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  • I hate how right you are about this. They wouldn't give a shit if the Epstein files revealed that he was eating human babies drenched in cold ketchup, but he threw around the idea of taking gun rights away from a suspected wife beater until adjudication? For the safety of the wife? Preposterous. Vote Jeb instead!

    Dems need to stop trying to court the right, but if they refuse to stop that, this is what they need to try. "Republicans want to take your guns, conduct more world policing to send your sons overseas to die in the quest to steal more oil without even lowering your price at the pump, and take away your healthcare and use those tax funds on immigrants. This isn't the America First you were promised."And yeah I know that they're fine with how their tax funds are being used on immigrants, but if you're vague and don't explain exactly how those funds are being used on immigrants, they'll assume that it's being used to help them instead of kidnap them.

  • Nothing quite like brain damage and forced miscarriages as official policy

    Indict every person in this administration for administering mass abortions.

  • "Kings and Queens and In-betweens"

    "Theydies and gentlethem"

  • Glad it's not just me. I'm interested in seeing how it ends, but I'm not on tiktok.

  • I can't believe we haven't started seeing work station docks for phones. Imagine carrying your laptop with you everywhere in your pocket, but then having a mouse, keyboard, monitor, and a few USB ports to do all of your laptop things without needing to buy a laptop. Maybe the phone mounts on top of the monitor to make use of its camera too. I'm sure these things are powerful enough for how most people would use that. Just not games and blender, and probably not video editing.

    I could even see something like internet cafes come back. Rent a docked work station, plug your phone in, get shit done and take it with you when you leave. It seems redundant only because we still have libraries, but when the fascists recognize libraries as socialism and ban them, then you'll see the value of my stupid fucking idea.

  • Not really. Ivanka is just a beard he's leasing. Donald is very experienced at grooming girls to be escorts for the wealthy. Ivanka is one of the lucky few who were able to settle down instead of getting killed once aging out. The perks of being the monster's daughter, I guess.

  • And it will reinforce itself because the redcaps will get pissed off and attack the crows to try to defend themselves. The crows will interpret this as withholding the treat and they'll go harder, escalating the rivalry. They will develop a grudge.

    But then the conman in chief will just sell camo hats or something and make even more money off his marks.

  • Agreed. But ranked choice ain't coming from anybody but progressives, and progressives ain't happening unless we push them across the finish line in their primary. We're stuck with the first past the post, two party bullshit system until we can put progressives in power despite the system working against that. Progressive policies are popular, it's just that a combination of voter apathy and corporate propaganda have successfully oppressed the will of the people. While we still have free and fair elections, primaries are the key to setting us free. If those go away, we can still free ourselves, but it might take following some recipes from a certain cookbook.

    Apes together strong.

  • And organize it such that none of the Dems crossing the aisle are on the ballots this year. "What are you gonna do, primary somebody who didn't cross the aisle for this?" Uhh, yeah actually. If they don't call out their colleagues for sabotaging the attempt to stonewall fascism, then they are quietly complicit. Especially if one senator votes for and the other against. Tell them to go on the record in public denouncing their colleague's vote to support fascism or donate to their primary opponent.

    Idk every state's situation, but this is the case here in VA. Warner (Senator on the ballot this year) voted to stay shut down last time, but Kaine (the Senator not on the ballot) voted to give them everything they wanted and reopen. Kaine never responded to my questioning about that dumbass move, so I asked Warner to publicly condemn Kaine's vote and refusal to respond to a constituent asking for an explanation, but he responded saying some bullshit about a lot of VA residents being federal employees, like he was defending the vote he himself didn't cast.

    Anyway, VA primary is in June, so I'll be researching and donating to one or two of Warner's opponents. I urge others to do the same. Virginia may be blue again right now, but let's make it the right kind of blue, and that comes from participation in the primary. If "blue no matter who" rubs you the wrong way, then you'd better be voting in the primary for the blue that you actually want. For me, that means actual leftist policies and standing up to fascism. You might be fine with neoliberal capitalist apologism and diet colonialism. Whatever, we might disagree, but don't stay home and then whine about what happened while you refused to participate. I'm pissed off at the backroom deals that "blue no matter who" got us, but I blame apathy and ignorance in the primaries more than anything that happened in the general. So if you're pissed off that the longest government shut down in history was given up for absolutely nothing, fucking vote in the primary and purge these "blue no matter who" shitheads so we can get actual representation that fights for the people and not the owner class donors. Get yourself a candidate that you're actually excited to support. If one isn't running, run for office yourself. You're not a career politician, but politician was never meant to be a career in the first place.

