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Moebym

(1,033 posts)
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 11:56 PM Nov 2024

We're on the train to hell

If you think of elections as a a network of train tracks and voters as passengers, we just saw the majority of voters choose the train to hell.

"This train we're on stopped too much," they said. "That other conductor promised he'd get us straight to the destination."

"But we didn't read the map - we just trusted him," they said. "We just read the map after buying the ticket and it said we're going back to the 1850s."

"And now we want off, but they said no refunds."

This is where we are.

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We're on the train to hell (Original Post) Moebym Nov 2024 OP
There's a card game we like to play here. Initech Nov 2024 #1
A self driving Tesla train. rubbersole Nov 2024 #2
Stop the watch JoseBalow Nov 2024 #3
Sorry, but we have been in Hell since 2016. BigmanPigman Nov 2024 #4
Need to replace the conductor with Biden KS Toronado Nov 2024 #5

Initech

(107,163 posts)
1. There's a card game we like to play here.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:38 AM
Nov 2024

Where you set up two different train tracks and then you choose which path the train follows. We're definitely on the dark path.

BigmanPigman

(54,495 posts)
4. Sorry, but we have been in Hell since 2016.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 01:34 AM
Nov 2024

Looking at how my face aged 25 years in only 8 years is evidence of this (at least in my lite).

There was a comic strip called "Life In Hell" a while ago by Matt Groening (The Simpsons)

"The comic covers a wide range of subjects, such as love, sex, work, and death, and explores themes of angst, social alienation, self-loathing, and fear of inevitable doom".

That has been the theme in my life since Raygun in 1980.

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