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i did a spin on some vintage halloween-themed valentines cards for february's patreon mail! join the ouija board tier before january 31 if you want to be my valentine 🗝️💌
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blood pressure
for the sake of my blood pressure I do not regularly discuss politics online, or more accurately i suppose, I attempt to streamline discussions about it
if I may
however
offer a crunchy piece of advice
or I suppose if we're going to go and be fruitfully honest, two pieces of advice
DOUBLE CHECK THE SOURCES. This seems obvious. It's not. It's difficult. Finding media outlets that conflict with your general worldview is a good thing. It is frustrating but it does help. Everyone has an agenda. This is a neutral statement -- you may agree with said agenda, you may agree with some of said agenda -- and developing a tolerance for opposing viewpoints will help you figure out when the ol' game of politics is being played and you agree or at least can tolerate versus when someone ostensibly you agree with is doing something you cannot tolerate.
DO THE MATH, IT IS SIMPLE. [Cost of program per year] divided by [Number of citizens] = Cost of program per year per citizen. It's that simple. Not all citizens are tax payers (children, for instance, are historically right-goddamn-terrible at reporting their lemonade stand income), but on the other side of the equation, taxes scale oddly and weirdly. Doing simple math helps you realize "oh wow $5.8 billion seems like a lot, should I be mad?"
I'll leave it to your own feelings whether you think this is a worthy investment of infrastructure or not.
I'm here to tell queer monster stories and make silly greeting cards.
once in awhile the ol' "I HAVE OPINIONS" button needs to be mashed, so
here
we are
and now
back to the gay ghosts and whatnots
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"So hm, how many people live in the united states"
(333.3 million, approximate)
"How much are they budgeting for this?"
$5.8 billion dollars
"Hey that's a huge chunk of change. But spread out across 333.3 million people... hm... what is the cost per person? It's probably a lot right, I mean, it's definitely worth it but just so the cold economist chamber in my heart knows, how much is it per person?"
$17.41.
Technically $17.40 if we round down, but y'know, let's be un-generous and force a round up.
LESS THAN $20 FUCKING DOLLARS PER CITIZEN
AND THERE
ARE ARGUMENTS?!
WHAT
THE LITERAL F--
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