money from their newest Overwatch-clone slop than they could ever make from fixing TF2.

And if they don't? They have the money. Steam will bail them out.

The article in question

https://econ.trib.al/qMeE9BE

Youtubercel seethe. WHAAAAA THE ECONOMIST IS RIGHT WIN DON'T BELIEVE THEM! MUUUHHH ALCOHOL

I remember a thread on reddit about wine sales declining because of weed popularity. The absolute state of burger youth. Will someone ping the boozers?

!neolibs our magazine has spoken!

https://old.reddit.com/r/EverythingScience/comments/ugtxqo/a_large_percentage_of_americans_think_cannabis_is/

I can go to a store right now and for about $20 buy enough alcohol to kill myself. Or, I could just douse myself with it and immolate. Whatever dangers cannabis might hold for whichever persons, it's not as dangerous as alcohol.

!nooticers

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The kids dream doesn't matter here, as long as dad has lived vicariously through his sons achievements.Edit: I don't have any issue with pushing kids to succeed within reason. Totally fine for a parent to be proud of them too. Using your kids success for internet clout is an issue especially when the child in question is being pushed harder than they like. (2393)

This. (36)

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What the frick? Lmao how the heck did you get there? Also your measure is your kids having partners that are nice to you?Shouldn't it be partners that treat them with respect? (10)

Yes, both being kind to me and treating them with respect can be achieved. Probably though, if they are unkind to me, they will be unkind to them. And furthermore, if they are unkind to me, that would be the end of a relationship with my kid. (-12)

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He's like 6 years old (35)

And he will eventually bring home friends and partners that may be complete shit holes to me and not care. But, yeah, obstacle courses are the dream. (-9)

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I agree those things should be achieved, but you are centering yourself in your child's relationship, which is not your place.At some point, your child will stop having to listen to you and they can see whoever they want. Were you ever a teenager? Your point of view seems dated and like a recipe for your kid to rebel against you. Respect their choices. (2)

They are free to see anyone they want. If my child were to bring home or marry someone who was unkind to me and my wife, I would tell them so. And it would break my heart, because they would probably already be endeared to that person. I would let them know that I am not a doormat and don't deserve to be abused. No one deserves to be abused.It's very strange that you think that your kids are incapable of choosing a bad partner. But it happens. It's a great fear.Because I would then lose a child and a friend. Because if the abuse continued and they did nothing, I would tell them not to come back.I think you are naive for believing that parents should put up with their kids bad decisions at their own expense and emotional well being. I think you are naive for thinking bad manipulative partners don't cost kids their families. But, you are willing to believe that I must be overbearing and self-centered. (-2)

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My sisters husband was a linebacker for the Oakland raiders for years and when my nephew was born pushed him to be an athlete and he indeed was amazing at basketball and football, was even offered a scholarship to play college ball but once he turned 18 he stopped when he was able to choose for himself. His dad was not a bad father he said “I spent my entire childhood trying to impress my dad but I don't want to be my father” he's since just worked normal jobs and never went to college. Don't push them too hard because one day they will choose for themselves (854)

This makes no fricking sense. First off how is choosing for themselves a bad thing? And how tf does wanting them to be physically active pushing them too hard?Redditors make up the worst shit up (1)

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Bot account. No continuous interest in the posts, never comments on their own posts, just there to to farm karma. (53)

Yeah but who the frick farms karma by posting shitty playlists over n over. I think its just a strange man. He also does comment and it's usually relevantish. Also usually music related.E.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfrealmusic/comments/1d77emd/comment/l6xiqbw/ (9)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/ATXBeermaker

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This is the FB account btw lmao

The shitposter responded:

The usual suspects of rightoid grifters are of course losing their shit

I would trade one of my toes to get Loomer on this site

One of the most notorious grifting accounts

Never forget the time Mike Lee thought a vape was an FBI badge.

PROOF (shitpost on FB)!

There's a lot more, but I'm bored now. I'm going to drink more alcohol

When comparing the average height and weight of a wolf to that of a human, it is evident that wolves are larger and heavier than humans. On average, a wolf stands at 26-32 inches (66-81 cm) at the shoulder, while a human's average height is around 5.6 feet (170 cm). In terms of weight, a wolf typically weighs between 60-120 pounds (27-54 kg), whereas the average weight of a human is around 137 pounds (62 kg).

Weirdly, the height and weight stats presented in the text are at least plausible, but the article and images conclude that wolves are larger than humans.

https://humancompare.com/english-mastiff-compared-to-human/

https://humancompare.com/doberman-compared-to-human/

You wish, foid.

!chuds

https://humancompare.com/nile-crocodile-compared-to-human/

https://humancompare.com/sun-bear-size-compared-to-human/

The article correctly describes the bear as smaller, but this is still the picture.

When compared to the average human, beavers are significantly smaller in length but can outweigh the average human by a considerable margin.

In terms of weight, the California Condor outweighs the average human by a significant margin, highlighting the substantial size and strength of this remarkable species. Overall, the California Condor's size is truly awe-inspiring, and its comparison to a human serves as a testament to the remarkable nature of this species.

Not quite sure what's going on here. Is the AI trying to neg us?