  • Taco seasoning (because remember this is supposedly nachos), but yeah I think you're right.

  • Yep, taco seasoning.

  • I showed this to her. I think I was more amused than she was haha.

  • "It wasn't not nachos. Actually it was quite nice."

    I do not endorse this, but apparently she enjoyed it. Also, I've just learned that the pretzels were several months old and stale.

  • Some people watch just for the commercials. And every year, they say "meh, they used to be better."

    You can just wait a day and watch a top ten Superbowl commercials 2026 YouTube video while eating wings.

  • No, there are probably about 5-10M fans out there. I have a coworker who loves him.

    Nobody with an IQ above 90 likes Kid Rock. Nobody with any actual musical taste likes Kid Rock. Nobody worth having a conversation with likes Kid Rock.

  • My wife is taking a college course on different healthcare systems around the world and literally every single one is a vast improvement over what we have in the US. Obviously Canada and UK are better, but Japan? New Zealand? Singapore? Yep, yep, and holy shit yep. There's truly just not a developed country with a worse system. We pay way more for (usually) way worse care. And I think most of us are too brainwashed to ever believe that we deserve anything significantly better. A combination of "what's the catch" and inexplicable shame (or I guess pride) for accepting help that's for people who need it more.

  • Yeah, MLK Jr was pretty clear about his position when he said that communism and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible. He was a socialist, which is a different thing. But let's pretend that he said socialist instead of communist... Wouldn't that make you kinda curious to know the details of what socialism is then? Because everybody says that King was a great man and helped achieve racial equality, so his ideology must not be as evil as everybody says, right?

    So if you're young and maybe not super aware of politics and civics and everything, and you see this tweet in response to a general "Happy MLK Jr Day" tweet from Elmo, you're gonna have questions and your Google results are gonna lead you to answers that reveal what a fucking clown show the John Birch society is.

    It's petty, it's factually inaccurate, and if chases young people to your opposition's ideology. Plus picking on a literal Muppet is the kind of thing a lazy writer would write to show how villainous a character is. What a disaster of a tweet, and I'm thrilled to see it.

  • "Do you have proof of birth?"

    "Well I'm here, ain't I?"

  • That's a mighty big canvas upon which Aldo Raine could produce his masterpiece. Motherfucker had Goebbels and Dr. Evil as his role models. What an irredeemable sack of shit.

  • And also show them a picture of JD Vance and explain that he's Peter Thiel's lapdog. And explain who Peter Thiel is. And explain why he's bad and therefore why Vance is bad.

    On second thought, reaching the willfully ignorant is gonna be a fucking task and a half, especially with fox news blasting in public spaces like waiting rooms while critical thinking is gutted in public schools.

    It's hard to feel bad for America right now. We had it coming. We told ourselves for 80 years that it can't happen here, so our guard wasn't up to contend with the reality that it could happen here, guaranteeing our eventual current state of fucking happening here.

    I don't know how this ends in anything other than violent collapse, and I'm not sure how to get my family out in time or where to go. I won't be considered a valid refugee until after these Nazis have us too trapped to get out at all. People are too exhausted and stupid to organize into effective resistance. I doubt it would take that many bodies to surround the white house with rifles and achieve regime change, but nobody's coming to save us, and that includes our bickering, divided left and also the feckless liberals trying to soften everything to just some light fascism that's still 100 calories of fascism, but that's better than 140 calories of fascism so we're supposed to just be over the fucking moon with all their hard work.

    I'm so tired of warranted anxiety. Say what you want about Biden, (believe me, I have my complaints,) but he at least kept the car on the road. He got us off the rumble strips. Now we've already careened off the cliff, but nobody will acknowledge it until we hit the bottom in a fiery explosion. It would take a fucking miracle to sprout wings and save us at this point.