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 cjjeepercreeper
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Joined: Nov 27, 2006
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Location: At the Mountains of Madness
   
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Thanksgiving 2022
"Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled To her husband.
"In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered. Actually Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday Football game between Detroit and Washington . Ever since the Government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing Tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad example it Sets for the rest of the world", Winston was far less of a football Fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting. Yet it wasn't the game that Winston was uninterested in. It was More the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey . Even though it was The best type of VeggieMeat available after the government revised The American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of Federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, Cranberry sauce, and mincemeat pie), it wasn't anything like real Turkey.
And ever since the government officially changed the name of "Thanksgiving Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020, to Officially acknowledge the Pilgrims' historically brutal treatment Of Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster.
Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly Gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was Always cold. Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act Of 2016, mandating all thermostats - which were monitored and Controlled by the electric company - be kept at 68 degrees, every Room on the north side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the Entire winter.
Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of The family.
Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had Used up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment. He Had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went Bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care Program. And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile Effort. "The RHC's resources are limited," explained the government Bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the phone. "Your mother received All the benefits to which she was entitled. I'm sorry for your loss."
Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric Car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines - for everyone but Government officials. The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles Too far, and Ed didn't want to spend a frosty night on the road Somewhere between here and there.
Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in.
Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had extra cushions for The occasion. No one complained more than John about the pain of Sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches At airports, which severely aggravated his hemorrhoids. Ever since A terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added "inconvenience" was an "absolute Necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the terrorists."
Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since The government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd Gathered, via Anti-Profiling Act of 2022. That law made it a crime To single out any group or individual for "unequal scrutiny," even When probable cause was involved. Thus, cavity searches at malls, Train stations, bus depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine. Almost. The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans Expect a Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives To leave the law intact. "A living Constitution is extremely Flexible", said the Court's eldest member, Elena Kagan. " Europe has Had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example," She added.
Winston's thoughts turned to his own children. He got along fairly Well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored Him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text Anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner. Their only real Confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a Month, explaining that was all he could afford. She whined for a Week, but got over it.
His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps It was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global Warming, the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other Calamities were "just around the corner", but Jason had developed a Kind of nihilistic attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and Outright hostility.
It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for Smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere Within 500 feet of another human being. Winston paid the $5,000 Fine, which might have been considered excessive before the American Dollar became virtually worthless as a result of QE13.
The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government Initiated was, once again, to "spur economic growth." This time, they promised to push unemployment below its years-long Rate of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.
Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, Before remembering it was a Day of Atonement.
At least, he had his memories. He felt a twinge of sadness when he Realized his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life "fair For everyone" realized their full potential. Winston, like so many Of his fellow Americans, never realized how much things could change When they didn't happen all at once, but little by little, so people Could get used to them. He wondered what might have happened if the Public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around
2011, when all the real nonsense began. "Maybe we wouldn't be where We are today if we'd just said 'enough is enough' when we had the Chance," he thought.
Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.
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 diginferno
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Nice dystopia, CJ. Before folks start bashing this, they should think of how Orwell's "1984" turned real in some countries.
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irule
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Cool stuff, though I still have nothing against socialized health care, and maybe Thanksgiving should also be a day of atonement. And football sucks 
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diginferno
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Socialized health care in a corrupt system is worse than private health care. That's what we have here.
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 misanthrone
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no worries, you won't ever have tofu turkey  americans, and other people for all that matter, will get more and more obese so I don't see that happening.. and electrical cars.. not in usa..
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Dark
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| no worries, you won't ever have tofu turkey americans, and other people for all that matter, will get more and more obese so I don't see that happening.. and electrical cars.. not in usa.. |
Even tho globally being overweight is becoming a problem. And america is 2nd fattest only to Australia ( i have no clue why dont they chase their food?) and the rest of the world is catching on. So the "america is gonna get fat" is a fading statisitic. Its already IS fat, followed by the rest of the world. The issue is now the Obese is gonna get fatter alot quicker. So the whole world is getting fat not america. Pretty soon its just gonna be skinny in shape people and fat people. Im tankful to say im closer to the skinny part. |
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misanthrone
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| misanthrone wrote: |
| no worries, you won't ever have tofu turkey americans, and other people for all that matter, will get more and more obese so I don't see that happening.. and electrical cars.. not in usa.. |
Even tho globally being overweight is becoming a problem. And america is 2nd fattest only to Australia ( i have no clue why dont they chase their food?) and the rest of the world is catching on. So the "america is gonna get fat" is a fading statisitic. Its already IS fat, followed by the rest of the world. The issue is now the Obese is gonna get fatter alot quicker. So the whole world is getting fat not america. Pretty soon its just gonna be skinny in shape people and fat people. Im tankful to say im closer to the skinny part. |
haha, totally agree.. I will move to asia to avoid being eaten by these obese fucks
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Dark
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Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Also this government controlled dystopia happens because people are pigs and dont care. So they ruin the world so bad they need to be controlled. To utter the words of the great Loki " People long to be controlled, its in their submissive nature" There isnt no fucking captain american or iron that gonna save peoiple in the far future. People are just to stupid and are easy to control. |
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 SummoningEtern...
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Location: Room 502, Waverly Hills Sanatorium
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Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:39 am Post subject: |
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At least you still have a choice over healthcare CJ; keep up your insurance payments, or fuck off and die quietly.  |
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Dark
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Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| At least you still have a choice over healthcare CJ; keep up your insurance payments, or fuck off and die quietly. |
I think he should just die. |
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