Despite this site being a source of bad faith misinformation that is extremely dangerous to our democracy, the image results are still near the top of Gaygle. Looking forward to it being recycled into the Google AI answer boxes.

I won't lie - i've been so bored of this shithole site for a few months. I just couldn't juggle dying of cancer, being gorgeous, and being the perfect archetype of domestic gay beauty culture.

Life is hard without carbs y'all.

Unluckily for you I am no longer (offishally) dying of cancer. This is great for me, but terrible for you as that means I am going to be here to treat you like shit forever. How fun!

To celebrate my assumptive immortal-tenure as your forever-treater-like-shitter I invite you to just post whatever the frick you want

THE CONTEST:

Just post whatever. The world is your stage. Submit something you think is interestingly submittable and worthy of the grand prize. it can be literally ANYTHING.

That's the contest.

Post whatever you want to.

Submissions need to be in by 6/9 12 am, and voting thread will be 6/9 6 am PST.

I told my friend to gamble on some GME options today as the stock would tank.

He buys 20 puts for 240 bucks a pop. that roaring kitty r-slur comes on stream and the stock just starts tanking. Guy is drunk as shit and just rambling incoherently and making no sense, the chat is full of thousands of apes begging him to pump something else or buy bitcoin.

The guy has a mental breakdown on livestream while hes down like 220 mil and just ends it.

Edit: roaring kitty was down, not my friend.

!nonchuds won

!vampires won

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These people are so hypocritical. (14)

Calling people fat and baby peepees is literal middle and high school bully tactics. It's so jockish, unsophisticated, and stupid. The funny thing is they don't even realize r/memes, r/starterpacks and similar places also hate Kathleen Kennedy, they just find people like you to be losers for hating her too much and being obsessed. I have respect and love for Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson and will defend them against lies. Hence I won't align myself starterpacks which don't even defend her just saying "you hate her too much". (-15)

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The people who create memes like this haven't seen their Peepee/Vagina in years due to their massive stomaches. (25)

Neither have the people who spend time on reddit hating on everything and calling it woke (-12)

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if you dislike the flag? i dont care but i hope you dont mean you just hate gay people. (2)

If you are the kind of person who doesn't make your entire personality about your sexuality then I couldnt care less but If you are gay and incapable of having a personality outside of that then yea..I hate. (-1)

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These people are so hypocritical. (14)

Calling people fat and baby peepees is literal middle and high school bully tactics. It's so jockish, unsophisticated, and stupid. The funny thing is they don't even realize r/memes, r/starterpacks and similar places also hate Kathleen Kennedy, they just find people like you to be losers for hating her too much and being obsessed. I have respect and love for Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson and will defend them against lies. Hence I won't align myself starterpacks which don't even defend her just saying "you hate her too much". (-15)

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Neither have the people who spend time on reddit hating on everything and calling it woke (-12)

You get downvotes for speaking the truth. Most anti-wokists are pathetic basement dwelling losers who can't hold down a job who b-word about how women, blacks and gays ruin media while parasitical draining the life from everyone who bothers to stay in their life. To put it bluntly the world would be better off without them. (-4)

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if you dislike the flag? i dont care but i hope you dont mean you just hate gay people. (2)

If you are the kind of person who doesn't make your entire personality about your sexuality then I couldnt care less but If you are gay and incapable of having a personality outside of that then yea..I hate. (-1)

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/u/hadr0nc0llider

>WTF?! This little cult-hobby was one of the few TS free safe spaces in my life. Frick her. She doesn't need another market to participate in. She doesn't need to accumulate any more wealth. This cheap piece of shit adds nothing to the world except more opportunities to exploit workers in the Global South for capitalist benefit.

/u/tamechinchilla

>wtf why does she have to plague every single sub i follow 💀

/u/Dallasrawks

>I'm OK with her whining about how every man in her life is the problem and not her taste in men, as long as she does it at a distance where I don't have to interact with "Swifties." I'm just afraid there are going to be thousands of new users in the community showing off their stickers and talking about how this is the best pen of all pens. I guess it would convince me to leave all my pen communities if that happened which would probably save me a lot of money. Gotta look at the bright side.

picrel

bitchute link

Highlights

staring @duck, DSP, Peter Griffin, Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Brian Family Man, George Floyd, Darrell Brooks, Jinx, and Taylor "Jihad" Swift

DSP is an aspiring streamer/high school student. Jinx, the new girl, beats up Taylor Swift

DSP tries to ask Jinx to prom and fails

Epic Family Man humor with the Family™

Jinx becomes DSP's 50th follower on Twitch

Overall I'm very sad not to see Hollywood royalty like Alec Biden or some diversity (chiobu) as villains

!jinxthinkers five seasons and a movie?

It's sad I feel for whoever this is but come on do it or don't, instead of setting up some ultimatum where he kills himself if no one reaches out this month. Responses are mostly "don't do it bby we love you" which makes no sense but that's reddit for ya.

Did you know that there are more than two genders?

Did you know that race is a colonialist social construct?

Did you know that US citizens pay more per person in taxes towards privatized healthcare systems than Europeans do for socialized healthcare?

