chapotraphouse

"Honey, I told to buy an oven and fridge without the energy star stickers!"

Yup that's the one. He's also behind this masterpiece:

God if it only were true :sadness:

There's something about Dee's you don't typically see from conservatives, and that's some semblance of principles. Dees isn't a dishonest man, people who worked with him when he was younger say they believe he had untreated psychosis. For all his weird bigotry, he was protesting with Black Lives Matter because he was actually consistent with his anti-state beliefs. He was anti-vax, but the last comic he made before dying was about how the push to reopen after COVID was going to kill millions for a few bucks.

I'm not defending his politics whatsoever, his comics are anti-semitic and ever form of bigoted under the sun. But there's a sincerity within it that makes it say more than it's trying to. Dees communicates the absurd fear of American conservatives concisely

Well to be fair I don't truly know how widespread a phenomenon it is. But where I live, and surrounding cities, stores have been upping security a lot in the last year. Where before you could simply walk in and out, now there's fencing/corraling at entrances and checkouts, Security guards at entrances, big obvious cameras on self checkout that rub it in your face by showing you on screen your recording. At first it was just Walmart, but slowly other places like grocery stores and such have adopted it. They treat us like dangerous criminals just to prevent a little loss. Meanwhile they continually inflate prices and rake in record profits. No wonder shoplifting is up.