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By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

elodieunderglass

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

cheryllclayton

absurdsoutherner

Same.

charliemeg-deactivated20251212

This perfectly summed up what I’ve been feeling.

pissvortex

so you'd vote for trump over biden or just not vote at all

if biden gets nominated i will be wasting exactly none of my energy on the 2020 elections. i’ll be doing other things for sure but i won’t be voting and i absolutely won’t be campaigning for biden

haiimrowie

I get where you’re coming from but if Biden does win the primaries you have to ask yourself if he’s really worse than Trump, who stirs up his voterbase with fearmongering so any vote for the Dem nominee helps. I agree that Biden is shite but is he the worser of two evils?

cumbrane

yes.

property-is-theft-deactivated20

Biden is worse because he’ll do the exact same shit Trump is but liberals won’t give a fuck because its not “cheeto guy”

darklingdawns

No. Fucking hell, no! This has got to stop, right the fuck now!

I absolutely don’t support Biden, and I will be doing my level best to ensure he isn’t the nominee, but I would sure as shit rather have him than Trump. I wouldn’t fear that Biden’s going to kick off a war because he feels like no one takes him seriously. I wouldn’t worry about Biden stripping my rights away simply because I say I think he’s doing a shit job. I wouldn’t cringe every single time I see a news clip, wondering what new national embarrassment is about to unleash itself. With Biden, we aren’t going to get the push for the things we know we need, like Medicare For All, but we also won’t get all the shit we know we do NOT need, like an authoritarian president who sucks up to dictators while he actively harms Americans with his policies.

Biden may hurt me through neglect. Trump seeks to hurt me through action. If I absolutely must choose between the two alternatives, I’ll take the first every time. And if you don’t vote, then you’re helping achieve the second, and believe me, all of us who are hurt through Trump’s actions? We will remember this. We will remember you. And we will never let you forget it.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t listen to this shit - put your big kid pants on and deal. VOTE. VOTE BLUE, then put the pressure on your reps and senators to make the change we all want and need.

friendraichu

Let’s be real Biden FUCKING SUCKS but if he becomes the nominee he’s still not gonna be worse than 4 more years of Trump. He’s just not.

gasmeros

vespertineflora

[ID: image of a hand pointing with text written on it that says, “When you skip voting… It’s not rebellion. It’s surrender.”]

lopoddityart

Apathy is our enemy! Giving up and not voting isn’t an act of rebellion, because the only people it benefits are our oppressors. I don’t like Biden, not his politics nor his political history, but if he gets the nomination I am 100% driving to the polls to vote for that crusty bitch. I’d rather have a ‘meh’ president than one who threatens war, allows his party to block healthcare reform (letting millions die of preventable illness, forcing people to go with life-saving meds because prices aren’t capped), lies on the daily, does fuck all about climate change, and plays buddy buddy with white supremacists.

Don’t give up! Your vote has power!

flipphonegoth

its my god given bisexual right to be dramatic

whatistheplan-deactivated201712

Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights and decided to cut the wires of it.

loremerchant

Florida Man: Chaotic evil. New York Man: Chaotic good.

timelessblasphemy

Holy shit. Nah dude look up the entire story, it’s INSANE.

The dude got arrested once before this for using a painter’s extension rod to point the stoplight cameras into the sky instead of cutting the wires. He didn’t cut the wires until AFTER he got out after being arrested the first time–which he did after posting facebook videos that prove that the stoplights are intentionally rigged to trick drivers into citations–the yellow lights at intersections with cameras only last THREE SECONDS, as opposed to the five seconds they last at other stoplights without cameras in the same county.

When he cut the camera cords, he reported his deeds to the news -himself,- and then politicians pressured the local police force into arresting him. The local police and sheriff deputies actually SUPPORT him for his actions because the lights have been killing innocent people! During his most recent arrest, one of the Sheriff’s Deputies actually -offered to bail him out-. When he got home again after these incidents, there was a surveillance camera planted at his house BY THE GOVERNMENT to watch him! His reaction to being surveilled? He painted over the camera in America’s flat out fucking ballsiest “fuck you” to the gubmint I’ve ever heard of. And it gets EVEN CRAZIER. After painting over the camera, suddenly this guy–his name is Stephen Ruth by the way–started GETTING ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE. He reports that a car intentionally tried to hit him in a head-on collision, and after talking about the car to his neighbors, they confirmed that the car in question (Or at least, one that was visibly identical, its occupants included) had been staking out his house! Somebody was legitimately trying to MURDER HIM over his discovery and his actions!

As a final insult to injury, Ruth pointed out that the VAST majority of the cameras were found SPECIFICALLY in lower-to-middle-class neighborhoods. As well, the victims of these rigged stoplights tried to go to the local news station to talk about the deaths of their family members that occurred from the rigging. Aaaand… The local station, “News12″, never aired their interviews. Remember how I said that, after cutting the cables and calling the local news station, Ruth was arrested because of pressure from politicians? Get this: News12 is actually owned by CableVision, who PROVIDES INTERNET SERVICE TO THE CAMERAS. Whereas mister Ruth was only trying to help people and save lives, he’s been caught up in a full-blown fucking government conspiracy that’s out for his blood. This guy isn’t Robin Hood, he makes Robin Hood look like a -CHUMP-.

recoil-operated-deactivated2021

American hero.

it was inevitable

bastard’s degree

bastard of sciences

motherfucker of arts

metal ilness

drink water<3

metal ilness

drink water<3

i think this is literally my favorite tik tok it’s so fucking funny

andwhatexcellentboiledpotatoes

Um, no you weren’t born bisexual, you chose to watch Pirates of the Caribbean when you were 13 and fell in love with both Keira Knightly and Orlando Bloom.