Did you know the republican-lead EPA legalized cancerous wastewater proliferation into the US drinking water systems in 1999?

Did you know that it's illegal to vote in the US if you're a felon but you can be President?

REALLY MAKES YOU THINK

But you won't think

because you're a chud

Like there was so many such cases it's brutal.

I just asked a girl out she told me she doesn't have a bf. Her instagram was almost clean. But I found this guy in one of her instagram shorts: disclaimer I used reverse image search and saved couple of similar images so you have an idea how does he looks

After I found his fb he posted from same location and time as she did like last year they were in Dubai than in Turkey then in Paris on 14 Feb, obviously no picture together but on 14 Feb she posted she feeling loved and recently they posted a picture from same restaurant.

She is 20 and he looks late 20 early 30 and he ain't rich so he waste all his money on her.

And she insists to me she is single

@VK_User @Catholic_apu

Why foids must be like this ?

Closest how he looks is 3rd picture but he has shitier skin with red pimples.

this video is fucking hilarious no matter how many times u watch it pic.twitter.com/7d8UQfTfcW

— zore 🐻⛓ (@itszore) June 5, 2024

He also recently said that cute twinks are NOT allowed to be gypped out of their money by him https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1797625504822178035

Scrotedrew really needs to come out and leave the queens alone !moidmoment

He made two threads, one for each picture. This one is the most popular, but there's seethe in both

Redditers definitely do not approve

Nothing short of idiotic, given the state of things. What left boot, exactly? The one on your hand?

It is shocking how many trumpers don't realize all these laws will be used against them too. I can't wait for the outrage.

I think they only care that gays and minorities suffer more.

…unless you're a woman, Black, or LGBTQ

My lesbian sister believes in this also. OP

Then your lesbian sister is also a moron.

Yeah she knows. We have been called worse. OP

Very strong "I have a black friend, I can't be racist" vibes.

Assuming you aren't lying about having a lesbian sister to take some heat off of you (which you probably are), your sister is an idiot too.

Maybe you should go back to boys are quirky

Maybe you should sit down while the adults are talking.

Maybe you should go back to your video games.

Maybe you should comb deeper into my comment history for more meaningless ammo to show people how pathetic you are.

While true, it doesn't really fit the current situation. The “both sides” thing is something fascists rely on to gain power, as you can see cons trying to accuse democrats of doing everything they themselves are doing

Yes, only one side has ever done that.

Anyway I've got to go read some more about how Biden's new border order totally is good unlike when Trump did the same thing

Seems like just last week I was reading about how Biden's tariffs are good unlike when Trump did the same thing

Too bad there isn't a free trade & immigration candidate running. Maybe I'd vote for them

An unironic libertarian

"Both sides!" is the dumbest possible stance.

How does the left have a boot on your neck??

EDIT: Oh, it's just some moron who doesn't vote.

Remember, "both sides" means someone is so ignorant about the party's policies they think Dems and Republicans are the same.

I'd think the owner of this sticker was an idiot.

"Sure, one side wants some of my family, friends and neighbors literally dead, but the other side isn't perfect and unblemished.

I can't even tell the difference."

Not being able to work unless you get a government mandated vaccine is having a boot on your neck.

That was the left pushing vaccines that didn't even work, not the right. The right wanted people to decide their healthcare for themselves.

In hindsight the right was correct. Countries with the least lockdowns and mandates did much better than the countries with left wing authoritarian style lockdowns and mandates.

Africa did amazingly well, especially considering they have the worst healthcare in the world. By doing nothing they did much better than any other place. Who would have thought forcing people to stay at home and get experimental injections for a bad flu would lead to bad results?

The right did, we all predicted what is happening right now.

or you're fired

Oh dear god, an "enlightened centrist"; tell me, how has the Biden administration's support of abortion, student debt relief, and actually standing up to the fascist frick Putin in Ukraine made you feel like he's really bringing the boot down on you? Fricking idiot.

I have no say about abortion because I'm not a female. I didn't go to college so I don't give a shit about student debt relief. And I don't give a shit what happens in other countries. We need to mind our own business and keep our money here.. OP

It's Friday I'm just having fun with everyone. Lol OP

I would be a lot more LOL without the looming threat of clearly-defined actual dictatorship and collapse of my home country's inclusive government, regardless of its current state of oligarchic tendencies.

It's happened to a lot of counties, past and present and it can easily happen here.

I'm all for criticizing the Democratic party, but pretending like they're the same is disingenuous at best.

It is. the Democrats can dumb sometimes, but the Gop wants a dictatorship and to Genocide minority populations and LGBT people.

I forget where I read the quote but it was something like yea, both parties are clowns. But the democrats are like bozo and the republicans are like pennywise

This is right-wing propaganda.

We have one party that is happy to convince you not to vote.

We have another party that is actively trying to change the process enough to allow for more than two Parties

They are not the same.

The brainwashing is working!!

Wow, "I'm going to waste my vote on a non-viable third party to stick it to the government" isn't the flex you think it is.

I'm not even gonna do that. I'm just gonna go to work because I don't get paid to vote. Plus I don't like any of them anyway. OP

He's definitely grill pilled