Which goes to show that one of the mightiest weapons against the oligarchs turning the people against each other is the teaching of critical thinking in schools.
That's why this cultural virus attacks teachers and coups education boards. The pay off is these automatons believing that there is a direct mirror between the egoless Dredd having the ultimate power to end a criminal's life within the boundaries of a harsh but ultimately unprejudiced set of laws and their own prejudicial bloodthirsty fascism that constantly corrupts the law to suit their ingroup and individual needs.
Should've been having this conversation ten years ago but all our 'liberal' governments were drunk on the invasive data aggregation and propaganda reach that these US companies were selling them.
Judge Dredd is never portrayed killing someone for his own gratification in 2000AD. He isn't racist, or to my knowledge, even a classist.
Yes, he is a 'judge' in an ultra violent society that devolves execution, due process and investigation to the officer on the beat.
But no one is above the law as far as he concerned not even the judiciary.
There probably isn't a president of the US that he wouldn't have arrested for their crimes, and quite a few he'd execute for their crimes against humanity. Trump wouldn't have made it to this millennium.
These ICE thugs are just cowardly fascist scum. Law is just a weapon of suppression to them. For Judge Dredd the law was sacred and the only thing preventing humanity from eating itself in his post apocalyptic future hellscape.
This is it: low income folks that graduated in '94 were the last to get full student grants and no fees to pay + renting was relatively way cheaper too.
I've been cycling for 45 years and have only ever retired one bike. Theft or catastrophic damage took care of the rest.
That particular bike had a steel frame and an aluminum seat post that became permanently fused and much of the the bottom bracket barrel was rusted out so I had to let it go. A couple of salty winters in Calgary killed it.
I have a single speed that is almost twenty years old. I've easily spent six times the original price in replacement parts. It's such a low-key ridiculously good bike. If the frame geometry is good for you then keep it ticking over.
That's how it was in ancient Ireland too, but even more spread out across the whole male kindred of the ruling clan. This seemingly chaotic tradition was ameliorated by the final choice being put to election.
I also did a handful of longer tours about europe back then too. Much of the tips I picked up related to travelling about in a world without mobile phones.
These days I can't cycle for long periods since I damaged my shoulder. The discomfort just takes all the pleasure out of it.
I'm sure you'll make many fond memories on your own journeys.
I used to tour Ireland in the 90's and I found that it's best to wear whatever dries the fastest and covers your body.
To that end I found trekking sandles the best footwear for preventing trench foot. And covering up for the sun (Long sleeves, fingerless gloves, shorts that go below the knee) as the rain and sweating will reduce the effectiveness of your sunblock.
I got the worst sunburn of my life cycling from Belfast to Rosslaire over three days yet it was raining most of the time.
I was brought up wearing shorts all year round so you may feel the cold more than I did. I can only remember one autumnal evening where I especially felt bitterly cold cycling into a chilling northerly wind coming off the Atlantic.
If you're not a white middle-class American and have had a much tougher experience over this time period and say that was largely down to the parasitic hubris of many white middle-class Americans. Then you might be entitled to a much dimmer view at an attempt at brevity that ignores your viscerally darker cultural history.
The way that most propaganda works is by repeating it's message whenever/whereever it can and silencing alternative messages. At a certain stage the message is self sustaining (becomes cultural) and the duped populace will police it themselves.
Yes the meme is a wry look at a truism that will resonate with plenty of us on here, and that is fine. But it is also OK for other people to stand up and give their cultural perspective. Otherwise it just comes off as you're just replicating that toxic behaviour of policing your cultural propaganda.
Maybe. But mostly it just looks like the boomerang effect.