These are not serious people

I think this is actually the big fuckup Rs made this year. Yes 2026 gerrymandering will be a net negative for them, but they were fucked in the House either way. But this is the first taste of blood for a lot of Dem electeds and a lot of them will like it

A photo of former President Barack Obama and two Park Rangers standing on a cliff overlooking the Grand Canyon.

A photo of former President Joe Biden walking along a gravel path alongside mountains.

Presidents who fought to protect our planet for future generations.

Dems just forced House Republicans to pull votes on a bill to weaken the Endangered Species Act, after their support buckled. Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌏🌎

I now understand why they're so desperate to overlook the totenkopf. The dumbfuck left has finally found a candidate willing to do exactly what they want a Senator to do: scream "DO SOMETHING" and then stand around grumbling "Feckless! Feckless!" when they have absolutely no power to do it.

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

There’s just no comparison. The two parties are systematically treated completely differently by the Fourth Estate & it is a massive problem for American democracy:

this post, about an entirely reasonable, optional, personal, non-generative use of AI *still* attracting weird hate is what people are talking about when they say some people are nuts about this stuff

Block this fucker and also maybe report for incitement of violence. Genuinely obscene to be using Smokey the Bear to say actually commit arson lol who cares

one of the best days on social media was in 2021 when trump was banned from every single network. you saw him repeatedly trying to make alts before each one got banned too, like a poster trying to escape a game forum permaban

Avengers: Doomsday was a fine movie but its politics were a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end Dr. Doom turned to the camera & said "i have internet brainworms now" & then specified he has the exact kind of internet brainworms i do

Gamers have no idea how many games are going to become lost games similar to lost films of the silent era

Flu is the only one that is an across the force annual requirement, so it's the one you would eliminate if you want to engage in performative signaling

It also has lower risk of high impact consequences; we'll see if this ends up extending to (eg) Td (specifically the T bit)

dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden

swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively

there's a moral here, of a sort

& it is actually kinda important to appreciate the distinction:

these are two very different models for how a centre-left party can respond to fascism & we need to back one over the other

maybe a little anecdotal, but i've seen this a few times

heck, there's several . . . uh, robust debates happening in my mentions right now that are uk lefties vs us libs about us politics, & it's really clear that the brits are operating on a labour = dems model

one thing i'm seeing is that american liberals pretty easily grasp that the logic of 'vote blue no matter who' just doesn't apply to uk labour

but uk progressives *really* struggle to get that the reasons they've turned on labour don't apply to the us dems

teaaaa

“The Onion-“ shut up right there and do not speak anymore to me, thanks!

I personally don't think electing Reps who will do their best for rural Virginians and actually care about them not just victimizing minorities and tax cuts for the rich is "fucking over" they're winning against their will, like giving a vaccine to an anti-vaxxer's kid.

I'm still quite young but buddy I've lived through a lot of dipshits who have been named the future of the party only to be forgotten about. I could do the Blade Runner speech about them.

Human brains have not yet evolved to live up to the full potential of representative democracy. Our monkey brains regularly get hijacked by the thrill of seeing a contest for social dominance.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Michael Avenatti crowned the presumptive frontrunner on MSNBC. Beto O'Rourke in Time Magazine. I watched Stacey Abrams cameo on Star Trek Discovery. All those candidates will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

This is basically how every conversation on every topic goes nowadays. “Yeah, sure, republicans *want* to destroy this thing but they won’t end up doing it so it’ll be fine BUT what about when the Dems did (something untrue I have a vague recollection of through a game of internet telephone)?”

I personally think that having a labor secretary that wants to kill unions is much worse than that time Biden helped rail workers get what they wanted without not getting paid and pissing off the public but what do I know

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Yeah it is me. Let me know if anything changed.

I don't know how to send invites on Discord.

Morning. Beware of links that invite you to join especially if they came into severs with no activity for more than 6 months.

My discord got comprised by such a link.

My account is still under my control but I definitely wanted to let people know

I think there is a difference between saying "The New Deal is great" and saying history ends at the New Deal and Democrats have just been sitting around since FDR died doing nothing

I don't think there's an audience where its helps to say "Democrats haven't done anything for you in 100 years" or one assumes he meant FDR which is also a very long time ago

100 years ago, in 1924, the Democratic Party nominated John W. Davis for President, an avoid and life long southern segregationist who shortly before his death in 1955 was arguing in court to protect "separate but equal" in of the cases that got wrapped into Brown v. Board